Photo by NashCo
Here are some additional isolation-friendly marketing, business, and personal tasks that photographers can tackle at a safe distance from other humans:
- Update your website (SEO, portfolio edits, about page, blog, etc.) Read 3 mistakes that many photographers are making on their websites.
- Update your social media profiles (profile image, bio, location, connections, engagement, links, get social!)
- Study your analytics
- Create an about me video for your website or social media
- Start planning and designing a print promo for end of summer
- Send thoughtful, personal check-in emails to your clients
- Check in with your crew, ask how you can help them
- Update or create new legal documents, estimating and licensing terms (Force Majeure, anyone? NDAs, insurance, etc.)
- Host a virtual portfolio review
- Update your studio with more virtual/remote technology
- Plan how you will make your future productions more safe/sanitary (and let your clients know)
- Organize your image libraries, let your clients know if you have image libraries available for licensing
- Put some prints up for sale
- Join a stock agency to sell your images
- Promote other friends and businesses
- Create an online course
- Look for someone to mentor
- Implement a new accounting software, work on your budget
- Plan and schedule your marketing for an entire year (my guide is half-price right now!)
- Hire a consultant for a portfolio review or fresh edit (I''ll give 50% off of a portfolio review consultation package to the first 3 people who reply to this email! Was $375, Could be yours for $188) ??????
- Start planning, edit or shoot a personal project
- Update your images on any photo directories that you are a part of
- Submit pitches for editorial publication
- Start a Pinterest board of new people or brands you want to collaborate with, daydreaming is good for your immune system.
- Update your CRM or contact lists
- Take a class (editing, lighting, styling, video, animation, language, learn a new skill or try a completely different type of photography)
- Watch a documentary or read a book about one of your favorite photographers (this one by Sally Mann is a favorite)
What are you doing to stay occupied? Are you still shooting? I want to hear from you. Let me know.
If you are not in the head space to work right now, please be compassionate with yourself. I know this is especially difficult for parents (and people whose parents keep driving up to the Walgreens. MOM stay in the $%#&! house!)
Just so you know, no one expects you to come out of this with a perfectly re-organized office or a ground-breaking personal project completed. Take care of you, rest, exercise, wash your hands, repeat.
#ImRootingForYou
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