GoingCandid

Feed your Followers
Your fans like your work and want to see new stuff. Therefore you cannot just
make one good product, you have to produce it daily from new. They are
hungry, feed them regularly, but don’t spam them. One photo a day would be
fine. Keep the quality and consistency at all times. Don’t upload some crappy
B-Sides. Either upload quality or leave it.
Get in contact physically
The online community is one market, the physical one another. I like to be
online, but I also like to meet photographers in person. Everywhere I travel to,
I organize photo walks to meet other street photographers and to share my
knowledge. Some people from such walks became good friends and there will
be new followers as well. But the main thing is the social aspect of such walks.
It’s fun to shoot together and to meet people you know virtually in person.
Build a community
The good thing about being online is the
community aspect. People with the
same passion are easy to join a community.
So why you don’t build your own
one or at least participate in an existing
one. The more followers you have, the
more they want to know about what
you are doing. Facebook and Twitter
might be the best for this. Maybe also a
blog, but a blog is only successful when
it is being done on a regular basis. Also
try to share your knowledge and keep
everything transparent. I hate it when
people hide their EXIF data of their photos
on purpose. There is nothing to hide
and nobody will get as good as you are
by looking at your EXIF data. And if
someone gets better than you, then you
are not good enough.