Lisa’s SEO Ramblings

Online Branding and Photos

I always thought that getting professional photos or headshots were for actors or well-known, famous people. After attempting to get a nice, decent photo taken of me by others, I finally made the decision to get professional headshots and avator pics taken.

I posted on Twitter for suggestions of a Phoenix photographer and Erica Lucci sent me Tyson Crosbie. I am grateful to both of my Twitter friends as the photo session went wonderful and Tyson is an artist! He made me feel comfortable and the shots came out amazing!

Here are some of the shots:

Although I tell our clients how online branding is important, I wasn’t following my own advice. With Tyson’s pics, I now can go forth and continue with online branding PearlyWrites as the woman who likes to make funny faces and Shirley Temple curls!

Since I have a book due to the publisher by August 1 of this year, I decided I needed to invest in professional headshots for the book. Besides the book, with all the online marketing I do, I don’t really have a nice professional / funky avator and REALLY wanted one.

While I was on Twitter a few weeks ago, I asked the #PHX area to recommend a photographer and Erica Lucci pointed me to TysonCrosbie.com aka @TysonCrosbie.

Tyson was wonderful to work with and really made the photo session easy. I have never gotten professional headshots taken before and the last time I had professional pics done was our wedding back in 2001!

Please help in choosing 3 images you like by clicking here for a headshot, avator and Website image. If you only like 2 or 1, the pics can be cropped to fit certain purposes. Just having your input will help in making the decisions.

Thanks Tyson, You Rock!

YUWIE

So I was doing my normal searching around the net as I do quite often and came upon an ad about another social networking site. The difference with this site is it pays you for every click that hits your page.

Think about all the stuff you have on your MySpace page! Blogs, pics, backgrounds, comments, viewing other people’s pages…all that would make you money.

How you ask? If you listen to the video presentation they have set up, it will tell you how. How does the world make money? Advertising and sponsors.

If you are interested in checking out Yuwie, it’s free and you can just join for fun of connecting to other people.