Your ideas?

jandrewnelson

How can I improve on this?



A friend who works at the local kinko's has offered to make up postcards for me to further market my photography. The first catch is, I have to come up with the design. The second catch is I'm not a graphics artist.

I need your help in coming up with a whizz-bang post card that will do all the usual stuff -- display skills, attract attention, etc etc etc.

Only the front of the card is shown here, the back will be used for contact info and a brief artist's statement.

Feel free of course to look through my images at www.meesoon.smugmug.com and see if there's other images I should use.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me as he's doing up 1000 cards, so thanks in advance for your help, ideas and POSITIVE suggestions
Jerry

jandrewnelson

Glort wrote:

First of all, Don't try to be too clever or arty.

Simple and elegant never goes out of style.

Good luck with it.

Thanks for the info! I appreciate your thoughts and guidance. I'll let you know what I finally come up with.

Blessings
Jerry Nelson
www.meesoon.smugmug.com

Zanotti

Jerry:

I went to your website and read your artist statement - very compelling. Now I know the origin of Journey America.

However, knowing nothing and seeing your postcard - between the web address being dot org and seeing a clear picture of Hillary, I immediately thought this was some kind of political group wanting donations. If this had come to my house, it would have been trashed without further investigation.

I think a few of your travelling shots would do well here - perhaps also a nice pic of you would help. I understand you have a lot invested in the site name, but the dot org doesn't help your business effort much.

It would be interesting to hear what others think as well.

Z

jandrewnelson

Zanotti wrote:

Jerry:

I went to your website and read your artist statement - very compelling. Now I know the origin of Journey America.

However, knowing nothing and seeing your postcard - between the web address being dot org and seeing a clear picture of Hillary, I immediately thought this was some kind of political group wanting donations. If this had come to my house, it would have been trashed without further investigation.

I think a few of your travelling shots would do well here - perhaps also a nice pic of you would help. I understand you have a lot invested in the site name, but the dot org doesn't help your business effort much.

It would be interesting to hear what others think as well.

Z

Thanks for the input!

fredjclaus

I like this idea, although I agree with the others. I was reading a free ebook about marketing photography and one of the things they mentioned was having a brochure with some pictures and testimonials from the people in the pictures. Having that "brochure" in postcard form doesn't seem like a bad idea. Pictures on one side, and testimonials of your work on the other side.