Leveraging Social Media to Build Your Brand and Your Photography Business

Leveraging Social Media to Build Your Brand and Your Photography Business

With Kent Lewis

Rest-assured your customers are using social media to research photographers and talk about your work. Are you listening? Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube and LinkedIn offer an opportunity to learn from your customers, prospects and even competitors. Social platforms also offer you a cost-effective channel for market research, generating awareness and providing customer support. In his 2-hour webinar, Anvil Media President & Founder, Kent Lewis, will outline 5 Benefits of Social Media Marketing and 10 Essential Social Media Strategies that will help you formulate and refine a social media program for your business. He will provide real-world case studies, best practices and additional resources. Lastly, Lewis will host a clinic; reviewing attendee social media presences' and provide real-time feedback to make social media work more effectively for your photography business.

About the Instructor:

As President and Founder of Anvil Media, Inc., Kent Lewis is responsible for ensuring the company is living its mission and vision by managing overall corporate strategy, including operations, business development, sales and marketing. Specializing in analytics, search engine and social media marketing services, Anvil is a digital agency which provides measurable marketing that moves clients’ businesses forward. Under his leadership since 2000, Anvil has accumulated the following awards and recognition:

• 5000: Fastest growing private companies in America
• Oregon Business Magazine: 100 Best Places to Work (2018)
• Portland Business Journal: Oregon’s Most Admired Companies
• Portland Business Journal: Fastest Growing Private 100 Companies (for five consecutive years)
• Portland Business Journal: Corporate Philanthropy Awards winner (multiple years)
• Clutch: Top Pay-per-Click and SEO Agency in America

With a background in agency-side digital marketing, Lewis regularly speaks on effective digital marketing techniques & trends to audiences as a subject matter expert. Since 2000, he’s been an adjunct professor at Portland State University, where he teaches an SEM Workshop. He is also currently contract Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for ToneCommand, a audio measurement platform and mobile application. Lewis also regularly speaks and contributes to industry publications including SmartBrief, Online Marketing Institute, Business2Community and iMedia Connection.  Lewis is also a Marketing Advisory Board member for his alma mater, Western Washington University. As a long-time entrepreneur, he’s an investor and advisor to a host of emerging companies, including BeetBoost, RISEcx, Syndical, Tixie and Workplace Resource of Oregon. Lewis is co-founder of a variety of organizations, including career community pdxMindShare, eROI and SEMpdx, a Portland-area professional trade association for search engine marketers. Active in his community, he’s currently involved in non-profit charity and professional trade organizations including early literacy program SMART (Start Making a Reader Today), The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) and others.  Lewis’s industry recognition and awards include Portland Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40 Award, Top 25 Most Influential Pay-per-Click Experts, American Marketing Association Oregon Chapter Marketer of the Year  and Top 20 Digital Marketing Strategists.