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John DeMato Blog

John DeMato, The Visual Storytelling Strategist, offers insights beyond basic visuals for experts who speak, coach, train, consult and write books. Discover how strategic visual storytelling brings more clients, higher fees, and unlocks new opportunities. Look like you're worth every penny you charge.

Posts in Core Assets (Branding Photos)
Are you boring your tribe with your content?

NYC Branded Lifestyle Portrait Photography Blog | In this article, I talk about how some thought leaders are unknowingly boring their followers with their social media posts.  I talk about how fix that and offer stories that inspire, inform and entertain.

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Do your homework first!

NYC Branded Lifestyle Portrait Photography Blog | In this article, I discuss the importance of thought leaders doing prep work before your portrait session in order to maximize the value of that investment. That prep work involves defining the types of stories they want to share with their tribes in order to figure out the types of portraits they need.

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Developing relationships with your thought leadership

NYC Branded Lifestyle Portrait Blog | In this article I talk about how creating meaningful relationships are hard-wired into our DNA, and how that translates to the thought leader creating those connections with their tribes through sharing their thought leadership on social.

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Evergreen Portraits

NYC Branded Lifestyle Portrait Photographer Blog | As part of your high-volume, image library, it's important to have some images that can be leveraged on more than one occasion - these are called "evergreen images." In this article, I define what that means and give some examples as to how to incorporate those into your social feeds.

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Don't settle for a damn thing!

NYC Branded Lifestyle Portrait Photographer Blog | when you invest time and money into a branded portrait session, it's important for thought leaders to not settle for anything less than what you need in order to create the type of impact you desire with your thought leadership. In this post, I talk about how it's important for thought leaders to receive exactly the type of results they seek.

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Fakin' it til the day I die, :)

NYC Branded Lifestyle Portrait Photographer Blog | Although strategy and planning play a big part in any branded portrait session, sometimes improvisation and freestyling is needed in order to get the job done. In this article, I talk about how improvisation in my video production past helped me through a recent thought leader session where it was sorely needed.

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Are you really showing your face in your portraits?

NYC Branded Lifestyle Portrait Photographer Blog | In this article, I talk about the idea that every thought leader needs to "show their face" through their social media posts. I talk about both the metaphorical and literal interpretation of that phrase and use an example from a current client.

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Please don't do this during your next portrait session!

NYC Branded Lifestyle Portrait Photographer Blog | Nothing drives me more crazy than seeing clearly inauthentic photos on a thought leaders' social feed.  In this article, I speak about how that led to me having to clean up another photographer's mess. 

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