People make mistakes online when trying to advance their interests all the time. Some of the miscues are flat out awful, but some come from someone just trying to make a dollar and not being aware of the etiquette on social media sites. I figured I would try to come to the rescue with 5 tips that can apply to you personally or your brand. So please, don’t make these 5 marketing mistakes online. Here we go… Do NOT send […]
I could sit at my computer and look at photos all day especially when it comes to great photo blogs. I love all sorts from big journalistic blogs with multiple contributors to blogs of independent studios like ours. I wrote a post in 2012 about the 6 best photography blogs on the Internet and since then I have discovered some others that are fantastic, so now I bring you the best photography blogs on the web – part two! Do […]
If you follow us on Instagram you have noticed that we don’t post a lot of final images there. For now we prefer to show what is happening at the studio closer to real time so I usually snap photos of Ally doing her thing with my iPhone. I am not the pro photographer here – Ally is. So while the photos we post on Instagram aren’t of professional quality, that’s not quite the point of Instagram in the first […]
Yep – time to rant. You cannot be actively social on social media with NO pictures of yourself. Your photo doesn’t have to be your profile picture, but if you send me a friend request and I’m not totally sure who you are and you have no pictures for me to see of you then why would I accept your request? It’s like knocking on my door with a bag over your head. I’m not going to judge how you […]
I’ll be the first to admit I am not a total expert at twitter, but I know a thing or two. I tweet under several different profiles and I’ve used twitter for almost 5 years. I didn’t really get it at first, went away from it for a while, and then came back. These days I feel like I’m starting to get more out of it than I ever have. Twitter Goes Public, And Why Twitter Is As Important As Ever […]
It’s been an interesting week or so in photography and social media – from a certain Internet-based company CEO’s assault on professional photographers, to facebook’s announcement (finally) of verified accounts. A couple of interesting nuggets happened here at Frameable Faces as well, so while I’m not sure if this is something I’ll do weekly or monthly (or ever again haha), I thought a little column about various current events as they relate to our business, the photography industry, and social […]
Okay so this is a little change of pace… Usually when I blog about social media it’s the standard “5 ways to….” or “7 tips for….” or “the 6 best….” – some type of informative lesson with the perfect title designed to explode our SEO to Jupiter and make our blog the envy of every photography studio East (and West) of the Mississippi. Okay well maybe that hasn’t quite happened (yet) but one can dream…..right? This time it’s a […]
We love Instagram! For those of you still not familiar with this (it’s okay we won’t tell anyone) Instagram is a social media platform that enables its users to take pictures (generally with their smartphone), apply digital filters to them, and share them. As with all of the different social media platforms we use such as facebook, Pinterest, twitter, YouTube (just to name a few), Instagram has its own unique purpose for us. We generally do not use it to post examples […]
Last month we wrote a piece about when to promote a facebook post which included a case study, and we mentioned that we would post a follow up with the results. For starters let’s just say the results were….. successful to a degree but also a little mixed and confusing. We spent $15 and it did seem to reach a lot of people. From that standpoint we feel like we got what we paid for, but there are plenty of […]
This is really a follow up post to “Restoring History” which focused on photo restoration. Here is a little social media strategy discussion – as of this writing the strategy for the “Restoring History” post is in a test mode as we speak, and hopefully we can get some results we can learn from as we go along…. The Option To Promote A Facebook Post For those who may not know, Facebook rolled out a new tool a few months […]