For Readers
The resource directory is a way to connect you, our readers, with the best companies providing goods and services for photographers. To be clear, the listings in our directory are paid, so the directory is an advertising medium. But it is advertising the way it’s supposed to be – a legitimate effort to connect people who can mutual benefit from the interaction.
To make the directory genuinely useful, I do my best to link only to reputable companies with good service histories. So the directory is kind of like a better business bureau of photography-related companies. To get in, they have to be in good standing and stay in good standing.
I have not personally used all the companies in the directory. For those I haven’t used, I do research and basic due diligence online, looking for reviews, forum discussion threads, and other indicators of performance.
If you use any the companies in the directory, please feel free to let me know if you have particularly good or bad experience.
For Companies
If you are interested in being listed in the directory, feel free to contact me at erick@erickdanzer.com. This site currently receives about 7000 unique visitors per month, and that traffic level is on a sharp upward curve since I took this site over a couple months ago and gave it some fresh breath and a more focused emphasis on aspiring professionals. As noted above, I only list companies that I can feel morally comfortable with. If that’s you, this arrangement is a good thing because my blog readers are more likely to use your service than they would be in the case of “normal” online advertising. The fee for a listing on our main directory page is $24 / year, just enough to help offset the costs of running the site. The price for our “featured” listings on the sidebar vary and will be rising sharply over the next couple of months as traffic increases, so please contact me for details.
Please note that I will soon be offering a similar service on Photocrati, a collaborative pro photographer blog of which I am editor. Photocrati is a relatively new blog (just a few months old), but boasts some great talent (including, for example, Peter Burian, co-author of the National Geographic Photography Field Guide) and is already on its way to 20,000 unique visitors and 50,000 page views in May 2009. We expect to surpass 100,000 page views in June, and half a million page views by the end of this year. Advertising on both Photocrati and DSLRBlog will expose you to a broad swath of serious photographers online.
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About the Photographers’ Resource Directory
For Readers
The resource directory is a way to connect you, our readers, with the best companies providing goods and services for photographers. To be clear, the listings in our directory are paid, so the directory is an advertising medium. But it is advertising the way it’s supposed to be – a legitimate effort to connect people who can mutual benefit from the interaction.
To make the directory genuinely useful, I do my best to link only to reputable companies with good service histories. So the directory is kind of like a better business bureau of photography-related companies. To get in, they have to be in good standing and stay in good standing.
I have not personally used all the companies in the directory. For those I haven’t used, I do research and basic due diligence online, looking for reviews, forum discussion threads, and other indicators of performance.
If you use any the companies in the directory, please feel free to let me know if you have particularly good or bad experience.
For Companies
If you are interested in being listed in the directory, feel free to contact me at erick@erickdanzer.com. This site currently receives about 7000 unique visitors per month, and that traffic level is on a sharp upward curve since I took this site over a couple months ago and gave it some fresh breath and a more focused emphasis on aspiring professionals. As noted above, I only list companies that I can feel morally comfortable with. If that’s you, this arrangement is a good thing because my blog readers are more likely to use your service than they would be in the case of “normal” online advertising. The fee for a listing on our main directory page is $24 / year, just enough to help offset the costs of running the site. The price for our “featured” listings on the sidebar vary and will be rising sharply over the next couple of months as traffic increases, so please contact me for details.
Please note that I will soon be offering a similar service on Photocrati, a collaborative pro photographer blog of which I am editor. Photocrati is a relatively new blog (just a few months old), but boasts some great talent (including, for example, Peter Burian, co-author of the National Geographic Photography Field Guide) and is already on its way to 20,000 unique visitors and 50,000 page views in May 2009. We expect to surpass 100,000 page views in June, and half a million page views by the end of this year. Advertising on both Photocrati and DSLRBlog will expose you to a broad swath of serious photographers online.