Getting serious

[Renegade Viewfinder]

So I finally getting more serious about my photography and would some day love to quit my job and support myself and family off of photo work. Can anyone suggest best way to build a client base. I have a Facebook page and Instagram. What is a good company to use if want to build a website. What to do and what not to do. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

 

[dmiller68]

I'm using Smugmug right now to try to sell my photography. They have pretty reasonable pricing. I need to work on SSO, etc to get more Google search traction. I'm still figuring my way through it as well. I think it is hard to know what people are going to like. If you are looking to do wedding photoshoots, etc I don't really have any experience there. Not sure this helps but I thought I would throw it out there. I'm hoping to be able to do it in my retirement. So I still have 4-5 years to figure it out.

 

[denver.mike]

I'm using Smugmug right now to try to sell my photography. They have pretty reasonable pricing. I need to work on SSO, etc to get more Google search traction. I'm still figuring my way through it as well. I think it is hard to know what people are going to like. If you are looking to do wedding photoshoots, etc I don't really have any experience there. Not sure this helps but I thought I would throw it out there. I'm hoping to be able to do it in my retirement. So I still have 4-5 years to figure it out.

I've been increasing trying to improve my photography as well in hopes to enjoy my retirement further as well and maybe one day turn this hobby into some profit to buy bigger and better gear. I'll have to check out smugmug. I've only been posting my stuff to fb and instagram