top photographers join forces

Some of the top photographers
in the USA are joining forces
(check out the site, then come back and read this article)
(It will make more sense)

As a photographer is your web site making you
$1,000s of dollars a month?
(If not, you need to print this out and read it)

You're missing a HUGE HUGE market
Overture statistics claim that over 6 million Americans found a photographer on the internet in 2002 (probably much more now, but my inside contact moved to Google). Word Tracker claims that search words and phrases for a photographer registered over half a BILLION times in 2004. It has more than doubled from the previous year. Goggle's number of options for a "photographer" have increased from 1.6 million in 2002 to 55 million in 2005. It appears that consumers of photography are turning to the internet to FIND the photographer of their dreams. This can be broken down further by what type of photographer they were hunting for. About half were looking for "Portrait" work, the other half were spread almost evenly in the following categories: Commercial - Outdoor/Nature - Fine Art - Software Art - and Photojournalism. The internet has become the future of photography, just as the digital camera has made an impact on the photographer.

WHY you are not getting any of that business!!!
Actually a very small percentage are. Which means those that get it are making a lot. If you do a search on Google for "photographer you will find 55,000,000+ options. Where are you in that list, even if it is refined. If you are not in the first three pages (Top 60) the chances are you will NOT be found, because people do not have the patience. The other major factor emerging is advertising your URL in the right places.

How do you get placed high on the search engine list
First, there are 7 or 8 search engines that are responsible for 80 to 90% of all the traffic. They all have different rules and they change weekly to prevent anyone from staying in the number one position too long. Photographers are at a disadvantage because the computer geeks that make up the rules look at "pictures" (they don't call them images) as a way of slowing down a page from loading on to a site. Truth is, in their eyes, a snapshot and the "Image of the Year" are treated with equal importance. Actually that is not true, if your quality image takes longer to download then you are penalized. You spend a lot of time, energy and money getting your web site to look appealing to your clientele, but NONE of that helps you in "search engine placement."

For example does your domain name have the word "photographer" in it. What about the title on your page? Do you have a list of "Keywords" specifically for each page on your web site? How many links to other sites do you have? How many Sites have links to you? Are your keywords mentioned in copy on the first page? Those are just six of the 237 things they look at. This is why large corporations will hire firms at $300,000 a year to do nothing but this. Now, if you have a FLASH site, it's even worse because all the rules are written in HTML, so those with Flash sites can slow down those who copy their work, but it's much much harder to be found.

Best USA Photographers is different than the others
Most Internet photography listings have followed "The Black Book" model. Look impressive for the photographer who is paying the money, after all that is their CUSTOMER. Our philosophy is that the "image purchaser" is the customer. We want to bring business to your door. For that you have to be noticed. Our site is like "a light table" and we direct them to YOUR site which is "the projector." Best USA Photographers is very user friendly. The customer can get to your site in 3 to 4 clicks. They have a choice of looking you up by State, Category, City, or Last Name. You will note that all of the states and categories are spelled out on the home page. It does not look that flashy, but it helps with placement which will take 4 to 6 months to be recognized by the search engines.

However, there are other ways to reach the customer.

Best USA Photographers hazs contacted so many organizatrions to tell them about our unique service
There are so many web pages and so many companies that are selling their service to have higher placement that the web surfer is losing interest in search engines. When ever possible they now type in a URL that they know or hear about. Best USA Photographers is researching known buyers and telling them about our unique "quality" service. We are doing this through a number of ways. The fact is, it is working. When we started doing this our hits jumped from 300 thousand a month to over a million a month.

Best USA Photographers buys placement on search engines with membership dues
(This will star. 2,827,325) Ever wonder why some photographers seem to be number one on a search engine for no apparent reason.The top spots go to the highest bidder. This is how the search engines make their money. Keywords that the consumer may type in, to find a photographer could go from 15 cents to one dollar. Every time someone finds your site you are charged that amount. Most photographers do not find that very cost effective. Can you imagine 5,000 people hitting on your site in a month? What about 100,000? You will see some huge changes in placement after our Dream Teams are up, and the special is over.

Best USA Photographers has the power of photographers working together
Most consumers are looking for a photographer either geographically or by a type of photography. Best USA Photographers has all 50 states and 49 different categories. We are not limited by association or type of equipment a person uses. Let's say that we had JUST ONE photographer in each category in EACH state. That's 2,450 photographers. Do you think the monthly dues from those 2,450 could buy a few keywords that would attract a few customers? If you only received one customer all year it should pay for itself. That's the power of working together. You are getting half a million dollars in advertising for a small token amount each month. The photographers on our site have accepted our concepts and what we have proposed. From their comments we know we are on the right track. Most of them see the value of photographers of all categories uniting together in this time of change for the photography industry. Compare our advertising to the other forms of advertising you do. You'l. 2,827,325 see how sweet Best USA Photographers is.

Best USA Photographers creates ways for consumers to find members
People love photographs, but they may not be looking for a photographer on the Internet at the time. Maybe they are looking for best USA cities, best USA teachers, best USA destinations, or best USA athletes. These are other domain names we have secured. We call them "recognition sites" because they don't produce any money but people are interested in them and while they are on those sites they just may click on best USA photographers because it sounds interesting. Plus it does not cost us anything with the search engines. As our membership gets up we plan on advertising in magazines, trade shows and doing direct mail.

Best USA Photographers creates contests that stimulate customers
We have secured other names like best USA models, best USA architecture, best USA gardens, best USA cars, and others. These sites are designed to be contests, where photographers can go to customers and potential customers in those areas and ask if they want to try out for best USA model, etc. Could be new business or maybe you just want to reward old customers. At any rate customers and clients are flattered when you say you want to enter them in a national contest.

Best USA Photographers selects members by a jury
Not everyone who owns a camera can get into Best USA Photographers. You are selected by a jury of top photographers. If you look at our web site you will see the quality of photographer we are looking for. These photographers have accepted our nomination and stepped to the plate. If we missed sending you an invite, and you think you may qualify, you can ask for a revie. The best thing to do is email us your site and State you are in. Then we will be in contact with you.

Best USA Photographers has information
consumers want
Depending on what they want a photographer for, we have various pieces of information. For example if they want a high school senior portrait, we have a booklet called. How to look your best for your senior portraits. If the customer is looking for an Outdoor or Fine Art image to hang on the wall they might want to subscribe to our Photo of the Month Club where our photographers are allowed to have one image each month sent to all those consumers who have asked to be sent the Photo of the Month. If it is a commercial shoot, our pamphlet "How businesses can save money on commercial photography," is always of interest. This is all done automatically through auto-responders and does not consume the photographers time.

Best USA Photographers has ways to get the consumer visiting your site over and over again
We are building an opt-in mailing list. But we understand what's abusive and what isn't. Obviously if they sign up for Photo of the Month, they get an email every month sending them to the pages of photographs that are linked directly to the photographer's web site. For the booklets we always come out with updates one or two a month. We do not want to be abusive, but we want to continue to provide information the consumers want. Naturally there are always Sites to various pages on our site. So they can come back and visit the photographer that got them interested in Best USA Photographers. People will get back on the site if you remind them (not bug them) that you are there. We always have an unsubscribe button at the bottom of the page that works immediately and permanently.

Best USA Photographers does not consume your time
Once you send us your images and contact information, the only time you have to consume is with customers. We will send out a monthly newsletter explaining what we spent money on and new marketing ideas that may be of interest to you. You can even contribute if you want. You can also change your images three times a year if you want.

Who would not want to be listed in
Best USA Photographers
If the consumer did not know your name, and your studio name and best USA photographers were on the same page on the search engine listing, which do you think they would choose to look at? The name peaks the curiosity of the best. If they find some good work, will they look any further? We advertise that we are there to save the consumer time in finding a quality photographer. And what photographer would not want to say they are listed in Best USA Photographers. It is a great advertising value, especially if your competition is not listed. It just gives credence to your abilities.

Do you qualify for Best USA Photographers
We expect every member to be outstanding and have a web site. We are looking for quality. If you have received an invitation, then we obviously think you are, if you have not and you think your images would qualify then we also want to hear from you. It is virtually impossible to find and contact all the good photographers in the country, you may be way down on that 55,000,000 list. So during pre-launch if you contact us we will judge your work from your web site and let you know.

What do Best USA Photographers members receive
Customers with money is our biggest answer. If just one customer comes your way, you more than paid for the service. But in reality, you are getting a $500,000 web site working for you, a full time marketing director, creative ways to bring in extra customers, and an avenue to showcase your web site to so many more than you would otherwise. Oh did we mention that we have a nice Best USA Photographers plaque that you can hang on your wall. This is advertising at it's finest. Web surfers are buyers. They have money and are looking for ways to spend it. We predicted at 2 million hits for 2005, and ended up with nearly 10 million. It is really a "no brainer." We get people from all over the USA logging on and direct them to the photographers that peek their interest either geographically or categorically. By having as many states and categories as we do the competition is limited, but you receive the FULL value of others investing. Plus, we save the consumer massive time, the consumer gets a quality product, and photographers only pays a fraction of what it would cost them to bring in customers, both in dollars and time.

Best USA Photographers is budget friendly
You are not going to believe this. I know as a photographer myself, I have been pretty cheap in the advertising department. Seems I spend all my money on camera equipment and props. However, I know that if you take a small step and join forces with the rest of us working photographers, you will find that your rewards are well worth the small investment. If you qualify and accept our Dream Team nomination you'll get 18 months for the price of one year. This special offer is only good for a limited time. Click here to see how budget friendly Best USA Photographers is.

Looking forward to hearing from you.
If you want to talk my phone is 360 . 876. 46 20
email is rrrr@bestUSAphotographers.com

Randall Tomaras
Executive Director



	Some of the top photographers in the USA are joining forces (check out the site, then come back and read this article) (It will make more sense) As a photographer is your web site making you $1,000s of dollars a month? (If not, you need to print this out and read it) You're missing a HUGE HUGE market Overture statistics claim that over 6 million Americans found a photographer on the internet in 2002 (probably much more now, but my inside contact moved to Google). Word Tracker claims that search words and phrases for a photographer registered over half a BILLION times in 2004. It has more than doubled from the previous year. Goggle's number of options for a "photographer" have increased from 1.6 million in 2002 to 55 million in 2005. It appears that consumers of photography are turning to the internet to FIND the photographer of their dreams. This can be broken down further by what type of photographer they were hunting for. About half were looking for "Portrait" work, the other half were spread almost evenly in the following categories: Commercial - Outdoor/Nature - Fine Art - Software Art - and Photojournalism. The internet has become the future of photography, just as the digital camera has made an impact on the photographer. WHY you are not getting any of that business!!! Actually a very small percentage are. Which means those that get it are making a lot. If you do a search on Google for "photographer you will find 55,000,000+ options. Where are you in that list, even if it is refined. If you are not in the first three pages (Top 60) the chances are you will NOT be found, because people do not have the patience. The other major factor emerging is advertising your URL in the right places. How do you get placed high on the search engine list First, there are 7 or 8 search engines that are responsible for 80 to 90% of all the traffic. They all have different rules and they change weekly to prevent anyone from staying in the number one position too long. Photographers are at a disadvantage because the computer geeks that make up the rules look at "pictures" (they don't call them images) as a way of slowing down a page from loading on to a site. Truth is, in their eyes, a snapshot and the "Image of the Year" are treated with equal importance. Actually that is not true, if your quality image takes longer to download then you are penalized. You spend a lot of time, energy and money getting your web site to look appealing to your clientele, but NONE of that helps you in "search engine placement." For example does your domain name have the word "photographer" in it. What about the title on your page? Do you have a list of "Keywords" specifically for each page on your web site? How many links to other sites do you have? How many Sites have links to you? Are your keywords mentioned in copy on the first page? Those are just six of the 237 things they look at. This is why large corporations will hire firms at $300,000 a year to do nothing but this. Now, if you have a FLASH site, it's even worse because all the rules are written in HTML, so those with Flash sites can slow down those who copy their work, but it's much much harder to be found. Best USA Photographers is different than the others Most Internet photography listings have followed "The Black Book" model. Look impressive for the photographer who is paying the money, after all that is their CUSTOMER. Our philosophy is that the "image purchaser" is the customer. We want to bring business to your door. For that you have to be noticed. Our site is like "a light table" and we direct them to YOUR site which is "the projector." Best USA Photographers is very user friendly. The customer can get to your site in 3 to 4 clicks. They have a choice of looking you up by State, Category, City, or Last Name. You will note that all of the states and categories are spelled out on the home page. It does not look that flashy, but it helps with placement which will take 4 to 6 months to be recognized by the search engines. However, there are other ways to reach the customer. *Best USA Photographers hazs contacted so many organizatrions to tell them about our unique service* There are so many web pages and so many companies that are selling their service to have higher placement that the web surfer is losing interest in search engines. When ever possible they now type in a URL that they know or hear about. Best USA Photographers is researching known buyers and telling them about our unique "quality" service. We are doing this through a number of ways. The fact is, it is working. When we started doing this our hits jumped from 300 thousand a month to over a million a month. Best USA Photographers buys placement on search engines with membership dues (This will star. 2,827,325) Ever wonder why some photographers seem to be number one on a search engine for no apparent reason.The top spots go to the highest bidder. This is how the search engines make their money. Keywords that the consumer may type in, to find a photographer could go from 15 cents to one dollar. Every time someone finds your site you are charged that amount. Most photographers do not find that very cost effective. Can you imagine 5,000 people hitting on your site in a month? What about 100,000? You will see some huge changes in placement after our Dream Teams are up, and the special is over. Best USA Photographers has the power of photographers working together Most consumers are looking for a photographer either geographically or by a type of photography. Best USA Photographers has all 50 states and 49 different categories. We are not limited by association or type of equipment a person uses. Let's say that we had JUST ONE photographer in each category in EACH state. That's 2,450 photographers. Do you think the monthly dues from those 2,450 could buy a few keywords that would attract a few customers? If you only received one customer all year it should pay for itself. That's the power of working together. You are getting half a million dollars in advertising for a small token amount each month. The photographers on our site have accepted our concepts and what we have proposed. From their comments we know we are on the right track. Most of them see the value of photographers of all categories uniting together in this time of change for the photography industry. Compare our advertising to the other forms of advertising you do. You'l. 2,827,325 see how sweet Best USA Photographers is. Best USA Photographers creates ways for consumers to find members People love photographs, but they may not be looking for a photographer on the Internet at the time. Maybe they are looking for best USA cities, best USA teachers, best USA destinations, or best USA athletes. These are other domain names we have secured. We call them "recognition sites" because they don't produce any money but people are interested in them and while they are on those sites they just may click on best USA photographers because it sounds interesting. Plus it does not cost us anything with the search engines. As our membership gets up we plan on advertising in magazines, trade shows and doing direct mail. Best USA Photographers creates contests that stimulate customers We have secured other names like best USA models, best USA architecture, best USA gardens, best USA cars, and others. These sites are designed to be contests, where photographers can go to customers and potential customers in those areas and ask if they want to try out for best USA model, etc. Could be new business or maybe you just want to reward old customers. At any rate customers and clients are flattered when you say you want to enter them in a national contest. Best USA Photographers selects members by a jury Not everyone who owns a camera can get into Best USA Photographers. You are selected by a jury of top photographers. If you look at our web site you will see the quality of photographer we are looking for. These photographers have accepted our nomination and stepped to the plate. If we missed sending you an invite, and you think you may qualify, you can ask for a revie. The best thing to do is email us your site and State you are in. Then we will be in contact with you. Best USA Photographers has information consumers want Depending on what they want a photographer for, we have various pieces of information. For example if they want a high school senior portrait, we have a booklet called. How to look your best for your senior portraits. If the customer is looking for an Outdoor or Fine Art image to hang on the wall they might want to subscribe to our Photo of the Month Club where our photographers are allowed to have one image each month sent to all those consumers who have asked to be sent the Photo of the Month. If it is a commercial shoot, our pamphlet "How businesses can save money on commercial photography," is always of interest. This is all done automatically through auto-responders and does not consume the photographers time. Best USA Photographers has ways to get the consumer visiting your site over and over again We are building an opt-in mailing list. But we understand what's abusive and what isn't. Obviously if they sign up for Photo of the Month, they get an email every month sending them to the pages of photographs that are linked directly to the photographer's web site. For the booklets we always come out with updates one or two a month. We do not want to be abusive, but we want to continue to provide information the consumers want. Naturally there are always Sites to various pages on our site. So they can come back and visit the photographer that got them interested in Best USA Photographers. People will get back on the site if you remind them (not bug them) that you are there. We always have an unsubscribe button at the bottom of the page that works immediately and permanently. Best USA Photographers does not consume your time Once you send us your images and contact information, the only time you have to consume is with customers. We will send out a monthly newsletter explaining what we spent money on and new marketing ideas that may be of interest to you. You can even contribute if you want. You can also change your images three times a year if you want. Who would not want to be listed in Best USA Photographers If the consumer did not know your name, and your studio name and best USA photographers were on the same page on the search engine listing, which do you think they would choose to look at? The name peaks the curiosity of the best. If they find some good work, will they look any further? We advertise that we are there to save the consumer time in finding a quality photographer. And what photographer would not want to say they are listed in Best USA Photographers. It is a great advertising value, especially if your competition is not listed. It just gives credence to your abilities. Do you qualify for Best USA Photographers We expect every member to be outstanding and have a web site. We are looking for quality. If you have received an invitation, then we obviously think you are, if you have not and you think your images would qualify then we also want to hear from you. It is virtually impossible to find and contact all the good photographers in the country, you may be way down on that 55,000,000 list. So during pre-launch if you contact us we will judge your work from your web site and let you know. What do Best USA Photographers members receive Customers with money is our biggest answer. If just one customer comes your way, you more than paid for the service. But in reality, you are getting a $500,000 web site working for you, a full time marketing director, creative ways to bring in extra customers, and an avenue to showcase your web site to so many more than you would otherwise. Oh did we mention that we have a nice Best USA Photographers plaque that you can hang on your wall. This is advertising at it's finest. Web surfers are buyers. They have money and are looking for ways to spend it. We predicted at 2 million hits for 2005, and ended up with nearly 10 million. It is really a "no brainer." We get people from all over the USA logging on and direct them to the photographers that peek their interest either geographically or categorically. By having as many states and categories as we do the competition is limited, but you receive the FULL value of others investing. Plus, we save the consumer massive time, the consumer gets a quality product, and photographers only pays a fraction of what it would cost them to bring in customers, both in dollars and time. Best USA Photographers is budget friendly You are not going to believe this. I know as a photographer myself, I have been pretty cheap in the advertising department. Seems I spend all my money on camera equipment and props. However, I know that if you take a small step and join forces with the rest of us working photographers, you will find that your rewards are well worth the small investment. If you qualify and accept our Dream Team nomination you'll get 18 months for the price of one year. This special offer is only good for a limited time. Click here to see how budget friendly Best USA Photographers is. Looking forward to hearing from you. If you want to talk my phone is 360 . 876. 46 20 email is rrrr@bestUSAphotographers.com Randall Tomaras Executive Director .
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