Meet Simon.
Professional photographer since 2015, serial small-business owner, and mildly obsessed with the marketing that makes local businesses work.
A photographer who caught the marketing bug
Real Pro was started by Simon Woodward — a professional photographer since 2015, with a decade of architectural, editorial and real estate work behind the lens.
Along the way I’ve built and run a string of my own small businesses: a coffee company, a music school, several ecommerce stores — even a lolly buffet company (long story). Every one of them taught me the same lesson: the difference between a quiet month and a booked-out one is rarely the quality of your work. It’s whether people can find you, and trust you, before they’ve ever met you.
So I became obsessed with marketing my own businesses — and in the last few years, with using AI to do the heavy lifting: automations that answer every enquiry in seconds, chase every review, and keep the calendar full while I’m on the tools. Now I’m bringing those same tools to other local businesses, set up entirely for you, no technical knowledge required.
When I’m not doing that…
Most of my time seems to be spent finding matching shoes, saying “no, not another YouTube video”, and fielding increasingly difficult questions about space from my kids (5 and 8 — the questions are getting harder every year).
But I’ve always got time to talk marketing, media or AI. Genuinely — it’s my favourite topic. Get in touch and see.
Both halves of the job
Let’s talk about your business.
Photography, websites, marketing — or just a chat about what AI could automate for you. No jargon, no hard sell.