Good Luck!

A better way to browse albums:

MorePhotos has done it again, this time in the consumer market.  Our facebook app allows consumers to browse their friends’ albums and order photo products.  There is no cost to install and use the app.

As a photographer looking to sell and protect images, our premium account allows you to do just that. Create price-sheets, watermark, and password protect photo galleries for just $6.95/ month ( 23 cents a day) and 12%processing fee.  Photographers upload through our app, preserving the full resolution and rights.

Here’s the best part, after you set prices and upload, you’re done! We take care of the merchant account, printing, shipping, messaging, etc. Oh, you do have one more step, which is to transfer money to your bank account.

What are you waiting for? Check it our here: MorePhotos Facebook App

This past Monday we released PhotoScramble, our new innovative fundraising photo contest software, into public beta (http://beta.PhotoScramble.com). The software allows businesses, organizations & individuals to craft their own photo contests with 4 levels of service ranging from free to paid premium levels. At all levels, hosts are able to define their own contest guidelines, prizes, and generate traffic & buzz around their brand or cause.

At the premium level, hosts have the option of charging an entry and/or voting fee which can go toward non-profit fundraising goals, 50/50 prize raffles or other organizational needs. At the top paid level, hosts have the option of selling ad space on their individual contest pages to sponsors via cpc or cpm methods. Tools to aid in spreading contests include social sharing options, contest badges and a contest widget.

PhotoScramble has been a long time in the works, and we hope you’ll join the site and enter, vote in and host contests of your own. Future plans include a white label level of service as well as digital print lab integration so that photographers can offer and site visitors can purchase photos and photo products.

Let us know what you think!

Accept Major Credit Cards!!

image courtesy of Salvatore Vuono

Hey Photographers – how many of you are offering your images up for sale on your website? If not you should be! One thing we have noticed over the years for many of you who do offer online proofing, is that often only 1 payment method is offered. Also, this one method often ends up being Paypal. Our experience has been that limiting yourself in this way can really reduce your online sales numbers. But why? There are a few reasons.

1) People like options. Limiting yourself to only 1 or 2 can greatly reduce your sales & increase the chance of a high shopping cart abandonment rate. Case in point: I have a small side business in specialty foods called Just Good Chocolate that was launched in September of 2011. When I look at my Google analytics I see that my choice to initially only offer Paypal was a poor one. There are many site visitors that are getting to the checkout stage but not completing the transaction – my assumption is that this is because they are limited in their payment methods. We are launching a new cart with credit card integration in late February.

2) People don’t want to have to set up a new account. One of the issues with only offering the basic version of Paypal checkout is that you must set up a new account in order to check out. The same can be said for Google Checkout. Now don’t get me wrong – having both of these as available options is fantastic. Certainly do it if you can. People that prefer either one will thank you. In addition though, make sure that you also offer Visa & MasterCard transactions through a secure payment gateway.

3) Multiple options make you seem “bigger”. When is the last time you were on the website of a major retailer or national company and only had one payment method option at checkout? The answer is never. Bigger companies are naturally trusted more. Consumers need to know that their information is safe & secure and the bigger you look, the more confident they will feel. Offering muliple payment methods and a “clean cart” is just one way to give off that “bigger” look & feel.

How can we help? MorePhotos recently started offering the Authorize.Net payment gateway and merchant services package. Now you can sign up with someone you trust who can support this secure online payment processor for integration right into your MorePhotos shopping cart.

How to get started: We make it simple.

For current MorePhotos clients, from your online manager, click Cart Setup, then Real Time Processing, then click the link that says Authorize.Net. Follow the prompts and set up your own account. Of course feel free to call us with any questions.

For MorePhotos Customers

For Non-MorePhotos Clients, you can still take advantage of this service – simply Click Here and follow the same set up instructions. And don’t forget to give us a call if you need help with a new website, shopping cart, or online marketing services!

I hope this helps. Thanks for reading!

Drew Warner | MorePhotos Sales & Marketing

When creating a new logo, we use www.99designs.com.  We have also heard great things about www.designcrowd.com.  No matter if you design your own logo, or decide to outsource or “crowdsource”, don’t skip the logo design, its not as hard as you think.

I was able to show my website through my phone, with my phone number on it, so it all worked out.

If you sell digital images, do your clients a favor and give them a release note with the rights they have spelled out.  It will save them time and make you look good!

Thanks to Sam’s club for looking out for us! I haven’t seen this at Walgreen’s or other places in town.

He claimed he thought I was going for his partner’s gun (HA), and made me delete the photos taken.  I wish I would have known my rights.  I suggest printing this document out and putting it in your camera bag.  Read it a few times.

http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf

P.S. Does your line of work line up with your personality?  Take this quick free Personality Test based on the Jungs and Briggs Myers Typology.  Kind of fun huh?  Let us know what you come up with!

~Drew Warner | MorePhotos

A couple things this week made the crew at MorePhotos think about how lucky we all are just to be here, to be healthy, working, and able to enjoy the upcoming time with our families.  The first event was very sad, as a photographer (client of ours) passed away this past week.  His name was Perrin Todd.  Our crew in tech-support said Perrin was always a pleasure to talk to, and it was clear from his website that he took some amazing images and helped many people document precious memories through his passion for Photography.  The second was an email note from one of our accountant/office managers, Barb.  She passed on a link to a blog that the mother of her son-in-law’s niece has kept to document the health battle her daughter Kati has experienced since she was just a baby (she’s now 9).  It was truly a tear jerk-er, and if you’re a parent, just thinking of your own little one experiencing health problems and surgeries their whole life is hard to even imagine.  The families of Perrin and Katie are in our thoughts this year.

Even though sad events or circumstances shouldn’t be needed to make us take stock in life, to value where we’re at in this journey and who we’re on it with, to keep perspective – they sometimes are.

Let’s all make a point to practice gratitude this Thanksgiving.

Thank you for your business & loyalty over all these years – we sincerely appreciate it.

The Crew at MorePhotos

Bad Examples:

• link directly to your flash website (MorePhotos clients have an auto iPhone optimized site, so we got you covered)
• link to a site that is full of images and takes long to load
• use it just because you can…
• used on a website where a regular link would be much easier

Good Example:

This code is great because:

• It loads quickly
• Allows multiple ways to connect to company once scanned
• Landing page can be updated at any time, thus the code having a much longer life.

This code and landing page was created for free using: www.pb.com/qr-codes