flickr for business
• Increase your chance of potential customers finding you through Google image searches
• Increase your web presence and increase the chance that your business will be found in more web searches
• The tags you use to label and describe your photos are opportunities to mention your business name and web site address
• Through your photos and some basic business information your business can take a more casual, information based approach to communicating with the general public, instead of an obvious advertising approach
• Use flickr to promote your company by using web site address as your flickr screen name, your screen name will be attached to every photo you upload
• Uploading high quality images of what your business does gives your customers a personal "behind the scenes" look at your business
• Forget the sales pitch and just let the photos sell your product or service
• flickr lets you join groups that are related to your business, making it even easier for your business to be found online
• flickr photo pages are crawled by Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.com
• Every time you comment on other flickr photos your screen name will show with your comment, if your screen name is your business URL, that's free advertising
• If there are visual elements to the products and services your business offers, flickr offers a new opportunity for spreading the word about who you are and what you do
Getting Started
1. Get a Yahoo ID at www.yahoo.com
2. A flickr account is free. Use your Yahoo ID to sign up at www.flickr.com
3. Once you've joined, adding photos to flickr is done through a simple upload system
4. Look for flickr groups to join. Read the group's posting rules before you upload photos!
5. Posting a photo specifically for the purposes of advertising your company is against the rules of flickr
Learn more about using flickr for your business:
www.smallbusinesssem.com/articles/marketing-on-flickr/
