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Social Media Time Management: Splitting Time Between Twitter, Facebook, and Blogging

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Let’s talk about social media time management. This is part one of a two-part series (Part two will be next week) talking about how to best use your time for social media marketing. Think about your…

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Each of the tools listed above (plus others) can potentially bring you new business or keep you in [...]

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Social Media is No Longer New or Leading Edge

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One of my social media predictions for 2010 was that we’d reach a point where social media use and marketing would stop being thought of as some special or “new” thing and instead be considered mainstream and normal.
It’s the beginning of March, and I’m there, at least in the photography world. I’m pretty sure [...]

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Use Social Media to become the One to Call

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When someone needs to hire a photographer, how do they find one? Regardless of whether it’s for a wedding, corporate material, senior pictures, sporting event, or editorial need, they probably follow this path:

A photographer they have previously hired.
A referral from a trusted source.
Someone they personally know who is a photographer.
Someone they don’t know personally, [...]

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Facebook Contests and Promotions: Read the Restrictive Rules

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Contests are a popular use of social media. I’ve blogged about my thoughts on contests on Twitter, run a couple contests here on Social Photo Talk, and used Twitter and Facebook to drive traffic to my contests. Yesterday it came to my attention that Facebook has recently updated their Promotions Guidelines, which set [...]

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On the Twelfth Day of Tips-Mas…

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From December 25th through January 5th, I’m running a series called the Twelve Days of Tips-Mas, offering quick and easy tips for social media use by photographers.
On the twelfth day of Tips-Mas, this blogger said to thee: check in with forgotten connections. Odds are that after you’ve used Facebook or Twitter or Flickr for [...]

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On the Sixth Day of Tips-Mas…

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From December 25th through January 5th, I’m running a series called the Twelve Days of Tips-Mas, offering quick and easy tips for social media use by photographers.
On the sixth day of Tips-Mas, this blogger said to thee: Invite folks to engage. Yes, social media is about two-way conversations, but often you’ll acquire new Twitter [...]

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On the Fourth Day of Tips-Mas…

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From December 25th through January 5th, I’m running a series called the Twelve Days of Tips-Mas, offering quick and easy tips for social media use by photographers.
On the fourth day of Tips-Mas, this blogger said to thee: Shout out a happy birthday! Facebook and some other services will help you keep track of birthdays [...]

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Online and Offline: It’s All Real

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When personal computers still cost multiple thousands of dollars and the internet was somewhere that only technical geeks would be found, the term IRL came to mean “in real life” as opposed to an online interaction.
Here’s a reality check for those using the internet in 2009: online life and offline life are one and the [...]

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Share Easier: the Eye-Fi Card

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Eye-Fi. All opinions are 100% mine.
Our poll last week indicated that 95% of the readers of Social Photo Talk use photo sharing sites such as Flickr or even Facebook. It’s a bunch of fun to share photos with friends, family, and clients, but [...]

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Retrospective on my 2009 in Social Media

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We’re now into December, and if you’re like me you’re wondering what happened to most of 2009. With the new year approaching, it’s worth spending a few minutes and doing a bit of a retrospective on the past twelve months. It’s a good idea for any business to periodically step back and look [...]

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