I’m having a lot of fun lately with quotes I’ve found here and there. I find it amazing that so many quotes can be so easily cross-referenced to virtually any industry, especially photography.
It’s down-time for many of you. It’s the dreaded, but welcomed first quarter. Cash flow is down, but you have the time to [...]
Tis the season for Bridal Fairs and I have to thank Jerry Rizzo, who started a string on Facebook, asking for thoughts on what makes you effective at a Bridal Show. The more I thought about the answer, the more it applied to virtually any show. So, here are some ideas:
1) Booth Design: I wrote a [...]
For some reason I’m reminded of Don Blair once being asked, “What’s the best portrait you’ve ever done?” His reply, “I don’t know, I haven’t taken it yet!” That leads me to somebody’s acceptance speech a few years ago, don’t remember who, but they were accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award, “So does this mean I’m done? That [...]
At Pictage’s Partner Con last week in New Orleans I talked about photographers using their own images for their holiday cards and put up a few examples. One of them was from an old buddy, David Michael Kennedy. Since DMK is one of the finest Palladium printers in the world, as well as a remarkable artist, I [...]
Before you read any further, get out your 2010 calendar and circle the dates!
The response from this past summer’s attendees at Skip’s Summer School was pretty amazing. So, it makes sense to do it again. Only this time we’re adding in a lot of the great feedback and speaker requests from the post program survey. Thanks to some [...]
Scott Bourne
I firmly believe that every photographer who either has a large amount
of desire to share his/her work or who wants to go pro, should have a
blog, a podcast and a social media account like Twitter. You may
prefer to use UStream or BOO as your podcast. You may like micro
rather than macro blogging. You may [...]
I’ll be the first to admit I went into Facebook kicking and screaming. Six months later I’m hanging out in cyberspace with 1700 of my “closest friends” . Now I’m wrestling with the issue of: To Tweet or Not To Tweet! In the last year our world has completely changed. Our definition of communication has [...]
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 [...]
