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

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 photographer [...]

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Social Photo Podcast #21: Google’s Photo Business, Social Media Lost and Found, Outsourcing Your Blogging

Subscribe via iTunes: – this link will launch iTunes for easy subscription Here’s episode 21 of the Social Photo Podcast. Hosts Aaron Hockley and Lyza Danger Gardner talk about how Lyza’s lost camera was returned due to social media, the outsourcing of blog content, whether Google is going to put you out of business, and [...]

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How Tea Parties, Abortion, and Healthcare Can Affect Your Image

Are you thinking about how hot political issues might be costing you business due to your social media personas? Here are a few of my thoughts and warnings: Do you mix these topics into the streams that your clients see? Why or why not?

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Resources for the Business of Photography

Yesterday on Twitter @thats1hotmonkey asked me about resources for photographers as small businesses. I put together this list of some of my favorite resources for photography business information. Best Business Practices for Photographers (2nd Edition) by John Harrington – a great book that talks about all elements of the photography business, including contracts, licensing, taxes, [...]

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That Thing You’re Avoiding? Yeah… That One. Do That.

Everyone keeps tracks of tasks and business plans and goals in different ways. It could just be me, but I suspect I’m not the only one who has a couple tasks sitting on my list that I keep procrastinating, even though the value in getting them done would mean a growth in business. Perhaps it’s [...]

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Stock Photography and Journalism Ain’t What They Used to Be, and That’s Awesome!

I’ve had some observations… Old Journalism Creation of news for publication used to be very hard. Typewriters could be obtained, but they produced documents that could be considered utilitarian at best, with no graphics, a lack of typeface options, and difficult situations if errors needed to be corrected. Then the 1980s happened: personal computers became [...]

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