Blog resources for your photography business

Blogging is fun, great to show of your latest images and easy to do. For those who would like resources on blogs and blog programs, we have worked on a list to help:

• Bitty – Bitty Browser helps you keep track of your favorite Web stuff by enabling navigable windows directly within your favorite sites it’s like Picture-in-Picture for the Web. http://bitty.com/
• Blogburst – BlogBurst bloggers who are getting picked up by some of the world’s most popular media sites. http://www.blogburst.com/
• Blogcode – Start a blog site and locate similar blogs. http://www.blogcode.com/
• Bloggersnap – BloggerSnap is a little tool which allows your visitors to easily post on your blog or website a snapshot taken with their webcam. http://www.bloggersnap.com/
• Bloggoggle – A customized directory of blogging professionals, bloggoggle helps you bring true expert resources into focus. http://www.bloggoggle.com/
• Blogs – blo.gs lets you keep an eye on your favorite weblogs via the web and email. http://blo.gs/
• Cocomment – coComment keeps track of all the online conversations you’re following in one convenient place, and informs you whenever something is added to a conversation. http://www.cocomment.com/
• Feedblitz – RSS, Blogs, XML, readers and aggregators can be confusing. Adding email services to your blog isn’t. Email RSS feed and blog subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz. http://www.feedblitz.com/
• Freevlog – Set up free video blog and show your stuff. http://www.freevlog.org/
• Measuremap – Measure Map helps you understand what people do at your blog, and what influence you are having on the world. Blog site stats. http://measuremap.com/
• Structuredblogging – Structured Blogging is all about giving bloggers the tools to create and syndicate structured information, such as reviews and events. http://structuredblogging.org/
• Blogniscient – Categorize and rank blog articles and blogs in real time, providing up-to-date information on the hottest blog entries.
  http://www.blogniscient.com/

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What’s your solution? Let us know

I received an interesting question the other day – do you have any solutions? Comment on this blog, and let us know!

Hi Lori.  How are you?

Can you help me with finding info on working with Adobe Creative Suite 7.0 Professional?

I think I may have bit off more that I can chew with this program!
I can take an awsome picture,  but I can not seem to work with this program easily.

What would you suggest that I need to do?  I updated my ram to 1.5 gb,  whatever that means,  and I want to be able to edit pictures easily.
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Any info you and your peers can suggest,  would be very much appreciated.

Thank you very much for all the work you put into your site,  and all the great information you have given me.  I tell everyone in Canada about you and your site.

Thank You
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What’s The Secret To Succeeding In Photography Online?

The newest statistics are in. Right now, there are over:

• 29 billion web pages
• 108 million websites

How do you compete with this amount of traffic? What makes you not only stand out from your competition, but also rise up to the top of the search engines and be noticed? It’s not rocket science. But you do have to have tools in place that will help you every single month you are in business. It’s just like traditional marketing – if you quit doing, your business will disappear.

Now you can take charge of your marketing, and help bring your website to the top of the listings. I’ve learned from some of the top gurus in the industry. I’ll show you how to do it too.

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Five Business Tips For Creating Success

1. You don’t have to know everything. The important thing is to do something every day. Your business builds upon your successes – and your mistakes. Don’t be afraid to take risks.

2. Set goals. Goals should be your stepping stones into the future. Set realistic goals; things that you can easily accomplish. Then work one after the other to reach success.

3. Visibility is paramount. In order to be a success, people have to find you. There are dozens of ways for you to get in front of your prospects and clients, and let them know you are available for business.

4. You can learn about your business from anyone. Have you ever had one of your customers sell you to one of their friends? Nothing shows your marketability more than listening in on someone else selling your business.

5. Build a relationship with your vendors. A young bride was searching online for an album to place her wedding images in. Her photographer had gone out of business, and left her with the negatives. She found a beautiful album company, but because they sold only to professionals, they couldn’t help her. But they recommended a local photographer that they knew well. This photographer gladly helped her design her album. As a way of saying thank you, the young bride sent an additional two clients to this photographer.

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Are Your Deliberately Ignoring Your Photography Customers?

Tuesday morning I opened up my email account, and staring me in the face was over 10,000 new emails.

I calmly hit my “delete” button, and quickly wiped away all 10,000 emails without a care in the world.

As a business owner online, I understand email is a part of doing business. In fact, I’m online and communicate online nearly every day, and honestly can’t imagine life without my email. But I also know email can be a problem as you ask for information, and give your email out to multiple businesses. Let me give you some tips to start your New Year out on a positive note.
Tip 1 – Open up multiple accounts, and direct traffic to different accounts.
I have several Yahoo.com accounts, and several Hotmail.com accounts, in addition to the email addresses I use to run my business. I use these for newsletters and other promotional items. Several of the accounts I use exclusively knowing I will be receiving tons of junk mail – hence my 10,000 emails on Tuesday morning. But it doesn’t bother me, because I know what this account is used for, and I know I’ll never open any of the email up. I simply hit delete. I concentrate on the quality email that comes into my business accounts.

Tip 2 – If you own a business, invest in a professional email address.
Nothing shows professionalism more than using your name and website address as a part of your email address. Plus you can give out your email knowing people will also have your website address at the same time. Check with your webmaster or hosting company; most companies offer you multiple email addresses to correspond with your website. With our websites, we offer an unlimited amount of email addresses with every account. You can forward your email address into your existing email file, making it easy for you to monitor your email regularly.

Tip 3 – Treat your email like you do your phone.
You would never have an unlisted phone number for your business, no one would find you. Likewise, your email address should be readily available to anyone who has the desire to email you. Place your email address on every page of your website, and share it on your business card and other marketing materials. If you’re worried about the security of your email, create it as a graphic rather than a live link. The important thing is to have the access to the information.

Tip 4 – Don’t trust your AOL account.
Even though many people are still using AOL, it’s not an effective way to handle email, especially for a business. AOL has so many s*pam filters attached, it actually stops a great majority of email from flowing in (and out) of your account.

Tip 5 – Avoid using harsh filters on your own business account.
Though s*pam is a problem, you have to think of it as a part of doing business. The last thing you want to do is to frustrate a potential customer because they can’t reach you.

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