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16 Mar 11 How to Promote your Photography Skill?

Are you the rare photographer with god gifted skill and an eye for detail? Do you like to captivate each living moment in frames? But if your photography skill isn’t fetching you much money, it’s the time to rethink upon your marketing strategy. Even good things often go wasted when not promoted effectively.

Here are few effective marketing tips.

Know your niche

Many good photographers are often seen claiming to be good in every area of photography, which is actually quite impossible these days. So find your niche area. Find in which type of photography you are actually stunning. It could be any – wild life photography, fashion photography, product photography. Make sure you excel in one area and build a fabulous portfolio of the same. Soon you will be known for your niche specialization. Write your area of specialization like your business card, letter heads.

Get listed

It’s very important for people to find you. Get visible. Get seen on photography related directories, photography journals, search engine, magazines so that your target audience can easily reach you. Not only your target market, it will also help you to be recognized in the photography industry.

Photography websites

Put your best photographs in all photography archive websites. You may still reserve rights with you by maintaining copyrights. Your photographs in such sites will draw many people close to you, who will follow you and turn your fan.

Facebook page

These days a major a tool of online marketing is through Facebook. Own a Facebook page where you can build your fan list. Put your best photographs, it is more like virtual exhibition of your talent before the world. Update your Facebook status often, ask for people’s feedback, and also follow great photographers you admire. Eventually they will also get to know you and may love your work too. You may also join photographers’ communities.

Professional tips

You may soon evolve as the best expert of photography. Start your own web page or forum or blog, where you promote yourself as the solution provider to newbie or aspirants. You can help people with expert advices and suggestions.

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15 May 10 3 Email Marketing Tips to Maximize the Result

It would not be an overstatement to say that e-mail marketing is the most effective online marketing tool. The return on investment (ROI) is quite good, as it takes a very little money to run an e-mail campaign — when compared with other online marketing tools. Success of your e- mail marketing depends upon many things, particularly on the quality of the list you have and the communication you do.

In this article, I am going to share some “too-obvious-to-notice” e-mail marketing tips that will help you maximize your ROI.

3 E-mail marketing ROI maximization tip

Do not sell what you don’t trust

Selling crap is the fastest way to push audience towards the “Unsubscribe” link. You should not push the products to your list that you have not used, or you have not seen other using it. If you are not sure about the success of a product then do not push it.

Alternatively, you can do a research to find out how the product has worked for the people who have used it. If you are still not sure, but want to push the product as it is backed by some big shot then write so in the mail. Tell your users that you have not used it, but you think it is good, and provide the reason why you think so.

Be honest

We have been told many times in our schools that honesty is the best policy, but seeing the world around, we found it hard to believe. It is time now to believe that maxim, and even to adopt it. In fact, there is no other way to make a killing through e-mail campaign than being honest with your list. Start selling lie, and soon you will have a list of absolute zero subscriber.

Build expectation and stand true to it

At the time of subscribing, or before they get the first mail, your subscribers should know about the frequency of the mails they will receive. You can also talk about the quality of the mails. Building expectation does not end here. It continues to build up with the mails you sent out in the first week. Afterward it is about meeting that expectation.

These are the things that you must care about should you wish to increase ROI of your e-mail campaign. An e-mail campaign, when done right, will significantly boost your profit.

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28 Jun 09 Couple of More Crowd-Pulling Headlines

Initially, when I started writing about crowd-pulling headlines, I thought there cannot be more than handful of strategies (formulas) for writing headlines that can build genuine interest in the article. But the more I wrote, the more unconvincing this line of reasoning became, and I ended up writing four posts (including this) on the topic. It goes without saying that I am going to share some more crowd-pulling headlines writing strategies in this post.

Learn… in30 minutes

A headline like this will give the reader a definite time frame in which he or she can acquire the skill or knowledge talked about in the article in question.

Example:

  1. Learn to Disinfect Your PC in 30 Minutes.
  2. Learn Piano in 30-Minute a Day.
  3. Learn HTML in 10 Days.
  4. Learn Photoshop in 30 Days. (Photoshop in 30 Days).
  5. CSS in 10 Easy Steps.

Tried and tested headlines

A “tried and tested” headline infuses credibility in the article. A headline like this suggests that the article following the headline will provide the solution which has been tried by many people and they got benefitted from it. This is a type of testimonial headlines. (Read more on Testimonial Headline)

Example:

  1. Tried and Tested Formula for MLM Success.
  2. Tried and Tested Method to Make Your Abs Flat.

50 best…tips

“50 best…tips, or 10…tips” or any similar headline gives a definitive idea about the length and nature of the article following such headlines. The article following this kind of headline should be written in a list-format. You can also use subheadings (Tip 1, or X tip 1) to write the article.

Example:

  1. 50 Best SEO Tips.
  2. 10 Media Marketing Tips for Success.
  3. 10 CSS Tips.

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