finally got NSOP's address changed: http://www.facebook.com/newschoolofphotography

I also learned how to post to my fan page from the iPhone tonight, that's huge because I'll be posting mobile shots to them now while I'm doing either NSOP meets or shooting landscapes for my blog.

Originally Posted by thechickencow

I'm up to almost 150 fans. It sure helps whoring the page out to all my friends. One sale complete now, which is awesome. Full framed 12x18 even! This is my first actual sale and it feels great!

Wow, that's awesome, Jay!

Originally Posted by Stime187

Wow, that's awesome, Jay!

Hell yeah dude!

Jesus! I'm no where near that kind of level...

19 more and Daily Duluth Photo hits 500.

Out of the 481 fans, I am getting on average 150 website hits a day. I seriously would have thought that number would be higher.

Nice, Shawn. I think that's a pretty good number though... I'd kill for 150 hits a day.

And, coincidentally, Light of the Wild needs 18 more to hit 500! We're going to be at 10,000 in no time...

Originally Posted by Stime187

Nice, Shawn. I think that's a pretty good number though... I'd kill for 150 hits a day.

And, coincidentally, Light of the Wild needs 18 more to hit 500! We're going to be at 10,000 in no time...

My personal site sees 5 to 40 hits a day on average.

I'm actually averaging 71.33 hits per day over the last month... but it isn't translating to many sales.... hopefully that will change eventually. And, those numbers are a bit skewed as I had one day where I received 435 in one day...

Originally Posted by thomps6s

My personal site sees 5 to 40 hits a day on average.

do you know what average means?

BJ.com gets ~330 views a day according to WP stats, ~125 according to analytics.
BJP.com gets ~100/day on WP and ~40/day on google.
gear gets ~50/day on WP stats and ~15/day on analytics.

I have no idea why they're so different. It can't be me because I don't go to my sites that often. I know google's counting unique hits, maybe WP is counting each page as a visit?

the difference comes in because WP knows what it serves up, GA relies on a piece of javascript being loaded to count your traffic. The GA script can be fooled/circumvented with browser/security settings. As well as when a page does not fully load.

GA also tracks visits more stringently than WP or a raw log file, by looking at cookie/ip data to see if someone left the site within X minutes and returned, or was dormant, then started browsing again. WP and raw logs count things a little more broadly.

Oh, and if you add a filter to your GA account, you can block your visits from skewing your results.

^ whoa, thanks. Yeah, no need for that script though, the sites I care about get enough hits my own won't change it.

no problem.

have you messed with the map overlay of GA? kind of cool to see exactly where your traffic comes from, well exactly where user ISPs are (AOL and a few others throw it off a little, it's accurate for the most part.)

yeah, that map is clunky though so I don't play with it much. CA TX MA and RI are out leaders here with NC next.

It's a little clunky, I find it's still interesting to look at state views and see which cities are visiting, helps with targeted advertising efforts.

woot! hit 100 (and 2)!!! someone's getting a free print@!!

Originally Posted by case sensitive

woot! hit 100 (and 2)!!! someone's getting a free print@!!

Nice dude.. i've stalled at 99 on the nose. I still need to figure out if there's anything I can give away for free if I hit a certain # of fans.. services really mean the fans need to be local..

i'm thinking that for 500 i'll do a 5x5 photobook. i'll probably get one going from arts cow (which shipping takes FOREVER!) and just have it on hand for when the time comes.

w00t! my race one is up to 25 since yesterday, and my everything not racing one is up to 60.

Hit 500 today! (actually at 517 right now) Time to start working out a print giveaway promotion... I'm fist pumping pumped.

Just got an email from FB

Hi Shawn,

Here is this week's summary for the Facebook Page:
Shawn Thompson Photography

+10 Fans this week (184 total Fans)
1 Wall Posts, Comments, and Likes this week (6 last week)
67 Visits to your page this week (432 Visits last week)

Here is this week's summary for the Facebook Page:
Daily Duluth Photo

+37 Fans this week (481 total Fans)
23 Wall Posts, Comments, and Likes this week (35 last week)
175 Visits to your page this week (349 Visits last week)

Here is this week's summary for the Facebook Page:
One Daily Shot - A Photo of the Day Contest

+78 Fans this week (78 total Fans)
4 Wall Posts, Comments, and Likes this week (0 last week)
209 Visits to your page this week (0 Visits last week)

Kinda fun stuff.

mine:

Here is this week's summary for the Facebook Page: Ben Jacobsen Photo
0 Fans this week (95 total Fans)
0 Wall Posts, Comments, and Likes this week (0 last week)
20 Visits to your page this week (24 Visits last week)

Here is this week's summary for the Facebook Page: newschoolofphotography.com
+4 Fans this week (138 total Fans)
22 Wall Posts, Comments, and Likes this week (0 last week)
79 Visits to your page this week (16 Visits last week)

granted I hadn't posted to either in a month until I realized mobile works for pages from the iPhone... Now I'll be using it TONS more on sunrise shoots etc.

How do you guys get the summaries? I've never gotten anything like that.

And, I sold 3 prints of the month from my page yesterday! This thing is finally starting to gain some traction.

maybe you have to have it for a while?

I've had mine about the same time as NSoP has. Give or take a day or two...

weird. How long have you had a normal account there? I started my BJP page before the NSOP one though, so maybe I'm just getting the NSOP stats because of the timing of the other page? Not sure, I never noticed them until whoever posted them above put that in here...

Yeah, maybe that's it. I just looked for a setting or something, saw nothing. No big deal either way.

Dude messaged back.

He wants "Rolling In" at 60" wide, and "Whiskey Jack Trails" at like 48x60!

Originally Posted by QJ

Ben, what did you do to be able to post/receive posts for your fan page from your phone?

it's the standard fb app for iPhone. You just go to your friends list, then at the bottom there is has pages, hit that button and you get a page list, pick the page and then it looks exactly the same as you personal feed in terms of posting reading or whatever.

google brought this up:
http://socialmediaseo.net/2009/08/22...es-blackberry/

I found out how as an ad on the side of my fan page actually ON FACEBOOK... When I found it it had a BB tutorial as well so maybe refresh your fan page a few times in a browser to see if it pops up?

Originally Posted by thechickencow

Dude messaged back.

He wants "Rolling In" at 60" wide, and "Whiskey Jack Trails" at like 48x60!

Um, wow. Did he say anything about where he wants to put them?

Originally Posted by Stime187

How do you guys get the summaries? I've never gotten anything like that.

And, I sold 3 prints of the month from my page yesterday! This thing is finally starting to gain some traction.

I got a summary for 1 of my 3 pages. so may be something new they're rolling out?

Ah, maybe I should try googling it...

Originally Posted by Stime187

Um, wow. Did he say anything about where he wants to put them?

He just bought a huge house, like 8k sq feet.

I'm slightly concerned over printing that big, but it should be OK I guess, they're both full resolution shots from my 40d without a crazy amount of PP. I have Rolling In in my house at 30" wide and it looks small, bigger will be really badass.

Originally Posted by QJ

Ben, what did you do to be able to post/receive posts for your fan page from your phone?

it popped up on the side for me again today: http://www.slideshare.net/FacebookMa...-pages-3310442

Originally Posted by thechickencow

He just bought a huge house, like 8k sq feet.

I'm slightly concerned over printing that big, but it should be OK I guess, they're both full resolution shots from my 40d without a crazy amount of PP. I have Rolling In in my house at 30" wide and it looks small, bigger will be really badass.

Yeah, dude do a test print before you confirm with him.

Hi, I will need to do a test print at that resolution before I can sell one to you. I do this with all prints I sell and especially because this is such a large, non standard request.

Or something like that.

Nice job on the spelling!

I fanned you.

Originally Posted by jacobsen1

finally got NSOP's address changed: http://www.facebook.com/newschoolofphotography

I also learned how to post to my fan page from the iPhone tonight, that's huge because I'll be posting mobile shots to them now while I'm doing either NSOP meets or shooting landscapes for my blog.

So how did you give the fanpage a dedicated URL? I cant seem to find it anywhere? Grrr

Originally Posted by WRXJIM

So how did you give the fanpage a dedicated URL? I cant seem to find it anywhere? Grrr

http://facebook.com/username

Originally Posted by WRXJIM

So how did you give the fanpage a dedicated URL? I cant seem to find it anywhere? Grrr

Originally Posted by thomps6s

http://facebook.com/username

^ and because I wasn't sure, you just click what shawn posted, you DO NOT put your username in for the username part...

w00t www.facebook.com/jayluikartphotography !

Jay Luikart Photography
Another photog twittered this today, but a good read: http://www.lightstalking.com/s-curve

Wonder who that was?

dude, fix it. It's ~1 hour of work now -vs- potential YEARS of looking at it wrong. You'll potentially lose clients because of it...

Originally Posted by jacobsen1

dude, fix it. It's ~1 hour of work now -vs- potential YEARS of looking at it wrong. You'll potentially lose clients because of it...

AGREED