Comments on: Share Your Calendar with Your Clients to Get More Bookings http://rising.blackstar.com/share-your-calendar-with-your-clients-to-get-more-bookings.html Professional Photography Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:56:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bradhttp://rising.blackstar.com/share-your-calendar-with-your-clients-to-get-more-bookings.html/comment-page-1#comment-4883 Brad Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:33:43 +0000 #comment-4883 Another innovative technology that can help photographers save time and manage their business is QR codes. Snapizzi, a recently launched company, has a digital barcode and tagging technology that automatically captures and manages photos.After Photoshop World Snapizzi was featured in Layers Magazine: http://www.layersmagazine.com/snapizzi-more-cool-tutorials.html "All you have to do is take one of the IZ tags, hold it up to the camera and take a picture of it. Hand the card to the client. Now, continue to take your pictures.. Once you are done, you upload all of that information to the web, and you’re done." Another innovative technology that can help photographers save time and manage their business is QR codes. Snapizzi, a recently launched company, has a digital barcode and tagging technology that automatically captures and manages photos.

After Photoshop World Snapizzi was featured in Layers Magazine:
http://www.layersmagazine.com/snapizzi-more-cool-tutorials.html
"All you have to do is take one of the IZ tags, hold it up to the camera and take a picture of it. Hand the card to the client. Now, continue to take your pictures.. Once you are done, you upload all of that information to the web, and you’re done."

]]> By: Frank Abspoelhttp://rising.blackstar.com/share-your-calendar-with-your-clients-to-get-more-bookings.html/comment-page-1#comment-2430 Frank Abspoel Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:05:25 +0000 #comment-2430 The Google Calendar is an interesting concept, but I use a much more advanced system for my clients. It was built by my son, who's quite clever with programming software. It's a calendar system to which individual clients can log in with their own name and password. Everybody can see the dates and times when I'm booked without seeing the details (like with Google), but they are allowed to enter bookings themselves without consulting me. They can see, change and delete their own appointments, but not others. I myself, of course, can see all details. The real advantage is that I don't need a secretary (wife or otherwise). My clients (only businesses and governmental organizations) can confer with the people I need to make portraits of, see online when I'm free and book the appointment right away. I look at the calendar often and can see when I'm booked and where I have to go to for taking the pictures. A marvellous system that saves a lot of time talking and creating more time for shooting! The Google Calendar is an interesting concept, but I use a much more advanced system for my clients. It was built by my son, who's quite clever with programming software.
It's a calendar system to which individual clients can log in with their own name and password. Everybody can see the dates and times when I'm booked without seeing the details (like with Google), but they are allowed to enter bookings themselves without consulting me. They can see, change and delete their own appointments, but not others. I myself, of course, can see all details.
The real advantage is that I don't need a secretary (wife or otherwise). My clients (only businesses and governmental organizations) can confer with the people I need to make portraits of, see online when I'm free and book the appointment right away. I look at the calendar often and can see when I'm booked and where I have to go to for taking the pictures. A marvellous system that saves a lot of time talking and creating more time for shooting!

]]> By: Stevehttp://rising.blackstar.com/share-your-calendar-with-your-clients-to-get-more-bookings.html/comment-page-1#comment-319 Steve Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:22:21 +0000 #comment-319 Great and timely article. Just recently discovered Google calendars and now have it sync'ing with Outlook. I'm completely sold. I had always posted up and coming events along with dates but this will make it quicker, easier and more comprehensive. Great and timely article. Just recently discovered Google calendars and now have it sync'ing with Outlook. I'm completely sold. I had always posted up and coming events along with dates but this will make it quicker, easier and more comprehensive.

]]> By: Stephen Sidlohttp://rising.blackstar.com/share-your-calendar-with-your-clients-to-get-more-bookings.html/comment-page-1#comment-313 Stephen Sidlo Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:03:30 +0000 #comment-313 A really good write up Stanley. I will seriously consider buying one. I am pretty computer savvy but the way that clients can check availability is brilliant and saves so much time and effort yourself 'trying to fit them in'. A really good write up Stanley. I will seriously consider buying one. I am pretty computer savvy but the way that clients can check availability is brilliant and saves so much time and effort yourself 'trying to fit them in'.

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