The Seven Photos Your Business Website Actually Needs
Stock photography of a handshake tells a visitor nothing. Seven shots that answer the questions people actually arrive with, all of them takeable on a phone in an afternoon.
The broadest collection on the blog, written for owner-run businesses. It covers websites, bookings and enquiries, payments, reviews, email, privacy and consent, local search and AI visibility, with worked examples drawn from clinics, shops, restaurants, rental firms, letting agents and service trades.
Stock photography of a handshake tells a visitor nothing. Seven shots that answer the questions people actually arrive with, all of them takeable on a phone in an afternoon.
The subscriptions are not the expensive part. The seams are: a customer who exists five times, in five systems, none of which can tell you what they spent. What joins up, and what genuinely should not.
A grid with 4,000 followers still cannot answer a delivery question at eleven at night. Three questions that settle whether your business needs a site of its own, and what to build if the answer is yes.
Guests search on how many it sleeps, then read everything else. Getting that order right is most of what makes a holiday let listing convert.
One nightly rate across the year either leaves money on the table in August or empties the place in February. How to build a calendar of rates instead.
A three-night booking in August can cost you a week. How minimum stays and changeover days protect the calendar without turning good guests away.
A Friday to Monday hire is three days on the calendar and one weekend to the customer. How to price hire periods that people actually book.
One listing, five machines, one in for a service. How availability should work when your stock is identical units rather than individual items.
The deposit is the number that decides whether a first-time hirer books or rings around. How to set one that protects the kit without losing the job.