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Sunday,
May 6, 2012 - Tampa Bay Photography and Design News
New
Aurora PhotoArts web site launches.
On
Sunday, May 6, 2012, a new Aurora PhotoArts web site launched. The first
of the new Mosaic Class marketing and support web sites, replacing the
seven year old Venus Class site which used to be the main Aurora PhotoArts
web site, and using a new operating domain name, the site was online,
with the plan on updating until it was at initial operational capability
in a few weeks. By June, 2012, or perhaps even earlier, this new web
site will become the official main Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Bay Photography
and Design web site, with both of the marketing domain names re routed
from the old operating domain to the new operation domain hosting the
new site. Those marketing domain names are AuroraPhotoArts.Com and TampaLooks.Com
.
In many ways, this is a new era for Aurora PhotoArts, with a new logo,
new agreements, new ways of doing business, and aggressive programs
to prepare for the future. Here at Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Bay Photography
and Design, our new emphasis is on the ongoing support of our clients,
which is especially critical because, starting this year, our main service
will be model testing, and it is in our best interests to give the models
the tools that they need for their careers. Aurora PhotoArts proudly
supports the independent modeling and independent talent agendas, helping
independent models and talent take charge of their own careers and booking
work without going through, and being dependent, upon an agency or anyone
else. For models and talent who wish to limit themselves by going through
modeling and talent agencies, however, they have that option, too, and
we know who all of the reputable professional talent agencies are in
the Tampa Bay market.
Aurora PhotoArts has been working on new service agreements and new
client support resources since 2006, and they are ready to be used now.
We have support features, which will be hosted on this new web site,
which are more advanced than anything that anyone else is doing, anywhere,
including tools such as virtual documents. 6 years of work, and experience
working in the field with clients, have helped us develop a new generation
of client support resources which will prove to be a tremendous advantage
to our clients, and will give all of our clients an advantage over the
clients of our competition. The success of our clients is our success.
Speaking of success, the success of our modeling and talent resource
sites over the past decade, such as Tampa Bay Modeling and Independent
Modeling, has expanded our concept of what this site will have, and
what it will do. We will be publishing resources on this site for our
clients, as well as free resources for others. We will also overhaul
our existing talent resource sites to emphasis the support of our model
and talent clients, making it an outstanding value to invest in our
services. Some of these resources will only be available to our clients.
The base content of the new Aurora PhotoArts site will be available
and online within a week. Our featured portfolio should be online within
two weeks, and our main portfolio core will be online days after that.
Once the site is up to initial operational capability, we will then
begin building and deploying a fleet of supporting sister Mosaic Class
Aurora PhotoArts sites, each site targeting a specific market. None
of these other sites, however, will be as large, or as feature-packed,
as this one, as this is our main site.
Having a dual level portfolio core, which utilizes the same picture
image and graphics sets, it important for many reasons. As you know,
we have experience in web site development going back over ten years,
and very few web design companies in the Tampa Bay, or Florida, markets
can do what we have done, and what we can do. We’ve built, and
have been maintaining, over 70 top web sites. Each of those web sites
teach us something that can be applied to the others. For example, we
have an online film festival at TampaOnlineFilmFestival.Com, and we
needed a way to update the featured film thumbnail array and featured
film sections without spending a lot of time refreshing all of the film
festival site files on the server. We came up with a dual film festival
file set, which allowed us to instantly add, swap out, and update featured
films without having to refresh the entire site. Well, that feature
has been built into this new Mosaic Class site. While our clients and
site visitors can go into our portfolio section to see pictures on our
main portfolio core, and look at specific categories, our main mosaic-like
thumbnail array at the top of every page, which uses the same graphic
and image sets as sources, is a separate portfolio core, a featured
portfolio core. By default, this means that we can instantly use this
featured portfolio core to show our latest work, and we can do this
by simply uploading a set of 5 small files instead of spending 30 minutes
or more, and transferring tens of megs of hundreds of files, to do one
simple update. Our web design clients, too, benefit from our experience.
That is just the beginning of the capabilities of this new web site,
too. This is our gift to our clients, both past and future, and will
ensure that Aurora PhotoArts not only dominates the Tampa Bay photography
and design services market, but runs it, too. After all, our philosophy
is that we do not run a business, but rather that we run the market.
It’s as it should be, as this company is the only company that
you will ever need for our professional support, photography, design,
and web design needs.
Some may wonder how this is possible. Well, it is true that Aurora PhotoArts
could not possible be the end-all, be-all in photography and design
services for the Tampa Bay market if it was only the efforts of one
photographer and designer, regardless of how good that this individual
is. Aurora PhotoArts subcontracts professionals that we need for a job.
That means that this company will be the largest source of jobs for
photographers, make-up artists, models, stylists, and others in the
industry, even if those people think that they are competing with us.
Think about that, especially if you don’t like our company for
whatever reason, as we remember. Also remember that Aurora PhotoArts
is NOT a talent agency, and we do not refer, or “book”,
talent into jobs. We subcontract them into our own jobs, and there is
a difference. Commercial photography? Well, if we have a commercial
photography job which requires a model, we will recommend that model
to our client and then directly subcontract the model into our commercial
photography job, without charging the client or the model any fee. The
client benefits from working with a good independent model, and the
model gets paid, without any agency involved. Wedding photography? Well,
we will subcontract a qualified wedding photographer into some jobs,
and the photographer gets paid. Again, we are not an agency, but rather
a source of subcontracted jobs. This gives us a massive advantage over
our competition, and also gives potential competitors something to think
about, as we are sure that they do not want to burn bridges when it
comes to job opportunities. At the moment, we have a list of photographers
and models whom we will never work with, and positions on that list
are well-earned. Please, be professional, keep it clean, and don’t
end up on that list.
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