The Customer Account Rep is an independent contractor who will be responsible for reaching out to, maintaining and growing relationships between the client and cutcaster.com.

Additional tasks include:

* Research, qualify and recruit potential clients and companies.

* Ensure client satisfaction throughout your assigned geographic location and foreign language, if applicable.

* Help clients understand the website interface and assist with clarifying the specifics of company policies and services.

* Maintain professional relationship between the client and Cutcaster.

As an independent contractor, we look forward to working with you and developing your new ideas for selling and maintaining our quality service. We’ll work with you to negotiate a fair compensation package based on your experience, regional location, sales goals and expectations, etc. We can also help you build customer lists and outreach plans.

Send us your letter of introduction, along with your ideas and compensation requests, to partnership@cutcaster.com.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Any files that sellers have opted into Extended Licensing can now be licensed for logo and “mark” usage for just under $200 by selecting that extended license from the Media Details page and then checking out. We feel this will allow those that want to use your imagery for their logo will have a ton of affordable options to choose from and sellers will have another avenue to make more money on Cutcaster.

If you have any questions or feedback for us please leave them in the comments or email webmaster AT cutcaster.com.

Search Term of the Moment:  Mohawk

We’ve got that and more Alternative Lifestyle photos!

We also get some more naughty keywords?!?!?  Today’s best:  Asian sexy girl pose

Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and on G+ with Creative Director Cora Reed

Don’t forget to refer your friends.  We have an excellent referral program!

Search Term of the Moment:  Young Lovers

We’ve got that!

Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and on G+ with Creative Director Cora Reed

Don’t forget to refer your friends.  We have an excellent referral program!

 Search Term of the Moment:  Crayon Kid Drawings

I think that might mean coloring book pages!

We’ve got that!

Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and on G+ with Creative Director Cora Reed

Don’t forget to refer your friends.  We have an excellent referral program!

 Search Term of the Moment:   Baseball.  

We’ve got that!

Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and on G+ with Creative Director Cora Reed

Don’t forget to refer your friends.  We have an excellent referral program!

From the Cutcaster.com Crescendo Collection.

1. If you do not already have a Facebook account you will want to create one. Make sure to fill out all the fields on your Facebook profiles so that people who visit your profile can learn more about you and the type of photography you do.

2. Sharing your images is critical. Like your images at Cutcaster by clicking the like button below your image details page. The number of times an image is “liked” at Cutcaster via the Facebook button is one factor that gives your images a boost in our search results.

3. Upload watermarked versions of your images to Facebook and make sure to highlight a wide sampling of your artwork and areas of specialties. You must always be aware of the Facebook user agreement which you should examine and why we tell you to use a watermarked version. Once you have them uploaded this is where you will want to link to your Cutcaster portfolio in the description area or specific images in your port. Make sure you use your referral links so you earn more money.

3. Ask some of your clients for permission to post some of your images to their page so other potential clients who are connected to them will see your images.  In this case, anyone connected as a friend of your client on Facebook will see the posted image. This exponentially grows the group of potential customers you will reach.

4. Post updates of what you are doing professionally or shooting to the wall of your Facebook page. If you have an outside website or use a stock photo agency like Cutcaster, then use the wall to promote your other sites. If you’re about to publish some new photographs, then this is a good time to let your Facebook community hear about it!

5. It’s a great idea to create a Facebook fan page which you can use as a promotional tool for your photo or design business. Give people updates on upcoming shows, new images, new techniques you are learning, workshops you are attending or offer special deals to potential customers.

6. You need to be posting fresh new images to your Facebook pages regularly that highlight your improvement and continued education as a photographer, that highlight new areas you are experimenting with or new aspects of your work. These subtle hints will serve as reminders that your photo or design services are available.

7. Like and participate on groups at Facebook which are related to your photography work and interests. Make sure your comments are insightful and thought out i.e. not “it’s good to be here” or “nice shot” spammy. Pose questions if you want to get a response. By providing valuable information on other users pages you will be actively helping their community and growing your own reputation as the go to person for your area of photography.

8. When posting an image to your facebook page or someone elses’ fan page, you are able to change the title name which serves as an anchor link back to your image’s page. Since you are able to manipulate the title by choosing your own, you can pack it full of relevant keywords you are trying to target through search engine optimization.

Have you joined the other Cutcaster fans on Facebook? Our Facebook page highlights useful design and photography tips as well as connects our contributors with our buyers. Login to Facebook and visit http://www.facebook.com/Cutcaster to like our page.

Always find and use only the marketing techniques that fit your style. Some of the below tips may not be for everyone but they have worked for some and could be evaluated in your specific case. After you try some of them out in your photography business, you can sit back and evaluate their effectiveness.

This one is easy for most. Always have your camera and your business cards ready when you leave your house. When people see your camera it is an easy way to start a conversation. The key is not being shy. You are your best promoter. If you can tell someone about your photo business and hand out a business card to at least a few people on the street each week, you will start to find that some of them turn into clients.

1. Keep your clients happy by sending “thank you” cards to them with discounts and referral incentives. This gives them an extra reason to use you and speak about you with their friends and colleagues. Maybe even send them a surprise gift that is small but thoughtful.

2. Snap photos at local events with the permission of the organizers. Get your name and website address out there by handing cards out and as an added bonus raffle away one of your prints or services during a contest or drawing at the event. This is a great way to collect names, addresses, and emails for all the non-winners for future business. Make sure that those who enter the raffle or drawing know that they might hear from you by email or phone by adding a sign to your fishbowl entry bucket.

3. Use Facebook ads or create business fan pages to target local clients and get the word out about your photography business. If you create a Facebook fan page you can share/tag images, relay any photography specials you have at the moment, and interact with your customers.

• Give free artwork and photographs to doctors offices, hair salons, baby boutiques, etc. Include a small sign and/or stack of business cards. Stop by occasionally to leave more cards for sharing.
• Blogging – blog each session that you do. Those photographed will spread the word so friends and family can see the images.
• Use referral cards – hand these out with every order so your past customers can spread the word easily for you.
• SEO – if you come up on specific photography searches for your area, potential customers will find you. Get your name, website and email listed on all the free photographer databases online.
• Get your name, website and email listed on all the free photographer databases online.

• Have different business cards for your different specialties. If you do more than one type of photography, have cards for each type, so you hand out cards specific to the interests of the person asking.

Pricing

• Figure out how much money you ultimately want to walk away with from a shoot. If you have, say, three packages available, use that amount as your mid-priced package. Then, for your first package (the package you want the customer to see first) price it much higher. The third package will be your lowest priced package, but will be bare bones. This way you sort of subconsciously funnel customers to the package and price in the middle.
• Don’t list prices on your web site. If you do, you’ll just be another photographer in the list for them to choose from and they’ll likely go with the best deal. You want the potential customer to call and connect with you. Have them select you because they want “you” to be the one to take their pictures. (I know some will disagree – but it is something to consider)

Motivation/Other tips and ideas…

• Do a little each day. Rather that just one big marketing campaign, provide steady, consistent, and quality photography and service. It will win people over – one day at a time, one person at a time.
• KNOW your target market. Know their ages, their income levels, their interests and hobbies, and what makes them tick. You as a photographer do not have to be in your target market. Know your target customer’s habits. Where can you best reach them? Is it Facebook (seniors), mom’s clubs, wedding shows, displays in the mall? There’s no right answer – it varies depending on who your ideal client is.

Here I will direct you to three helpful articles
by Sandra Niehaus,
published recently in the ezine of Ralph F. Wilson
‘Web Marketing Today’.

They are:

How to Choose Effective Website Photos and Images. Part 1

By Sandra Niehaus,
Closed Loop Marketing http://www.closed-loop-marketing.com

She is covering some general principles to consider when
selecting images for websites, including the image’s mood,
uniqueness, content quality, and contextual cropping.

Sandra is among other thoughtful things pointing to the
failure of using micro stock pictures which are too popular
on websites. What she isn’t mentioning is that really many
successful pictures at the micro stock agencies are sold
from many websites.

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