I recently came across Joel Grimes whilst listening to a LightSource podcast produced by studiolighting.net
Its well worth listening to the podcast and visiting Joel’s site too. His work is truly inspirational and he has some absolutely stunning results. What is even more incredible is the fact that he shares a lot of information about how to do this on his website through the articles and tutorials he has posted on his blog.
I used to get really annoyed by unsolicited phone calls. They always rang at some inconvenient time. Having disturbed me they then proceeded to try and extract money from me with a well rehearsed, power sales pitch. Over the last few days, my whole attitude to these calls has changed and here’s why… Continue reading Why I like receiving telesales calls… »
The progress I’ve made to date has been great. If I had to predict where I wanted to be and compare this to where I feel I am I would say I’m a little ahead of schedule but there is still a very long way to go yet. Things are starting to pick up though and I’m not getting more enquiries. My conversion rate is still very low but that will change over time. Considering I have actually spent very little on marketing at the moment, about £80 in fact, I’m really pleased that things are starting to pick up already. Particularly as the advert I’ve placed in a local magazine hasn’t actually been published yet. So far, so good.
It doesn’t stop there though. This is merely the beginning. Continue reading The next steps… »
I’ve been getting a few junk telephone calls trying to persuade me to sign up for managed Google AdWord accounts recently. It’s very expensive too. Most of them are coming in at over £100 per month with the claims that they will “actively manage my account to ensure that I am on the first page of Google.” Firstly, that is way, way too expensive for me and secondly, I simply don’t believe it. The benefit to me, I was told, is that I won’t need to spend an hour and a half each week managing my adwords account. I don’t know about you, but I certainly believe that £100 for 6 hours work is a little pricey. I’d been planning to make use of Google’s AdWord service as part of my overall marketing strategy so I thought I’d do some research to find out what all the fuss is about. This post is about my investigation and the results I have obtained within jus the first week. Continue reading Gavin’s adventures in AdLand… »
The QTWeddings website is now ready for launch. As with all websites, there will always be some degree of maintenance to be done, but that is all part of the fun of it.
And with the launch of the website, we also have the launch of the QTWeddings reportage wedding photography service. QTWeddings is a spin off from QTPortraits but is intended to cover a slightly wider area. Continue reading QTWeddings website launched… »
Hi, I'm Gavin the photographer.
I used to work in IT until a few years ago. I was under a lot of stress at work and getting really p*****d off. Then one day I chose to give it all up and follow a dream. Everyone I knew thought I was nuts, that just made me try harder :-)
I believe any photographer can do what I did, earn money from their photos, maybe even start their own business.
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