HundredPics liberates You from non-core work with Clients.
Nowadays it is not surprising that almost each photographer (not to speak about major studios with big staff of professional photographers) has his corporate or personal website where he can publish his works portfolio including photos and photo albums samples.
However, such websites carry out only two functions: advertising and contacting. The client who wants to order a photo album design or other service can find only contact information like phone number /e-mail address on the website. All further communication between the client and the photographer will be carried out personally or via phone/ e-mail. As you can see, such sites are just online visiting cards of the photographer; they cannot be web instruments to simplify their work with clients.
The same can be said about photo album design proper – the clients are offered to choose album design among samples made for previous customers. As a result, almost all photographer websites offer only two stages of the project: its begging (contact information) and end (album design sample).
“HundredPics” offers completely new and groundbreaking approach to this problem.
The point is that photographers and their clients are introduced to a digital platform where they can effectively communicate in the process of order creation, album design development and production supervision, design discussion and its acceptance.
As the third party, “HundredPics” performs all design related works without interfering in business relations between the photographer and his clients.
One of our clients, a professional photographer and small studio owner, previously applied the following procedure while performing album design order.
Not long after a special day, the clients (in most cases it was newly married couple or their parents) visited his studio office. During couple of hours, they were choosing the most beautiful photos to be included into the album design. Viewing album design samples made for previous clients (the studio has enough of such albums), they chose some definite design solutions which they believed were the most appropriate to their wedding album. I guess my fellow designers know how it is very hard to realize such design solutions made in such a way. Then the photographer sent as disk with chosen photos and design ideas to a designer.
I do not want to bother you describing all details of design development process and “that disk route trip” – from the designer to the photographer then to the client and vice versa.
It may sound strange but in such situations I take off hat not to the designer but the photographer who was to formulate detailed task to the designer based on client’s wishes and requirements, pass through few iterations and design corrections before the album was accepted. I can say with certainty that the album was not accepted on the first try. Moreover, even not on the second one.
Even well formulated technical task and album design conception do not save you from numerous little comments and corrections regarding separate pages, spreads and photos. And what to say when many corrections were carried out and the album is almost finished, the bride decides to show it to her dear granny at first timeJ. All starts from the very beginning.
Generally, each photographer has his own situation, but in all cases such meetings with clients and designers, numerous discussions take a lot of time - time that can be spent much more interesting - making shots, learning useful info or just taking vacation.
The photographer cannot just refuse from this work as it brings profit. Each client prefers full package services.
Then, what should he do to improve the situation?
The best tried-and-true way is to shirk off work upon another.
“HundredPics” has solved all those problems by improving the communicative process with the help of modern technologies.
Digital service “HundredPics” saves you from such actions:
- to organize and carry out discussions of album design conceptions and ideas;
- to formulate technical tasks for designers based on wishes and requirements of the client;
- to supervise the designer’s work and take all the responsibility for the final result of design album.
We offer modern and competitive design solutions due to reasonable prices and high creative degree of performance.
That is why, the main task of “HundredPics” is not to earn and increase our incomes but to help the photographers to work with clients easily and effectively while creating photo album and help us to become long-term partners.
Joshua Miller, “HundredPics”.
