Great Tip on How to Market Your Portrait Photography Business.

I decided I am going to do some videos on how to market yourself as a photographer and grow your business.  This is one of my favorite ideas that I use to grow my business.  It works very well, especially if you spend a little time on finding organizations and schools in your area.  I would start out with two or three different High schools and maybe your local Boy Scout troop.

 Make sure your coupon looks really professional.  Also, you need to have a sheet where when the kids sell your coupons they can write down the name and phone number of the buyer. That way you can follow up with a phone call. My first rule of marketing is “Don’t leave it up to the customer to call you”! If you want to succeed, call them and set up the appointment.

The coupon should say something like this:

(your business name here) has teamed up with the (name of school or organization)Football Team to raise money for (what is the money going to be used for) football camp.  To support the team(your business) is offering 1/2 off the price of a photography session with the purchase of this ticket.  

Please support the (local school or organization) Football team by purchasing this coupon.

(your business phone number and email and website should also be on the coupon)

offer good through 9-2012(always have an expiration date on it)

That is basically all you need to do. You will want to change the wording a little and add some photos, but it really is simple and effective!

Fujifilm X-Pro1 Lens Reviews – 18mm f/2, 35mm f/1.4 & 60mm f/2.4 Macro

I love this camera and it’s lenses!

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Landscape Photography Post-production

This is a great video showing the power of post production with tools like photoshop and lightroom.  It’s really neat to see the before and after!

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Natural Lighting Techniques from Camille Seaman

Awsome Tips for Natural light photography!

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Stock Photography Tips

Great Stock photography tips!

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The 5 F’s Street photography tips

Very interesting video on Street Photography!  Let me know what you think about this.

Here is a short video on some great examples of street photography!

Faded Black and White – Lightroom 4

I have to tell you, I love Lightroom 4!  It’s a great tool if you are serious about shooting photography professionally! Hope you enjoy!

A Simple Tip to Improve Your Photography: Change Your Perspective!

This is a quick tutorial on how to improve your photography by simply changing your perspective!! Hope you enjoy and take a look at the photos below to see the results that I got!

 Here is the first Shot!

Here is the shot taken closer to the ground

The Same idea with people. This is a shot of my daughter

I took this shot 5 seconds after the one above. The only thing I did

different is to get down close to the ground and shoot her at eye level!

Here are two other photos using the same process!

hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Comments are appreciated!

-Brian

Natural Light & Strobes on Location: A Lighting Tutorial

Great video! I use this technique all the time!

Lightroom How-to: Make Your Digital Images Look Like Film

Great Tutorial on how to make your digital photos look like film. I love this video even more now that I have lightroom. It’s a great program and not as pricey as others.

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