Studio Digital is a photography marketing agency built for exactly one kind of business: the portrait studio. Run by someone who has stood where you stand.
Founder-led. Photographers only. By application only.
Before Studio Digital, Mike owned the studio. In 2009, he and his wife Jonelle bought her mum’s portrait photography studio and grew the business into a $16 million success story. Today those studios are Premier Studio and Four Paws Photography: still family-owned (Jonelle runs them now) and still wildly successful. Mike ran the bookings, the marketing, and the sales room; Jonelle ran the camera. Every system Studio Digital builds today was proven on that studio floor first.
If you’ve paid for marketing before and watched it underdeliver, that history matters here. Someone who has run a studio knows what a slow month costs: a season of income, not a line on a dashboard.
A photography marketing agency built by an insider.
That studio taught Mike this business from the inside: what a session fee has to cover, why a quiet week in the studio feels nothing like a quiet week in an ad account, what a full calendar is worth across a whole year. Along the way he spoke at industry conferences across Europe and America, earned an award handpicked by industry heavyweights, and taught studios worldwide how to lift their sales and bookings.
When Australian studios locked down in 2020, Mike put everything that studio had proven to work for elite portrait studios in the United States. Word got around. Studio Digital now runs marketing for some of the world’s most successful studios, and that insider lens is the one every account gets built through.
Photographers only. Nobody else.
Portrait photography is the only industry on the books, family studios and furbaby studios especially. No dentists, no gyms, no law firms. That focus shapes the ad angles, the automations, and the follow-up sequences around how a portrait studio sells, books, and delivers. Session fees. Wall portraits. The gap between an inquiry and a booked session. None of it needs explaining twice.
The company you’d want to keep.
Studio Digital is trusted by studios across the US, including multi-seven-figure operations. You don’t have to take that as a claim: eighteen studio owners say it on camera, in their own words. Working at that level sets the standard every new account is held to from day one.
One team, four pillars.
Clients don’t hire Studio Digital for a single service, and they don’t have to manage another vendor on the side. One team runs the whole engine: the ad account, the CRM, the nurture sequences, and the booking funnel, all moving together.
Meta ads, end to end. Strategy, creative, media buying, optimization.
Allio CRM and automation. Pipelines, speed-to-lead, follow-up that never sleeps.
Email and SMS nurture. Database campaigns, promos, reactivation.
Funnels and landing pages. Offer pages and booking flows.
Four pillars, one team, one person accountable for all of it: Mike.
Founder-led, on purpose.
Mike runs this agency under his own name, not from behind a brand wall. The person who builds the strategy is the person accountable for it working, and the client list stays capped to keep that true. New studios come on by application only, which is what keeps Mike on every account. Investment is quoted to your studio after the call, the same way you quote a wall portrait after a consultation. It’s a serious commitment, built for established studios investing in growth.
If that’s the kind of team you want behind your studio, the next step is to find out whether a spot is open.