Agency Contest

Photographer Profile

I will create a proof for your approval.

Then your Profile will be placed on your City Showcase.

Your portfolio and contact information will be immediately available to my members.

Sign-Up Purchase

Home Page

Contact Link

Website Link

Headshot

Name

Background

I am interested in promoting you and your work to the other members of my community.

To do that, your purchase includes:

1. Design of your Profile

2. Placement of your Profile on your City Showcase webpage

3. Email of your Profile in our weekly "Exploring" newsletter

Promotion Plan (Included)

Here is how it works.

To bring in new business, most photographers rely on old friends, word of mouth and expensive reps. These are all good, and they should not be ignored.

However, you have an effective outreach tool which can be optimized.

That is your existing online portfolio.

You have spent hours, days, maybe weeks, keeping your portfolio just right. But getting the right people to see your work is challenging. Search Engine results are poor, and online advertising campaigns leave you scratching your head at the ridiculous cost of some key words.

There seems to be no smart way of getting your home page address into the right hands.

This is my solution...

I am a former advertising creative director, award show judge, and a guy who has hired many, many photographers. Today I serve as the executive director of Agency Contest.

In short, Agency Contest works online to bring the judging of advertising creative to the individual clients and creatives who do the work. We have 100's of creative directors and 100's of corporate marketing managers serving as current judges.

The truth is, I would not be surprised if 95% of these industry professionals have never seen your work, and therefore have never considered you for a project.

This is not a problem. This is an opportunity.

Step 1: The photographer profile

The most elemental piece of seizing this opportunity is the "profile."

It is important for new people to know who you are, to see either an image of your home page, or a representative image of your best work, and to read a limited amount of copy to give them a feel for what makes you different.

And it is important to give them a link to your website and contact information.

I call this your profile, and you can see a reduced size example below:

Step 2: Placement of your profile on your City Showcase

The largest 77 metro areas in the United States are represented in

Agency Contest with their own creative showcases.

This is where your profile and links can be found year round. Believe me, if a potential client remembers what city you are from, but can't recall your name, this listing becomes very handy.

Take a look at our photographers from San Francisco as an example of how our City Showcases work (reduced size):

Step 3: Featured in "Exploring American Photographers"

Every Thursday we circulate a new edition of our email dedicated to one profiled photographer. The recipients are 50% marketing and 50% agency. All are vetted on Linked In, and all serve as judges for Agency Contest.

And all are potential contacts and clients for you.

The email is dedicated to a single photographer, and shows their profile and an example of their work with a link to their portfolio. (Reduced size.)

Time to put your website portfolio to work.

The unreal part of what I am proposing is that you do nothing.

I ask for a $29.99 annual fee. Your profile will be designed for you, and your promotion plan will be put into effect immediately. Your job will be to review and approve your profile, and then see how many new visits you have to your online portfolio over the next 12 months.

Painless, easy, and effective.

Here is how it is done:

There are over 364,000 projects awarded to photographers every year.

The key metric is how many decision makers see your work and know to consider you.

At Agency Contest, I do 2 things of importance to you:

I run 15 advertising creative contests – which attracts 1000's of agency creative people, and client marketing people. This is your target audience.

I send 1 dedicated email to each of my members once a week showing the work of 1 photographer. This gets your work seen.