3) I am a professional photographer. How is lifeblob useful to me?
As a professional photographer, the thing you care about the most is reaching out to the world and showcasing your work. With lifeblob, we provide multiple ways to showcase your work and your expertise.
As the first step, if you have great photos and they are being liked by others, there is a very high likelihood that other photographers are seeing your photos in the recommendation panel. This not only gives you the exposure, it also enables others who like your work to discover and reach out to you and this may translate into a business opportunity.
Lifeblob is also highly optimized for SEO ( for public photographs ) and this will lead to a significant number of people discovering your work when they are searching in google and other search engines. We allow you to quickly import your photos from flickr / picasa / facebook and other sites so that you can get this benefit without uploading all the photos again.
If you have expertise or interest in a specific photography skill, you can start a group around it and rally other members around some activities / contests etc within that group. Start a group not with the intent of self-promotion, but with an intent of benefitting the community with your expertise and rest will follow.
One of the best ways to be known is to write articles related to your area of expertise and if you are good at this point
us to a sample of your work at
contact@lifeblob.com and you can be a guest writer for our
photography tips / tutorials site.
We also regularly
interview and feature good photographers who are using lifeblob and
if you are good at photography, you may get a call from us soon! We are also looking at events, exhibitions, workshops,
contests, photo walks etc as a medium to promote good photographers and if you would like to take the lead,
we can provide the help / support to get it started.