Specifications

but tell you next to nothing about! (Go look for yourself, or check out my Internet marketing eBook

when I write one!)

Facebook – Create a page for your Photography business. Invite all your friends on your personal profile

to “Like!” your page. Add a link or an icon containing your link to your Facebook page’s direct url on all

mediums, including your website and promotional mailings.

Flickr – Sign up, add photos, join groups, and submit photos to relevant groups to encourage comments,

ratings, etc.

Instagram - Use a smartphone or table? Upload your photos, share to FB, get followers to approve

them, etc.

Pinterest – “Pin” photos with or without captions of things you like. People can follow you and like what

you pinned.

Tumblr – Like a cross between Twitter and Instagram. Hard to explain.

Twitter – send brief updates about what you’re shooting or what camera you’re looking to buy. Send

updates about your Instagram updates to your Twitter. And vice versa.

Associates

Actors & Models

When first starting out in whatever genre of photography you choose, you will need samples of your

work. The easiest way to get samples fast is to enlist models and actors who are usually always needing

new photos for their own portfolios and are happy to work with you. They need the practice and

experience in front of the camera as much as you do from behind it!

You can find models and actors who’ll work TFP on test shoots, as in, time for pics. This used to be

“time for prints” but, nowadays a CD/DVD or digital files via email/FTP will do. Also, actors and models

will send you clients by word of mouth if they liked working with you and liked their resulting photos.

So, be kind and form good networking relationships with anyone you work with because this will trickle

down the line in the future, and the opposite is also true!

Find actors and models by placing castings on sites such as:

Craigslist

ModelMayhem

OneModelPlace

Make-up Artists, Hair Stylists, & Stylists

The more stylists you know, the better. Someone will always be booked up or flake out. It’s great to

establish good consistent working relationships with stylists of all types as you’ll call upon each other to

collaborate in the future, plus you’ll refer work clients to each other as well. Often, your client asks you

to hire or recommend a stylist and the same is true for them.

If you have some budget for your stylist(s), you can also check an agency as stylists have agents too!