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Business

Flickr Enables Anyone to Make Commercial Sales… Sorta

Tweet Late last week, Flickr rolled out a change that widens the reach of it’s collaboration with Getty Images and allows anyone on Flickr to offer their photos for sale via the Getty program. Previously, the Flickr+Getty partnership was essentially invitation-only, where selected photographers would be invited to have selected photos represented by Getty. Now, [...]

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Innovative Times for SmugMug, Photoshelter

Tweet Photographers want easy ways to show off their work in online galleries. Clients want user-friendly systems to check out photos from their event or portrait session. Everyone wants prints from professional labs delivered in a timely manner. There are variety of ways to go about reaching these goals, but one increasingly-common scenario is for [...]

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Facebook Fury: A Photographer’s Take

Tweet Facebook has been in the news again over the last couple of weeks as it has made some change to its privacy settings. Once again we’re seeing some folks choose to deactivate/delete their Facebook profiles in protest. Portland news anchor Stephanie Stricklen (pictured) tweeted last night about knowing several people who are deleting their [...]

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License Your Photos for Sharing; Encourage Photography Clients to Be Social

Tweet If you photograph businesses, company events, retail openings, parties, or the like, are you keeping those photos under lock and key or are you encouraging your clients to share? Hopefully you’re encouraging some sharing. If you don’t allow (and even encourage) folks to share your work, you’re probably going to be replaced by a [...]

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Resources and Recommendations for the Social Photographer

Tweet I’ve tried and used a variety of online services, software, books, and other resources as I have built my photography business using today’s social technologies and online tools. I’ve made recommendations along the way, and I just consolidated all of those into a master Resources page that lists my recommendations for blog software, WordPress [...]

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Should You Outsource Your Photography Blog?

Tweet A new service could have photographers asking if outsourcing their blogs is the right thing to do. GhostRighters is a new business from some photo professionals that allows a photographer to outsource some marketing efforts. Among GhostRighters’ services, you’ll find that they will write your blog. For $500 each month, you’ll get 12 articles [...]

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Google Enters Commercial Photo Business… for Free

Tweet Today Google announced Google Places, a database/directory of location-specific information building on the existing Google Maps and Google Local Business services. The big news from a photography standpoint is that Google will send a photographer to a business location and take interior photos at no cost to the business owner. Presumably Google will be [...]

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