What do you say to other photographers when they ask about your locations

If it's a public area I would tell them. I've met some good people who share this amazing hobby. Don't be selfish. Don't act like you own something if you do not. I know too many people that think it's all about THEM. That's not good.

It's all in the karma!

I pretty much tell everyone my trade secrets. Sadly enough this has created a lot of anger from others, but a shiat ton of friends.

While I'm happy with the friends and all, in the end I have the satisfaction of helping someone out, even if it means they are just using me for a piece of info.

memoriesoftomorrow wrote in post #17087153
Why?

It is a business decision to improve my social media WOM and make my advertising ROI better.

Photographers around the world aren't may target market. They fill my page with digital noise which gets in the way of clients, their friends and family interacting with each other on the page. When I promote posts I don't want to waste money promoting to people who are not my target market i.e. other photographers. Photographers liking my business page offers me no business benefit at all and costs me money.

To date I've deleted well over 500 of them.

Then why link your Facebook page from a photography forum?

memoriesoftomorrow wrote in post #17087153
Why?

It is a business decision to improve my social media WOM and make my advertising ROI better.

Photographers around the world aren't may target market. They fill my page with digital noise which gets in the way of clients, their friends and family interacting with each other on the page. When I promote posts I don't want to waste money promoting to people who are not my target market i.e. other photographers. Photographers liking my business page offers me no business benefit at all and costs me money.

To date I've deleted well over 500 of them.

Are you not restricting your potential market doing that? Agreed that photographers are not your market but if they click like on something of yours it opens it up to their entire newsfeed/contacts who are people who may not have necessarily discovered your page without that?

Also how does someone liking your page cost you money? (genuine question I just dont know how it would)

xpfloyd wrote in post #17120406
Are you not restricting your potential market doing that? Agreed that photographers are not your market but if they click like on something of yours it opens it up to their entire newsfeed/contacts who are people who may not have necessarily discovered your page without that?

Also how does someone liking your page cost you money? (genuine question I just dont know how it would)

It is a number game and photographers liking my page lowers the odds. I'm polarising my market which is exactly what I want to do.

If you promote posts you pay per viewer effectively. Paying to promote to a low quality liker is a waste of money.

El Pedro wrote in post #17120402
Then why link your Facebook page from a photography forum?

So people can see what I do if they want to.

memoriesoftomorrow wrote in post #17120468
It is a number game and photographers liking my page lowers the odds. I'm polarising my market which is exactly what I want to do.

If you promote posts you pay per viewer effectively. Paying to promote to a low quality liker is a waste of money.

Thanks Peter, I hadnt even considered post promotions, thanks for the info

memoriesoftomorrow wrote in post #17120468
It is a number game and photographers liking my page lowers the odds. I'm polarising my market which is exactly what I want to do.

If you promote posts you pay per viewer effectively. Paying to promote to a low quality liker is a waste of money.

But that's totally illogical and not how Facebook marketing works--promoting your posts doesn't market to your *existing* page fans, it markets to NEW ones, so in essence you actually ARE marketing to photographers that you've removed from your page.

cleverer wrote in post #17123632
But that's totally illogical and not how Facebook marketing works--promoting your posts doesn't market to your *existing* page fans, it markets to NEW ones, so in essence you actually ARE marketing to photographers that you've removed from your page.

You can choose to whom you promote posts. I'd suggest you have a look at what options are available.

I have an ROI of around $100 for every $1 I spend on Facebook advertising so I'll happily stick to being illogical

I just wouldnt reply. Don't encourage lazyness

panicatnabisco wrote in post #17123997
I just wouldnt reply. Don't encourage lazyness

Not a recommended tactic if you might have to ask the same person "Can you tell me where the nearest restroom is?"

I will tell them usually, I might not say the precise area of the location.

Ratjack wrote in post #17072404
I just had a photographer ask me where the location is. Should I tell them where it is or should I not? What would you do?

I get a glazed look in my eyes and tell them. "The chicken knows, but the owl, he ain't talking" and then I clap my hands three times in quick succession, look to my right where no one is standing and say, "come along, now" and walk away.

Sometimes when you give away a location that is good, you end up with this

Chris wrote in post #17124762
Sometimes when you give away a location that is good, you end up with this

looks like the sideline at an NFL game.