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What if you could make a bride-to-be's site a core part of her event planning? In my last post I explained how you could publish a Workspace client website in just a few minutes, but you can add far more impact with some optional extras that take just a few minutes more...

Imagine it's months before the wedding and you've done an engagement shoot. You upload the images and create a new site for the couple as I described last time, but with two optional features added: 1. An event details page, with the wedding date, location and other details. 2. A gift registry. Imagine! Instead of buying the happy couple yet another toaster, their friends and family will be glad to contribute towards a meaningful gift - their photography and wedding album! If the couple have set up other registries you can add links to them as well. Why? because the goal is to make this site all they need. Both those easy-to-set up features will encourage your clients to make the site public, share it with friends and family, and spread the word about you and your photography at the same time.

Fast forward to the happy day...

You upload the wedding photos, sorted into collections and ready for viewing. You open and edit the couple's site, and add the extra image collections to it, including a collection for the album. But is the bride happy with what you've chosen for her album? You make the collection editable, and add her as an authorised user so she can modify your selection. Meantime she's sharing the photos and you're hopefully picking up some sales - and booking enquiries - from her friends and family. Now you've completed the album design - or maybe Queensberry had done it for you! - and you want the couple to review it, maybe suggest some changes, but eventually approve it before you place the order. You add the album to the website in exactly the same way you did the photography. Your bride reviews the album, adds comments and edit requests, and eventually approves it. Meantime she can also share it with her friends (who can look but not touch). In just a few minutes you've created a beautiful-looking site that will be genuinely appealing and useful to your clients, that provides a convenient way to interact with them about their album, and that helps spread the word about you while encouraging some nice add-on sales from friends and family. Click here to try it out, or here to upgrade if necessary. And tell us what you think, so we can make it even better!

Cheers, Ian

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Heather Baugh
on
November 15, 2013, 3:53 am
said:
Hi quentin, thank you for your reply and your suggestions. I'll get Raktim to get back to you about the URL for meet the photographer.
 
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Jon Harper
on
November 21, 2013, 10:35 am
said:
Heather, I just love the fact that you clever folk at Queensberry consistently pull new ways to make us look even more cool to our clients, from what seems to be a very large bottomless hat. While we are busy behind the lens doing what we love you are there doing what you love, forever creating new ideas and strategies that make live just a tad easier for us creative types, just like one big supportive family. Raktim has been setting up my Workspace for me which is awesome. This client gallery/client website with gift and shopping capability is going to make life far easier for my overseas wedding clients....... and myself of course: ) Thank you
 
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Quentin Décaillet
on
November 15, 2013, 12:14 pm
said:
Love the new clients websites :) It looks great, it's easy to configure and showcase beautifully our work. However, I was just wondering about a few features that I feel could (should?) be added… I'm sure brides to be would absolutely love to have a RSVP page or form. In fact many wordpress themes that are thought for brides and grooms websites do have that feature. Having the possibility of creating additional pages could be a great addition too! Some of my clients like to have a page where they tell their story, another where they describe the proposal, etc. Also, I didn't find a way to customize the "Meet the photographer" link. It sends people to my Queensberry's workspace page that I use as Proofing/clients galleries for my albums and my English speaking clients. I'd rather have people sent to my website than to the clients galleries… Oh, and another thought… I promise it's the last one for today :P I've already asked your team this about workspace, I'm guessing the answer will be the same for the clients websites. But is there any chance to see a multi-language option sometime in the near future? Or at least a possibility for us to translate the pages in the language we want? Those are, for me, minor details. I really love the recent changes and new things available at Queensberry! I hope you keep evolving in this way :) I'm only waiting for multi-language workspace front-end to switch everything (except for my own website) over to you :)
 
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