Things have been very busy. Currently about to meet some friends for a 9pm dinner reservation at NINE Steakhouse in the Palms hotel. Been in Vegas since Sunday for the annual WPPI Photographers convention in support of our friends at photographik.org. What an educational and impressive event.

Photographers are truly an impressive breed when it comes to brand awareness, online experience and innovation. Folks like [b]ecker (thebecker.com), Scarlett Lillian (captivating-studios.com), Chris Humphries (chrishumphreys.com), Dane Sanders (danesanders.com) and many more were out here for the event and are truly respected as pioneers of online marketing awareness for the industry. This made me think about the topic of simply marketing… marketing accomplishments, capabilities, self,  and doing it well. The budgets of Nike and Coke don’t exist for most of us, so what do you do? For photographers they have to focus on not only the quality of their work, but the quality of their personalities, insights, observations, and willingness to continue learning.

Some tools that exist currently to promote the above on a budget exist in web sites that attract and build confidence amongst your clients/prospects, Blogging to share insights on your specific industry, establishing awareness and authority, and optimizing your web site and Blogs to be found by popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

Also try some of these:
- Qualified directories specific to your industry (typically the organizers of these directories have spent resources outside of the standalone operation’s budget to deliver results to their directory members – but make sure to do your research and find out their traffic ranking, daily traffic, are they visually representing you well, are they affordable, are your respected peers their?)
- Join industry specific networks! Respect in your industry is more valuable than you might of thought. Referrals from busier referral partners, overflow contract work, and people to refer your overflow to all help you, and your community make more money and success.

Oh – my wife is reminding me about that reservation at NINE – sorry to cut off here. More on this topic in the future.

Welcome to the Treble Red Blog!

We are having a great 2008 so for. Clients like Stratavia, Source eCreative, and some new folks are having such success that they are continuously approaching us for new project work – we couldn’t be happier.

We have just launched our new site – go play around with it if you haven’t already…

Jeremy Kennedy, our senior developer has had his hands full the last few weeks working on a Flex application in alliance with Faction Media, another new acquaintance of TrebleRed referred by McClain Finlon (thanks Rob!).

Jeremy and I are also partners with photographik, a project we launched in January and that has been keeping us otherwise occupied in the evenings. Our other partner, Jesse Chatham and myself are heading out to Las Vegas next week to meet and greet some of our members and hopefully connect with some new ones at the WPPI photographers convention.

Well, that is about it for now – need to get back to work. Really appreciate you checking out the new site and blog.

Josh