http://photobusinessguide.com/blog How to Make Easy Money With Your Camera Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:23:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The greatest lesson I’ve learned about running a photography business online is that there are only 3 basic and fundamental ways to grow your business. EVERYTHING you do in growing your business should be centered around these fundamentals. 1.    Increase market reach The market reach is how many potential clients you drive ... http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/92/how-to-grow-your-photography-business/ The one lesson i learned years ago is to never build a photography business on a free web hosting account. And i mean it, NEVER! I used a free web host initially and had to regret it later. One day it was gone... stopped working... they just decided discontinue with the ... http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/86/webhosting-for-photography-websites/ You have a lot of things working against you when you try to get free traffic to a newly created website. The search engines and especially Google likes old domain names. All new domain names end up in the sandbox for a few months and it takes years to garner trust ... http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/73/get-free-traffic-to-your-photography-website/ Optimizing a photography website for Google and other search engines often seems like a futile and uphill battle for most photographers. Why? Most photography websites contains mainly images and are often flash based. Google likes text but doesn't like flash based websites at all. Actually, Google probably have nothing against flash as ... http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/60/seo-for-photography-websites/ Google Adwords can be like a giant black hole in terms of losing money when advertising photography sites. In fact, by looking at Adwords campaign i'm pretty sure most photographers promoting their website through Adwords are losing money. Why? Well, there are many reasons but here are the most common one. They are ... http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/52/how-to-advertise-photography-websites-with-google-adwords/ Here's a very smart little photography marketing idea that could generate a lot of income and buzz for you. First some background, a referral can be 50 times more valuable than a “normal” lead. Let me ask you, who would you trust more: A photographer coming up to you and telling you ... http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/42/photography-marketing-ideas-getting-referrals/ Do you think I’m nuts? How can you sell your pictures to a bank? Easy, banks are rabid photo buyers these days especially due to the financial turmoil we’re in right now. according to Mortgage Bankers Association are 1.35 million homes in the U.S are under foreclosure and 1 in 10 ... http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/31/sell-your-pictures-to-banks/ Do you have a hard disk full of images and would be happy to make money selling them? No problem, there are plenty of agencies selling micro stock photography and the list is growing longer every day. It's fast and easy to get started at no cost and pretty much ... http://photobusinessguide.com/blog/4/make-money-selling-micro-stock-photography/