PC2 - Week 8 - Marketing a photographic business

In my website so far, I haven’t thought about how to make it appear higher up on google’s list. To do, I must think about to optimise it for google to think it is more important than other sites. The main factors that determine this are ALT tags and relevant text linking to the page tittle.

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PC2 - GL - Karen Mcquaid

Landeding an internship at “Surface” which asked her to organise her first exhibition, Mcquid was pointed towards visual artist and magazines, moved to London with hopes to be an editor. She had a freelance experience with publication at “Tank” but left fashion and the magazine career and focused on photography part as she enjoyed this part the most. 

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PC2 - Week 7 - CV Writting

It is important I have a up to date, professional CV to send to companies to show them my best work. This CV is separate to my normal CV, I would not give this in at the local shop for to ask for weekend work, this Curriculum Vitae is for jobs that would require my photography / videography skills. at the moment I send emails to managers, small business owners and bands to ask for any work they have available, and while I will keep doing this after I graduate, I would eventually be asking for grants and entering competitions. This CV will pose as a way for people to see my professional work and achievements. 

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PC2 - Week 6 - Setting up a freelancer

Being a student, I don’t have any type of tax return, however after I graduate I will have to contact the HMRC to declare myself self employed. This is because I do not work for someone else, I will not have a secure 9 - 5 job, the people I shoot for will pay me a one off payment, and this amount up over the year and I will have to declare how much I earn to know how much to pay back to the Government. For me, this is quite concussing, so I will a table to work out all of the numbers.

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PC2 - Project Proposal

More people are surviving their battle with breast cancer than ever before, but over 55,000 women are diagnosed ever year in the UK. I think it is safe to say everyone knows someone who has fought this terrible illness, and it is no lie to say I could not think of any worse new to hear first-hand. I have my own personal experience with family members fighting through, and in whole it brought our whole family closer by the end of it.

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PC2 - Week 5 - Day Rate Calculations

Here I will be writing about a recent lecture I had discussing how much I should be charging for a job after I graduate university. I have filled out an excel spreadsheet that works out my day rate, half a day and 1-2 hour job. Below I will copy in the information necessary.

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PC2 - Week 4 - Branding and Marketing

One of the most important aspects of being a working content creator, is maintaining your social media in a professional persona online. There are a lot of different way someone could go around doing this, but in this blog I want to focus on mine. As a student, a lot of big time clients don’t take me seriously when I ask for paid work, however I try and assure them I can create the high quality work that they want. I have all my personal accounts on private, however I obviously have all of my photography accounts open for anyone to see to be able to reach the maximum amount of people. 

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