1 Top 10 Photographer Social Media Marketing

Share photos with large audiences?

I think, the answer is social network. Self-marketing strategy through social media marketing is one of the best ways to distribute, show, or sell your best photography portfolio to hundreds, thousands, even millions of people who are interested in your work.

By using social media networking, you as professional or amateur freelance photographer have three advantages :

* Share

By sharing, your best photography will be known by many people. It means,  you can upload your best work with no wasted. Your best photography albums will see even allow to purchased by the audience or your photo enthusiasts.

* Feedback

By displaying your best work, enable for viewing even got comments from many people. It's important, so it can help you to improve your skills or increase your knowledge in the future.

* Relationships

You can interact with many people. Family, friends, your fans, as well as your customers. Socialize and do business! certainly very enjoyable.

Here are 10 social networking sites that you can use as a marketing tool to sell you work as a freelance photographer :

1. Deviant Art

Most of you probably already familiar with the community on this one. Yeah, Deviant Art is a large community of artists from various types of arts such as design, photography, animation, films, illustrations, and more. You can interact, share, mutual promotion with fellow community members. You can join for free or choose premium membership (starting from $ 4.95). With premium membership, you can make journal pools, skins, premium profile page widgets, customize your channels, have gallery stats tools. There are monthly, twelve month, and three month premium membership subscription basis.

2. Flickr

Flickr is a part of Yahoo Inc. You can make your profile page, group, share your collections/galleries/or photo albums and videos securely and privately. For free membership, you can upload 2 videos and 300MB of photos each month. While for Pro membership : you can browse and share indefinitely without ads (max 20 MB per photo), 500MB per video, unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, edit photos, view statistics or maps for visitor tracking on your profile, and much more. Pro membership (US$24.95).

3. SmugMug

By using SmugMug, you can create your photos galleries securely and privately, allows you to share your best photographs to email or social networking sites, allows you to embed them on blogs, forums, or others. SmugMug also provides some protection tools for you such as watermarking for image protection, unlimited photo and video backups, and other advanced privacy options. Integrated with mobile apps : iPad, iPhone, and Android. Threre are 3 types memberships : Basic, Power, and Pro. With paid membership, you can upload photos without limits with 24MB per photo file size, easy custom slideshow, allows you to customize via HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, display geotagged photos on Google Maps, create or join communities, and much more ( starting at $5 up to $150). Monthly and yearly subscription basis.

4. Photobucket

At Photobucket, You can register for free and you can share your best photos to anyone you want, or make an album public for all to see. With Pro account, you will get unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth with 20MB per image file size, no ads, allows you to upload via FTP, keep your original size images, allows you to customize your own URLs. Threre are 3 types of subscription : monthly, yearly, biyearly (starting at $2,99 up to 39,95).

5. Webshots

Webshots is a community as well as library from millions of photo enthusiasts passion from various categories like family, news, home & garden, entertainment, sports, outdoors, rides, travel, pets as well as professional photographs. Webshots provide a toolbar allows you to share, post, or email your photos to your family, friends, or other people directly via online photo albums, social networking site, or send them as virtual postcards. For free accounts, you can upload photos with limited storage of one per day, 3 albums which can be downloaded, 1 photo album for backups. Apply for Gold account, you can upload up to 5.000 photos for personal photos, and unlimited space for your professional photos (30 second picture shows), enable protection on your photos. While Pro account, you can create and share unlimited full length picture shows, unlimited space for professional photos and up to 5.000 photos for personal photos. Yearly subscription basis (starting at $ 19.99 - $ 39.99).

6. SlickPic

At SlickPic, you can share your best photos securely and privately to anyone who you know, create a photoblog, invite people to make comments or feedback on your photos, allows multiple presentation options, get automatic photo backups. For free membership, you can upload 10MB per image. With basic account, you can access your profile with no ads, uploading 20MB per image, get your own custom URL like "yourname.slickpic.com", preset your SlickPic themes. While for Pro account, your can upload 25MB per image with no ads, original resoultion, personally designed, Raw files up to 10GB, and unlimited high resolution photo backups. Paid membership starting at $ 4.95 up to $ 99.95. Monthly and yearly subscription basis.

7. Fotki

By using Fotki, you can sharing, blogging, and printing. Enable you to invite people on your Fotki page profile, get your custom URL. Take photo or video contests organized by Fotki. With free membership (30 days free trial), you get 3000MB photo storage space, 50MB of email space with ads. While for pro account, you get unlimited access to upload, 500MB of email space, allows you to place a watermark on photos you do not want shared, hide or create a password protect on your public albums by using the protection and privacy options, and can upload photo via FTP, and much more.

8. PBase

PBase allows you to upload and share your best images to your family friends, or others with very easily, provide direct image linking, unlimited of galleries, stylesheets, EXIF extraction, automatic thumbnailing, zip uploads, custom framed prints of your photos. You able to enjoy all the features offered and pay only based on how much photo storage space you are looking for. $23 for 1000 MB of photo storage, $43 for 2000 MB, and $6 for 3000 MB. Yearly subscription basis. For free trial account is limited to 10 MB of storage space (30 days) with no direct image linking.

9. DropShots

With premium membership at DropShots, you can upload unlimited photos or video with no ads, enable viewer comments, allows you to make your password protection on your albums, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage, get higher quality photos or video, have one-click post to blogs or social networking many sites (only $ 4.95 per month). Free membership is also quite interesting offer, you can upload images up to 500 photos with no ads, 20 videos, and get a password protection.

10. 500px

500px helps your to display or promote your best photography. Features offered : unlimited uploads and bandwidth, custom domain, get access to exclusive designs, integrated with Google Analytics. iPhone and iPad apps are available to support the publication of your photography portfolio. Premium membership ($50/year).

Really hope this review can help you.

Please if anyone wants to respond or add. Thank you.

happy freelancing, happy working, keep your health, and good luck for all! :)