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Do you want to tap into the lucrative ‘Lifestyle Portrait’ Photography market?
Are you someone who is interested in making money from digital portrait photography without the added & expensive costs of running a studio?

A no-non sense behind the scenes look at how to make profit from Digital Portrait Photography working from home.
You will learn how [...]

Celebrate 10 years with Vistaprint!
Vistaprint is #1 in the online print industry! Delivering high-quality products in low volume for a great price. Products range from business cards to postcards to invitations and T-Shirts.
To celebrate the 10 year anniversary, they are giving away 10 FREE products!  Offer expires Septmeber 30, 2010.
Design your own [...]

There is a huge market and demand for headshot photography for business cards, passports, advertising, website, brochures, press kits, model & actor / actresses portfolio, etc. Every business needs this for their staff. This is a simple head & shoulder shot of a person against a plain or coloured background or backdrop. This is called [...]

Your photography business probably gets enquiries from potential clients  via email and your contact us page on your web site and you try to send information, quotations, pdf brochures to each hot prospect as quickly as you can. You know that you can drastically increase the likelihood of making a booking by [...]

Following on from last week’s post on Press Release, here are some tips to help you write an effective press release and increase your chance of having your story published. You need to make the editors’. freelancers, reporters or journalists job easier by presenting the release in a format and style that appeals to them.
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I got a call from our local BBC Three Counties Radio the next day the newspaper was released and they wanted to interview me live on air regarding the Trash the Dress story. As I was busy that morning, the journalist & presenter visited the place where I was shooting and interviewed me on-location.
Here is [...]

A press release, press statement, news release or media release is a written or recorded communication sent to the members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something claimed as news value. These days email is the best way to send them to the editors at newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations or [...]

It will take you longer to read a book on an iPad or Kindle compared to the printed page, according to a recent study. Dr. Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group — a product development consultancy that is not associated with Nielsen, the metrics company — compared the reading [...]

Free Business Photography Software by Calumet UK
Here’s your chance to get your hands on one of the best photography software for your business. Our friends at Calumet are offering a FREE Foto SF Lite worth £70.50p with every booking for the 1-day seminar ‘Your Home Portrait Business‘. The cost of the seminar £85 includes lunch [...]

The summer is here at last and I hope you are now well into the peak summer season. This year for me so far has been quite different to previous years, especially with wedding bookings. These days, I don’t shoot as many weddings as I used to, but the inquiries being received are still for [...]

This seminar is for anyone starting up or has an existing photography business. Multi-award winning photographer Uzair Kharawala presents this exciting seminar on how to set up and run a thriving portrait business working from home and without the additional overheads of running a high-street studio. Whether you are a [...]

Nikon UK has teamed up with Amateur Photographer to offer one lucky reader a place on its forthcoming ‘Business of Wedding and Portraiture’ three day, residential training course taking place 21st-23rd June 2010 worth £695 – PLUS its award winning Nikon D700 digital SLR camera and 50mm f/1.4G AF-S [...]

This post is not about geeky language on how to set up a network for your computer!!! It is how to set up a network for your business. You’ve probably heard this a million times “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” This is so true in today’s interconnected society and is true [...]