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Dec 062009
Nov 212009
Wow! I just saw something incredible that’s coming soon!
We all use social media to keep in touch with our clients, contacts, suppliers, … at least we try to. The question is always how to integrate Twitter, my facebook page, LinkedIn, … with our webpage and our business, our billing and our contact management system. But if you’re like me, we have a handful of applications, websites, clouds, … and try to piece this all together, automating as much as we can to get them to talk to each other. My blog has my twitter and facebook feed; my facebook feed shows my tweets, the website captures lead information into my CRM and my contact database syncs on my computer, my phone and the internet.
But there are still many components that I need to look up and log into. My cloud based CRM does a nice job of keeping all my marketing and sales information together in one place, my social networking presence is webbed together loosley; but that’s just me – just Photography by Depuhl, my commercial photography company.
What if all of that information was in one place?
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Nov 202009
Today I photographed for a friend of mine, who designs very cute custom kids furniture. However I shot these inside a giant Convention Center (with horrible artificial lighting – those ugly mercury vapor lamps). However 2 small strobes could easily over power these lights, to make these rooms come alive.
Furniture product photography – Images by Pascal Depuhl
That question was posed to me by an old friend of mine, who is currently the Global VP of Corporate Affairs and Communication for a big company. Well, I thought that’s easy – my website is supposed to get me work.
But how do you do that? Actually how does it do that? Say your a visitor to a photographer’s website and you like his photos and you have work that fits his style and ability, what do you do then? Hunt for an email on the website? Fill out a contact form and wait for him to get back to you? When a person submits that form, or sends that email – you are the closest to the time that Google calls: M.O.R. – the Moment of Relevance.
This is the time, when your company is on their mind.
This is the time, when your service is something they need.
This is the time, when you have the best chance to make your presentation.
It is not a post card, that gets lost in the mail.
It is not an email, that gets caught in a spam filter.
It is not a mailer, that gets forgotten when the next guys mailer shows up.
It’s here, it’s now, it’s you.
So HOW do we leverage this moment?
Jul 082009
With over 200,000,000 users facebook is a market that’s basically the size of a small country (well not so small) that has many clients tucked away. One of the ways of promoting my business is my page on facebook. Go ahead: become a fan!
Photography by Depuhl on Facebook
Apr 222009
How do you utilize new technology? In the last few years sites such as facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, … have begun to spring up all over the web – but how do you tap into the 200M users of facebook and find those who need your products or services? And how do you marry these sites with your web site – creating a seamless web presence.
Over the last few months I have been looking at the other end of my business: and have found ways that cloud based computing helps me in providing my customers better and faster service. Now I am looking for ways to use social networking to introduce my company to new people – through my contacts.
So I have just build a page on facebook for Photography by Depuhl that will complement this blog, my LinkedIn profile and my twitter feed. I want to find the best possible use of all these channels to communicate with existing clients and introduce Photography by Depuhl to new ones.
If you have had any success with any of these web 2.0 sites, lets hear about it.
Jan 222009
2008 was a great year for Photography by Depuhl! And 2009 is out with a bang as well. Guru.com, the world’s largest online marketplace for freelance talent, justed ranked me #1 in their photography category. Needless to say I am excited about this placement. If you need any photography services provided or one of your friends, contacts, customers, … is looking for an excellent, competitively priced photographer – contact me directly via email or work with me through Guru.com!
Guru.com ranks Photography by Depuhl as #1 photography provider
Dec 032008
Shot over Thanksgiving, uploaded to client over the weekend, live online on Tuesday. Congratulations!
Screen capture of the page displaying my photography of Mina's rings
Jul 052008
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