SEO Training Course

As a professional photography company, we know the importance of maintaining a good web presence.

With that in mind, we undertook a day long course at Blackwell Grange hotel, normally one of our wedding venues, in search engine optimisation.

The 8 hour course went through the basics to the more advanced methods of enhancing your online presence, and also incorporated internet marketing, such as google adwords, and similar tools.

Despite the long day, a lot was learnt and we hope to implement the changes to our website very soon.

Stockton Firework Display Nov 5 2010

With my daughter, Hannah, I was at Stockton-on-Tees firework display for most of the day, photographing the build of the stage area, followed by the musical show, starring Joe McElderry, of X Factor fame, and the Real Radio breakfast team, Gary Philipson and Lisa Shaw.

Also appearing were newcomers The Cosmic Girls.

We had a great day and night, and here are a few photos from the show.

If you would like us to cover your event, then please feel free to get in touch. Email: events@amethyst-photography.org.uk, Telephone 01642 887630 or visit the website: www.amethyst-photography.org.uk

Learning to Network using Social Media sites

Since the weekend, we've been trying really hard to use social media sites, such as Facebook, Twiiter and Linkedin to gain a bit more exposure for the company.

Amazingly, it has had a good effect, we have already gained a few followers and also contacts for business networking, which is a great start to our learning curve.

Having used Facebook for many years, learning to use other sites is a little daunting at the moment, knowing the etiquette of posting, and all the other things such as tweets, retweets, mentions, its like learning a whole new language.

If you'd like to follow our progress, or even give us a few pointers, then feel free to add us on any of the three sites, Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin, we look forward to hearing from you.