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How to sell books with email marketing: a guide for self-published bookmakers

Promoting & Marketing

How to sell books with email marketing: a guide for self-published bookmakers

In the dynamic world of self-publishing, one's success often hinges on effectively using a variety of marketing strategies. Email marketing is among the most powerful strategies, providing a way ...

How to make a coffee table book: A 10-step guide to getting started

Planning & Creating

How to make a coffee table book: A 10-step guide to getting started

Crafting a coffee table book is an art form that combines equal aspects of storytelling, visual allure, and production value. Coffee table books are the perfect platform for professional ...

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: The Power of the Email Newsletter

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: The Power of the Email Newsletter

My journey to newsletters was through blogging. And my journey to the humble blog was circuitous as well. I’m thankful for those journeys, because email newsletters have proved to ...

7 reasons why photo books are worth it in the digital age

Self-Publishing

7 reasons why photo books are worth it in the digital age

As a creator operating in the digital age, you may question whether photo books are still worthwhile. Despite increasingly easy access to tech like ebooks, online portfolios, and creator ...

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: Designing Books for Clients

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: Designing Books for Clients

At one point in my life, I made my living as a wedding photographer. This might not seem like a big deal to you, but for me, coming from ...

Branding for photographers

Promoting & Marketing

Branding for photographers

Branding is essential to any successful photography business—whether you're a company, freelancer, or independent contractor. When you have a strong brand that resonates with your target audience, you can ...

Top 11 photography trends of 2023

Top 11 photography trends of 2023

In the creative world of photography, trends are constantly evolving to keep up with technological advancements and cultural shifts. If you're like us, you're always searching for new ways ...

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: telling the story of your work

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: telling the story of your work

Editor’s note: Learn to tell the story of your work in a three-week course with Dan Milnor starting June 13, 2023. Sign up for Portfolio Building & Branding today. *** I ...

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: Building a Creative Community

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: Building a Creative Community

In the creative modern world, one of the hottest topics is community. Building community ranks at the very top of many creative to-do lists, and rightly so. With community ...

We See VI: Behind the Book with Jekaterina Saveljeva of femLENS

Behind the Books

We See VI: Behind the Book with Jekaterina Saveljeva of femLENS

Founded in 2015, the nonprofit femLENS offers free workshops on documentary photography to women and girls from economically and culturally diverse backgrounds. These students learn to tell their stories ...

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: exploring the images you can’t explain

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: exploring the images you can’t explain

One of the things you are told early in your photography career is that you must be merciless when it comes to editing your photography portfolio. You hear things ...

How to use pictures to tell a story

How to use pictures to tell a story

The adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words," is undeniable. Photographers know best that images can bring stories to life and build powerful connections through a lens. A ...

The welcome return of film photography

The welcome return of film photography

What is it about film photography? For the first time in decades, Eastman Kodak Company is actively hiring film technicians while watching consumer demand for film skyrocket. Once considered ...

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: Embracing Local Photography

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: Embracing Local Photography

In 1996, I was working as a freelance photographer, and although I had been working full-time for several years, I was still very much at the beginning of my ...

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: Photographing in Winter

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: Photographing in Winter

I spent most of my adult life in a one-season city. Much of the year was entirely predictable. I owned no winter coat and never really had to even ...

Introduction to Documentary Photography

Introduction to Documentary Photography

Award-winning photographer and author Dan Milnor talks about what it takes to become a documentary photographer and how to stay the course while doing it. I love documentary photography and ...

11 photography mistakes and how to overcome them

11 photography mistakes and how to overcome them

A few simple tips can go a long way toward improving your photography skills. This is photographer Dan Milnor’s advice for avoiding common pitfalls behind the lens. Those of us ...

How to find a photography mentor in six steps

How to find a photography mentor in six steps

Photography is a funny thing. A photography practice often starts innocently enough but can soon become a complete and total compulsion, something that creeps into our mind before, during and ...

5 Photographers to Follow

5 Photographers to Follow

When I was first asked to write this post, a cascade of faces and names began to flow through my mind, as did a level of excitement I’ve not ...

How to Scan Your Old Photos

Planning & Creating

How to Scan Your Old Photos

Nowadays, most of the photos we take are stored on our phones and digital cameras. It’s easy to turn these digital galleries into physical albums with bookmaking software like ...

Photo Books to Journals: Q&A with Dan Milnor

Photo Books to Journals: Q&A with Dan Milnor

Whether you’re starting a new creative project or planning your next career moves, it helps to get perspective from a professional. In our latest webinar series, Blurb Creative Evangelist ...

Behind the Book: Chasing Magic

Behind the Books

Behind the Book: Chasing Magic

Photography shown in hero image by Brynn A. Schmidt, Kathy Linford, and Maricel Quesada Jara For every breathtaking landscape or wildlife photo, there’s often a personal story or tale of ...

What is Film Photography (Analog Photography)?

What is Film Photography (Analog Photography)?

Luckily for all of us, analog photography, also known as film photography, is all the rage. The Digital Revolution which descended on photography in the mid to late 1990s ...

Portfolio Book or Digital Portfolio Website?

Planning & Creating

Portfolio Book or Digital Portfolio Website?

Several times a year I get asked to review portfolios; a printed book or digital gallery designed solely to showcase an artist’s best work. Typically, these opportunities come during ...

Author Spotlight: Forest McMullin

Self-Publishing

Author Spotlight: Forest McMullin

Fresh off the press, the story of Forest McMullin’s new book Late Harvest is a perfect example of how independent self-publishing can pave the way to traditional publishing success. ...

Behind the Book with Elliot Ross

Behind the Books

Behind the Book with Elliot Ross

With his new book, The Mirror Pond, fresh from the printers, we caught up with photographer Elliot Ross to talk photography, bookmaking, and more. 1. How did you get interested ...

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