Online Solution for Photographers

Are you a playful photographer? Wedding Photographer?  Maybe you are a senior or baby photographer.  Whatever you shoot, your logo is very important.  Established business have logos, moms with cameras do not.  If you are taking your business seriously, you will need a serious logo.

When creating a new logo, we use www.99designs.com.  We have also heard great things about www.designcrowd.com.  No matter if you design your own logo, or decide to outsource or “crowdsource”, don’t skip the logo design, its not as hard as you think.

I went to pick up my photos at Sam’s Club yesterday, and ran into a snag.  There was a copyright issue because the photos were obviously professional.  (Thanks btw) and I needed a release note with the photographer’s name contact info, etc.

I was able to show my website through my phone, with my phone number on it, so it all worked out.

If you sell digital images, do your clients a favor and give them a release note with the rights they have spelled out.  It will save them time and make you look good!

Thanks to Sam’s club for looking out for us! I haven’t seen this at Walgreen’s or other places in town.

A few years I was attending a trade show in New Orleans.  Walking down Bourbon St., I came up to a unique building.  I took out my camera to take a photo and a fellow photographer stopped me, grabbed my camera, and told me to jump in front of the building. I turned around, smiled, and then before I knew what happened, I was on the ground with a cop yelling in my face.

He claimed he thought I was going for his partner’s gun (HA), and made me delete the photos taken.  I wish I would have known my rights.  I suggest printing this document out and putting it in your camera bag.  Read it a few times.

http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf

As we gear up for Turkey Day (or Turkey-less Day for some), we get ready to take time out of the hustle and bustle of everyday life and spend time with family; we reflect on what we’re thankful for, and more importantly, who we’re thankful for.  And even though we might be just as outwardly busy as usual with the preparation of a large meal, hopefully we slow down the thoughts of work and concentrate more on the reasons that we all work so hard.

A couple things this week made the crew at MorePhotos think about how lucky we all are just to be here, to be healthy, working, and able to enjoy the upcoming time with our families.  The first event was very sad, as a photographer (client of ours) passed away this past week.  His name was Perrin Todd.  Our crew in tech-support said Perrin was always a pleasure to talk to, and it was clear from his website that he took some amazing images and helped many people document precious memories through his passion for Photography.  The second was an email note from one of our accountant/office managers, Barb.  She passed on a link to a blog that the mother of her son-in-law’s niece has kept to document the health battle her daughter Kati has experienced since she was just a baby (she’s now 9).  It was truly a tear jerk-er, and if you’re a parent, just thinking of your own little one experiencing health problems and surgeries their whole life is hard to even imagine.  The families of Perrin and Katie are in our thoughts this year.

Even though sad events or circumstances shouldn’t be needed to make us take stock in life, to value where we’re at in this journey and who we’re on it with, to keep perspective – they sometimes are.

Let’s all make a point to practice gratitude this Thanksgiving.

Thank you for your business & loyalty over all these years – we sincerely appreciate it.

The Crew at MorePhotos

With every new technology comes opportunity and responsibility.  Since QR codes became popular in the last few years for consumers, we’ve seen a ton of examples of BAD ways to utilize QR codes.

Bad Examples:

• link directly to your flash website (MorePhotos clients have an auto iPhone optimized site, so we got you covered)
• link to a site that is full of images and takes long to load
• use it just because you can…
• used on a website where a regular link would be much easier

Good Example:

This code is great because:

• It loads quickly
• Allows multiple ways to connect to company once scanned
• Landing page can be updated at any time, thus the code having a much longer life.

This code and landing page was created for free using: www.pb.com/qr-codes

They should be a Big Search Bully

Friendly is taking your turn at the top, I’m talking about being 1st, 2nd, AND 3rd.  There’s nothing friendly about that.  And that should be your mission.  Once they land on your site, you better have a rockin website, but that’s for a different post.

As you know by now, there’s no silver bullet for SEO, no switch you can flip, no SECRET that nobody else knows…  It just takes work, but you’re not afraid of that, or you wouldn’t have started your own business.  I specifically recommend 3 things to get the most bang for your minutes detailed here.

If you do those three steps, you will be SEO friendly.  I have a white paper in front of me with 20 tasks, each taking between 3-20 minutes.  If you take the time over the next few weeks and do every one (I have done most), you WILL see great benefits, or you will get a 350% money back.  (which is zero dollars, I was going for a dramatic effect).

Email me and I’ll be happy to share: zack@morephotos.com

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=1152