I will admit, I am not the best at “prettying-up” my communication with clients. I typically send emails as compared to pretty paper correspondence and while I have taken the time to make sure I have a cohesive brand for my website, blog, client information portal and my ordering gallery, my emails don’t follow through [...]

by Heather Skau * www.onesundesigns.com

Graduation is just around the corner!  Teens love to have options – add this announcement to your offerings, compliments of One Sun Designs.  This  PSD template is fully customizable, and has room to showcase several favorite images.  Enjoy!
Click here to download.

By Melissa Kahn | Priceless Reflections by Melissa
What does it take to make a move halfway across the country and build a thriving portrait business while raising 4 kids with an airline pilot husband? Networking and lots of it! Keeping in touch with people who’ve touched my life in some way, be it business or [...]

by Teri Mason | www.masonphoto.net
You can’t please all the people all the time.  At least that is what my mother used to tell me. However, as a custom photographer and business owner, we have to maintain a professional demeanor with our clients, even when we have less-than-pleasant news to share. How do you say “no,” [...]

by Meggan Jacks | Meggan Jacks Photography| The Collage Connection
If you are like me, you run around like crazy each morning getting your family off to school and work and then when you finally get a chance to sit down, boot up your computer and take a look at emails and your to-do list, you [...]

by Kimberly Hill, CPP | Bliss® | Mouse Tales® Travel
A pile of receipts. An accordion file folder. A calculator. iCal. Mileage book. Sound familiar?
No, it’s not tax time, it’s time to invoice my commercial client for this month’s expenses. You see, I’m in the midst of a long-term project photographing hotels and each month while [...]

We’ve outdone ourselves here with our newest venture on the Portrait Allure site!  We’re going to pose one question to TWO different photographers for our new SHE SAID/SHE SAID feature.  We think it’s a great way to showcase a couple of new personalities and their own points of view on photography, business, artistry, style, life, [...]

What’s in your mailbox?   No, not your email mailbox, the *real* mailbox.  The one that either hangs on the wall outside your front door, or perhaps sits on a post at the end of your driveway.  The one with real paper  inside.  What’s in there?    I’ll tell you what’s generally in mine – [...]

by Marianne Drenthe | www.marmaladephotography.com
Yes, it’s that time of year when all good thoughts turn to business.   Specifically…taxes.  Tax season time is here and it’s time to organize, reorganize & generally just get it together.
These stylish, put on your shelf half sized boxes are a fantastic way to organize your 2009, 2010, 2011… [...]