This is a quick article with four solid tips to help you sell more albums. 1. Keep Selections Limited With so many vendors, materials, cover sizes and design types, it’s never been easier to give your clients endless options. Which is exactly what you don’t want to do. When people are overwhelmed with options, the…
Since doing this shoot, I’ve been asked a number of times who did the processing. Well the answer was “me” with a little help. :) I used my most favorite action, Lemonade Stand from MCP Actions coolest new action set. You can learn more about it here. Jodi, over at MCP Actions, is…
Join us at Mystic this year for “Business and Brews.” What is it? A free business roundtable discussion. When? At Mystic 2011 When? Thursday 5 pm-7 pm Bonus? First round is on Fundy Software Space is limited to 15 people. You must have already signed up for Mystic Seminars. Leave a comment below with your…
Melanie Nashan has been shooting weddings for almost two decades and her passion for photography is what drives and motivates her. Melanie is really great at capturing emotion and portraying beauty in her work as you can see by the photos below. Her style is elegant and fresh and you can tell she wants each…
I’ve long been an advocate of portrait albums for many reasons. When I first started shooting professionally on my own, I would only do album shoots. My fixed fee would include the shoot, an album and then all prints came later. That’s all I did. It was a ton of fun and I always got…
What makes portrait and wedding photography profitable? The service or the products? Or a combination of the two? Is it the time we spend photographing which is most profitable, or the goods that we sell to our clients? Where is the profit?
I was lucky enough to spend some time with Scott Rice of Rice Studio Supply the other day. He’s a great person who literally started his business out of his garage and has grown it into one of the top premium photography packaging businesses out there. Not only is it a great business, it’s run…
Blogging can be a fundamental part of your business. But when it is done haphazardly and infrequently it can actually hurt your business. Here is a blogging strategy that can be done for portrait clients (wedding clients are similar, and I’ll repeat this blog post with more specifics next month for weddings). Blogging serves many…
Want to connect with your subjects better? Need a hand on balancing life/work? Are you ready for a workshop of a lifetime? We are beyond excited to be sponsoring a scholarship for a three-day workshop in Australia taught by the excellent Tamara Lackey. Tamara is a photographer, educator, speaker, author and an amazingly nice person…
An album reprint can be a costly mistake, going well into the hundreds of dollars. Know what bleed lines and cut lines are, can keep you from making this costly mistake. Album companies have a few different names for them, but mostly they are known as bleed lines, guidelines or cut lines. Why they are…