2025

How to Plan a Brand Photoshoot

Most business owners have the same five photos on rotation. A headshot from a few years back, a stock photo of a laptop and coffee cup, maybe one blurry shot from a networking event. None of it shows what it’s actually like to work with you. A brand photoshoot fixes that. It’s a set of images built around your business, your space, your products, your team, the way you actually work, not just your face. Done well, a brand photoshoot does more for your marketing than another round of ad spend ever will. The bar isn’t a magazine spread. It’s…

How to Explain What My Business Does With a Brand Story

Marketing used to be a business talking at people, listing features and benefits and hoping something landed. That barely worked twenty years ago, and it works even less now. People connect with a real story, not a sales pitch. If you’ve ever typed “how to explain what my business does” into Google at midnight, hoping the right words would just show up, a brand story is usually the missing piece. I spent five years as a certified StoryBrand Guide before I started Post Road Marketing, so this framework is close to home for me. Here’s the simple version, and how…