Open Invitation to Photographers and Photo Studios near Phoenix Arizona!
9/2/08 – Airport Hilton [map] 47th Street, Phoenix AZ, 85034 | 6PM Networking, 7PM meeting.
(Aspiring / student photographers are encouraged and welcome to attend as well!)
I’ve been invited to speak at AzPPA‘s – Arizona Professional Photographers Association meeting next Tuesday, September 2nd and I wanted to personally invite fellow photographers and friends to attend this meeting. I was asked me to talk about the photography that I create. I spoke on this last year at AZPPA so I’m going to touch on this a bit then describe the process in making creative photography, showing lighting setups for available light photography as well as studio lighting (strobe) for on location work.
THEN…
I’m going to share about something that I’m very passionate about: Social Media. If the word “social media” confuses you it’s a fancy word for “playing on the internet”. You know “what the kids do” Facebook, Twitter, Flickr Myspace, Viddler, LinkedIN, Friendfeed, etc. The news is you don’t have to be young to do this, and if done properly it can help your business. Do you blog? This is great, however there’s more to the game then blogging. Learn how you can:
- Keep in touch with existing clients while creating loyal “fans” for your business.
- Obtain higher search engine rankings simply by being active online and sharing content.
- Generate web traffic without spending money for paid Goggle Ad Sense or Yahoo campaigns.
- Meet new friends who you can help and who will gladly help you when you are in a jam.
…. All for FREE, or dirt cheap.
Understanding how to leverage the “cool websites” to help build your brand is not as simple as signing up and spamming a message to people in your network. Using social media properly involves understanding normal human relationships. I’ll break this down with some simple examples to help you understand how relationships work, then apply it to online activities.
FINALLY…
Why your website sucks (and how to fix it)
If you rely on people typing your website into the web browser from the business card you personally handed them then your website is failing. If the only traffic you get is from paid directories then you need help.
Learn some simple tips to improve your search engine ranking and make your web site your primary source of leads, instead of a compliment to your other marketing efforts.
I’ll see you at the AZPPA Monthly Meeting September 2, 2008
First meeting is FREE if you’re new.
(Tell ‘em if it’s your first time, along with where you heard about AZPPA and it’s on me! 
)
Non-members $25
Phoenix Airport Hilton 2435 S. 47th Street Phoenix, AZ
Social Hangout: 6PM
Meeting – 7PM
Autographs – 9PM 
Drop a comment below if you are coming.
See you!
Adam Nollmeyer
Phoenix Arizona Photographer
http://acmephotography.net
August 31st, 2008 at 9:14 PM
yup…. hoping to be there if John can be home in time. Thanks for the heads up about this!
September 1st, 2008 at 9:30 AM
Hey Adam…met you in Gerzinski’s class a few years back. Been puttiing off joining AzPPA…keep getting emails…your topics tomorrow are totally what i’ve been trying to learn more about. I will definatley be there and plan to join up. The upcoming events look really great.
See you tomorrow.
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:05 PM
sorry i missed this! sounds like a great topic. recently we booked two clients from getting social on Facebook and Twitter.