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Hey guys, so over the past couple of months I have been working hard to get my company started. I have recently decided to launch under a brand name to allow for future expansion and also give the company more of an identity.
Anyway here is a little background story (skip if you feel you CBA haha)
I'm 19 and finished my A-Levels last year, I never wanted to go to University as in my opinion it is a waste of money in this day and age. I Had a part time job, but they treated me like dirty, literally, so I packed that in and decided to look to start a career. I searched for 6months but to no avail. I knew that I wanted to pursue photography for the best part of my life as I love it and would be something I could enjoy doing as a job. Photography jobs got very, very thin on the ground recently due to the recession blah blah blah. I did some work experience in London and they offered me a position, but it turned out the budget would no longer allow me to be taken on.
So after discovering The Princes Trust I decided to go it alone, with my dad retiring in March 2012 we decided to start our own photography company. I love working with people and it always keeps things interesting. So I started aiming the company towards portraiture, unfortunately most of the money has gone from this area now days. I then made the decision to focus on Social Event photography, with portraiture and other things as a sideline to keep a constant income.
So this where we are now, launching the newly branded "Aspire Imaging" to the world and working hard to keep every customer as happy as humanly possible (whilst still making enough money to live haha).
Here are some images of our set up that we use at social events at the moment...
And here is a sample of the sort of work that we produce...
So here we are now, the website has been reinvented and a new Facebook page had to be created. Our old Facebook had over 250 likes, so this is a big blow to our marketing... Although a large percentage of the "fans" on our previous page were not within our target audience.
Now I would like to make a shameless pun to help a young person start a business that will hopefully create a living for myself and also boost our economy (albeit only in a very very small way).
Please like our Facebook page:
Aspire Imaging
Follow us on Twitter:
@Aspireimaging
And visit/share our website where possible:
www.aspireimaging.co.uk
We operate in London and The South East (generally a 50mile radius of RH10 3QT) ... but even if you are further afield then please like the page, follow the twitter and share the website as we can travel further with expenses covered beyond the 50mile radius !
I am happy to donate some money to CL in return for people liking the Facebook page, although it won't be a massive amount due to the fact that 90% of my money goes in to business costs at the moment as we try to reach a smooth level of operation. Once the company is in a more financially stable state then I will be happy to donate some extra money to the CL funds for any help we may receive. I would love to register as a trader on here in the future, although our work at the moment does not directly relate to Civics or cars etc. I would like to give something back, some how, to CivicLife as I use it everyday and gain a lot from it.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and help me out in my hour of need. I am not trying to sell anything with this thread, merely gain the help of some fellow members.
Kindest Regards,
Alex
hopefully it all goes well.
