Why the change from SSVPhotography to Sam and Steve Photography?
Changing our brand not our approach
Changing your branding and busy identify is not a decision for the faint hearted! Since we started back in 2008, we have built us a reputation both locally in Oxfordshire as well as further a field. Our name SSVPhotography, based on our initials, became well known and well respected.
So why change it?
Several reasons really. Firstly, there is a unconnected website in the US with .com after the SSVPhotography (we were .co.uk). Secondly, it was time to generally refresh our logo, marketing material, pop up stand, etc. Thirdly, and most importantly, we felt that SSV sounded too corporate sounding. This was fine when we started out, as we offered a range of photographic services, including headshots and events for local firms. But as we have specialised over recent years in wedding photography, and, specifically, documentary wedding photography, we wanted our brand to reflect the values that we believe make us special:
Our personal touch, as nice people!
Two photographers
Sam as the boss (of course!)
We are known as Sam and Steve by everyone in the wedding business in Oxfordshire, and in the Fuji Photography world, so the name of Sam and Steve Photography was an obvious one. If you were customers of us previously, you should have received an email explaining our changes and the fact that your photos are still stored in the same place. Our company name is not our brand name, so our legal entity status is unchanged as well.
We have also made a change to our email address. Unfortunately both Hotmail and Gmail seemed to take as dislike to our SSVPhotography email domain, often sending our emails to clients into spam filters, even though we would never knowingly spam anyone (we hate it too!). Moving to our new email address of samandstevephotography@gmail.com will hopefully prevent this happening; however we always recommend checking your junk email if you contact us, just in case...we usually reply within a day to any emails we receive.
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