Just like in any venture one of the most challenging aspects of owning your own business is getting customers. There are several free and paid ways to build your business. Let's briefly talk about the 3 most basic business building tips.
Search Engine Pay Per Click Marketing (PPC)
We've all heard of Google, Yahoo, and Bing these websites are what we call search engines. Search engines are powerful advertising tools to promote and receive instant traffic to your website. Simply open a free account, choose your keywords ie. wedding photographer, photography, photographer etc, create your ad and insert your web address. As soon as that is done your site can be available to view to new customers who search for your keywords.
SEO
If you have a website for your photography business you must know SEO. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization which in layman's terms means that you are making your website more readable for the search engines. Proper SEO would include links sprinkled throughout your website with keywords to adequately describe the content that the search engine is reading. Meta tags are special keywords built into the website to again help the search engine discover what your website is all about. When the search engines knows your content it will categorize your site accordingly and your website will appear within the organic search listings (that is non pay per click listings). The goal is to have your website so well optimized that it is at the top of the organic search listings which gets lots of free targeted traffic to your site.
Email Marketing
If you speak with any marketing person they will let you know that the money is in the list. The email list that is. Build your email list by having an option for visitors to subscribe to your mailing list. This list will be include existing customers and potential customers. Staying in contact with customers via newsletters or special promotions for any holiday ie. Father's Day, Mother's Day, Christmas, or any other seasonal event will ensure that you get new and repeat customers.
There are two email marketing companies that we suggest that are easy to use and cheap. They are icontact.com and constantcontact.com
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