The Baby Photographer

Google+ Business Pages

Well it’s taken Google long enough but finally you can set-up your own business page on Google+. Thankfully you can manage and switch between your personal Google+ account and various business pages you set up. You can also choose to comment as your personal account or as your business page (mmmm, sounds familiar). If you already have a Google Places listing then by adding in…
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Mumpreneur Tips

Identifying a new target market

I’m continuing my weekly articles with a brand new series titled Mumpreneur Business Tips. I’ll be sharing a few ideas that might help you develop your own business. They’ll be everything from marketing to social media tips so I hope you’ll find something useful. I’ll be posting a different article every other week and if you’ve already enjoyed the Photo…
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The Baby Photographer

Photography Training

It doesn’t matter how long you’ve worked in this business there’s always something new to learn. As I write this I’m traveling back across London on my way from a full day training course with photographer Ray Lowe. Ray has been working as a professional photography since before I was born so I’d be a fool not to jump at the chance to learn from him. There was…
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The Baby Photographer

Photography and education

A few weeks ago my brother in law received his highers results (Scottish A levels) via email at about 1am in the morning. Now he looking to take the next step in his education and this got me thinking about photography degree courses. I graduated from my photography degree over 10 years ago, having just missed out on a free higher education by 12 months. Back then University fees were…
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London Mums' Photography competition

Don’t miss the chance to win over £500 in prizes! It’s very easy to enter this competition: take one picture of your favourite London corner and send it by 10th October 2011 either by email to info@londonmumsmagazine.com or via Twitter @londonmums or New Facebook Page or our Facebook Group. Check more details in the posters below. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens…
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The Baby Photographer

Google+ for London Mums and business

It’s been a couple of months since Google launched their latest attempt at social networking and so far the numbers that have already joined speak for themselves. Will Google+ cause a Myspacing of Facebook? Who knows, but as someone who likes to embrace all sorts of new innovations I’ve spent the last few weeks dipping in and out of the social network. I photograph…
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The Baby Photographer

When is best to have photographs taken of your baby?

For those of you that are Daily Mail readers you might have come across the story in yesterdays paper looking at newborn baby photography. The images from Glasgow based photographers Yvonne Watt and Fiona Potter are certainly reminiscent of Anne Geddes but it’s a style of photography that has become very popular. Newborn baby with Anne Geddes dolls People are always asking me…
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The Baby Photographer - Delivery Day

As I work 100% on location and most of our clients are new mums, one of the most important parts of our business is delivering our work. A few weeks ago I wrote an article at Currentphotographer.com which was part of a series titled Marketing Campaigns for photographers. I describe why I think deliveries, done in person, are an important part of our business. I love all of our…
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The Baby Photographer

The baby photographer - Competition time

I’m going to start off my new series of articles here at London Mums with a little bit of a competition. I’m in the cute baby photography business so I wanted something to tie in with that. We’ve got a whole load of Memory Gate Photography vouchers sitting in the office waiting to send out to our winners. The competition Cute babies and crazy kids Everybody…
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