This year’s Sports Shooter Academy was deep in on location shooting and valuable presentation experiences. LiveBooks Co-Founder, Matt Bailey, spoke to the entire group on photographer’s successful business practices online and off. Specializing in photographer’s marketing expertise, Matt spoke to branding and a cohesive message in all your business tools and materials. Every student and faculty member listened closely and asked questions about what works in the industry, from perasonal notes and stationary to portfolio presentations and blogging. It was an invaluable opportunity to see that no matter how good the image is, the pictures don’t sell themselves and the investment in making your brand uniquely yours is vital in getting your images seen by prospective clients.
As a participating supporter of this year’s workshop, Matt surprised students with a drawing for a Website Design from Livebooks for One Year for two participants. This year’s winners were Ethan Klosterman and Steve Limentani. Their current website links appear below along with their favorite shot made during SSA VIII. We look forward to seeing the “before” and “after” websites in the coming months and watching their online presence grow into a representative brand with the expertise of the designers and the products at liveBooks!
Thank you liveBooks and Matt Bailey for your contribution to the success of SSA VIII!
ETHAN KLOSTERMAN – Photography Student – Univeristy of Dayton.
www.flickr.com/photos/ethanklosterman/
“I’d like to thank liveBooks for their support of the Sports Shooter Academy. Their support of photographers helps ensure there is continued development of our craft in the future. The information and advice co-founder Matt Bailey shared was insightful and valuable to many of the photographers that attended the Academy. I’m very excited to work with liveBooks to take my online presence to a new level! I’m looking forward to a new, refined website to display my photography.” – Ethan Klosterman
STEVE LIMENTANI – Owner – Sports Action Digital Photography – Charlotte, NC
www.sportsactiondigital.com
“I was listening to Matt Bailey talking about Livebooks’ and was starting to grasp the tremendous potential. When designing my current site, I had worked to make it user friendly with good SEO. Now I was hearing about a product that would not only be user friendly but have great SEO and a better initial presentation to visitors. What a great way to decrease my bounce rate while improving my visibility! At the end of the day, even if you have good pics you are dead without good marketing. What a shock when I won the free year of livebooks, can’t wait!” – Steven Limentani
