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Marketing Portraits With Personal Style
Maria Piscopo  |  Apr 01, 2005  |  0 comments

All Photos © 2004, Marilyn Sholin, All Rights Reserved

I first met portrait photographer Marilyn Sholin when both of us were teaching classes at the Golden Gate School. Impressed by her wonderful images, we talked about business every chance we could that week. I was quite surprised to learn that Sholin was working with a rep, usually a business relationship reserved...

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Make Building Your Business A Part Of Your Plans
Maria Piscopo  |  Jan 01, 2005  |  0 comments

The best source for new business is still the last client you worked with. It can be 5-10 times more expensive to be constantly looking for new clients as it is to keep the ones you already have. It is more expensive because you will have increased marketing costs (and spending overhead) when it takes 10 clients to bill 10 jobs and you are constantly marketing for jobs instead of...

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Interview With Susan Baraz
Maria Piscopo  |  Jul 01, 2004  |  1 comments

Always looking for a competitive
edge in today's marketing, I came across an unusual program for
promoting photographers called AtEdge. What makes this promotion special
is the entire program is limited to 150phot...

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Marketing Your Style
A New Business Model For Selling Portraits
Maria Piscopo  |  Apr 01, 2004  |  0 comments

The traditional portrait business has changed with new technology and new client needs and requests. Fads come and go, but the one thing all portrait photographers have to face is how to make a good profit--even a better profit--in today's...

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Marketing Your Travel Photography; An Interview With Donna Poehner, Editor Of The Photographer’s Market
Maria Piscopo  |  May 01, 2005  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Donna Poehner has a unique perspective to offer on the subject of travel photography. As an editor and writer, she has worked for F+W Publications for the past 11 years. In 1999, she became editor of the widely read sourcebook Photographer's Market (www.writersdigest.com). In that time, Poehner has learned a lot...

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Marketing Your Wedding Photography
Maria Piscopo  |  Mar 01, 1999  |  0 comments

In last month's column
I addressed the marketing of "personal vision" for the commercial
photographer. I made the point that the marketing must be broadcast
to the great number of commercial clientswho...

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My Favorite Web Sites For The Photo Industry
Maria Piscopo  |  Jun 01, 2001  |  0 comments

As a photo rep
and workshop instructor I have been collecting web sites that provide
me with information for both the business and the marketing of photography
services. In this column, I will share my current collection and att...

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Photo Email Marketing Spam Or Business Builder
Maria Piscopo  |  Jun 01, 2002  |  0 comments

If all the trends and innovations
in the marketing and business of photography, one of the most exciting
is e-mail marketing. This can be considered as a supplement to your advertising
and direct mail and is a great way to reach current and prospectivec...

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Plan Ahead Now For 2006; Marketing Plans And Strategies For Building Your Business
Maria Piscopo  |  Dec 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Are you ready for 2006? If you have been reading this column all year you have probably picked up quite a few tips and techniques from successful photographers, from those who do weddings to architectural to fine art work. As the year turns I have been collecting some thoughts to help you plan for the New Year with a new (or perhaps renewed) marketing plan of action.

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Reinventing Your Business, Selling High End Portraits; An Interview With David Freeman
Maria Piscopo  |  Apr 01, 2003  |  0 comments

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Because you need a specific marketing message to sell to potential clients, most photographers base their business on the subject of the photograph such as people, products, and architecture. Some photographers...

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