Blog on Photoblogs

First, by social networking, I mean using Facebook, we’ll discuss those other methods (mainly Twitter) sometime later on.

I created a Facebook page for my photography quite awhile ago, but never really promoted to anyone other than my real-life friends.  Recently, I made the decision to try to get more people at “fans” of my photography and added a “club link” on my photoblog.

Check out the Behind the Lens to get an idea on what I have done.

Here’s what I have in an attempt to get folks to become fans,

• I am offering discounts on select images on my photoblog, to all my fans,
• Releasing special limited edition prints only on Facebook.
• And believe it or not, I will even add you to my Christmas card list!

My goal is to simply promote my photography in another channel.  My opinion is the more eyes on my work, the better chances I have to sell some work.

NOTE:  I am pretty happy with the results so far.  I don’t get a ton of traffic to my photoblog properly due to any number of reasons, but I have managed to add two new fans already!  I will keep you all updated on my progress.

Anyone else have any ideas on promoting your photoblog through social networks?

I think that we would all agree that our favourite photoblogs (and the most popular) are the ones which are frequently updated by their owners.  The beauty of your photoblog is that it’s a creative outlet – meaning that everything doesn’t need to be polished and perfect before being published.  Leave that to your portfolio site.  Here are a few tips on how to make sure that you’re “pumping out the content”

If you haven’t already stopped by Burns Autoparts I would highly suggest that you make a point of visiting, it’s a really great site which is focused on providing marketing information to photographers.  This morning I decided to check out the podcasts that Leslie is kinda enough to make available on the site and was not disappointed!  The latest podcast is about photoblogging, and everyone who has a photoblog needs to listen to what she has to say.   I took away two main themes from this podcast,

• The rise of the photoblog as a marketing tool to other creatives,
• The importance of separating the blog from the main site

As I was listening I scrawled down a few notes and wanted to make a few comments, so here it goes,

Nowadays, suffering from information overload is not uncommon occurrence. Thanks to the proliferation of blogs and the acceptance of RSS readers everyone is more than capable of creating their own “daily newspaper” which can be updated (in some cases) several times a day! Having access to all the information you want, when you want it an amazing thing, but it’s pretty obvious how easy it is to become overloaded.

Instead of publishing generic RSS feeds which cover all the images on your photoblog, why not create specific feeds based on the high-level categorization of the images on your photoblog? With a little planning most photoblogs could easily categorize their photography into a few high-level categories and then allow their fans to subscribe to one (or more) feeds based on their own likes.

Why don’t photobloggers publish larger images on their sites? Would larger images attract more visitors, or make current visitors stay longer?