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Back again, the Jumbo Drill, one of my favorite machines to photograph. This image was captured this past fall deep underground at Island Gold Mine just outside of Wawa Ontario Canada and was recently used displayed in Social Media. https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/industry-news/mining/wawa-area-mine-plans-for-expansion-2024459
2019 is now upon my doorstep and I only have a remaining few days off before I start implementing some 2019 goals. 2018 was a great year and I truly enjoyed all the travel and clients I interacted with throughout the year. I learned a few new things in the direction of my photography as well as some new marketing strategies that work as well as lots that didn’t work. It’s a learning curve every year as industry changes with the times and so our business strategies must adapt. Thank you to all my clients new and old for allowing me to capture images that showcase your company, who you are and what you do. Here is my last portrait of 2018 at the end of my shoot with www.nsscanada.com
“James Hodgins is a highly professional photographer that has always delivered great images of both our mining equipment products and our employees. It has always been a pleasure to work with James and would highly recommend his work.”
Mariolen Hagen
Marketing Communications Project Mgr
Komatsu Mining Corp. Group
I strive to create the most dynamic images within every situation I am presented with while on site. I try to create a photography experience that is professional and productive so that my clients know they are receiving images that will be an asset to their companies branding and marketing materials.
Besides creating custom photography for my mining industrial clients I also provide insight into social media, marketing and branding. I LOVE talking shop but more so marketing your business within social media. I have been blogging since 2010 on a regular basis, promoted and branded several of my business’s and I am highly motivated to share with you things I have learned over the past decade. Recently I had the chance to online chat with Anthony at Mine Safety Solutions about some social media marketing already MSS is increasing their online traffic and exposure. I also created some custom images for him to increase traffic to his social feeds using my new gloves as the subject.
“I recommend anyone that’s in the Sudbury area to reach out to James, could really boost up your business. Great to work with, as well if your just starting out like myself will give you some great advice with social media. Thank you again for your help James” Anthony Gilin ~ Mine Safety Solutions
They are eye-catching bright orange and look like a safety glove for Robocop. My new MSS gloves from www.minesafetysolutions.ca came in handy at the www.rahnment.com industrial shop this week while I was there creating images for www.shout-media.ca. After I was finished the shoot Thomas asked if he could try out the gloves so I created a few product images to showcase the durability of these digit protectors while he was working. It was a win-win scenario. I get to create an image to say thank you to MSS, Rahnment has another image to use in their marketing material.
Like with any “business” big or small your prospective clients HAVE TO SEE YOU. If they do not know you exist then how can they possibly purchase your product, service or technique? If you are a business owner and you are reading this blog post but don’t have your own website (with blog), Facebook page, Twitter or Linkedin account (to name a small few) then eventually you are going to walk the way of the dinosaurs. You will fade………..extinct. The younger generation are coming into positions of buying, managing and marketing and how do you think they find, research and review their prospective purchases? Social media of all levels. I deal with many types of business’s and have seen this many times where the “old school” business is running great but as time passes by their visual presence stays the same and eventually becomes outdated.
Maclean Engineering seems to be embracing social media and within the last year I have seen many changes to the companies online presence. Now, I am biased because they do use a lot of the images I created for them but they are USING them on many different platforms from hardcopy marketing to social media. Just a few days of shooting in different locations and they now have an arsenal of updated visually stimulating images of their products with their people that they can use for the next year or so posting daily.
They get it. Are you?
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James Hodgins is a Commercial Mining Industrial Photographer located in Northern Ontario Sudbury.
