Case study

Shepherd-Prince: twenty-three years of fitted rooms, twenty-nine photographs.

Case study: a Kent kitchen and bathroom fitter. A brand kit and a page built from 29 photographs chosen from the 1,231 he owned, delivered in the week his agreement promised.

The business before

Shepherd-Prince is a family business fitting kitchens and bathrooms across Kent. Twenty-three years of fitted rooms, and the evidence of it sat in a phone: photographs of finished work, hundreds of them, seen by nobody but the person who took them.

The trade needed a page that showed the rooms at the size a customer would judge them, with a number to call.

The photographs

The client owned 1,231 unique photographs across two folders. Every candidate was looked at at full size, not as a thumbnail, and 29 were chosen.

Looking at full size is where the work was. A phone's watermark burned into the corner of a shot, and a photographer's feet at the bottom of another, were both caught and excluded at that stage. On a thumbnail sheet neither is visible; on a customer's screen both would have been.

What was built

A brand kit, so the name looks the same on the page, the van and the invoice. And a site page for the trade, with the services listed, the 29 photographs at full size, and a mobile number that goes to the person who fits the rooms.

A promise with a date on it

The agreement carried one dated obligation: the page within the first week after the first payment, once the photographs had arrived. It was met.

A date in an agreement is a promise, and I treat it as one. It goes in the calendar the day the agreement is signed, and the work is finished against it.

What I would do next

Reviews and local search. A fitter is chosen on trust, and trust online is real reviews from real customers with the town in them. The next step is a Google Business Profile with the photographs on it, the reviews gathered properly, and the page built out so "kitchen fitter" plus the town lands on Shepherd-Prince.

Questions people ask

What does Shepherd-Prince do?

Kitchen and bathroom fitting across Kent, a family business.

How were the photographs chosen?

29 were chosen from the 1,231 the client owned, every candidate looked at full size, with a phone watermark and a photographer's feet caught and excluded.

What was built?

A brand kit and a site page with the services listed, the photographs at full size and a mobile number.

Was the deadline met?

Yes; the agreement promised the page within the first week after the first payment once the photographs arrived, and it was delivered in that week.

Why look at every photograph at full size?

Because the flaws that put a customer off, a watermark or a stray foot, do not show on a thumbnail.

Could you do this for my trade?

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