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Finding Clients
Online Resources-added May 2007
By Maria Piscopo

Online Resources-Updated for February 2007

Most of you will use this as a library of sites to link from so please be sure and keep checking back with us for updates. When you find a site not listed and find useful business information, send me the URL. If you are a creative professional, do not send your own site for this resource library for personal promotion but you can submit your Web site as an idea for an article submission to me. If you belong to an association or trade organization of creative professionals, we would really like to hear from you. Please send me the URL so I can check it out to add to our library. Send your comments or submissions to me, http://mpiscopo.com/contact/. Here are the sites we have so far for you to check out. Hope to hear from you soon!

Professional Organizations
www.asmp.org/

American Society of Media Photographers is a trade organization promoting photographer's business practices, legal rights and education. Founded in 1944, ASMP has over 40 chapters worldwide.
www.womeninphotography.org

Women in Photography International is a new and growing site with worldwide interest.
www.wppionline.com

Wedding & Portrait Photographers International is providing wedding and portrait photographers with conferences, information and education.
www.aspp.com/

American Society of Picture Professionals includes photo collections, business practices, and new technologies with local chapters around the United States
www.ppa.com  

Professional Photographers of America is an organization with state chapters around the country and their annual conferences include seminars that offer an immersion in the techniques of photography. Topics include courses in portrait, wedding, commercial, business and digital photography

www.apanational.com

Advertising Photographers of America with chapters around the country

http://www.editorialphoto.com

Dedicated to the business and profitability of editorial photography

http://art-support.com

This is a commercial site dedicated to the business of art and photography.  This site provides information about fine art photography

www.aiga.org

American Institute of Graphic Arts is a professional association for design with a Job Forum, conferences, and links to chapters in different cities around the United States.

www.gag.org

Graphic Artists Guild is a national union of illustrators, designers, web creators, production artists, surface designers and other creatives to pursue common goals and share their experience to raise industry standards - author of The 11th Edition Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines

www.societyillustrators.org

Society of Illustrators was founded in 1901 to promote the art and appreciation of illustration

http://www.iabc.com

International Association of Business Communicators is a worldwide network for communications professionals

LOTS OF REALLY COOL INFORMATION
www.targetmarketingmag.com

The online site of Target Marketing Magazine and is one of the best sources for information on direct mail marketing. Topics include where to buy mailing lists, Internet marketing, designing mailings that get better responses and telemarketing techniques.

www.linkedin.com

“Social” network for all types of business professionals, are you LinkedIn yet?