An exchange I had on twitter yesterday got me thinking… Of course I often go to football for analogies because I have a background there, so as a former player and a football “purist” I may enjoy comparing statistics for fun, but I would never play “fantasy football”. I never have and never will. I actually like statistics – I do. I’ll even use them from time to time in debates about teams and players and who was better. […]
So much has been going on in the social media world this past week (Periscope Monetizes) or so – or at least it seems this way for us. I’ve got a few topics to cover with a few tips and of course a couple of observations and opinions…. Let’s get to it, starting with the major headlines for this post… YouTube Gets LIVE We had heard about YouTube livestreaming for a while but weren’t sure if it would be on […]
Recently I wrote an article here on the blog comparing and contrasting live streaming platforms to help people make some informed choices on which platform to consider between Facebook Live and Periscope for different types of strategies. It’s a solid piece if I do say so myself and I enlisted 4 people in the social media / entrepreneurial game I respect to include their take. That article is still on point and relevant, but this is basically a part 2 digging into […]
I held out against the idea of doing an email newsletter for a looooonnnnnnnnggg time. I wanted no part of it. I thought “who wants to get another email in their folder” and I was feeling pretty good about our social media and online marketing as it was. So let’s go through my thought process – how and why my opinion changed and what led me to start an email newsletter. A Little Side of SPAM with your email perhaps…? […]
Inner charm, outer beauty, inner beauty, outer charm – all of it – Charity channels it! Charity is another North Farmington Raider which is always a bonus for us as fellow Raider alums and we had a fantastic session with her! Charity had to be a champ because it was chilly out – really chilly (how many words can Doug squeeze into this blog post that begin with “ch”?). But she stuck it out and delivered some pure awesomeness in […]
As you know social media is my thing. I spend the majority of my time creating content to put out online for our studio and other businesses from time to time. I train people on how to use social media and very often the photography business leads to discussions about branding with our clients who come here for professional headshots to market themselves. So it makes sense for me to write articles on the things I learn about smallbiz marketing […]
We have been live streaming on Periscope (and now Facebook Live too) for almost two years and the best thing about it has been meeting all the great people we’ve met from around the world. We continue to broadcast live 5-6 days per week and we continue to meet new people like Rachel Moore whom we met just within the last few months. Rachel has a social media marketing company called Really Social in Colorado and she hosts a Twitter […]
Yes. Photography blows. We should know better than anybody – we’re photographers. Through extensive research we have compiled the 21 reasons why photography is completely overrated. 21 Reasons Photography Is Completely Overrated You’re ugly and no one wants to see photos of you (shots fired! okay you’re not really ugly – this is an intentionally silly list) Your friends are ugly and no one wants to see photos of them either It costs a lot of money to actually […]
We’ve been mad about Marie for a long time now. From the time she joined her older twin sisters on their session for a few photos a couple years ago to her spokesmodel session earlier this year and now culminating with her own senior session in Birmingham, we’ve been fans from day one! We planned a total city photo shoot in Birmingham with her and she really nailed it – not that we were surprised. She’s a real pro and so […]
Sal is a smashing young lad to be sure. We were excited to get this call since we have photographed many members of Sal’s family before including his two older siblings, but this was our first time photographing Sal. And….we got to do it ON his first birthday! What an honor to be able to spend some time with someone on their very first birthday!!! That’s about as good as it gets. We photograph plenty of first birthday sessions but […]