Information about seminars
Found a nice testimonial today in my feeds- Jim Crotty, who took the seminar when I tried to pack it all into half a day, pumped my little speaking engagement Thur July 17.
Calm Photos » Websiteology: The Best Way to Market Yourself on the Web
On Thursday, July 17th, the Greater Dayton Advertising Association is featuring guest speaker David Esrati who will be talking about web 2.0 and his Websiteology program. Non-members can attend the program for just $20 simply by registering on the association’s web site.David’s half-day course on WordPress blogging for business and his hosting services was the impetus for CalmPhotos.com. David even suggested the URL name for my blog – “Calm Photos†– after considering the visual impact of my nature and landscape photographs.
If you are an Ohio-based photographer (or just about anyone else with a small business) who is serious about marketing yourself and your work on the web, David Esrati’s Websiteology seminar is the first resource you should turn to. I know because after five years of being a full-time photographer I’ve tried just about everything else when it comes to advertising and “getting my work out there.†My best results routinely come from my WordPress blog (what you’re reading right now) and at a fraction of the cost of a typical Yellow Page ad (a total waste of money for commercial and fine art photography).
Want proof ? For the month of June 2008 I had over 91,000 total hits on CalmPhotos.com, with top key search words that referred directly to my site in the following order:
1) photography
2) pictures
3) calm
4) ohio
5) photos
6) dayton
7) pics
8) photo
9) flickr
10) model
11) landscape
12) nature
13) portraits
Jim had 3 other sites before we set him up with WordPress. I think he’ll agree, that not only were the other sites harder to maintain, they didn’t get him near the hits.
Jim will be there on Thursday- will you?
Register here: https://greaterdaytonadassociation.org/pdseries08rsvp.php
Tuesday July 22.
The opportunity to learn everything about the internet that your competition doesn’t want you to know has come again!
You’re a: mechanic, store owner, beauty & skin care shop, audio production expert, chiropractor, dentist, boutique clothing store owner, artist, photographer, historian, politician – and most of all, you’re busy running your business.
You might have a website- do you know who is visiting it? How they are getting there? If they are coming back? Is the website getting customers and paying for itself? If you don’t know, you need to take our seminar.
Maybe you don’t have a website- you know you need to be on the internet, but you don’t understand the difference between a website and an advertisement in the phone book. If you don’t know, you need to take our seminar!
Do you know what RSS is and why it’s important? Do you know how Google “sees†your page and gets new customers to you? Do you know that there are tools and resources you can use to get to page #1 on Google without paying one cent to anyone?
Do we really need to say it again?
Websitetology is not about making you an expert web developer or a computer science wizard. Websitetology is about giving you the tools and the fundamental understanding of the internet and search engines like Google that put you ahead of your competition. Ask Dr. Edward Gould, of the Gould Chiropractic Wellness Center in Cincinnati Ohio, or the group of audio and video production geniuses at The Studio Files – both went from “Google Invisible†to “Google Invincible†in weeks, just by spending a few minutes a day utilizing what they learned at Websitetology.
So sign up now– we know you’ll become one of our many successful Websitetologists.
Tuesday, 22 July 2008 at Nehemiah University, 750 S. Main Street Dayton OH 45402
8:30 am to 4:30 PM.
We’re still waiting to confirm a day with our host facility– so we’ve decided to put up a doodle date scheduler and see what happens: the dates we’re considering are: April 2008 (23, 28 or 29)
Go to http://doodle.ch/93t487inecfcraq2 and confirm your choice of dates. see how a web 2.0 tool works
The moment we either have 6 confirmed people preferring a date- or confirmation from the facility, we’ll set it in stone.
This is a web 2.0 experiment. Lets see how it works.
UPDATE: It worked- first 3 people all chose the 29th and the room is confirmed.
Sign up here: http://www.websitetology.com/?page_id=247