So earlier in this series, we talked a little about how to import your calendars. This is great for keeping track of shoots, personal items, and the like. The calendars were viewed from the entry screen of ShootQ – the “Home” tab.
Another great feature of the Home tab is the “Correspondence” section. Side note – there’s a lot of ways that ShootQ can help with your client correspondence. We’ll get to that later. For right now, let’s just take a look at the basic ability of this Home Page Correspondence section.
Check out Gary Vaynerchuk’s book “Crush It!” here. It’s a great read for photographers and also any of my wedding clients out there who really would love to pursue a passion, but aren’t sure how to get others to pay attention to what you’re interested in.
Passionate about your wedding and planning? Tell the world about it!
Passionate about wedding photography? Twitter it up!
Passionate about everything Pittsburgh? There’s got to be a Facebook group for that.
And it’s not all just “playing on the internet” – it’s building an audience. I believe in each and every one of you, so go get what you love!
As you’ll find throughout your ShootQ navigation, it’s a great tool to customize to fit your studio branding, on pricing pages, contact forms, contracts, etc. One of the first things you should do when you first get ShootQ is upload your logo and create consistent branding via colors!
Ok, so I get it. That was pretty easy, right? Woo…. great video, Leeann! *sarcasm* Hey! Some people never do it! So might as well spread the word.
On another note, I have a lot more in the pipeline. Be on the lookout for ShootQ How To’s on workflow, pricing, contracts, booking processes, billing, and a lot more!
LISTEN UP! There is no reason you should not use this feature! **off of soapbox**. Honestly, time is valuable. We all want to have more time for our family, friends, or even sleep! I went to college for Industrial Engineering, and through my years of experience in the realms of productivity and time management (I used to do time studies… measuring seconds….don’t even get me started…), there is a very important necessity to running a successful business – organization and workflow! Get it down pat!
Good thing you’ve got your ShootQ there to help manage everything you need to do from a session start to finish! A workflow may not be necessary if you have one shoot on your plate, but what do you do in the middle of summer when you’re juggling 10 weddings at once? Let ShootQ help keep your sanity!
Here’s what you need to do: Take 1 hour, Set up your workflows, Assign them to each shoot, Relax. So! Let’s go set up those workflows!
So now you’ve got your workflows set up. You’ve got milestones, detailed tasks, auto-events, and due dates. Great! Next time you set up a booking, or even with your current shoots, you can assign this workflow to help you through the process!
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to comment below!
This post goes out to any business or website owners out there who would really love to use Gmail for their emailing, but don’t want the @gmail.com email address! Here’s a little secret:
You can use Gmail for your business email and set it up so that your emails come from @domainname.com instead of @gmail.com, but all of your emails are housed in a Gmail format.
Yup! You can do it! Yay! So first, you need to follow these instructions on how to get everything set up. You’ll need to know how to access your domain name provider’s portal, your hosting site’s portal, and potentially your FTP client. I know, it can sound confusing, so shoot me an email if you’ve got questions on how to do this. If you love using Gmail, you won’t regret it!
And now! Some awesome business-y features that Google email offers – inserting images and “canned” responses (although I don’t really like the name for that, because I do insert custom text as well for each one…):
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