Tricks of the Trade
Tools We Use
These are all the tools and companies we use and absolutely love in our business!
Core Tools
ShootProof
Galleries
Simply the best combination of gallery tools, sales, and marketing to make passive income on prints.
Tave
Contracts, Leads, CRM
We use Tave to handle all our inquiries through the sales & booking process, then invoicing and workflow. This easily is worth a full time employee on it’s own!
Kiss Books
Albums
What we love: Quality of printing, beautiful and simple options
Imagen AI
Post Production / Editing
All our images for all 3 of our brands go through Imagen for our color processing. It’s fast, easy, and spot on!
ThinkTank Bags
Bags, bags, bags!
We’ve tested everything, and ThinkTank bags hold up to constant use and abuse. We use their Retrospective shoulder bags, Airport Security Rolling Bag, and their Production Manager bag (for our lighting.)
Stomp Software
Blogging, Album Design
These guys are the real deal – they are always looking for ways to make photographers’ lives easier. We use Blogstomp to prep our images for blogging. They also have a great Album Design tool!
Marketing Tools
Flodesk
EMAIL MARKETING
Best For: Newsletters to clients with simple marketing automations.
Drip
EMAIL MARKETING
Best For: Advanced E-Commerce marketing strategies, with deep integrations. Relatively complex, but very powerful.
ConvertKit
EMAIL MARKETING
Best For: Someone who needs more than FloDesk, but less than Drip. Strict content marketers, with few signature products.
ConvertBox
On-site marketing
Popups that aren’t annoying and are good looking and customizable. We love this tool!
Canva
Graphic Design
Even though we have the whole Adobe Creative Suite, this is just EASY for designing graphics for promos, IG stories, and Facebook Ads. It’s a must-have.
Podia
Digital Content Delivery
We use Podia to deliver all our courses and resources to fellow photographers (email templates, contracts, etc). Great support, great product.
Running the Business
Asana
Team Collaboration
Asana has completely replaced email within our team, and we use this on a daily basis to get everything done. In our opinion, it’s the best of the task management tools. We have a Premium account.
Gusto Payroll
Payroll + Benefits
Stop your search for a payroll provider. These guys are THE BEST. They are completely disrupting an antiquated industry – they make managing payroll and onboarding of employees simple!
Backblaze Backup
Backup of Files
One of our methods of backup of our in-process work. It mirrors whatever is on our local machine so we always have a backup. We use this in addition to off-site physical backups.
Slack
Team Messaging
For quick messages (chat) between team members. And lots of Gifs.
Quickbooks
Accounting
We have Quickbooks online, and this is what our bookkeeper and accountant use. This allows us to log in at any time and run our own reports.
Dialpad
Phone System
We have phone lines for each of our brands, and can answer and make calls from the computer or from desk phones. We love the live transcription feature so we never have to say “huh?” to a client.
Legal, Execution Plans & Templates
Contracts
Get Your Biz Legal
We’ve made the same Lawyer-written contracts we use with our clients available to you. Easily customizable to your specific needs.
Recommend: The Contract Bundle
Execution Guides
Shortcuts
We’ve taken some of the most complicated things we’ve hard to learn over 15 years, and put them into a series of execution guides. Take the shortcut!
Recommend: Execution Guides Bundle
Email Templates
Client Communication
Email templates that we use with our clients across 3 brands. Customizable for your voice.
Recommend: The Complete Wedding Toolkit