Are you too busy to grow? Or how about the opposite? Finding the balance for a lot of photographers is an incredible challenge. However, the most financially successful photographers I know spend more time marketing and relationship building than they do behind the camera and computer.
I often hear photographers pronounce that they have 60 or [...]
Now is the time to start thinking about your holiday cards for this December. There are few things worse than a photographer buying a box of Hallmark cards at holiday time! There is no better way to show your work than on your own cards and stationery. In fact, I wrote a lot about this almost [...]
At different times in our lives different people have influenced our careers and our thought processes. I’m really curious who are the icons both old and new who have influenced you as a photographer. Here’s my list:
In terms of helping me understand photography, it was Hasselblad’s Ernst Wildi and while we didn’t always agree, to [...]
Some times all you need is a personal project to help you recharge your battery. As a professional photographer when was the last time you just shot for the fun of it ? No client, no issues on billing – just your camera, an idea and a chance to give your creative juices their freedom!
I was in Seattle [...]
Here’s a fun one that’s hot off the presses. Or, to be more current “fresh out of cyber space”!
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Can you tell me what the following numbers are?
1776-1851 1825-1877 1962- 2009
They are life spans. There’s a born-on date and a dead‑on date. We have very little control over either one of those, but what we do have control over is what we do with the time in between. It’s called the “dash”. It’s [...]
You can’t be in business today without a website, but when was the last time you checked how it’s working?
Just about every day I find websites that never load or are simply so slow, I lose interest. So, check out your website every day and whenever you can, check it out on somebody else’s computer. I [...]
A big thanks to Scott for his insight and sharing his expertise. Part Deux of how to use Twitter to build your business has even more valuable information to help you in your marketing efforts. This is great stuff!
Cranes by Scott Bourne
f. Share – search out Tweets from photographers you admire and RT
(re-tweet) them to [...]
While not everyone agrees, I think Twitter (and other social media
sites) is a valuable business tool. I think Twitter is especially
valuable for photographers. So here are just a few ways photographers
can use Twitter to advance their photo business:
a. Use Twitter to replace e-mail. Think about it. If you run a Twitter
client in the background like [...]
I love scouring the Internet for great education and inspiration. I’m constantly reading blogs, social media articles, watching videos, etc. I also work on a number of different computers, and I travel quite a bit. With so many sites I track, and with accessing various computers, how does one keep it all organized? Well, I’m [...]
