J. Kim Photography Raleigh NC

Oh oh oh it was a delicious lunch J had at Mitsuwa market. It was a reasonable price for a sushi lunch that was priced at around $8. Not a heavy meal, so J loved it.

sushi at mistuwa taken by j kim photography

J visited a Mitsuwa market to buy a thing for his daughter. The Mitsuwa Costa Mesa is located at 665 Paularino Ave. Costa Mesa CA. J does not know what it is called in English. It is something for your baby’s runny nose. Babies cannot blow their noses, so they need parents help to blow their noses. You get an idea.

mitsuwa costa mesa california - picture took by j kim photography

mitsuwa - picture took by j. kim photography

J did not have a chance to summarize his experiences with this year’s PPNC annual meeting. He was blessed to join the meeting and learn so much about basic and advanced photography, marketing, advertisement of photography, as well as social networking. He plans to summarize the presentations he attended. The PPNC speakers are industry leading photographers who came from other states, Florida, Virginia, and our state North Carolina. Thanks to them for giving such wonderful presentations.

J wanted to join WPPI Las Vegas this year, but his schedule was not compatible with the convention. He envies other NC photographers who can join the meeting. J has three year membership with WPPI, so he will join the annual WPPI meeting next year. He is in Riverside, CA. J is traveling to California for other business opportunities. J keeps in mind destination weddings in California. J studied in UC, Riverside for his Ph.D.; therefore, he knows Riverside well. J likes to travel for his clients to San Diego, New Port beach, Los Angels and other major cities in southern California.

The first PPNC presentation was done by Fuller Royal from Fuller Royal Photography. Fuller showed very nice images of high school seniors. It was noticeable that Fuller had many backgrounds and relatively simple set up for his studio. Fuller’s presentation was very funny and entertaining.

Raleigh photographer J always wanted to expand his studio to photograph more high school seniors. J was very much interested in learning marketing, ambassador programming, advertising of high school senior photography.

Raleigh photographer J joined a PPNC convention at the Sheraton Imperial Durham NC today. He has been waiting for the convention for a whole year. He first joined it last year and he learned so much of photography. He also really enjoyed meeting new people and new photographers. NC photographers from cities of NC came over to participate the PPNC convention. It was very exciting to meet that many of NC photographers.

During lunch break, Raleigh photographer J went out to meet a potential client at the Brier Creek Shopping Center. The bride-to-be was very kind and nice. She came to meet me with her mother. It was blessing for me to meet such nice people. J could sense their nice personality. As usual, J offered a great to them. It is exciting to book them for her wedding day.

In the evening, J had a family portrait photography with one of his church members. The family of three came over to J’s studio around 6 p.m. to be photographed for their session. They enjoyed the photography session.

1. Webmasters
All the following three webmasters require verifications by uploading a file or copying a META tag in your site’s home page.

1-1 Webmaster of Google
- Google has a Webmaster central that is a Webmaster tool. One can add 1,000 sites to monitor. Verification is required to use Webmaster tool by adding a file or a Meta tag to your site’s home page. By clicking an added site, one can start to get Crawler access information (how long ago Google crawled on your website). In “Your site on the web” menu, one can learn about top search queries, links, keywords, and internal links. J believes keywords can be helpful to determine how your website perform on each keywords relevant to your market and business. J Kim Photography’s top three keywords are photography, raleigh, and wedding. This results gave J an idea he needs to focus on keywords for “photographer and photographers” and geographically “NC or North Carolina.”

1-2 Bing Webmaster Center has menus of summary, profile, crawl issues, backlinks, outbound links, keywords, and sitemaps. J Kim Photography has 48 backlinks that is believed to be moderately healthy as a small website. J liked the keywords menu of the Webmaster Center. Keywords menu shows how your site performs with specific keywords. For “raleigh photographers”, five webpages are relevant. For “NC photographer”, only one page is relevant.

1-3 Yahoo Site Explorer
Six major menus are Feeds, Crawl Errors, Top Queries, Statistics, Authentication, and Actions.

Search engine market shares

According to searchengineland.com, all search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft) have grown over 2008 and 2009 based on Comscore, Nielsen, Complete, and Hitwise that are major rating service companies. Globally Google has 81.09%, Yahoo 10.45%, MSN 3.03%, AOL 2% (Net Application data from buildtelligence.com; not sure when these data were collected). Statowl.com’s data are more relevant because it has date information (of latest six months of August 2009 – Jan 2010). Google has 85.34%, Yahoo 6.13%, Bing 5.03%, and AOL 2.41%. Based on these number, it is wise to invest Google adwords to reach most potential clients and traffics.

Referrals are critical for decision making. This makes MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn more attractive in Today’s environment.