As part of our #archiveday here at PhotoCreative365 we’ll be sharing our most popular posts from 2011 so far. Each hour we’ll share the top 10 from different areas and topics.

We’re going to continue with my most popular Business and Marketing articles.

1. 189 Ideas to improve your photography business - This list includes many of the websites, resources and ideas we have used to help grow our business, so hopefully it will help you too! This list has been inspired by Rosh Sillars’ post 189 Business building ideas for photographers on theNew Media Photographer website.
2. 100 important photography business tools - All sorts of equipment, software and ideas that help my business.
3. Inbound marketing strategy for baby photographers - A very simple strategy which utilises inbound marketing for the baby photographer.
4. 10 photography business essentials (Updated) - Well actually this list is 10 essentials to my photography business so there’s a few things that you might think are missing in terms of your own setup.
5. Shoot to burn or not shoot to burn (with a bit of an Historical Perspective) - That is the big question for many photographers when they start out but it’s also the second question that most clients ask (the first of course being how much?)
6. Marketing best practices for photographers - A few marketing best practices. There’s certainly no definitive set of hard and fast rules but hopefully these ideas might help you out a little bit.
7. 10 photography business essentials - This is a list of 10 things my photography business can’t live without. There are of course lots of other things I use and need but these are just a few that sprung to mind.
8. Business Ideas for Photographers #30 - Part of the podcast mini series
9. An important lesson in customer service - Back in the days when I worked on cruise ships a passenger once complained that he felt like he was (and a quote) “Being grin f**ked”. Let me properly define the term….
10. Is your photography business a 4×4? - This might seem like a strange question but let me explain the analogy….