Over at ArtAdvice.com, Sylvia posted an article titled, “Face the Facts – 5 Facts Artists Have to Face to Succeed in Business“.  She sheds some great insight on some common misconceptions that people have about artists and that artists have about themselves, their art, and their business.  Definitely take a moment to read it.
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Whenever I tell people that my dad is a photographer, they always respond by saying something like, “Cool!” or “That must be so much fun!” or “Awesome”.  They assume he’s “living the dream”.  I guess to a certain extent, he is.  But, that’s the question I’m raising to you today ̵…

Have you nailed down your New Year’s Resolutions?  Even if you have, let me suggest a few things.  Its easy to focus on resolutions that may improve your work, but make sure you have resolutions that improve your business as well.  Here are a few things that photographers need to focus on in 2009.

• First and foremost, use social media (primarily your blog) to tell your story.
• Use video to tell your story.
• Don’t go it alone – find partners that can help you build your business (hint: many of them may

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Technology and the internet are rapidly changing just about every industry and photography is no exception.  Here’s what I think you need to do to succeed in 2009:

• Successful photographers will embrace social media to connect and tell their story.  They’ll use blogs, social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, etc, they’ll also use sharing sites like Flickr, and they’ll network using Twitter.  If you don’t have a plan to incorporate social media into your business, watch out.
• Successful photographers will also focus just as much time and energy telling their story and the stories of their works as they do on actually creating their work.  The story behind the pho

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If you’re like most photographers, you probably haven’t spent much time thinking about WHO your tarketg market is? If you really want to be successful, you need to define a very specific target and go after it with everything you’ve got. If you’ve never done this before, here are some basic steps to take in order to get started.