Lifetime In Focus Newsletter
Dear Photographers,
We are well into the 2008 wedding season. The new & improved LIF2 is cruising along adding new photographers and events daily. We just passed 250,000 images on the site with 150 registered photographers around half of which have active events.
As you know www.lifetimeinfocus.com version 2 was launched during WPPI in March. We have been pounding the keyboards tweaking the site working out the kinks and adding functionality, most of which has been behind the curtain and to the photographer admin area. We want to thank everyone who has sent in comments and reported bugs. Hopefully, you have enjoyed seeing changes based on these comments and reports.
Among the new features are:
A Quick Tutorial on uploading and activating an event:
http://www.lifetimeinfocus.com/lif2/userdocs/QuickTutorial.pdf
The ability to see how many views your event is getting. Check the far right column in Events in your admin area. If you're not getting views send out those eCards – see below
We have been working to make it as easy as possible for people to share and invite friends and family to view events. There are now, readily visible links to create eCards for the entire event and to share individual images. We are currently working on programs to help you gather, save and use email addresses. The stats show that the more eCards sent out and about, the more sales you make. We have also discovered that parents are more likely to share and buy than the bridal party and their friends. Hence, get the parents email addresses! We encourage you to gather as many addresses as possible from the bridal party and family, and whenever possible, show people how easy it is to share online. It may take a few extra minutes but it may be the most profitable minutes spent on an event. If you haven't sent yourself an eCard yet, give it a spin. It's a great way to combine a text message and picture showcasing your work.
We have made it much harder for people to copy images and we enlarged the watermark.
We have enhanced your personal page in the Photographer Search area and added script you can copy from your LIF admin area to your website directing people at a click to your page and events on LIF.
Coming soon we will unveil "The Back Door Store". The Back Door Store will allow registered photographers to purchase select products through their personal admin areas. The first product we will make available is the ability to purchase an entire set of 4x6 proof prints of an event at a discount price. Many photographers like to present clients with an album of all the available images. We will also provide an archiving service where we will archive events offline after they have been up for 12 months. This will provide added redundancy and security for you, the photographer, and for the bridal couple. Photographers can use this as security for themselves and/or offer it as a service to the client at an additional charge. We look forward to adding more products to the Back Door Store.
Did you know that Boulder Pro Photo, the lab producing your work for Lifetime In Focus is also a LabPrints service facility.
Boulder Pro Photo supports online ordering of printing up to 30x40 inches and flush mount Album Pages created through LabPrints ordering service.
Go to www.BoulderProPhoto.com and click on LabPrints
To learn more about how Boulder Pro Photo or Lifetime In Focus
can help enhance your business
call Paula or Derek at 303-318-4155 or
call toll free 800-510-1430
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