wednfoto.com - getting started

After speaking to and getting feedback from over 200 wedding photographers, we've found that most professionals are too busy to setup, maintain and create their own facebook group. In addition, most of the photographers we've spoken to don't have a facebook profile. Some, however do have the time to create and setup and maintain their facebook group, and profile, but need to take their facebook presence a little further and to get feedback and engage with their target audience in an interactive way.

That's why we've set up 2 options for wedding photographers.

1. Group Option (I already know how to do this)
2. Interactive Group Service (Please do it for me!)

Group Option (DIY)

This is where you do what you already know. It costs nothing, just a little of your time, and within minutes you can have a link on our facebook group, post your photos and join in.
Cost: £0 (DIY)
Link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126780551534

Interactive Group Service (We do it for you)
This is where we build a page for you on our directory (wednfoto.com). Here's what we do.
Taking your 3 best photos and information, we
Build a directory page, connect it to your county or counties that you operate in.
Build a gallery out of your images.
Connect the page to facebook.
Add a facebook connect comments page, allowing recommendations to be posted.
Help you to promote your business in an easy way to the facebook demographic.

A facebook connected page allows you to get comments from your customers and friends. Any comments posted get broadcast to hundreds of facebook walls. This is an amazing way to promote you and your business as it looks like your customers are promorting your business on your behalf. A recent page we created gained 9 comments which were subsequently broadcast automatically to over 1900 people.

Cost: £97 per year (we set it up for you)
Link: Example entry http://wednfoto.com/?county=Warwickshire
Getting started: Click here for information on signing up

If you'd like any further information, please contact
Mark Hopgood mark@hopgood.eu
01732 80 80 67

update - 5th september 2009

We've now set up the directory and now have 2,276 followers on twitter.
http://twitter.com/wednfoto

We've now got
76 members of our wedding photographers group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126780551534
30 members in support of our website
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=127451045750

Our website, wednfoto.com is set up
http://wednfoto.com

We've linked wednfoto.com to our sister site, grwps.com
http://grwps.com

And we've facebook enabled our directory, meaning we can get comments from satisfied customers.

Wedding Photographers Unite

We've started putting put together our national directory of wedding photographers.
Using social media networks like twitter, facebook and meetup, we're bringing together the best wedding photographers, recommended by customers.

Day1:

a. work has started on the website http://bunnytick.com/wedding
b. twitter @wednfoto has 177 followers
c. facebook group setup - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126780551534
d. wednfoto.com registered