Saturday, September 26, 2009

New Capabilities through Expanded Web Presence

Hello all,

 

The past several weeks have been spent updating our web presence in an effort to better connect with our friends and customers. As a web-based business, our on-line gallery at www.cityescapesphotography.com has always been our primary web site - however there are several additional capabilities that we have wanted to provide that required branching out from this site.

 

Of course, we started branching out about a year ago when I established this blog as a way to share information about the business. However, we also want: a way to provide general announcements directly to people who might not be interested in following a blog that is this general; a place to share snapshots with friends;  a way to foster discussions with our friends; and a way to obtain impartial feedback from our customers.

 

To that end, in addition to this blog, we have created a newsletter using Google groups, and established a company presence on Flickr, FaceBook and BrownBook. Over the next couple of blog entries, I will outline how each of these new activities provides a complementary experience for our friends, and contributes to our overall company strategy for customer engagement. While this information is similar to advice found in several books and articles, it is a condensed description of how those general strategies have actually been implemented in our case. Hopefully, you will find it useful.

 

Terence

City Escapes Nature Photography


 

Monday, September 7, 2009

Newsletter: Subscriptions and Archives

Hello all,

We are starting a newsletter where we will be posting regular updates about activities and special events here at City Escapes. We expect the newsletter to come out approximately monthly. If you are interested in subscribing to this newsletter, you can sign up at:

http://cityescapesphotography.com/newsletter-popup.html

We value your time and hope to make these newsletters both enjoyable to read and informative. Of course, we also value your privacy and loyalty; thus we have secured our subscriber list to ensure it will not be misused. While anyone may join our list, we have restricted access so that only City Escapes employees are authorized to access or send email message to this list. Rest assured that our subscriber list will always remain in-house; we will never sell it to any outside entity.

Archives of the newsletter are available at:

http://groups.google.com/group/city-escapes-newsletter

Sincerely,

Terence
City Escapes Nature Photography