Photography Marketing

If you want to make a living as a photographer or even just make some money from your photography hobby, then you will need to learn something about photography marketing. Photography marketing, like any kind of marketing is the art of identifying who might buy your pictures, where they are, and how best to reach them and get them to buy your pictures.

Photography marketing has to start with intention. Before you begin your actual photography marketing, you need to sit down and get very clear about your intentions for your photography marketing. Are you hoping to make a living from photography? Or are you just looking to pick up some extra money to support your photography hobby? What about your photography? Are you willing to go anywhere and shoot anything to make a living as a photographer? Or are you just interested in photographing the subjects you like, regardless of whether anyone buys one of your pictures or not? Or maybe your photography marketing will be about getting a message out to the larger world.

Will your photography marketing be about getting your pictures seen so that you can influence the way people thing and act? Maybe you have a cause to promote through your photography. Maybe you are doing art photography and just want to be exhibited so your creative vision can be shared with the world. These are all questions you must think about before any actual photography marketing goes on. Otherwise, your photography marketing campaign is not likely to be successful.

If you are not clear about your intentions, you won't be able to figure out what direction to go in with your photography marketing. You might get lucky and find success with your photography marketing just by accident, but the odds are against it. And even if your photography marketing did bear fruit, it might not be success in an area where you want to be. Photography marketing could bring you commercial success when what you are looking for is acceptance as an artist and then all the compromising you will be expected to do could ruin you. so you really need to think this through carefully before undertaking any photography marketing.

Photography marketing can be many things. If you have a lot of money to spend, you can do advertising to sell your pictures. But most people don't have this type of money to risk. So you need to get your pictures shown in the most affordable way you can. You will then have to do your photography marketing through your own efforts.

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