These articles are about strategies to combat the recession. I ended my last post by posing the question on everyone's lips: what happens if my bookings drop? You'll need to have read my previous post to make sense of what follows, but to recap, based on the numbers in the graphic below, if I get 30 wedding bookings and average $5000 per job my income is $71k. If I could get 40 bookings I'd make $114k, even if my average dropped to $4600. All good, but what happens if I can only get 20 bookings? The answer is my income drops to $28k! I could still achieve my $100k income goal with just 20 weddings To View More >>

Follow the links for "the story so far" in our series on the recession... Yes, times will be tough for a while but you shouldn't assume the sky is falling. It makes no sense to sacrifice your business and market reputation to survive the short term challenge. Instead you may need to pull your horns in and find ways to prosper while others decline. A good place to start is by analysing your budget and business model, and we have a spreadsheet to help with that. Most people react to the threat of declining sales by saying, "I've gotta cut my costs". Everyone needs to work out their own figures, To View More >>

On a quiet day we get over 50,000 spam emails! One of us alone used to have 3-4000 to deal with. Lucky them. Of course we screen spam in the normal way. In the past we even used to check to see if anything legitimate had been filtered out. It happens occasionally with all filtering systems. But the sheer flood of spam has made this impossible, and forced us to tighten our procedures. If you suspect that your email is not getting through please phone (don't email!) and let us know. We will put your email address on a "white list" to ensure we receive it in future. Best wishes from the Queensberry To View More >>

Photojunction and Queensberry's phone systems will be offline for several hours tomorrow, Friday (November 26) from 4pm New Zealand time as we upgrade and relocate our main phone server. Click here to check what time that makes it in your part of the world. During this time all phone functions, including incoming and outgoing calls, and voice mail, will be unavailable. If you do need to contact us during this time, please email us at info@photojunction.com and our support team will be in touch. We apologise in advance for any disruption this may cause, we'll be back on line as quickly as we can. To View More >>

Queensberry and Photojunction's phone systems will be offline for several hours tomorrow, Friday (November 26) from 4pm New Zealand time as we upgrade and relocate our main phone server. Click here to check what time that makes it in your part of the world. During this time all phone functions, including incoming and outgoing calls, and voice mail, will be unavailable. If you do need to contact us during this time, please email us at info@queensberry.com and our customer service team will be in touch. We apologise in advance for any disruption this may cause, we'll be back on line as quickly as To View More >>