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photo.net Talks About Designing a Photography Website with liveBooks
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photo.net recently gave rave reviews of liveBooks and a little ‘how to’ on getting started with us.
So you’re a photographer. You’re a professional, advancing amateur, amateur, photo enthusiast, and or all of the above. You have a print portfolio you carry around with you to consultations for potential photo gigs. Or perhaps you have an online gallery on photo.net, Flickr, SmugMug. But do you have a photography website? It’s one of the best visual and marketing tools a photographer can have.
Looking around for other website design resources, I came across liveBooks, which offers predesigned templates for flash websites for photographers. I thought I’d give it a try and see how easy it is to put together a site using their design tools.
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Rangefinder Radio’s Scott Sheppard Talks Through SEO and Building Websites with liveBooks
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Rangefinder Radio host Scott Sheppard recently sat down with liveBooks’ Wedding Development Manager J Sandifer to talk about building websites, how to implement an effective SEO strategy and the new emerge competition.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – 03/08/10) – liveBooks, Inc., the leading provider of award-winning websites that allow creative professionals to promote and manage their businesses online, has partnered with Rangefinder Publishing to launch the 2010 emerge Photography Competition at the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) conference in Las Vegas from March 8-10.
Professional Photographer Recommends liveBooks When It Comes to SEO
Posted by liveBooksProfessional Photographer, the official magazine of Professional Photographers of America, mentioned liveBooks’ exceptional SEO wisdom and consulting. Here is a some of what they had to say:
SEO is Search Engine Optimization. After either working long and hard designing, coding, debugging, and selecting images for your website, or spending a lot of money for someone else to do the design and coding work, you want your website to be easily found and that means making sure it ranks high, preferably on the first page, on a search engine’s list for photographers with your specialty in your town and in your region. An effective SEO strategy can be a powerful and cost effective marketing tool as the investments you have to make are merely ones of intellectual capital and time. SEO is only one component of your marketing strategy, of course, and all marketing is about building awareness.
After researching and examining a lot of available SEO expertise, Professional Photographer turned to two photographers who successfully use SEO marketing to consistently rank high in different specialties. J Sandifer of emilie inc., a location wedding photography studio based in Portland, Maine, who is also the Wedding Development Manager at liveBooks, and Jon Cornforth, a nature photographer and teacher.
liveBooks has a deep pool of general marketing wisdom under the Events and Community tab on the home page menu. There are webinars—both live and archived—live seminar events in different locations, and once you have started building your site, two resource SEO pages complete with easy-to-follow tips for get your site ranking up.
Read the full article here.
liveBooks Photographers Use Photography, Social Influence to Evoke Change
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – February 25, 2010) – liveBooks, Inc., the leading provider of award-winning websites that allow creative professionals to promote and manage their businesses online, is proud to recognize liveBooks users who are leveraging their photography and social influence to make a difference in the world.
Acclaimed Photographers Tap liveBooks to Strengthen Online Presence, Gain Exposure
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liveBooks, Inc., today announced the recent launch of three new liveBooks powered websites for professional photographers Doug Menuez, Greg Gibson and Jim Fiscus.
Photographer Launches Expanded Version of Free Online Photography Book
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SAN ANTONIO, TX — (Marketwire) — 02/09/10 - Lexar Elite Photographer Rolando Gomez releases the latest version of his free photography book, Photographic Therapy – The Power of Photography to Help Build or Rebuild Self-Esteem
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwire) — 02/02/10 – liveBooks Partners with engage! 10, Further Integrates with Broader Wedding Market. Partnership showcases liveBooks’ utility in all segments of the wedding industry – from cake makers to wedding coordinators.
Miss Aniela – A Photo Star is Born on Flickr, Grows Up on liveBooks
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SAN FRANCISCO – Jan. 26, 2010 – liveBooks, Inc. - Flickr megastar Natalie Dybisz, aka Miss Aniela, takes her self-portrait fine art empire to the next level with a liveBooks site.
A Series of Interviews with Portrait Photographer Natalie Dybisz
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liveBooks note: liveBooks’ customer Natalie Dybisz, aka Miss Aniela, recently conducted a series of interviews with the folks at Photography Blog, based in the UK. Click on the links below to view her images and to hear her thoughts on developing her brand, building her website and capturing a unique array of images.
This Week In Photography’s Frederick Van Johnson talks with John Philpin. As Frederick says at the beginning of the interview … “John is here from liveBooks to talk about their service and what they can do for photographers.”
To listen to this interview, click here.
Mashable Lists 5 Essential Sites for Professional Photographers: liveBooks is #1
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Mashable listed liveBooks as the number 1 most essential website for photographers. Here is some of what they had to say:
Macworld recommends liveBooks for a gift to your favorite creative professional! Read below to see what they had to say about us.
Time is running out. You put off shopping for the photographer in your life until dangerously late. Now there’s not enough time to have something shipped, and you are far too busy tolerating your relatives and oozing holiday cheer to hit the mall. Instead of resorting to the old “Free Hugs” coupon cop-out, take a look at this handy list. These mostly virtual gifts may be quick and easy to purchase, but they’ll feel anything but last minute to the recipient.
Professional Online Portfolios
If your giftee is interested in marketing himself or herself as a photographer, there are some excellent sites that host portfolios. The allure of these services is that they combine an ad-free, professional-looking photography website with easy-to-use back-end management features. A photography portfolio on Carbonmade costs $12 a month and holds up to 500 high-resolution images and 10 videos. There’s also a free version that allows you to upload 35 images. Moving up the chain you have (much) more expensive online portfolio providers like APhotoFolio ($1,000 to set-up plus $17 a month) and liveBooks ($1,199 one time fee or $39 a month for a predesigned site).
liveBooks Secures $5 million in Funding from Strategic and Private Investors
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San Francisco – Nov 2, 2009 – liveBooks, Inc., the leading provider of award-winning websites that allow creative professionals to promote and manage their businesses online, today announced that it has secured $5 million in funding from strategic and private investors to allow the company to expand into new markets and create more flexible and affordable payment and design options for its customers.
Blog imaginginfo.com Writes How liveBooks Helps Clients Place Videos on Websites
Posted by liveBooksimaginginfo.com, a blog about Photography, product reviews, how-tos, news, and techniques for professional photographers, photofinishers, and retailers has published an article in its magazine this month about liveBooks’ extensive video offerings. The post discusses how all of liveBooks’ sites offer the ability to upload video, whether in the form of QuickTime or Windows Media Player files or as files that are similar to video (such as animated slideshows with music). Photographers can also create Flash movies and upload them to their sites.
Toward that end, liveBooks offers a few ways to take advantage of this capability. We create all kinds of custom video solutions for different needs, and offer a range of features that are included with a package, but we also offer features that cost a little extra but are personal to an individual. The company has partnered with video production company, Cinematic Studios, that can produce the video for the photographer if need be. Luminance is the tag name for liveBooks’ partnership with Cinematic Studios and there are two packages available: The $1,700 package offers an interview-style setup, where the photographer is asked a series of questions or makes his or her own statements, which are then edited together into a video. Then there’s the $2,500 on-location version that follows the photographer around and either shows them in a particular environment or on a shoot where things are happening at a fast, exciting pace.
Adding video to your site can have immediate impact. “One of our clients, Emilie Sommer, posts video testimonials, so instead of her in front of the camera, it’s her clients giving very convincing testimonials of how amazing she is to work with,” explains Matt Bailey, VP of Sales and Design for liveBooks. “You can imagine that has a lot of impact when customers are considering a photographer to capture an important time in their life.”
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