Start selling photos online for only $4.95!

Today we are extremely pleased to announce new entry level pricing for our online proofing service that allows photographers to start selling photos online for the incredibly low price of $4.95.

This pricing breakthrough means that photographers can not only lower their startup and subsequent operating costs, but also increase their revenues by using the most advanced online proofing service available in the industry.

The new low pricing does not mean that photographers will be giving up, or missing, any of the powerful features of the online proofing service.

In fact, all of the features of the online proofing service are instantly available at the new pricing, including features that were just recently introduced, such as:

1. Faster startup and subsequent page loads
2. Cleaner, more elegant, and easier to use displays
3. Multiple links back to photographer website
4. Shorter, world class, checkout procedure
5. Full integration with credit card processing

To experience the online proofing service, as a client who wants to buy photos, see online proofing demo.

For more pricing information, please see online proofing pricing.

Cheers,

To reducing the costs of selling photos online, and increasing sales!

Free Search Engine Optimization for Photographers

Today, we are excited to announce that we are expanding our instant photography websites and online proofing services, to include free search engine tips for photographers.

The first installment in this new service takes the form of a white paper, titled: the Moments4Ever Photography SEO Starter Guide.

This information-packed paper was written to help you understand why search engine optimization, or SEO, is key to the success of your photography business, now more than ever.

The search engine strategies for photographers described in this paper will not only help you survive this economic downturn, but, more importantly, propel your photography businesses forward, in ways beyond the page rank of your website.

Read the Moments4Ever Photography SEO Starter Guide and learn how to:

1. Write search friendly meta-tags
2. Promote your site with search engines and directories
3. Use blogs, social networking, and press releases to increase your page ranking
4. Craft links that promote your site and reinforce your keywords
5. Measure your results and tune the whole SEO process

Perhaps best of all, the paper and all the strategies described therein are FREE, and available immediately by clicking the SEO links on this blog entry, or the Moments4Ever website.

Just invest a little of your time and effort, and you too can harness the power of SEO, the single most effective method of affordably promoting your photography business.

Cheers,

To free and effective SEO marketing campaigns!

Free online proofing with the Moments4Ever Referral Program

The Moments4Ever Referral Program is a great way for current clients to earn free online proofing with minimal effort.

Simply tell a fellow photographer about your experience with our web design, web hosting or online proofing services, and when your friend signs up for a Moments4Ever free trial and purchases any of our services we will be delighted to add 30 days to your online proofing subscription.

There is no limit to the number of photographers you can refer to us. Each and every one of them will make you eligible for an additional 30 days of free online proofing services.

The dollar value of your referral will depend on the number of photos in your online proofing subscription at the time of the referral, and could vary from $9.95 to more than $74.95.

To take advantage of this offer just ask a fellow photographer to enter your name in the "How did you learn about us?" field of the Moments4Ever sign up form. We will take care of the rest.

Cheers,

To free photo services with minimal effort.

Boost Photo Sales with the Moments4Ever Messaging System

The Moments4Ever messaging system is a great way to boost photo sales and viewers at any time.

For example, use it to: offer clients special discounts, book new photo shoots, remind clients of the value of capturing and preserving the precious moments in their lives, and to build your brand.

Getting the word out is extremely easy: simply login to your Moments4Ever account, go to the messaging section, select the mailing list you want to use, enter your message, and click "Send."

Its that easy! And the resulting increase in bookings and viewers can be truly amazing and fast. Just ask Carlos or Mike.

Don't have a Moments4Ever account? Give yourself a special treat by signing up for a free account and get a head start on the New Year, not to mention the competition.

Cheers,

To amazing results with very little effort and no additional cost.

Create watermarks that go beyond protecting your photos

Photographers who sell photos on the Internet generally know that embedding a visible watermark in their photos is the most effective way to protect their photos against illegal downloads and use.

However, our new watermarking tool allows photographers to obtain two additional benefits: promote their brand and adapt the level of protection to different audiences.

Promoting your brand with watermarks is actually quite simple and effective with the new tool: simply set your marks to be your business or personal name, and choose a size and font for the mark that agree with your brand.

Then, every time a client views a photo they will be reminded of the artist who created it instead of being told that it is only a "Proof" or "Preview."

Although practically any mark may discourage a person from illegally using your photos, only marks based on key elements of your brand, such as your name, will give you the added benefit of promoting your brand.

Another benefit of the tool is that it lets you adapt the level of protection to different audiences.

For example, if you are selling to an audience that may be inclined to impulsively steal your photos (do seniors come to mind?), you may want your photos to have a strong and ominous watermark front and center.

However, if your audience is educated, financially secure, and trustworthy, such as the friends and family of a high society couple getting married, you may want to make your marks less obtrusive, or even eliminate them completely, lest they be insulted with a watermark that shouts: "I do not trust you!"

To sum up, our new watermarking tool not only gives you the best protection available for your photos; it can also help you promote your brand and adapt your level of protection to fit any audience.

The tool is available on the Settings>Display>Watermarks page of your Online Proofing service.

Cheers,

To making watermarks work harder for your success!

List events in the order that maximizes your sales

Today we want to tell you about a new feature that helps you maximize your sales.

The websites of photographers who use the Moments4Ever online proofing service for selling photos may include a page that lists all the events the photographer has posted or is about to post for viewing and ordering.

However, the default order in which events are listed may not be optimal in terms of maximizing the photographer's sales.

For example, say you, the photographer, have some events that are bringing in orders like crazy.

The system by default might place the highly profitable events in the middle of a long the list, or even worse: at the bottom of the list.

The default position may make your clients work harder to find the events and places you at risk of loosing not one or two orders, but many orders.

Clearly the solution is to place the highly profitable events at the top of your list, where they are easy to find.

Another example; you have a series of high profile 'Coming Soon' events that promise to bring in many new clients and orders.

The default position of these highly anticipated and potentially very profitable events may be at the bottom of a long list, again making them hard to find.

Again, you will want to place them in a position that generates maximum sales, which translates to a position that is easy to find, i.e. at the top of the list.

Note that the Moments4Ever system will collect the names and emails of all the people who want to see and order photos from 'Coming Soon' events.

Later, when the event is posted, you can notify the registered viewers that the event is ready for viewing and ordering by using the Moments4Ever messaging system.

In short, the new event listing feature gives you total control of the order in which events are listed.

By itself, or combined with other features of the Moments4Ever online proofing system, such as the messaging system, this new feature is designed to help you maximize your sales.

Cheers,

To simple and effective ways to maximize sales.

New Photo Uploader reduces the time to post and sell photos online

Today we are excited to release a new photo uploader that allows photographers to post photos online for viewing and selling in record time.

In addition to being fast, the new uploader is easy to use. Simply select the photos to upload from your computer by highlighting them and clicking a button.

The upload starts the instant you complete the selection process. As photos arrive in your Moments4Ever account they are immediately queued for optimization and watermarking.

The uploading process is overlapped with the optimization and watermarking processes to minimize the overall wait time.

As each photo is optimized and watermarked you can see its thumbnail in the uploaded photos display. Realtime.

There is no time wasted batching all your photos and scheduling them for processing at a later time. Everything happens in realtime -- live, on-screen, right before your eyes.

When the upload is complete you can sort, categorize and preview the photos before making them available to your client, with a few more clicks of your mouse. Its that easy.

You can experience the new uploader the next time you upload photos from the Online Proofing area of your Moments4Ever account.

Cheers,

To getting photos to your client as fast as possible!