DIY 101: How to Get Started with Product Photography

My role as a stay-at-home parent, along with my work as a blogger, means I’m stuck in the house more often than not. I love what I do, both as a writer and parent, but I do find myself lacking for photographic subjects. Everyone in my home, including the cats and dogs, seems to be camera shy. So I began to look for other photographic opportunities around the house.

Then I began to think. I like writing. I like taking photos. And I definitely like making extra money. I’ve been meaning to clean out some of the clutter in my office and around the house, and I figure I could sell a lot of the stuff that’s still good but is just collecting dust here in the house.

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How to Use Cinemagraphs to Spice Up Your Photography Marketing

While cinemagraphs are not exactly new, they are still great for advertising purposes because of their format: a GIF/video hybrid where an element of the still photo plays in never-ending loop, which results in constant motion.

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Created by visual artists Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg of Ann Street Studio, they can be a fun and creative way to give a boost to your photography brand.

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6 Strategies for Launching a Successful Photography Blog

Blogging has become one of the most popular pastimes and income sources for photographers these days. If you’re going to start a photography blog, you have probably been faced with a lot of issues which are quite confusing.

And the very first question is: where to start out? Fortunately, modern software solutions enable everyone to create a blog easily with no coding skills or technical knowledge required.

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How to Use Video for Your Photography Website

In modern society websites are all about storytelling and conveying the right message. Designers try to “make it big” by using proper images and videos to give users the maximum impact. Videos rose in popularity in 2014, and have been a growing trend ever since.

Being a sister medium to photography, video can help you enhance your online brand presentation and get visitors of your website engaged with your brand in no time. Moreover, video content is a great way to add some personal touches to your portfolio and make it stand out.

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Utilising Meerkat/Houseparty and Periscope for Your Photography Business

In this article we’re going to talk about Periscope and Meerkat** apps and how a photographer can benefit from these services.

Use technologies of the future to grow your business!

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10 Fresh Photography Business Articles to Help You Thrive

Finally, spring came up and it’s a wonderful time of the year to start grow your business and improve yourself as a photographer.

We do a little search to find the best fresh photography business articles from leading blogs which will help you to thrive.

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5 Useful Tools to Run Your Holiday Promotions for Christmas

Christmas is around the corner. Holidays are a great opportunity to promote your photography brand as most people strive to capture those special moments with magic Xmas feeling running all through. So make a game plan, grab some tools, and go ahead to make the most out of this busy season.

In today’s list we collected 5 online marketing tools that will help you run your holiday promotion campaign this year.

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Essential Photography Business Kit: 5 Things to Keep Handy at All Times

Even if you don’t have a business plan, or much of a business to speak of, if you’re going to be or already are a professional photographer, there are certain things you will need and often will be asked for over and over again.

Luckily, you don’t have to do extra work every time to meet these needs — instead, you can put them together once and keep them handy, like tools in a handyman’s box, ready to be pulled out and tweaked whenever they’re necessary.

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Guide to Winning Guest Blogging for Photographers

Guest blogging is one of the marketing techniques that many bloggers and site owners make use of and serves at least two purposes. Firstly, it’s great exposure for the guest blogger, and secondly, it’s a new post for the site owner that they haven’t had to spend any time creating.

You may be a brilliant blogger with huge experience and exceptional skills, but you will not be recognized until you get the right type of exposure. That’s exactly what guest blogging was created for.

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Photography Branding: Pinterest Marketing Guide for Newbies

Pinterest has grabbed the attention of many social media marketers and for good reason. The image sharing site has gathered millions of fans since its debut two years ago. With Pinterest you can easily share photos you’ve found around the web and interact with people from all over the globe.

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I previously wrote on Photodoto about Pinterest photography boards worth following. This time I decided to share my own experience and tips on Pinterest that I discovered as a Photodoto marketer.

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