Remember my week-long series on Optimizing your website to get real live customers into your real live store?(Here’s the list of the posts.)
Here’s the post where I talk about how important pictures are.
And here’s a real live example. If you saw this photo on a web site, what would you think… worth a visit? Actual screen-grab of an actual consignment shop’s actual web site.

Only graphic on a shop’s website. Shown full size.
I mean, it’s a nice photo, don’t get me wrong. It’s just, well,
unimpressive. Forgettable. Generic.
Wouldn’t stop me dead in my tracks, or have me scurrying about grabbing my car keys and my wallet.
Now, on the other hand, here’s a photo of that same store’s actual interior.

Just one of many great photos on Facebook of the shop’s interior. Shown smaller than “life.”
THIS photo would motivate my motoring over there.
The above luscious, tempting photo is just one of many I found on that shop’s Facebook page… others show that this shop also carries clothing. Makes me want to delve right in!
So why does this business settle for that one small, boring, lackadaisical photo? It’s not like it costs more to have great photos of your shop on your website.


That bottom right corner is also a perfect place to add your shops logo, name, tag line, hours, phone number, website, whatever, with one of those simple online photo editors in just a few seconds.. Just in case your photo gets shared, everyone will know where to shop!
BB, you are SO right. Here’s an old post where I showed, step by step, how easy it is: https://auntiekate.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/edit-your-world/ And an entry that some may find useful: https://auntiekate.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/merchandise-speak/ and some resources to Fix your Pix here: https://auntiekate.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/fix-yer-pix/