Christina Gressianu Photographer

Portrait Photography Studio in Loveland, Colorado

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How Personal Branding Boosts Your Business

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Whether you are starting your own business, looking to grow and maintain your own business, be a part of a business, or wanting to stand out in the business you’re currently in, personal branding in a positive and encouraging manner is always important. Successful personal branding ties your business together, so people can see how respectable you are. It helps people believe in you and what you do, so they feel good about handing you their credit cards.

What’s one of the first steps in promoting yourself in the best light possible? Photography of you—beautifully and professionally done photography that communicates what you want the world to know about you and your business.

One entrepreneur who brought on the Christina Gressianu Photographer team be a part of her successful business adventure is a lovely woman named Crystal.

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Crystal lives in Southern California with her dog Bruiser and boyfriend Dustin. Her hobbies include wine tasting (yum), and get this, her job! Crystal owns a social media education company where she and her team train independent retailers how to market online. Her business and her customers mean so much to her, and she wanted her potential customers to trust her from the very first glance at her website.

Many of Crystal’s clients get to know her and her business through online platforms. She knew having professional branding photos done would increase her personal connection with her clientele. Crystal uses the professional pictures on her websites, social media sites, speaker posters, speaker programs, banners for conferences, and printed flyers. When her visitors and followers noticed the new and improved photos, Crystal said she was, and still is, constantly getting compliments on her pictures. She believes people love her photos because she felt like herself during her portrait session with Christina Gressianu, and that authenticity shows through the photos. This gives me so much joy because that means people are seeing Crystal for the beautiful, successful, hard-working woman that she is.

Crystal believes her professional photographs were key to the success of branding herself within her business. I am SO glad I was able to be a part of her journey and I can’t wait to see how she grows in herself and in her business. Check Crystal out at www.SocialEdge.co

Want your own Personal Branding Session?? Click here: Personal Branding Session Info

View more photos from Crystal’s shoot below!

TEDx Speaker, ME! On Beauty

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I’m obsessed with portrait photography because I’m obsessed with people, what it means to be human and the magic of the unseen connection we share. I get nervous sharing this with people. I shouldn’t, because it’s really fun to talk about my obsession, but I do. Case in point, how incredibly nervous I was getting on a TEDx stage and talking about one piece of the puzzle. Beauty… it’s what I wrote my senior thesis on in college. It’s what I wrangle with every day. It’s a conversation I have with just about every client. It’s a very shiny facet of what it means to be human.

 


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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the mirror. —Khalil Gibran

An Easy Way to Sweeten Up Your Valentine’s Day!

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Why not start your Valentine’s Evening with a little pampering and super sweet photo session? Our professional hair and makeup stylists will touch up your makeup, style your hair, and even apply some fancy eyelashes if you like! Then we’ll have a short photo session sure to turn on that loving feeling! Then you’re off to dinner or what-have-you looking fabulous and feeling schmoopy! Bring your hunny, your kids, your mom, your bestie… whoever you love to spend your Valentine’s Day with!

$75 includes:

  • Professional Hair & Makeup
  • 20 Minute mini photo session
  • 1 8×10 print (which you will choose a few days after the session)

Location is the studio at 1349 Cleveland Avenue, Loveland, Co 80537.  There are only 12 slots available, so book it now!

 

Get in the Car and Go

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Because sometimes, that’s what you’ve got to do.

Rio Grande Gorge, Taos

I’ve been learning a lot lately about living from inspiration, or following your heart, or whatever you want to call it. It comes down to listening to the soft whispers that gently ask that you do something exciting and scary, rather than listening to the loud and ceaseless voice that has reasons and justifications for playing it safe, keeping things predictable and controllable.

Well, last week I had one such little whisper that said “get out of town… now.” I had all kinds of reasons why I shouldn’t… I’d go alone? Where? And isn’t there work and stuff I should be doing instead? The whisper said “yes, alone… anywhere… and the work will wait.” Ok then… it makes me nervous, but I’m listening.

Rio Grande Gorge, somewhere between Santa Fe and Taos

And so on Friday, I got in my car and drove to Taos, New Mexico. Saturday morning, I took a yoga class and then drove to Santa Fe. Sunday afternoon, I drove back to Fort Collins. In between, I talked to strangers of all kinds, locked my keys in my car… twice, broke into my car… twice, did a lot walking, stopping, and looking around. I certainly had my moments of discomfort, moments of “what the hell am I doing here?” and “why am I the only person in the universe all alone?” For the most part though, I was drunk on my freedom, giddy with the enormity of infinite possibilities and madly in love with the little whisper in my heart.

Santa Fe, New Mexico

I think everyday, everyone should do one little thing out of the ordinary. One little act that is simultaneously exciting and uncomfortable. That way, when big opportunities or big ideas present themselves, you’ll be a pro at tuning out the fearful voice telling you to play it safe. You’ll be able to recognize that little whisper saying “yes, do it.” And you will listen.