My Brand

Now this is a subject I could spends days on, properly branding yourself, and your work. Its a tough market many times you cannot get in anywhere unless you know someone, networking still always important. Last week my website is down, it is now back up but in that one week that it was down I lost money, or rather, I lost the chance to make money.

Never underestimate the value of a great website, you can be the best but without a way to show that, how will people know your the best? But a great website is only the start, today you need a full web presence, what does that mean? it means Twitter, Facebook, linkedin, youtube, a blog, you need them all and you need them now.

I am not one to be just all talk, I walk the walk, on this entry I have screen shots of my web presence, the only one I am missing is youtube, which is still under construction and will be up by the summer. Unfortunately having all great web presence is not all you need to be successful, but it is a damm good start!

Website, Still Need One???

I was thinking about the role of websites for todays photographer. With websites like facebook, myspace, twitter, and yes this one is there a real reason for a photographer to have a website. That is an easy one yes, because a website is part of your visibility and good website can bring you new clients while a bad one may lose you potential clients. However as a result of these social networking websites, you can now bring more traffic to your website. 

Currently I am in the process of having a website built, it is not a fun process but it is necessary. my social networking connections however have kept me going until its complete. Almost everybody is on atleast one SN site, majority of my clients I have met through Facebook and other such sites.  As the world continues to become smaller due to technology, I wonder what the future holds in its wake.

A list of my other social networking profiles are listed under links to the right of the page.

The image is a screen shoot of some of my old work on Modelmayhem.