All around the world

It's been a while since i checked out my stats on my web page so i thought I'd take a look.

Of the last 500 people who visited the majority (348) were from the UK. It would also appear that people in Ireland and America have been paying me a few visits too.

It always amazes me that people from all over the world can come and check out my work. I often wonder what makes someone in Australia or Taiwan type Martin Wilmott into google but they do.

Perhaps they saw my work somewhere or read an interview on line, I guess for the majority I'll never know but its kinda nice when I get the occasional e-mail from someone overseas who I've never met.

My latest project is really starting to pick up steam and is getting very exciting. However it may mean I have to seriously restrict my photography work. keep your eyes peeled on here and facebook (just send a friend request) for hints and announcements.

I've been toying if I should run one last "shoot to sell" course. If you think you may be interested drop me an e-mail.

Spreading the Word

If you're not already using google alerts I strongly suggest you do. What it does basically is search the web for any key words you tell it too and every time the google spiders find a new website that mentions your keyword it sends you an email.

I have several keyword I use and it's always fascinating to see what other people are writing about them. For example this morning I was sent this page.

How fantastic is that! Without the help of Google I probably would never have found that page. I don't think I know the guy who added me to the best photographers in the world list but I guess he liked what he saw. That's a real important lesson for anyone in business, the best marketing is recommendation, If you can create a buzz people will pass it on.

Talking of business the next "Shoot to Sell" course is coming up on the 8-9 October. Can't wait to meet some more of you guys and share my business secrets.

The End of Google?

I love techy things and have been a big fan of google for years. However unless they get their act togethor pretty quickly I can see them loosing their crown. So who's the new kid on the block?

The challenger for the search engine crown is called snap.com. From what I can see it's in its infancy at the moment but it has some great new tricks. Best of all is the ability to see the page you are being directed to before you click.

Also (as you may have already discovered) it can be incorporated into sites (like this blog) so any link will pop up and show the page you would be directed to helping you decide if you want to go there or not. This will hopefully eliminate those sites where you think it's what you want only to find it's actually just a page of adword clicks someone has put togethor in order to make money. How cool is that?

I'm guessing this is the first (and only) major challenger that google has had for a long time. In my opinion, if google doesn't do something quickly, snap.com will very soon become the search engine everyone uses.