Over 10,000 professional photographers are now using Collages.net! Many of our photographers incorporate Collages.net into their studios in unique, creative, and revenue-generating ways. Professional Tips is where our photographers share the many ways they are maximizing the tools offered by Collages.net.

"There is certainly a lot to say about Collages.net. We have been using their services for over two years, and they are second to none. The personal service and support we get is outstanding. The team at Collages.net understands that we photographers are the face to their products and services, and they do a great job of making us look good!

Every product we have ordered from Collages.net has complimented our images perfectly and has been so well received. We have an enormous wall of gallery wraps in our home meeting space that helped turn a second living room into a beautiful and professional consultation location where we can meet with our wedding clients conveniently in the evening. But even all the great printed product offerings aren't nearly as important to our day-to-day business as the fantastic presentation available with the online event galleries. It is possibly the most basic service Collages.net offers to photographers, but it often gets the most focus from our clients. We haven't found anything else remotely comparable in its professional appearance, ease of client use, and cost effectiveness. Since the event gallery is typically how our clients view their images for the first time, the appearance and usability couldn't be more important.

If you aren't posting every single shoot to Collages.net, you are missing out on valuable referrals. Even if we do a small session for a close friend or family member, we still post the images to an online gallery so they can pass our work along. The one thing people invariably love to do with their images is share them! Our clients do the most effective marketing for us, and they do it for free! We would not only be doing our clients harm by not posting their shoot, but we would also be doing our business a disservice as well. Additionally, our clients can post their event to Facebook, MySpace, or even their personal website or blog (perfect for publishing their engagement photos to their wedding websites for guests) for even more studio exposure. Even though we provide a disc of the digital files with most of our packages, nearly everyone orders all of their prints (even 4x6's!) from their event gallery. The price is right, and the print quality is unmatched.

At every wedding, we collect e-mail addresses from the guests near the guest book table with a formal e-mail sign-in sheet that we downloaded from Collages.net. Back at the studio, we are then able to enter the e-mail addresses into the event site information, and e-mails automatically go out to inform the guests that the images are available for ordering prints. This is really invaluable when the holiday relaunch occurs because Collages.net sends out e-mails to all of the stored e-mail addresses in all of our events for the year.

We also feature an event gallery on a large display during every consultation. Again, the professionalism of the event gallery is a perfect complement to the photographs. On the surface it is a small selling point for all that we offer, but it also allows us to show an entire event to our prospective clients, so they can see that we are more than just the few dozen images we post to our blog. Making every image perfect, not just the few we share with the world, is a big part of what we do. It makes us stand out from the majority of our local competition. There is really no better tool for showing off our images than by using the event gallery presentation.”

Thank you Collages.net!"

Amber and Jeremy Minnerick
LifeAsArt Photography
www.laaphotography.com/blog