Hudson Valley Guide for Professional Photographers

Hudson Valley Guide for Professional Photographers

These pdf documents are professional documents intended for professional photographers in and around the Hudson Valley area that are looking to improve their craft and knowledge of photography.  The links below are to pdf documents taken from the American Society of Media Photographers handbook. Read them.  Enjoy them. Share what you learn.

How to price your photography

Strategic Plan, 2 pages

Property Release Template for Photographers

Model Release For Photographers, Adult Template

Courtesy of Hudson Valley Wedding Photographer, steven planck

Hudson Valley Guide for Professional Photographers

PHOTOGRAPHY SEO

As a small business owner, I’m constantly trying to reinvent the answer to questions like How To Reach Customers, How to Reach Local Customers, How do I Get More Customers, How to Promote a Business, How to Use Social Media and How to use Social Media for Networking Business, all the while keeping a close eye on my bottom line, because I’ve never believed that advertising had to cost a fortune and now I know it doesn’t!

Through non traditional advertising outlets like the Internet and social media services I’ve managed to promote my businesses and services to hundreds of local and national customers.  In fact,  85 percent of my customers are finding me on the Internet and I’m spending little to no money to do it.  Amazing right?  Well, no. Not really!  I had to spend an entire year learning about  SEO, indexing, tags, headings, H1, titles, page names, meta data, track backs, ping backs, the do’s and don’ts of correct linking, pass through, page rank, page authority, white hat, black hat, proxy servers, proper SEO, illegal SEO, web site grading, open source page code, etc, etc, etc.  I spent an average of 30 hours a week, every week, researching SEO and SEO promotion, SEO Strategy, small business SEO, the basics of SEO, SEO for Photographers, local SEO company, local SEO and what the SEO experts were saying and doing.  So, no.  It wasn’t exactly easy and I don’t think learning SEO is for everyone, but I think the results are.  SEO works and it’s the reason why my businesses appear on more page one search results on Google than any of my competitors, maybe all of my competitors combined.

If knowledge is power than understanding SEO is a key.  I’ve done all the work and the results speak for themselves.

If you’d like to be on page one of Goolge, ok, give me $5000 and I’ll do it for you, but for most that’s out of the question.  Too expensive.  So I’m offering these small business SEO classes.

SEO for WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS

There are 3 different levels of SEO web site development to anyone who’s interested, photographer and non photographers alike.

lever 1 – $750 runs continuously. You call me and I’ll be there.

This is a basic course designed for those who know nothing about web site coding, SEO, web sites in general, blogs, social media, linking or posts. It is for those that don’t have a lot of time to devote to learning SEO technique and for those that want someone to do all the work for them.  In this class we will analyze your business, identify who your target audience is, then identify where and how your current online presence is and isn’t reaching your desired audience. I’ll teach you the necessary tools to properly analyze your web site and then help you correct where you went wrong and make the proper changes for the successful future development of such. Level 1 will focus on titling, spiders, crawl time, indexing, key words, and H1. We do not guarantee 1st page placement in level 1 as we will be analyzing your web site with you, suggesting minor ways in which to improve your online presence and then making those changes for you. Chances are you will jump 5-7 pages ahead of your competitors with the minor changes we make.

lever 2 – $2400

Want to be on the first page of Google for a search result, but not interested in learning how to do it.  First page results are guaranteed.

lever 3 – $5000, three day course

Level three SEO optimization course if for those that are as uneducated about SEO as those taking the level one course, the difference is that they want me to teach them.  They want the power that this knowledge gives them and they want to be taught how to do it on their own.  We’ll spend three days together reinventing your online presence where I’ll show you every trick I know.  First page Google results are guaranteed, but PLEASE NOTE, there is a confidentiality agreement that you must sign if you take this course with me that says you agree not to talk about or show anyone else this proprietary information.