Monday, July 21, 2008

Limited Editions, Quick Takes & A Very Special Charity Event

We have set all of our events through the end of 2008! We will be sending our an email Newsletter in the next day but I wanted to preview a few things coming up!

1. Book Santa NOW & Save! Session fees for our Limited Edition sessions are usually $99, we are offering them now for $75 if you schedule Santa before August 10th! We will also be offering Associate Sessions for Santa at Associate prices so if you are wanting just a fun documentation of time with Santa, these are great for you (scheduling will begin later this week for Associate Sessions).

2. Alex's Lemonade Stand Quick Takes! 100% of session fees will be donated to the organization "Alex's Lemonade Stand" and will go towards pediatric cancer research. (www.alexslemonade.org) Our set will be a nostalgic lemonade stand and clothing should be fun and casual. Overalls are perfect for this session! We will have several packages to chose from starting at $99. Session fee is $35 (or whatever you want to donate), 100% of this will be donated to Alex's organization. Sessions will be at the beginning of August and we will host an old fashioned real lemonade stand on Friday August 1st to raise money as well as book sessions, so stop by and have some lemonade!

3. What else is coming up? Our newsletter will detail all of these sessions out but you can start thinking about them now!
  1. By the Shore - Limited Editions
  2. Fall Leaves Mini Sessions with Jen
  3. Halloween Portrait Quick Takes (sells out every year!)
  4. Greeting card day - The only session where you can purchase only greeting cards with no minimum!
  5. Santa Limited Editions
  6. Santa Associate Sessions

Make sure you read on and see our Summer Specials!

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Summer Offerings & Our Events Schedule thru the End of the year!

It is a HOT summer, the garden looks gorgeous but photographing in it is definitely a timing thing so if you are wanting outside pictures, we need to talk soon, by August I think it will be miserable!

Thanks to everyone who participated in our survery, its always enlightening to see how we are doing and the type of sessions you are all interested in. The great thing is that our customer service and product quality all scored in the extreme high range! Yea us! Pricing is always an issue and we are always looking for ways that we can cut costs for you, especially these days, but also run a small business which is also extremely expensive with todays economy and gas prices which effect everything we do including our prices we pay our vendors to ship to us. So know that we are aware of how hard it is for everyone and will always do our best to keep pricing where it needs to be for us all.

With that in mind, I have a special that I am announcing on the BLOG first, so those of you who have signed up have first chance at this. Im going to give a special pricing a try for a few weeks and see how it goes. Now this is going to have limited days because in order to offer it, we have to make is cost effective for us as well so what I am going to do is run a flat "Unit" price for images from sessions that we have during specific days of the week for the summer. These prices will not apply to any special events or limited editions we run, but do apply for family pictures, Baby Club & Watch Me Grow sessions. So here is goes, any sessions shot on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday have the following pricing (& schedule now, I will be out of the studio beginning next Thursday for one week hosting a Childrens Photographer Conference here in Austin so sessions are limited):

New Sessions:
Std: $65 unit
WMG: $60 Unit
BC: $55 Unit
Take $15 off all 11x14s
10% off all Wall portraits 16x20 & Larger

What is a Unit? It is the same pose printed on a sheet (ie. 1-8x10, 2-5x7s, 2-5x5s, or 2-4x6s, )
You can not mix poses within the unit, each unit must be one pose, but each one can have a different pose.

Wall Portraits: Save 15% on all wall portraits 16x20 and larger.

ReOrders: Save 20% on all re orders a previous session! Save 25% on wall portrait from a previous session!

File Sale: Well our best of intentions on image file storage has not come to pass yet, its so time intensive that we have not had time to go thru and purge sessions SO you win! We are offering a mega sale on image files from 2007 & 2008. $150 buys you all of your images (Previous sessions only) Thats a $100 savings from our normal pricing for files!

Limited Editions & Events Coming Soon! Watch your emails because we are about to send out our calendar of events from now until the end of the year! This includes Santas sessions, a special on greeting cards, a charity event we will be hosting called "Alex's Lemonaid Stand (benefitting pediatric cancer research), "By the Shore" sessions, Fall Leaves, Greeting Card days, Halloween Quick Takes and then of course Santa, did we mention that? Last year Santa sold out before we even offered sessions so make sure and call right away to book your session. Dates and availablity will be nt eh email we send out or check back here for information tomorrow!