Sharing with the Industry

Would you like to share your story, thoughts, or advice with others in the industry? If you have an article you have written, would like to share how you have incorporated Collages.net into your studio, or have anything else you would like to share with other photographers, Collages.net would be honored to hear from you! Simply e-mail us at customerservice@collages.net.

To read what others are sharing, check out our Industry Articles, Professional Tips, and the collagesNewsletter to see what other Collages.net photographers are sharing.

Three World Class Photographers

In addition to working our around-the-clock schedules, the professionals at Collages.net set aside some time to spend in the greater community, stepping outside of Langhorne, PA and into the professional photography environment. We traveled to New York, Newark, and also just down the street to Philadelphia to attend the Hanson Fong, Mary Fisk-Taylor, and Jamie Hayes photography seminars.

Hanson, Mary, and Jamie, three-world class photographers, have been on tour together for the summer – visiting large U.S. cities and sharing their secrets of success. Their extraordinary success is backed by accomplishment, as Hanson’s work has been displayed in the Hall of Fame and the Epcot Center, and Mary and Jamie own a very profitable studio.

Several of our employees attended the seminars including

representatives from our sales, customer service, marketing, and product development departments.

We arranged a Collages.net table, with all of our products displayed – high-end cards, albums, gallery wraps, proof books, and professional prints. It was great to share our overall enthusiasm with our local photographers and newly-met neighbors, for we truly enjoy what we do and we love when we get to share it with you. With trade show season just around the corner, stay posted for our On the Road updates. For more information on our products, click here.

Get more for your money!

If you are looking to get more for your money, Collages.net’s Yearly Unlimited Upload Plan gives you the most. This $699 plan gives you two free months of posting; plus, we will provide you with the option of activating your sites for 60 or 90 days. Many Collages.net photographers currently benefit from uploading unlimited events with as many images as they wish for the entire year. Call or e-mail us today - (877) 638-7468 or customerservice@collages.net.

This Month's Newsletter

Collages.net has just released the most recent collagesNewsletter introducing even more of our high-end product lines. This month’s newsletter shows you how to move your business to the next level with Studio Samples and Power Marketing E-mails, and one of our photographers shares his product-selling success stories.

Our Special Savings section is full of tips on how to get discounted rates on all of our products and how to print a sample order with collagesColor™ for FREE. With everything that’s been going on at Collages.net this summer, the August collagesNewsletter is not to be missed!

Along the Delaware - Collages.net's Tubing Excursion

In between launching six new product lines, programming software, and developing our future product releases, the Collages.net team took a few hours out of their hectic schedule to float down the Delaware River. Despite some absent team members, our tubing excursion was a huge success with beautiful weather, warm water, and only a couple of lost T-shirt casualties.

After the river trip, the team headed back for one of CEO Kevin Casey’s infamous deck parties, complete with grilled chicken, Eileen’s cookies, and, of course, live guitar music from Jim Rollins. As always, everyone enjoyed themselves immensely, and, after an invigorating weekend, we are more ready than ever to continue bringing you the best products and services at breakneck speed!

Shoot with your final print in mind!

While your images candidly capture the spontaneity of your clients’ special day, the presentation of your finished product should reflect a carefully crafted, well thought-out design. The best images to use for creating beautiful prints and products are those taken with the final result in mind; thinking ahead will give you plenty of room for flexibility and creativity when considering your post-shoot options.

Leaving some extra space around the edges of your images is one of the best ways to guarantee a wide selection of choices for possible products. Gallery wraps provide one of the clearest examples of the benefits of photographing with the final print in mind. Rather than framing your subject(s) perfectly, leave some background space available as image bleed to wrap around the edges of the wooden frame. You can always crop out extra space later on, but digitally stretching the background of a closely-shot image requires a good amount of time and effort.

Planning ahead and shooting images with extra background room can also save you a lot of headache when customers order prints online. If you use our Full Service Workflow option and have your reprint orders fulfilled automatically by collagesColor™, guests are prompted to review and modify the crops of their images before they place their order. Oftentimes customers will order a print size that does not correspond with the ratio of the dimensions of the ordered image; in this case, if they fail to crop the image manually, the resulting image will sometimes be cut off in unwanted areas. Shooting your images with extra background space leaves room for careless cropping and customer error.

Learn more about collagesDesktop™ and Collages.net’s Full Service Workflow option.

For more information on all of our products, including gallery wraps, visit our products page.

A tip from Collages.net Customer Service

When sending customizing your event notification e-mails, make sure that you include a url in the message body to either your studio website (if it has a view an event listing) or www.collages.net. Otherwise, the guests will not know where to enter the event log-in information that is automatically provided in the e-mail. This can prove to be detrimental to your studio; if guests don’t know where to log in to the event, they cannot view the photos, and you will ultimately miss out on potential reprint orders.

For more information on customizing your event notifications, check out build your brand - a portion of our website completely dedicating to helping our photographers market their studio.