Best way to advertise my photography services?

Question

I have tried craigslist, myspace, facebook, and I have my own website... but still I dont feel like I am reaching a large enough audience. I do not do wedding photography. Instead I do portrait, editorial, and press kits.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

there is a company called american list or student list something like that and they will sell you a data base of student aged kids and their parents info.



It will let you know when their birthdays are when they graduate which will allow you to do a mailer to them.



I have always relied on word of mouth and never had to advertise, but a friend of mine used it and it worked great for him.



you can set your list to any kind of range in age area codes schools and so on. if you get a few from it then word of mouth will kick in.



you can also talk to schools about doing their year book which will get you a reference from the school for senior photos.



Good call on not doing weddings not worth the hassle and you dont make much more money per hour than doing portraits.



ADDITION below is the link to the site it is called american student list. take a look at it and see. It cost a few hundred dollars but it will target just the people who might want your service. You can send out a postcard flyer with some of your work on it and a special package for birthdays ot anything else



It will work if you are willing to put out the initial money.



http://www.studentlist.com/

Answer 2

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is

to first set up a website and publish its domain name

on major search directories such as Google.com,

Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and

MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these

search directories to provide them with goods and

services. In a sense, these search directories are a

very large Internet Yellow Pages.



Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage

fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using

such "generic" queries will not be able to discover

your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,

in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.



You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,

when observed and committed in designing of a website

with placement of various critical metatags that can

surely achieve a high search engine presence and

increase Internet traffic to your website. These

metatag strategies work well with published webpages

at Google and Yahoo.



Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based

website, make sure to fill-in the property entries

such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing

to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can

be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the

Internet audience and their incoming setup. For

example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages

take too long to load up and therefore analog users

will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the

Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL

lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So

before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple

question, "Who's my end user - is he on dialup or

DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users

for maximum marketability, then select analog users

since 80% of most resident users are still analog

Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages

is best for them.



A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,

is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit

the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a

graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.



Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots

are unable to properly classify textual material.



Placement of Metatags:



A ranking or search order does take place with Google

and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which

should consist of no more than 65 characters separated

by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic

terms, the goods and services, followed by a location

from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.

The placement of a domain name which is not generic

within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your

domain name is a major recognizable brand name.



The second metatag is the "Description" which is

usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which

best describes one's goods and services.



And the very last category - "Keywords" are also

somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural

and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries

which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which

is defined as the loading, and submission of

repetitive words into a particular metatag category.

"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported

to Google's spamreport.com can result in the

elimination of your website from their search

directory.



Good luck!

Answer 3

You have to be consistent on your promotion over social networks. Besides that, try out different SEO strategies. Those could be developed by experts in order to get professional results. besides that, do you think your web design is the right one? that's almost the most important think to work on.



Regards,



Gene

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Answer 4

How about... ask a question about it here, and hope someone contacts you