If you are in the US, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are huge days for online and big box stores. The savings can be enormous if you play your cards right. After searching far and wide I've curated the best offers I believe will elevate your craft and business.

BUSINESS

Psychology For Photographers is offering Irresistible Words for $199 and Portfolio to Profit Engine for $109 or get both for $299.

Joy Vertz offers $50 off her popular course, Referral Plan That Works

WORKFLOW & SALES

Queensberry Albums offers you 40% off the first year of any annual paid plan for Workspace

Preveal is being offered at a steep discount at $25 $49 – grab this!

ShootProof is offering its 1500 image plan at only $35 (regularly $100)

Jared Bauman's new Wedding and Portrait Email Templates – use: black2013friday

PHOTO EDUCATION & TUTORIALS

Photography Concentrate – 40% off all ebooks and tutorials

Modern Tog has several products for sale for a limited time:

Easy Client Manager at 66% off

Easy Client & Money Manager – $50 off

Easy Client & Money Manager + Photography Pricing Guide – $50 off

The Go To Guide To Client Emails – $50 off

Photographer's Questionnaire Library – 59% off

Enter here for The Modern Tog's iMac Giveaway

DESIGN TEMPLATES & SOFTWARE

Fundy Software is offering 30% off on the following products:

Album Builder
Blog Collage
Image Brander

BUSINESS FORMS

Business Forms By Nifty Knowledge Rocks – 75% off – use: “blackfriday”

Rachel Brenke's The Law Tog is offering 30% off of all of her business forms – use: “BlackFri30”

WEB RELATED

Get 27% off the awesome Photocrati theme

NextGen Galery Pro, one of the best known WordPres gallery plugins is 25% off for a limited time

Gravity Forms – one of the most crucial WordPress plugins you need to use on your site. Use: “wpbeginner”

Flothemes – Use: 25GOODNESS to receive 25% off any Flothemes WordPress theme

SEO Cookbook by Photography Spark: Easy Recipes To Rank Higher – $60 off –

LIGHTROOM PRESETS & PHOTOSHOP ACTIONS

Totally Rad – 35% off all presets and actions

Mastin Labs – 50% off the Portra 400 Preset Pack – film emulation at its best!

VSCO Presets

Adobe Cloud – Photoshop & Lightroom for $9.99/month

Code + Hustle – Storyboard and Batch+ at insane prices!

WEB HOSTING

WPEngine – Tiffinbox is hosted here! Totally awesome customer support. Get this if you can!

Small Orange – my headshot portrait site, Connecticut Headshots, is hosted here. Very reasonable monthly rates and also prompt email based support.

BlueHost – my old host but an old favorite if you are starting out.

HostGator – a well known low-cost web host that is quite popular as well.

BOOKS

Craft & Vision books are all 50% off for a very limited time

Simple SLR Complete e-book bundle

Christopher O’Donnell Ebooks:

The Art of Color Processing
The Golden Hours
The Golden Hour Portfolio
The Art of Bokeh
The Portfolio of Bokeh
The Complete Ebook Collection

Angela Pointon's ebook will get you thinking about how you are Worth More

Create, share and learn lighting at Strobox through their e-books that are now all $4.75 each.

Strobox Volume 1
Strobox Volume 2
Strobox Volume 3

Which vendors would you like to see here? Whom am I missing? Let me know in the comments below. I will do my best to include them as I update this post today, Black Friday and through Cyber Monday. So, please bookmark this post and keep coming back as I find other awesome deals for you.

Thank you again for supporting Tiffinbox!

Friends from Inspire Photo Retreats, welcome!! Read the post, watch the interview below and then scroll down some more for some special offers just for you!

Gary Vaynerchuk knows a thing or two about selling wine. But he also knows how you (yes, you) can stand out in a noisy, social world. He has even written a book about it and it comes out today!

Gary is an energetic entrepreneur who someday wants to own the NY Jets. He is also frenetically involved in social media. Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr are his chosen platforms and he dominates each one like no other. I've been following him online, watching his videos (about wine or running business) and have read his books, Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion & The Thank You Economy, cover to cover. I love his tell-it-like-it-is style of writing and his fearlessness to experiment to see what works and what doesn't.

Like the last time, when Gary launched his book, The Thank You Economy, I had the opportunity to sit down with him to about his new book, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How To Tell Your Story In A Noisy, Social World.

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook launches today, so if you get the chance, buy it right away. Make it part of your winter reading.

Here, however thanks to this interview's sponsors, ShootProof & Queensberry Albums, you now have a chance to win ONE of 50 copies that will be given away.

Simply follow these 5 steps to be entered into the drawing:

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Winners will be notified by email. So, please include an email in the comments section below. If you don't have a valid email address or if I can't contact you, you forfeit the book and it will be shipped to the next person I choose.

Good luck and happy reading!

I recently had a wonderful chat with Doug Boutwell, who founded Totally Rad, Inc. Scroll down a bit!

We spoke about Replichrome, about film emulation presets and about Photoshop actions. As a long time patron of Totally Rad (I think I own pretty much everything that they have produced), I was particularly interested in hearing Doug's thoughts on what may be coming next from Totally Rad. Totally Rad has been one of the leaders in the industry, allowing photographers Lightroom presets, Photoshop actions and some unique tools that help enhance images.

Listen to it all here:

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday right around the corner, Totally Rad, has some sweet deals where you save 35% off of everything you add to your cart. You won't be disappointed!

Choose to buy the following (which I use) right here on Friday (yes, I am inviting you all back here!) – simply click the image below and you will be taken to Totally Rad Inc.'s website! Happy shopping … and saving!

If a piece of software is in beta, I usually wait for it to launch and only then post about it. That's probably because I have been burned before. An enthusiastic developer emailed me (now years ago) and told me about a program that on paper looked great but what I didn't realize was it hadn't found any funding and it wasn't even being tested. It was a bit of a pipe dream, but I was much too eager to announce it and so I did. Well, when it never came to pass, I looked a little foolish. But live and learn, right?

This time, though, I made very sure that the piece of software I was approached about was legit and it was being beta tested.

About a year ago, Daniel Usenko, a photographer based in Seattle, Washington, released two tutorials for wedding photographers (though after viewing them, I've to say that they apply to portrait photographers as well): The Perfect Shot & The Perfect Edit (use TIFFINBOX to get those at 50% off).

I get the distinct feeling that Daniel is the kind of guy who sees a problem and is off looking for a solution right away. Take a look at the clips on the page showing you both tutorials and I am willing to bet you'll learn something new.

Now, Daniel is tinkering with album design and wants to make that process fast and as painless as possible. I suspect it was a slow and agonizing for him personally and he figured out a solution. Well, that solution is called SmartAlbums. Check out the demos below:

The 1-minute version:

SmartAlbums 1-Minute Demo from Pixellu on Vimeo.

The 5-minute version:

SmartAlbums Beta Demo (5 min) from Pixellu on Vimeo.

This is still in beta, but Daniel tells me that it will ship in two to five weeks. In other words, by the end of this year! Sign up to beta test it here.

In the next few weeks, I am going to interview Daniel. Do me a favor please. Once you get access to this program, please use it. Then come back here and comment. What did you like about it? What could be different or better? Your questions will help me during my chat with him. So will you do that for me? This is where you beta test SmartAlbums.

So there I was wedged in between my two kids at the very back of a mini-van. You know those seats really only meant for munchkins and not adults. I got there because the other seats were already occupied. We were returning back home from a trip when we got stuck in rush hour traffic. Not able to move inside the car or outside. What fun, right? When that happens I usually get antsy. And so do my kids. So to keep them entertained, I took my camera out and we started playing with light.

Yes, all three of us took turns making images. I set the ISO, a slow shutter speed and an aperture of f/8 or so. Then as the car moved, we each took turns swinging the camera wildly around. Kept us busy, entertained and for the kids, definitely intrigued. Here's what we came up with:

This is one of the tips the folks at Photography Concentrate (that's Rob & Lauren Lim) suggest in their new ebook, The Creativity Field Guide.

I was sent a copy to review and I immediately fell in love with it. I think it's absolutely fantastic for those who are starting out in photography or even seasoned pros who just need a little jolt of inspiration to get going again.

Look, we all get stuck. When it comes to writing, I've suggested you dive into Irresistible Words. Many of you took my advice and love the course.

But what do you do when you are in a photographic rut? We've all been there haven't we? We end up photographing a wedding from the same perspective or it's a portrait of a family that doesn't personally inspire you. Perhaps the best thing to do would be to get out and start making images again. But what do you photograph, how do you photograph it or where do you go to photograph? Right?

That's where the helpful Creativity Field Guide comes in to rescue you. Flip the pages around to an exercise or a quote and let that process in turn inspire you to pick up your camera and make images you love again.

True to their brand, Rob and Lauren Lim have a gorgeously designed PDF. Colorful pages, tons of images and examples, wonderful pull quotes from master photographers and lots of practical advice make this a guide you will want to refer to again and again. I know it will be something I use every day.

The Creativity Field Guide will normally sell for $15.95 (which in itself is a bargain), but you can get it at a 40% discount for $9.57, now through Thursday, November 21st. Buy it now, be inspired. You even get a 60-day money back guarantee. Such a sweet deal!