tactics for getting your work in front of more eyes<\/a> through partnership marketing strategies.\u00a0 Has anyone start working on that strategy yet for YOUR business? This next idea is a more recent one and so far it has worked very well for those I\u2019ve shared it with.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the story behind how it started\u2026<\/p>\nA photographer called me and told me that his business was going down the tubes.\u00a0 He said he had been shooting weddings and portraits for over twelve years and it had never been this bad.\u00a0 He asked if I had any ideas.<\/p>\n
Hmm, I said.\u00a0 I told him to go buy a photo Light Box, the ones that sit on the counter for about $80.00 or so.\u00a0 Then I told him to go to the closest town with a decent population, and go door-to-door to all of the businesses you can.\u00a0 Tell them your name, your business name, and that the reason you\u2019re stopping by is because you\u2019re a seasoned portrait and commercial photographer and you are personally turned off when you see poor quality images on company websites.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to offer my services for only $10.00 per photo that have to do with your business web site.\u00a0 I\u2019ll even upload them to your computer for you (the idea was to give him a reason to introduce himself, it\u2019s for the connections & exposure, not the $10.00 \u2013 remember, the more people that know about you the better!).\u00a0 In exchange for the competitively priced services, you\u2019d like to have credit given on any website images with a link to my website.\u00a0 Set up a route to a certain town or area once a month between 12-3pm. That way you can tell them you will be back the first Monday of every month.<\/p>\n
This is a fair exchange in my opinion.\u00a0 The company gets professional quality images for their website, which should help them, present themselves at a higher level, and thus sell more of their product or service.\u00a0 The photographer gets exposure and a little money on top, plus they just expanded their portfolio and got a back link to their website (think SEO).<\/p>\n
Well, three weeks after talking to this particular photographer, he gave me a call back.\u00a0 He took my advice and went to a local downtown art show \u2013 a perfect place to start.\u00a0 The first three vendors he approached said yes, and between them they had 120 products; so the first day he made $1,200, gained exposure, and expanded his portfolio!\u00a0 Not bad for an $80.00 investment in the light box.<\/p>\n
The market for shooting images for the web is endless.\u00a0 If you\u2019re struggling or looking for a new niche, get out there, get some customers, and make some money.\u00a0 Once you start knocking on doors the possibilities are endless.<\/p>\n
Thanks,<\/p>\n
Mike Connors | MorePhotos<\/a> CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Success Series for Modern-Day Photographers image by graur codrin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[106,105],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-to-businss-by-michael-connors","tag-eccommerce-for-photographers","tag-photography-business-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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