Practical Photography

Businesses seem to be looking towards the internet these days to market themselves, here are a few good ways to help you on credit crunch budget.

Flickr

Flickr is an online photo sharing network where you can display your images online and meet other people with similar interests. By sharing your images you are actually advertising your portfolio, you can link flickr to your website and generate hits through this and potetially new business leads.

Facebook

Facebook is a social networking site that is being used my many people all over the world, it has a huge online presence and if you search for your own name, unless you have set your profile to private it will come up in Google.

Facebook allows you to invite friends and colleagues to network with.

These can be;

• Personal Friends, whom you have known at school, through family, and outside work
• Professional friends, people you work with
• Clients, these can be people whose wedding you did before or current and even potential clients

Blogging

By blogging about your business people can find you on the internet this helps build up trust and a sense of community you will get loyal readers and people that will recommend you to their friends. People can leave comments and put in their email address which you could use as a potential sales lead.

All of these methods can be useful to getting your business recognised and remind older clients or friends of what you do and showcase recent work.