FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Collages.net partners with PPA to offer members premier online posting service
Atlanta, GA., October 6, 2003 - Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and Collages.net today announced the formation of an alliance that will bring extra value to PPA members. Collages.net’s wedding portrait and event sites enjoy more than 150,000 sixteen-minute guest visits each month, thereby providing outstanding exposure to professional photographers who use the online posting service.
Resources shared between the two organizations now provide members with the best online experience for their studios, their clients, and the guests who attend events that they photograph. Portrait photographers can now also take advantage of the service by posting portrait images online for all family and friends to enjoy for as low as $15.00. PPA Director of Strategic Alliances Scott Hersh and Collages.net President Kevin Casey have worked closely over the last few months to solidify the details of the deal. "Collages.net’s comprehensive internet marketing solution is much more than a place to post your images online. Their committed staff will help increase your exposure, your referrals, and your profits by getting your studio online in no time. This alliance allows PPA members to not only access the best online service, but to enjoy special discounts and training,” Hersh said. Casey added, "The partnership gives Collages.net an important channel to the industry’s leading photography organization. PPA is always committed to getting the best for their members, and this closer relationship allows Collages.net to inform, train, and help leading edge PPA photographers increase their profits by using the internet.” This partnership allows PPA members to take advantage of special discounts now offered by Collages.net.
Initial benefits for PPA members are reduced one-time sign-up fee, which comes with a free event, 5 CD slideshows and a comprehensive package of internet marketing materials, daily training via telephone and internet for PPA photographers to learn how they can easily post images online, and a savings of up to 30% on Collages.net’s products and services.
ABOUT PPA
PPA, a worldwide association, exists to assist its more than 14,000 members in achieving their professional, artistic, and fraternal goals; to promote public awareness of the profession; and to advance the making of images in all of its disciplines as an art, a science and a visual recorder of history. For more information about PPA, visit www.ppa.com.
ABOUT COLLAGES.NET
Collages.net provides a turnkey solution that enables professional photographers and professional color labs to offer clients customized e-commerce websites and commercial CD slideshow presentations for events such as weddings, portraits, sports, reunions, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs and corporate parties. With over 150,000 sixteen-minute visits to Collages event websites each month, Collages.net photographers enjoy a unique online presence and a turnkey marketing program which gives them exposure to a much broader audience. Collages customers across the country are now able to sell photographs and market their studios to guests, associates, friends and family members who previously had no access to the professional photographs. In addition, Collages.net’s new professional color lab offering, “MyLabPartner.net,” offers an end to end fulfillment and digital workflow solution and is scheduled to commercially launch this fall. Collages.net also designs, builds, and hosts studio websites for professional event photographers. You may see a demo at www.collages.net.
To contact PPA - Heather Best, (404) 522-8600, ext. 250
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