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Giving a gift is special. The winter months give us lots of opportunities with Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s, Valentine’s, and more. It gives us a good reason to show off that other kind of gift – ie “one’s natural ability or talent.” Of course talent only shines through with hard work and determination. Often this is true of promos as well – a good idea alone means nothing

This holiday promo from photographer Ashley Gieseking is sure to cheer most folks. Holidays are a great time to reach out and connect with old and new friends and clients.

It’s so important to stay in touch. A holiday or new project presents a great opportunity to create a meaningful promotion to remind people of what you can do. For holiday promos, try not to get too cliché and instead create something that reflects who you are. For example, check this out. Photographer Lee Love sent this promo to key potential advertising and editorial clients for Valentine’s.   

Kristen and Chris Barker came up with a great old school idea to help promote the new school reality of the convergence of photo and video. Creating a flip book! Looks like they had a lot of fun making it too! Kristen told me, My husband and I are Kristen and Chris Barker. We are a lifestyle photography and web video content creation team. We love following NPS and are continually inspired. So thank you so much for p

Fun Valentine’s promo created by Alaska House on behalf of Big Leo and photographer Melissa Punch. Love their concept that plays off of Melissa’s last name. And the image really stands out and is perfectly modern, edgy and fun for the holiday. Alaska House says, Its hard not to fall in love when a client comes to you and says ‘So I’ve got this image, lets think of something to do with it.’ With Valentines

Resourcefulness and collaboration with friends makes this well done holiday promo from photographer Ashley Gieseking a fun and tasty treat. The personal touch is extra nice. Ashley says, “For our client holiday gifts this year,, I partnered with my friend, Hilary Clements (CD at Moosylvania), to create a modern cookies and milk themed card. Cards were printed locally by Top Graphics on a matte paper and are 5&#

I am blown away by the amazing talent of photographer Jeremy Bales! From concept, story development, photography, design and final execution this booklet, titled Hellgate is an outstanding example of self promotion. An amazing amount of work went into the creation of this collaborative piece. It was completed just in time for Halloween and is just so much fun to look at and read! I’m so happy to have received a

Photographer Matt Wittmeyer recently shared this holiday promo with me. Matt said, “Here are some photos of a client gift holiday promo I sent out to clients this week. I partnered with a floral designer and graphic design for this piece.”

I recently received a great little gift in the mail – Wonderful Machine’s 2012 holiday gift/promo. This year they sent hand made camera ornaments to almost 200 creatives on their “Nice” list. They were made by designer Brendon Luci. Check out an interview with him : http://blog.wonderfulmachine.com/2012/12/paper-cameras/#

Holiday Promo

by Clark Vandergrift

http://www.igroupnyc.com/

Portrait and lifestyle photographer

This comes to us from photographer Eric Doggett in Austin, TX, who recently submitted his holiday card to No Plastic Sleeves. The card looks great and what I really like is this video he created that steps us through how he made it. Students and those new to the field should definitely check it out. He’s got more details about the “making of” and additional cards on his site at www.doggettstudios.co

San Francisco, CA

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