Comments on: Offline Promotion of your Photoblog http://www.blogonphotoblogs.com/offline-promotion-of-your-photoblog The photographer's resource for photoblogs Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:13:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bob Eddings http://www.blogonphotoblogs.com/offline-promotion-of-your-photoblog/comment-page-1#comment-942 Bob Eddings Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:26:53 +0000 http://www.blogonphotoblogs.com/?p=624#comment-942 If you take the time to visit Chase's site you'll also definitely want to check out his blog (follow the Blog link on his website), where you'll find the most amazing video entry ever from Atlanta-based photographer, Zack Arias. Everyone here should watch this in its entirety at least once, perhaps more if it moves you the way it probably will. Utterly inspiring. If you take the time to visit Chase’s site you’ll also definitely want to check out his blog (follow the Blog link on his website), where you’ll find the most amazing video entry ever from Atlanta-based photographer, Zack Arias. Everyone here should watch this in its entirety at least once, perhaps more if it moves you the way it probably will. Utterly inspiring.

]]> By: JVL http://www.blogonphotoblogs.com/offline-promotion-of-your-photoblog/comment-page-1#comment-920 JVL Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:25:10 +0000 http://www.blogonphotoblogs.com/?p=624#comment-920 I do direct mail for a living, but I haven't done it for my blog at all. The best I can say I do for offline promotion is word of mouth. People see me with a huge f'n camera all the time so they assume I take good pictures. Likely they're wrong, but that doesn't mean I don't hand them one of my handy Moo cards. I pick up clients this way too - all by word of mouth, friends pimping me out (also handing out moo cards) and first-hand whoring to everyone I work with. From there I collect and keep E-mail addresses which is where we come online again. In a DM campaign for work I'd qualify the people I'd mail to - and if I wanted to sell prints, the first people to ask would be the last one's to buy. Expanding your sales base, however, is the expensive part, and there are some very widespread (yet expensive) ways to get your product out to the masses. Anyways, only old people read mail. I do direct mail for a living, but I haven’t done it for my blog at all. The best I can say I do for offline promotion is word of mouth. People see me with a huge f’n camera all the time so they assume I take good pictures. Likely they’re wrong, but that doesn’t mean I don’t hand them one of my handy Moo cards.

I pick up clients this way too – all by word of mouth, friends pimping me out (also handing out moo cards) and first-hand whoring to everyone I work with. From there I collect and keep E-mail addresses which is where we come online again.

In a DM campaign for work I’d qualify the people I’d mail to – and if I wanted to sell prints, the first people to ask would be the last one’s to buy. Expanding your sales base, however, is the expensive part, and there are some very widespread (yet expensive) ways to get your product out to the masses.

Anyways, only old people read mail.

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