Casey Templeton’s Self promo

A bunch of my friends just gratuated (see a list of them at ausserordentlich2010.de ) and are now starting out as photographers, and as there are so many talented photographers out there (also here in Germany) self promotion is an important thing to do and to pay a lot of attention to. I found the following self-promo by us-american photographer Casey Templeton and it shows very well that mailings still can work if they come with an extraordinary idea and a good design. I personally have the feeling (but I’m only guessing) that email promo isn’t very efficient anymore, because photo editors, art buyers, gallerists etc. probably receive loads of these emails from random people, but they don’t have the time to read and see everything and are maybe even annoyed by the amount of emails they receive.

Templeton put together a “lunch box” with various items, see the video from his blog here:

I’m wondering what kind of self-promo german photographers send out. Any examples available? Would love to get some feedback from you!

I don’t know if you all have seen the Blog/book “No plastic sleeves”, but there you can also find some inspirations when it comes to self promotion, designing portfolios etc.