10 Ways Photographers Can Generate More Clients
Fri, Dec 12, 2008
As a Freelancer, you need to have clients…
I’m often asked from my peers, how I generate business for myself. Or better yet, how can they generate more work for themselves. Well, I feel it would be a waste of knowledge to keep everything I’ve learned to myself, what would be the point of that? So now that we’ve finished our last series on the top 10 things every photography student should have, you should have a good idea of what you need to set up your foundation as a freelance photographer.
If you took the steps into action, you will now be ready to find more work. Only thing is, how do you do that? You’ve come to the right place. This series will stimulate your creative juices on getting more work, and resources you can turn to, to make it happen! So let’s get started!
Of course, there’s more than ten ways to generate clients, but this will definitely be a great springboard for you to work on for the next few months. Take these steps into action, and you’re sure to get work.
Here’s the laundry list, and over the next few posts, I will go more into detail!
- Job Boards

- Be a walking billboard
- Golden Ticket Clients
- Use the media to your advantage
- Make yourself visible
- Are you an expert?
- The trusty phone
- Rub shoulders with like minded people
- Run your mouth
- If it looks like a duck…
Today, we’ll focus on using Job Boards.
Next Post: Become a walking Billboard!
Before you go however, as I promised, below is a list of job boards to check out! A few I used myself, and others I’ve gotten good feedback from, from other photographers. Good Luck!
- Guru
- Employment Guide
- Go Freelance
- Job Serve USA
- Job Serve UK
- Job Serve AU
- Freelance BBS
- Simply Hired
- Solo Gig
- People 4 Business
- Freelance Seattle
- Creative Jobs Central
- Photography Jobs Central
- MySpace Jobs
- Career Builder
- Monster
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Very interesting topic. I have to say, YoungPhotopreneur.com is very well put together. I’ll be spreading the word to my fellow photog friends.
Thanks Cheri, I’m looking forward to marketing and networking to get my photo biz off the ground. I really enjoyed reading this post!