Big-name photographer's on Facebook?

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Any 'top' photographers out there using Facebook to promote their business? From my experience, it tends to be the top guys that use a website and those not quite there (whatever that means!) that use Facebook.

Anyway, interested to see any pages like that!
 
LittleMissK said:
Any 'top' photographers out there using Facebook to promote their business? From my experience, it tends to be the top guys that use a website and those not quite there (whatever that means!) that use Facebook.

Anyway, interested to see any pages like that!
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Who/what do you consider to be 'top'?
 
I know Rankin is on facebook, he think he counts as being close to the top whether you like his style or not.
 
Joe McNally's a Facebook junkie. ;)
 
I think there's a little misunderstanding with wannabe photographers being only on Facebook. It's not an either or thing for many, but running a business with only a FB profile to call a website might be seen as being light on marketing spend. Whereas plenty of 'top' photographers have FB accounts (as above).

That said - it is a brilliant marketing tool run properly (so I'm led to believe).
 
I think there is quite a wide and varied idea as to who is a top photographer.
I don't expect to have heard of 75% of the names shortly to be banded about in this thread.

Thinking about it, most photographers I consider top, are actually.....dead, but still they might have a Facebook page such is the power of the interwebz..lol
 
Phil V said:
I think there's a little misunderstanding with wannabe photographers being only on Facebook. It's not an either or thing for many, but running a business with only a FB profile to call a website might be seen as being light on marketing spend. Whereas plenty of 'top' photographers have FB accounts (as above).

That said - it is a brilliant marketing tool run properly (so I'm led to believe).
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Your right, FB and twitter are exceptional marketing tools. Both free and easy to use and your page (like you said if run properly) is readily available to everybody on the site.

Of course you can pay for added advertisements etc on top of that to draw people to your page but that depends on the number of visits/likes you get anyway! :thumbs:

Ian
 
I think Facebook's best for 'social' photographers, eg weddings and portraits, etc. as it's so easy to reach your target audience. That's not to say commercial photographers don't use it as well, of course they do, and some very well, but it's definitely better suited to certain demographics.

As for the 'big' names, there are the internet celebrities who spend a huge amount of time on blogs and social media building up followers so they can get sponsorship deals. And there are others who run workshops, such as the doco crew like Marcus Bleasdale, DAH, Stephen Dupont, etc. who are on there (in a professional sense) to build up an audience to sell their workshops to.

Then there are the rest of us who sometimes wonder why we're on there at all. ;)
 
I am going to a seminar in August that is specifically geared to businesses on Facebook. The speaker will be Dr. Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg's father, who is a dentist.

If there is useful information, I will create a post on this forum regarding what I learned. :)
 
PollyRDH98 said:
I am going to a seminar in August that is specifically geared to businesses on Facebook. The speaker will be Dr. Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg's father, who is a dentist.

If there is useful information, I will create a post on this forum regarding what I learned. :)
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I wonder if his dad would have still hosted social media seminars if his son didn't come up with Facebook?
 
Jared Polin is on facebook, I personally regard him as a cracking photographer.
My other favourites are unfortunately dead so I can't see them having a facebook accounts.
 
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