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Click, Buy & Save BIG On These Black Friday And Cyber Monday Deals

November 21, 2014 by Seshu | Editor & Publisher

And, so it begins. Another Thanksgiving day will come and go and you'll find yourself stuffed with turkey and good cheer come Friday morning. Resist the temptation to run out at 2 in the morning to go shopping for that 43 1/2″ HD Cypersonic OLED television. Do all your shopping in your pajamas like I do starting today. I'll curate the best Black Friday & Cyber Monday deals for photographers right here. I would appreciate it if you used my affiliate links on this page to make your time-limited discounted purchases for yourself, your friends or your photography business.

I'll keep updating this page, so feel free to bookmark it and share it with your friends online. For your easy reference copy + paste this link when mentioning any deals: https://tiffinbox.org/best-black-friday-and-cyber-monday-deals-for-photographers/ – Thank you!

This one from Photography Concentrate starts today! It's an incredible deal on all of their tutorials. I have learned a ton from Lauren and Rob Lim over the years. I highly recommend what they have to offer and now at an incredibly low price, for a limited time.

Year in and year ou, I depend on WPEngine to deliver the goods on this website. From my experience, their customer service is excellent and their reliability spot on. Use code: CyberHosting14 – to sign up for personal, professional and business web hosting plans. You get an incredible 4 months added to your new account! Dayuuuum, wish I could sign up for this one.

Photography Spark has reduced its very popular “cookbooks for photographers” by about $60! Regularly $99, they are both being offered for $39, from now through December 2nd!

Everything in Rachel Brenke's Law Shop (think photography contracts and even the BizRevamp course) is a whopping 40% off from today through December 1. Use the code: BlackFriday40.

Preveal, Salesographer and SwiftGalleries are all on sale on Black Friday. Check out all the deals here or click the graphic below.

Design Aglow is my go-to-resource for templates of all kinds. This year the company is offering 15% off its framing and paper shops. Use code: THANKFUL when ordering.

Modern Tog has bundled all of her amazing resources into one product and is offering it from today through December 1st at a ridiculous discount. I would grab these now! Also, she is offering her 6-week marketing course, called Marketog, also at a discount for a limited time.

Get your pricing all wrong and you can kiss your business goodbye. Joy Vertz is all about teaching photographers like you through her 3 Weeks To Pricing Perfection Course (regularly $575). Use code: blackfriday50 and get it for 50% off between today through December 2nd!

Susan Stripling's The Dynamic Range just launched. Did you catch my interview with her? Starting on Thursday, the 27th through December 2nd, she is offering all of her ebooks at 30% off! You don't need a coupon to buy The ThinkBook Compendium, The Business and Marketing Workbook, and Case Studies. Learn from a real pro!

Jenika McDavitt of Psychology for Photographers fame is offering a rare sale on Irresistible Words $199 (reg $249), Irresistible Website for $109 (reg $159) and a bundle that includes both – $299 (retail for both would be $408). These are available only on Black Friday through Cyber Monday.

For the creative person in you or for a friend, consider the preset packs offered by Mastin Labs. November 28th through December 1st, you can snag all of the presets at 40% off! These are the same presets I depend on for my portrait photographs. No code required.

Scott Wyden Kivowitz is a friend and a few months back he released the Wedding Photographer Conversion Kit (regularly $149.97). November 26th through December 1st he is offering it to you for 66% off or $50.99! Use code: GobbleGobble [you can also buy his other ebooks and presets at 66% off using this special link]

Other special offers for photographers will be displayed right here, so please come back and visit and do tell your friends who are just as obsessed with photography as you are! Let's save some money and make things happen for our businesses in 2015!

Do you have a busy portrait studio or a wedding photography business? Then ShootProof is THE proofing option for you. Check out their special offer here for new customers only.

Dani Klein-Williams, Inspire Interviews: Episode 4

September 24, 2014 by Seshu | Editor & Publisher

Dani Fine Photography is a Northampton, Massachusetts studio that caters to both wedding and portrait clients. Dani Klein-Williams, principal photographer, will be presenting at Inspire Photo Retreats in February.

Like the other interviews in this series (check out 1 – Doug Levy, 2 – Jane Ammon and 3 – The Scobey's), we scheduled a quick Skype chat about her presentation at Inspire – “Let's Get Down to Business… Why Sales are Sexy”

Here are a few examples of Dani's work:

Find out more about Dani Klein-Williams here.

For more information about the Inspire Photo Retreats conference please visit the site. I urge you to register early and secure your hotel room.

If you are still on the fence, please take a look at all the speakers who will be coming to Portland. I believe speakers like Dani and others have one mission: to inspire you to do your best work in the new year. Everybody needs that kind of motivation. If you agree, I expect to see you at Inspire Photo Retreats in 2015!

Salesographer For Savvy Portrait & Wedding Photographers

April 23, 2014 by Seshu | Editor & Publisher

I posted the sales link to Salesographer on Facebook a few days ago and one photographer who took me up on it said this:

Hi Seshu, I followed your link to Salesographer. Bought it and really like his straight forward approach to pricing and sales!

You are probably wondering what Salesographer is all about. Fair question!

“Salesographer is a pricing and profit-boosting sales strategy for photographers lacking the cash flow mojo. You will learn pure, not-from-concentrate sales & pricing education that will take you step-by-step on how to price, present, and sell your photography, without feeling like a salesman.”

Yep, that's straight from the Salesographer website. I couldn't say it any more simply so I figured I would just quote from it.

This guide and set of step-by-step helpful videos were initially produced by Spencer Boerup (who went on to become the genius behind MagMod). Chris and Adrienne Scott, the folks behind the incredible Preveal iPad application bought Salesographer a few months ago from Spencer, as it complements their original mission to empower wedding and portrait photographers make a sustainable living through tools, applications and now resources.

One photographer asked me: “Have you used this Seshu? Did it change your business dramatically?”

Again, a fair question. Whether Salesographer is $74 (as it will be till April 28th, Monday evening) or $349, when it was first offered by Spencer, one absolutely needs to know whether a product, service or resource is going to help our bottom line.

So here is my response to that photographer:

“Yes, I have used it. I have adapted a great many of the steps included in this guide to make it my own process. In my experience, there is no cookie-cutter solution out there. One absolutely must adapt it one's unique business condition. What Salesographer does is give you a great foundation to begin to do just that. Also, I wouldn't be promoting it if I didn't believe strongly in this resource for photographers.”

My recommendation? Buy it before Monday and save some money. Read the guide. Watch the videos. Take notes. Put it all into action and then make a decision. If you are actively working as a photographer, you shouldn't have any trouble seeing whether this works for you or not. The Scotts are also offering a 30-day money back guarantee.

When you buy Salesographer now you'll receive:

90 minutes of video education

an e-book guide

access to a private community to discuss the teachings

a $50 gift card from ProDPI (the best printing lab I know)

a custom pricing sheet

a sales & order form that you can customize and use with your clients

a consultation form that you can customize and use with your clients

All this for $74? I think that's an incredible deal that you can't afford to pass up.

Give it a shot before April 28th because I know you are a savvy photographer who seizes opportunities like this to run your business.

If you have any questions, please holler below. I am happy to answer them to the best of my ability or ask Chris Scott to chime in. How does that sound to you?

Selling Your Photography Without Shame

May 12, 2012 by Seshu | Editor & Publisher

Without a sale, you don't have a business. You have a hobby. Which, by itself may be where you want to be, but most readers of Tiffinbox are either professionals or aspiring professionals, so I figured I give you a head's up on this short video by Kristen Kalp introducing her new product offering called Sales Without Shame.

Some of you may recall that I reviewed Kristen's e-book, Circus Circus. If you follow Kristen's popular blog – BrandCamp Blog – you'll immediately grasp what she is trying to convey thanks to her lucid writing and her humor.

Sales Without Shame promises to be another remarkable and useful guide for those of us who are shy about in-person selling. If your online sales are off the charts, then you may not even need this guide. If, however, you are not seeing great results with that strategy and want to try selling your services and products to your clients face-to-face and don't know how, Kristen's guide is your ticket.

Personally, I do very little online sales. All of my portrait clients now expect to come in to meet with me after their session so that they can see all of the images I created for them and it gives them an opportunity to fully describe what it is they are looking to buy. Selling, to me, isn't about pushing products on unsuspecting clients. It's about having a good understanding of what my clients may need now and in the future and then suggesting a few valuable options to them.

While I have not had a chance to see the final version of Kristen's new guide, I mention it here because I find her writing and advice for photographers so very valuable. I trust that Sales Without Shame will teach me a few more ways to help my clients better appreciate the art that I create for them. And lucky for you, if you order Sales Without Shame, you get to learn from her as well.

So, here's what you should do next: Go to Sales Without Shame and enter your email address. Once you do that, you'll be sent a “sampler,” which in itself is chalk-full of great info that you can put to use in your business today. Then, at the tail end of this month (May 29th or so), you'll get an email inviting you to purchase the full version. Bingo!

UPDATE: Sales Without Shame launches on May 30th for $247, until June 8th when it goes up to $447. So jump to it!

Make More Money With Album Pre-Designs?

December 28, 2011 by Eric OConnor

This guest blog post is written by Eric O'Connor, a Chicago wedding photographer, owner of Allori Photography and mylife-pages. Follow Eric on Twitter.

2012 will soon be here.

January is the perfect time to take a hard look at how to maximize profits in the upcoming year. These are a few recommendations that have helped me, follow all three and I know they'll work for you too.

1. What's in it for me?
2. Stay in Touch
3. Share the Love

What's In It For Me?

Your clients want information. They want to know every detail about their purchase. Give it to them! You are the expert. Share your knowledge and process with them. Whatever you do please don't wait until after the wedding to inform your client about the pre-design process. If you do they will feel cheated. After they book with you make sure to take time or create a wedding album FAQ to walk them through the album process. This doesn't have to be complicated. Just a simple step by step from the day you shoot the wedding to the day you deliver their album. Set expectations and then deliver on them. It is important they understand you will be telling the story of their wedding day and you'll use as many pages as it takes to get it right. I always like to mention it gives them a great starting point. They can then customize the album to exactly what they want. Your clients will love this idea. Anytime they can take ownership in the process, you win!

Stay in Touch

Take a minute and think about the excitement leading up to the wedding. Your clients are excited about their wedding and then … BAM! … the wedding is over. It doesn't take long and they are back to real life. Catch your bride and groom in that first 30 days and their wedding day excitement will do the selling for you. You likely only have a 30 day window to take advantage of the wedding high. If 30 to 90 days go by and your bride hasn't seen pictures or a draft of her album it is much harder to add pages or sell additional albums. I make it a point to have everything to my brides 7 days after their wedding. I used to deliver images 30 days after the wedding and routinely life got in the way and the brides wouldn't even think about their album for a few more months. There were always a lot of album edits and very little pages added. Now, 7 days after their wedding they can view their Animoto slideshow, image gallery, and album pre-design right on their wedding website. I make sure to give my clients a deadline. We want to have the album completed and ready to print in 3 to 4 weeks. This helps give them a target to have their changes complete. Extra albums page sales have gone from a few or none to five, ten or more from every wedding.

Share the Love

Quick turnaround time is essential but I find coupling that with excitement from friends has really helped additional album page sales. A few years ago I emailed PDFs to my brides and they would leave me comments for changes. This was pretty efficient but didn't help me much when it came to advertising or extra album pages. I don't pay for ads in magazines and only have one ad online that I tested out this year and will discontinue Jan 1. Word of mouth, SEO, social media, and over the top customer service do the job for me. The next iteration of album sharing was a slideshow posted on YouTube. I found I was getting quite a few hits and at the same time album sales started to increase. Brides started telling me their friends loved watching their wedding album movies. This was one of those common sense moments when the light goes on in your head. Friends of the bride love the album and they start telling the bride about their favorite pages. This process makes it harder and harder for the bride to remove or change pages.

Finally I arrived at the perfect solution, Share the Love! Wedding album movies on a post wedding website are essential to higher album page sales. With a favorites gallery, Animoto slideshow, and movie of the album, my brides have a constant flow of compliments from their friends about how much they love the wedding images and album pages. As you can see in the graphic the album movie in this wedding was viewed over 200 times in 6 weeks. I have been completely removed from the album page sales process. Yes, I have to take images my clients love but my brides' friends do the rest of the work for me. I do not meet with my clients to sell or add pages. These days they all add pages without sitting down with me.

Test out the three steps above. They are easy so don't cheat yourself and pick just one. Do all three. You will start to see a difference in sales. Click the image below to see how I display sample albums on post wedding websites.

Want to try a post wedding website? Your first site is FREE. Surprise one of your favorite clients with a wedding website with colors to match their wedding.