Neil Creek at Tweetupmellers (photo by Jade Craven)

Twitter has increasingly become a key part of how I promote myself as a photographer (Find me @neilcreek). I engage with fellow photographers, I promote my blog posts, but most importantly, I am able to forge connections to people in the real world. This became especially obvious to me several days ago when I attended a “tweetup” – twitter meet up.

As always, I take my camera to such events, but I knew I wanted to do something a little more to promote myself as a professional photographer. Eventually I came up with the idea for “MeetHeads” – meet up head shots ( http://neilcreek.com/meetheads). I set up a tiny “studio” at the venue and offer to take anyone’s head shots for free. They are then allowed to use this photo online for any non-commercial purpose, such as a twitter avatar, facebook profile or whatever. In exchange they must credit me as the photographer wherever the image is used, and if possible link back to my site.

Throughout the night I had many people complement me on the idea and the name, which everyone seemed to love. Over the next several days, after I had uploaded and linked to the photos, several people started using my photos of themselves as their avatars on Twitter. Best of all, in the last two weeks, I have attracted three new bookings for my services through connections made via Twitter!

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