Photography – Equipment and Improvement December 8, 2008
Posted by bohenriksen77 in Misc. Stuff, Sports.Tags: learning photography, photo equipment, photography
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About two months ago, I finally purchased a digital SLR. I have been wanting one for the last 5 years, and now I had the time and money.
I chose to buy the Canon EOS 40D with the 17-85mm kit lens. I chose the 40D, because it dropped a little in price with the release of the EOS 50D, I think the 40D is adequate in functionallity to my skill level and last, it has a high framerate in continueos shooting, and I would like to do sports photography.
Over these past months I have taken a lot of photos, to improve by the learning by doing method. While kit lens is adequate for outdoor scenary photos and actually pretty good in outdoor sports photos, it doesn’t cut the job for me when it comes to full or close-up portraits indoors. Another reason for this is that I only have the built in flash to use with it. This has become a problem for me, because where I originally thought I would do a lot of outdoor photography and only a limited amount of portraits, I have now found out, that i also like doing portraits, both indoor and outdoor.
So on my xmas wishlist I have an external flash, a f/1.4 50mm lens and some books on portrait photography. So if you have any ideas on good portrait techniques, books or anything other, please write.
If you want to see some of my sports photography, I took some decent photos of Copenhagen Cougars flag football team that are on the Copenhagen Cougars website.
Windmills or Windbreaks? December 5, 2008
Posted by bohenriksen77 in Misc. Stuff, SEO.Tags: financial crisis, SEO
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When the winds of change are blowing, there are to kinds of people. People building windbreaks and people building windmills, which kind are you?
We’ve been asking that to a lot of clients lately. Because a lot of people are apparently building windbreaks instead of windmills. Some of our clients have contacted us, because the want to cancel their SEO agreement. The reason they want to cancel the agreement: ‘We all need to save money in these times of financial crisis.’ Then my next question is, are you stopping all your marketing efforts? I haven’t heard a single ‘yes’ to that question yet. So I begin to dig a bit deeper, trying to find the reason to why the cut their SEO efforts before any other online or offline marketing effort. The most common reason I’ve met, is that our clients doesn’t really understand what SEO is, and what it does for them. The second most common reason is that our clients doesn’t really understand the reports we’ve been giving them, so they really can’t see the value of it.
So we’ve startet improving our reporting, to really emphasize the value of our SEO solutions. Then we’ve begun educating our clients more in what SEO actually is. And last but not least, we’ve launched a service called Cross Optimisation where we focus on balancing your SEO and SEM investments to achieve optimal return. We’ve been able to reduce the AdWords investment with up to 50% for some of our clients while maintaining the same or higher return.
So my point here is, when then winds of change are blowing, build windmills. In marketing look at the ROI of your different efforts before stopping them. And if there is an area where you can’t see you ROI ask you instead of just cancelling it.
Other than that: Keep the money rolling, the financial crisis is just something we imagine.
Consistency – Nope, haven’t got it December 1, 2008
Posted by bohenriksen77 in Misc. Stuff.Tags: Blogging, personal projects
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When I first started this blog, back in the summer, I had the intention of posting at least once a week, maybe more. I thougth that it would be pretty easy to blog about my personal projects, my training, SEO and all the stuff I do besides that. Now, I have learned that it’s not that easy. When I am working or training I doen’t have the time for blogging, and then when I have the time for blogging, and say to myself, now you have to blog, the only result is a writers blog.
So when I have postet something here, it is often a result of sitting in front of my pc, thinking about something, and then having the epiphany, that I have to blog about it.
This post is actualle a result of seeing another blog, and thinking ‘why is it that I never seem to succeed in blogging’. So instead of being dissapointed that I haven’t been able to blog more, I have decided to be happy that I’ve just been to busy doing fun stuff, to blog about it.
So in the future I wont try to blog at any given rate, I’ll just blog when the ideas for a blog post pops up in my head, and I am in front of my pc at the same time.
