You don't have to spend 24/7 on facebook and blog and website, but you do need to put in a little bit of time.
How much time do you spend reading PDML and other websites each day? Does the help your photography business? Really, once you are all setup, it's a few minutes a day checking on any posts to your page's wall, and a post every few days to keep your followers updated. You get out as much as you put in, so a little bit of time is an easy investment, especially a free service that everyone is on. If you don't want to socialize, don't create a personal account, just a page for your business. On Thursday, January 13, 2011, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > I say only semi-OT because I am a *Pentax* photographer. > > I attended the Central Region winter seminar for the PPofNC Sunday and > Monday. Hoped there would be at least one speaker with ideas on how to > improve myself as a photographer, but it was all about at marketing yourself. > > Even the one session that was supposed to be about how to streamline > PhotoShop and Lightroom was about how to get the images up on Facebook faster. > > It's pretty much 24/7 social media now. Actually left me with a question and > some doubts. > > Q: In this 24/7 assault on Facebook et al, when do you actually make time to > take photographs? > > And none of it addressed my current aims in life. > > I don't want spend 24/7 on a computer marketing myself. I spend far too much > of my time on the computer now just from trying to keep up with this one > mailing list I belong to. > > As a photographer, I don't want to *WORK* full time. My aim is a part time > business to supplement my income just enough to pay for the equipment and > perhaps a little location travel. > > I undertake the *work* of photography for a specific purpose; to allow me to > afford what I need in order to enjoy the *pleasure* of photography. In other > words, I'll take the photos someone wants to buy, so that I can have the > financial resources to take the photos *I* want to take. > > But, it's not worth it if I have to work so hard I never have time for myself. > > And then there's Facebook. That's a problem in itself. > > I'd rather be trapped in a Bronx phone booth at 3:30am on Sunday morning, > masturbating a rabid mountain lion with a handful of rusty barbed wire than > to spend one minute on Facebook. > > Yes, I *am* a Luddite! > > I'd start a fan page for Luddites Anonymous, but I don't have a Facebook > Account. > > Later ... gotta get ready for school. Looks like the ice has melted enough > that it's finally going to open today. > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3376 - Release Date: 01/12/11 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
