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Resources
Everything here is free and open. No form, no download gate, no follow-up sequence. Take it, use it, and if you would rather not do it yourself, you know where to find me.
Why this is free
Most of what I know is worth more when other people use it. A business owner who fixes their own Google profile this weekend is a business owner who trusts me the day they need photos. A photographer who borrows my contract is one fewer person getting burned on a deposit. That is the whole strategy.
For business owners
Getting found, and looking like you mean it
Written for the person who runs the shop, answers the phone and does the posting at 10pm. No jargon, no software to buy.
Checklist
The 45-minute Google Business Profile tune-up
The single highest-return hour a local business can spend online. Do it once, redo it every six months.
7 min readPDF
Shot list
The twelve photos every local business should own
The exact frames that fill a website, a Google profile and three months of posts. Shoot them once.
6 min readPDF
Checklist
What a small business website actually needs
Nine things. Everything else is decoration. Use it to judge the site you have or the one somebody is quoting you for.
6 min read
Rate card
What this actually costs
The published Suubi rate card, in public, so nobody has to guess or ask twice. Everything starts at $1,000.
5 min readPDF
Calendar
A 30-day content calendar you can actually finish
Thirty specific prompts, three posts a week, built so you can shoot a month of it in one afternoon.
8 min readPDF
How to
Shooting video on your phone that does not look bad
Six settings and five rules. Fifteen minutes of setup that puts you ahead of almost every local business posting video.
5 min read
Guide
Growing on social without gimmicks
The first 1.5 seconds, a cadence you can actually keep, and the four numbers worth watching. No hacks, no buying followers.
9 min readPDF
System
The posting system that survives a busy month
Batch a whole month of content in one afternoon, so posting stops depending on whether you feel like it.
7 min readPDF + Word
Guide
How to hire a photographer without getting burned
Written by one, for the person doing the hiring. What to ask, what a fair quote contains, and the six things that should make you walk.
9 min readPDF + Word
Guide
Getting reviews that actually come in
Most businesses ask badly, once, at the wrong moment. The ask, the timing, the exact words, and what to do about the bad one.
7 min readPDF
Reference
Media jargon, in plain English
Every term a photographer, videographer or agency might use at you, explained so you can tell whether what you are being sold is what you need.
8 min readPDF
For photographers and filmmakers
The paperwork and habits nobody teaches you
The things I wish somebody had handed me in 2019 instead of letting me learn them one uncomfortable job at a time.
Template
A photo and video services agreement, in plain English
The contract structure Suubi actually sends. Download it in Word, change the brackets, have a lawyer read it before you sign anything real.
10 min readPDF + Word
Template
Invoices that actually get paid
The eight things every invoice must carry, three worked examples with the client names removed, and a blank one to fill in.
7 min readPDF + Word
Template
Model and location releases, and when you actually need one
Two short templates, plus the honest answer about when a release matters and when people are being paranoid.
6 min readPDF + Word
Framework
How to price a job without guessing
The arithmetic nobody does. Work out your real floor with the calculator, then price the job, then stop apologising for the number.
8 min readPDF
Scripts
Cold outreach that actually gets answered
Three field-tested openers, the follow-up that lands, and the one move that makes all of them work.
7 min read
Templates
Shot lists, and the questions to ask before every shoot
Three working shot lists plus the pre-shoot questions that prevent almost every bad surprise.
7 min readPDF
Framework
One shoot, a month of content
The deliverable stack that replaced the single video, how to shoot once and cut many, and how the whole thing becomes a retainer.
8 min readPDF
Framework
Your first ten clients
How to get paid work with no portfolio, no referrals and no reputation. The sample-first method, the fifty-name list, and free work done deliberately.
9 min readPDF
Framework
Delivery that gets you rebooked
The two documents that prevent most client disasters, the 48-hour preview, and how to handle notes without losing the job.
8 min readPDF
System
Files, backups, and not losing a job
The file pipeline, the 3-2-1 rule, and a naming convention that means future-you can find any frame in ten seconds.
7 min readPDF
Guide
Gear that actually matters
What to buy, in what order, at three budget levels. Written by someone who has bought the wrong thing several times.
8 min readPDF
System
An editing workflow that scales
Ingest, cull, edit, export, deliver. The repeatable process that turns editing from the part you dread into the part you can quote accurately.
8 min readPDF
Take the files
Thirteen documents, no email required
Contracts, invoices, releases, checklists and the actual Suubi rate card. Every one of them is a real working document, laid out properly, free to use under your own name. The Word versions are there so you can fill them in rather than retype them.
Word + PDF
Services agreement
Fourteen sections across ten pages. Take the Word file to fill in and the PDF to read first. Yours to change and send under your own name.
Word + PDF
Blank invoice
A blank fillable invoice plus the eight things every invoice has to carry. Word to fill in, PDF to see the finished shape. Yours to rebrand.
Word + PDF
Both releases
Both short form releases, signature blocks ready. Word to fill in, PDF to print and keep in the car. Yours to change and send under your own name.
Want it done instead of done yourself?
Suubi Media builds and maintains websites for local businesses, and shoots the photos and video that go on them. Bellingham based, working anywhere.