Feb 2009 Meeting

We had a great meeting over at Leo's studio, I like to think it was fun and productive. Thank you to all that attended, and to Leo for the use of his studio as well as Jim for class we had that night.
As we often times have very little time to tackle everything we’d like to discuss, I thought I’d save my 2 cents for after the fact. And with me doing the website, I’d like to think that it might share some points or tips on what we all could be doing on the web.

Keep in mind all these tips are free to implement. So don’t be afraid to try them out and see where they lead you. Let’s start with Facebook, some of you are on there I know, out of about 23 I found that 6 have facebook profiles. That’s good, but for a free networking service, why not have 100% on there. http://www.facebook.com/ – and with the PPA magazine putting it right on the front cover, I mean come on that’s PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS OF AMERICA saying “you should be on facebook”. Here’s the article if you care to read it. http://www.ppmag.com/current_issue/pdfs/0902/0209facebook_web.pdf

Twitter - http://twitter.com/

MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/ (not my favorite, but maybe it could work for you)

Create a blog - http://www.blogspot.com/ - its free and great for search engines

Create a Youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/ - it’s a great place to put your slideshows for people to check out your work. And if you use the Animoto ( http://www.animoto.com/ ) slideshow software/ yearly subscription it has a “Youtube” upload button right there.

http://www.photographysites.com/
http://www.weddingwire.com/
http://www.wedj.com/
http://www.partypop.com/

http://www.google.com/ – you should add your business listing to Google Maps or create a business listing with google.

Well that’s a good handful of things to get your started. If you find this useful, let me know, as I’ll keep updating this information to you all. And keep in mind all this is free, free marketing, free advertising, and free networking.

I hate to point this little fact out to you but Times are moving forward, we can’t stop change from happening and it’s happening all around us. The trick is to change with the times! Back in the day, yellow pages might have been the way to go, but those books are becoming a thing of the past, and clients now are looking you up online, on the internet. And if they can’t find you, you might as well be invisible. Don’t be the last one learning this new stuff, don’t get left behind. Just telling it like it is.
Nuff said.