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Marketing Campaigns for Photographers – Be a Fool

“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on –shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”

There’s something about April Fools day which I love. It’s not recognized as a national holiday, Hallmark don’t sell ‘happy fools day cards’ (then again I could be wrong about that one) and there’s no real target market as adults and children both equally participate.

But it is jolly good fun and these days it’s not restricted to silliness in the playground or fake stories in the newspapers.

Google (or should I say Topeka) have led the way online in recent years but its not just the larger companies that have been noticed. The viral effect of social media means that any small business with the right prank can generate themselves quite a large amount of exposure very quickly.

So why shouldn’t a photography business be any different?

Well, be aware that there is such a thing as bad publicity and if you’re a family portrait photographer then tread very carefully.

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