About
Memoir is the studio of Xanne Schijns. You speak to the person who does the work.
Xanne Schijns·Founder of Memoir
Xanne Schijns
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I started with images and social for hospitality, and kept running into the same thing: good content on a site that did not work, or a full feed while it stayed quiet. So I built the rest alongside it. Brands, websites, email, bookings. These days I work just as often for brands outside hospitality.
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Whoever makes the images also knows what belongs on the homepage. Whoever builds the site knows why a button is missing. That is why it sits in one pair of hands here: from the first photograph to the last sheet that goes to the printer.
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The real work is in the choosing: standing next to you on the day it matters, and picking the one photograph out of three hundred that is right. That is why I charge a fixed figure per month and not by the hour. Then I do not have to watch the clock while I do it.
From the image library
Brasserie Brioche, Hasselt. From one shoot day: what reaches the table and how the room stands.
How it runs
You know beforehand what happens, what it costs and when you get to see something.
Half an hour, at your place or online. Not about colours, but about what needs to improve: more customers midweek, a brand that does not land, staff you cannot find.
On paper, with a fixed figure and a date. No hourly rate, because that punishes me for being quick. You know exactly what you get and when.
I come by, shoot, write and build. Everything lands in your portal, so you look when it suits you and approve with one click.
It keeps running, and every month there is a report in your portal. Not about followers, but about what you actually got out of it.
What we hold to
No stock, no generated food. What you sell is precisely that it is real.
Three posts that are right beat ten that fill the week.
Your site, your customer list, your image library. Nothing is in our name.
No exclamation marks, no superlatives. We say what is there.
Bookings and covers on the quiet days. Not the follower count.
If it does not fit, we say so. That saves us both a year.
Half an hour, and it commits you to nothing. Afterwards you know what comes first for you, and whether I am the right person for it.
