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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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Getting to Know People via Social Media Before Face-to-Face Situations

I know a whole lot more people than I’ve met. Watch this video and learn more about what I mean… Have you had a similar situation?

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How Much Time Should a Photographer Spend on Social Media?

I’ve been thinking about time spent using social media. Especially how that might affect photographers. Last Monday, I wrote about how one might choose to split their time and resources between various services such as Twitter, their blog, and Facebook. Today I offer a few thoughts about time commitment in general. Question: How much time [...]

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

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… Blog Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Flickr Forums Each of the tools listed above (plus others) can potentially bring you new [...]

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Use Social Media to become the One to Call

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 [...]

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Facebook Contests and Promotions: Read the Restrictive Rules

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 the rules [...]

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On the Twelfth Day of Tips-Mas…

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…

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…

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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