Oct
01
2011Round two of the mini sessions, as I continue to knockout all of the LivingSocial deals. This time around, I selected the studio and the Ruston Way waterfront area for my locations. If you missed the first round of mini session photos, and a more in-depth explanation of what these are all about, click here for that post. A lot of variety here with some senior photos, family shots, and a couple headshots. In efforts to not repeating myself, I’ll let you read the aforementioned post if you need to catchup, otherwise, I’m going to let the photos do the rest one the talking on this post. Lots coming, per usual.
Sep
18
2011It was a solid start to the LivingSocial mini sessions. For those who are unaware, I was featured on LivingSocial last month, and it was a scary week. I was left wondering how many photo deals I’d be selling. My goal was to get my name out there via marketing by LivingSocial. The cost – having to practically give away my photo services to anyone who bought the deal. The cap for the deal was 1,000 purchases… ouch. I kept my fingers crossed that I’d be able to get my name out while only selling a reasonable amount of deals, so in the end everyone is happy. Thankfully, I sold almost he exact amount of deals I wanted to sell, and that was 50. Still… 50 deals are a LOT of deals to have to toss in the mix of my work load, especially considering the small return on them (all evident if you’ve noticed my absence from the blog lately). I eventually made this economically feasible for myself by structuring them into mini sessions. That way I can just set aside a couple days a month, dedicate them to the LivingSoical deals, and knock them out an orderly fashion.
Sep
04
2011Commercial work, mini sessions, weddings, and more all in the same week. The last month has been a crazy mix of work, if it weren’t for iCal keeping my schedule and head together, I wouldn’t know what mode to wake up in. It’s an interesting thing, switching it up from shooting food products in the studio to children in the park the next day. Clientele interaction, lighting, and photographic approaches… the whole game changes with the wildly different jobs. One thing is for sure, all the variety keeps me on my toes, and… consequently keeping me away from the blog as of late.
Speaking of variety, the mini sessions have been bringing just that. From a single person to the full family shoots, I’ve been shooting it all and at a few different locations. The kids always bring unexpected surprises. They are definitely a challenge, but a welcome one, because they provide hilarious expressions when they come out of their shell. Couple goofy ones I’ve taken over the last week in the post, along with a young man I captured down at Ruston Way. Plenty of bloggin’ to come on that later down the road.
Aug
14
2011Yes, it’s true. I’m still not sure if I’m ok with the crazy deal I’m giving Tacoma the opportunity to snag, but I guess it can be summed up to I’m a nice guy. I will be featured on Tacoma’s Living Social Families Edition page for the next week (Aug 15th – 21st). In all seriousness, it’s a great deal, and I think if anyone out there is needing solid photography services, this is a no-brainer. You’ll have your pick of 5 locations where I’ll be holding mini sessions. Yep, that’s right, options! Hey, I’ve always loved having options, thought you guys should have them too. The first five dates have been chosen, each assigned to a location, and each date having roughly 10 slots available. I have no idea whether 50 or 1000 vouchers for this deal will be bought, and the last thing I wanted is to be caught off guard, so I built a site just for this deal! It’s your source for what’s going on with the mini sessions, the locations, the dates, a scheduler… pretty much everything to keep the tedious stuff to a minimum. Could you image 1ooo people calling me in one week, them all trying to figure out how this is going to work! Holy smokes, this is kinda scary. Hence the time I invested in standing up a site just for this, and I’m crossing my figures it elevates the traffic to my cell phone.
