J Sandifer Photography: June 2007

Thanks for stopping by!

I look for interesting details of the wedding market and report on them here. I have traveled the country this year speaking with many photographers about everything from workflow to marketing... Everyone I met was willing to participate in a meaningful way to the discussion of market trends. That showed me that you are all very passionate about the business of wedding photography! I will continue to report on trends here as I see them come up in the industry. Please bookmark my blog, pass it around to friends and of course comment on what you find here! Thanks for visiting my blog, I appreciate your time! Putting together a new blog over at http://jbrides.wordpress.com/ so will be slowly transitioning to that!

How do you make more money off your weddings?

Sell your clients more products! Yes, sell...they want you too and you should be! I know photographers who are supplementing their wedding photography income with invitations, frames and custom sign in books. Below is an image you can grab to make a custom sign in book. I have used it with Pictage's 7x7 proof book and it worked well. The idea is to put an image from the engagement session on one side and this image on the other...and so on.

This might be just the thing that separates you from your competition!

Feel free to grab the image and put it to use for your business...

So for this weeks tip I have decided to let you in on a bit of my work flow for keeping track of other vendors information from a wedding. I simply shoot the business cards as they are handed to me and then throw them in a folder with the wedding. If I ever forget the name of the vendor I can always go back to the wedding.

BTW...KC of Vox DJ's was great! One of the best I have worked with in a while!