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Archive for the ‘The Photo Business’ Category
10 Ways to Make Your Photography Studio High-End
These days, starting a website or a blog can be as easy as making breakfast. In a few hours, you can have a site up and running for a business with endless options for marketing, branding, and community interaction. But what’s the best way to proceed? I believe in the effectiveness of [...]
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Photographer’s Interview – Timothy Riley
This week, we had the opportunity to interview our friend, Timothy Riley, a wedding photographer based out of Portland and Augusta, Maine. Besides being a great photographer, Timothy is an entrepreneur and innovator, as he came up with the brilliant idea of RPG Keys, a tool that dramatically increases the efficiency of photographers’ workflow around [...]
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – Backlinks!
Our photography SEO expert and friend, Zach Prez, author of Photographers SEO Book, is back to share some more tips about link building in the photography industry. We hope this information is useful and informative for your photography studio.
After reading our previous post titled Understanding SEO, you know that your best time spent in [...]
Understanding SEO (That Search Thing) – A Basic Starting Point for Photographers
For this entry, we asked our Photography SEO expert and friend, Zach Prez, author of Photographers SEO Book to share some insights on how to get started on SEO in the photography industry. Enjoy!
Search engine optimization can provide your website a constant stream of new photography clients. SEO for short, has been my home [...]
Optimize Your Images for Search Engines
Here’s a tip for building traffic to your website: Optimize your images for search engines. Most artists don’t take advantage of this, and all it takes is a little extra effort each time you add an image to your site.
Search engines work mainly off of text and links. Because of this, search engines have a [...]
Top 10 Ways to Market Your Photography Studio Online
How many cold calls a week does your studio receive from SEO or marketing “specialists?” How many online magazines, blogs, and directories have tried to get you to pay thousands of dollars for banner ads or “premier listings?”
With thousands of ways to advertise online, it may be difficult to find legitimate, effective, and targeted [...]
Business – Top Photographs Clients Purchase as Prints
It is safe to assume everyone reading this is a photographer of some sort or another, whether professional or a hobbyist. As photographers, we enjoy using our creative vision to create artistic works. We don’t mind waiting for long periods of time, or trying repeatedly in order to get that perfect shot. We even spend [...]
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Business – Wedding Photographer Expectations
Everyday we come across people, whether they be hobbyists, assistants, professionals, clients, etc, who seem to have severe misconceptions about wedding photography as an industry and job. So, I wrote this article not to discourage anyone, but to make sure anyone getting into the wedding photography industry has the right expectations of their studio and [...]
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Business – A Day in the Life of a Wedding Photographer
When I was choosing my career path, I always found it useful reading blogs and websites that had articles talking about what a day is like in the life of a “blank.” It was an extremely useful way of trying to figure out exactly what I would enjoy doing all day, everyday.
So, I thought I [...]
WPPI 2009 – Platform Speaker Notes – Bambi Cantrell
Speaker: Bambi Cantrell
Website: http://www.cantrellportrait.com/
Lecture Title: The Wedding, A Photographic Essay
SLR Lounge Lecture Usefulness Grade: A-
Overview: Finally, a speaker that actually talked about what they said they would talk about! Bambi Cantrell’s platform lecture was designed to inspire and educate wedding photographers in the area of using lighting and posing techniques to capture decisive moments in [...]
