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Aspire to WIN? Or "Meh"?
Pic of the Day Jan 10 17 02:56 pm Link I was never into those contests. They don't seem to really mean much; a photographer I worked with at the end of 2015 submitted an image we shot to the "Pic of the Day Implied" contest, or something like that, then won it. I probably should have entered them a lot more and used it for networking, but I'm not a competitive person at all and don't care about "winning" much of anything Jan 10 17 03:20 pm Link Congratulations even though it didn't mean much to you. Jan 10 17 04:12 pm Link I can give you some basic info on the official contest. The winner of the POTD contest typically gets about 2k views on MM. Obviously some of that traffic flows to the winner's profile. We also share winners, and some other entries, on social media: Facebook (300k), Instagram (60k) and Twitter (50k) FB and IG have the most reach and engagement, but all three combine to provide about another 15-20k views, and then there are the shares, re-posts/tweets, comments, likes, etc. If you're trying to grow your social media following that's an easy (and free) way of doing it. For example, a paid post on those platforms to reach that many people would cost about $1k. Whether you consider that worthwhile or not depends on what you hope to get out of it but there really is no better way of leveraging Model Mayhem to get more people to see your work. Jan 10 17 05:35 pm Link I had no idea of the reach, very useful information, thank you! Jan 11 17 11:49 am Link Model Mayhem Edu wrote: not the nakkies though.. so it makes sense to not bother entering those contests I guess Jan 11 17 12:21 pm Link goofus wrote: We don't share them on social media but they still generate a lot of views on Model Mayhem, especially the women's 18+ contest. In fact, it's the most popular contest on MM (as the voting also shows). The winner usually gets about 2k views and the runner-ups also do well. Jan 11 17 12:55 pm Link Model Mayhem Edu wrote: Giggity Jan 11 17 02:12 pm Link Koryn wrote: oh Koryn, you're always a winner here Jan 11 17 05:02 pm Link Toto Photo wrote: Absolutely! Competitive is healthy adjunct of professional growth... Vince Lombardi wrote: Toto Photo wrote: While I occasionally enjoy perusing the obvious (and at times outstanding) level of retouching expertise within this contest. Albeit for my commercial clients it is typically too aberrant for their needs... a.k.a. when the hand of the retouches is visible in the image it has failed... Losers? The only losers are those on the sidelines... The "Real" winners are those who play... Winning/Losing are impostors... only Playing is real... Hope this helps, or is at least food for thought... Jan 12 17 06:16 am Link Thanks Thomas and your former coach for the food for thought. Jan 13 17 02:16 pm Link Looks like there is a new rule ( not very well defined) that will eliminate spread shots from the +18 contest. Jan 15 17 07:08 am Link Risen Phoenix Photo wrote: I'd never before been to the Site Rules area of Edu. Interesting place, but I couldn't discern the "new rule". What is it? Jan 17 17 12:48 pm Link |
