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7 Strategies to Grow Your Photography Business with NowCandid ๐Ÿš€

7 Strategies to Grow Your Photography Business with NowCandid ๐Ÿš€
First off, congratulations on starting your photography business! Now, it's time to take the next steps and grow it.

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In this post, we'll offer strategic advice to help you effectively expand your photography business with a particular focus on building a strong team, proactive networking, and optimizing your workflow with NowCandid.

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1. Optimize Your Workflow โš™๏ธ

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Efficiency is the key to successful growth. Evaluate your existing workflow and identify opportunities to streamline processes, automate tasks, and apply time-saving solutions. NowCandid's comprehensive platform makes managing your photography business more efficient, allowing you to earn more, while working less.

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2. Hire and Train a Team ๐Ÿ‘ฅ

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As your business expands, so should your team. Recruit talented photographers and support staff and invest in their training and development. With NowCandid, your team can concentrate on capturing amazing photos and providing top-tier customer service.

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3. Network Proactively ๐Ÿค

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Growing your business often requires extending your network to potential clients, partners, and collaborators. Engaging with your local chamber of commerce and demonstrating your photography system, like NowCandid, can lead to new bookings. Once you've established your presence at events, organic growth will follow as attendees experience your photo system in action, promoting word-of-mouth marketing.

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4. Identify New Opportunities with NowCandid ๐Ÿ”

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Diversification is a fundamental strategy for growth. NowCandid allows you to effortlessly branch out into new areas like sports, graduations, parties, holiday portraits, and corporate headshots. Using your existing equipment and familiar workflows, NowCandid facilitates the expansion of your business reach and profitability.

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5. Leverage Social Media and Online Marketing ๐ŸŒ

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A robust online presence can showcase your portfolio, engage with potential clients, and generate leads. Utilize social media platforms, SEO, and email marketing to promote your services. NowCandid's white-label system ensures your brand remains the main focus in all your marketing efforts - we want you to grow your brand! Your success is our success.

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6. Strengthen Your Brand ๐Ÿ’ช

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Distinctive branding can set you apart from your competition and attract your ideal clients. Invest in professional branding elements such as a unique logo and a modern website. NowCandid's customizable Canva templates help also help you out as you start marketing NowCandid's phot systems as your own photo system! Not to mention it makes it easy to maintain a consistent brand image across some of your marketing materials.

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7. Monitor Your Progress with NowCandid ๐Ÿ“ˆ

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Track your business's growth using key performance indicators (KPIs) and set measurable goals. NowCandid provides detailed and transparent reports, helping you easily track crucial KPIs and sales by image folder. This allows you to assess the performance of each photographer at every event, and make informed decisions.

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Expansion is an exciting phase for any business!

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By strategically networking, building a strong team, and utilizing the power of NowCandid, you're well on your way to leading your photography business to new heights of success.

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Hereโ€™s what changed.

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๐Ÿ†• New Product

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๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ 24ร—8 Panoramic Print (Group-only)โ€

  • A new panoramic option in the same aspect ratio as the other pano prints, built for team and group shots. (Like the others, itโ€™s group-only.)

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๐Ÿ›๏ธ Retail: Pricing & Editing Improvements

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๐Ÿ’ธ Package โ€œslashedโ€ pricing corrected and standardizedโ€

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โœ๏ธ Captions editor now allows hyphens and periodsโ€

  • Small change, big relief for subjects with multi-hyphenate names.

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โœ… Check-In Page: Better Email Validation

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๐Ÿ“ง Improved email validationโ€

  • Now also requires at least one period
  • Now blocks obvious typos like addresses ending in โ€œ.conโ€
  • These are in addition to previously existing "catches" we had in place to help customers avoid typos

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๐Ÿ‘ฅ Additional Contacts now use the same validation rulesโ€

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๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Dashboard: Fewer Snags, More Visibility

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๐Ÿงช Image Tester now supports PNG filesโ€

  • Helpful for validating cutouts and art files.

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๐Ÿ“ Improved DPI validation for artwork uploads (and Image Tester)

  • Better handling for images that donโ€™t explicitly include DPI metadata.

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๐Ÿ“ฆ Package editor expanded limitsโ€

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๐Ÿ“ Manage Images: Folder Download fixed for large foldersโ€

  • Folders over 100 images now reliably download in multiple ZIPs (no more stopping after the first chunk).

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๐Ÿงพ Order Details page got a big clarity upgradeโ€

You can now see key indicators and selections more directly, including:

  • โœจ product finish/overlay indicators
  • ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ backgrounds / AI background indicators (where applicable)
  • ๐Ÿ“ captions and chosen colors
  • โฌ‡๏ธ background downloads working correctly again

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๐Ÿฌ Candy Culler Improvements

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๐Ÿ“Š Results update automatically while culling runsโ€

  • As progress changes, search results refresh so culled images can appear without you manually refreshing.

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๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ New downloadable folder reportโ€

  • Quick export alongside the toggle for easier review/sharing.

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๐Ÿ’ฌ Misc

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๐Ÿ“ฒ Day 0 SMS link placement updatedโ€

  • The retail link now appears after the unsubscribe text to encourage better MMS link previews.

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Thatโ€™s the week!

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Another new pano option, tighter retail pricing presentation, cleaner check-ins, and a more informative Dashboard where it counts.

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Hey photo friends! ๐Ÿ‘‹

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Candy here with this weekโ€™s updates. Highlights include two new panoramic print products, a bunch of Manage Images + Candy Culler usability wins, and retail checkout + link preview improvements.

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Letโ€™s jump in!

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๐Ÿ†• New Products: Panoramic Prints (Group-Only)

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๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ 15ร—5 Panoramic Print (Group-only)


๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ 30ร—10 Panoramic Print (Group-only)

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These are available across both Dashboard + Retail.

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Reminders:

When you flag photos as Group Photos, they will become purchasable on Groupย products only IFย you have Group Products in your Event's Offer.

If there are NOT Group Products in your Event's Offer, then images marked as Group Photos will be purchasable on any product (including downloads).

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๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Dashboard: Manage Images + Candy Culler Improvements

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๐Ÿงฐ More Tools always visible on Manage Images

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๐ŸŒพ Candy Culler icon updated (axe โ†’ scythe)

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๐Ÿ“ฆ Download Folder improves namingโ€

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โŒจ๏ธ CTRL/CMD+F supported on the Event PhotoTags page

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๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘ Rosters, PhotoTags & Participant Fixes

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๐Ÿท๏ธ Roster upload now accepts โ€œPhotoTagsโ€ column header

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๐Ÿ“‡ PhotoRoster Data Upload now supports 3 Additional Contacts (up from 2)

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  • Program filter fixed

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๐Ÿ›๏ธ Retail: Checkout & Sharing Improvements

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๐Ÿงพ Improved checkout backendโ€

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๐Ÿ”— Link previews fixed for non-QuicPics eventsโ€

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๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ GalleryGuard enabled when watermark opacity is 0%โ€

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Note / Feature-Preview: In the near future, this will also be expanded to better highlight savings on packages on the retail site to your customers, automatically!

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โœ… Misc + Check-In Improvement

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Thatโ€™s the week!

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Keep creating magic,โ€

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Hey photo friends! ๐Ÿ‘‹

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This week was all about making renders look right, downloads behave better, and Dashboard tools feel faster (with a few Capture App and LiveLoopโ„ข polish wins sprinkled in).

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Hereโ€™s whatโ€™s new:

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๐Ÿ›๏ธ Retail Site

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๐ŸŒ€ 2D render support for Premium Print & Premium Plaqueโ€

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๐Ÿ†“ Free download product ordering improved (Quic-Events)

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  • Free Gallery Download will always appear second (if available)

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๐Ÿ“ Clearer Free Gallery Download descriptionโ€

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๐Ÿ“ฆ Web Receipt Download Page

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๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Preview fit fixedโ€

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๐Ÿ”„ Smarter auto-refresh while processingโ€

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๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Dashboard

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๐Ÿ“„ Participant download spreadsheet improvements

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๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ Cleaner downloaded filenamesโ€

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โšก Faster reportsโ€

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๐Ÿฌ Candy Culler (Our New AIย Culling Tool)

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๐Ÿฌ Candy Culler added to Command Paletteโ€

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๐Ÿ“Š Candy Culler progress bar + auto-updating statusโ€

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  • Images sort by image name (Aโ†’Z)
  • Improved mobile UI

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๐ŸŒ€ LiveLoopโ„ข

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๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Better full-frame and banner rendering (pixel-perfect)

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๐Ÿงต Banner/full-frame art now uses full resolution (no longer medium)

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๐Ÿ Background blur re-enabled on Apple devices

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๐Ÿ“ฑ Capture App iOS 4.22.4 (OTA Jan 12)

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โœจ More native-feeling navigation transitions

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๐Ÿ“ž Phone field keypad behavior fixed (no unexpected iOS keypad when manually tapping)

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๐Ÿงผ Misc Fixes &ย Cleanup

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๐Ÿงฉ Render Preview page fixes (quic.pics/render)โ€

  • Several products that werenโ€™t downloading renders correctly should now behave as expected.

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๐Ÿงฒ Cutout Magnets + Statuettes now supported on the preview pageโ€

  • Render previews/downloads are enabled for these products (note: theyโ€™ll only look correct if the selected image is a cutout).

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๐Ÿ–จ๏ธ Premium Print & Premium Plaque render downloads enabledโ€

  • You can now download renders for 8ร—10 Premium Print and Premium Plaque from the preview page too.

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๐Ÿ”ค Input cleanup for non-English-standard charactersโ€

  • Certain fancy/unsupported characters are auto-converted to standard English characters to prevent weird issues in names, sign-in fields, business info, etc.

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Thatโ€™s the week!

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Lots of โ€œlittleโ€ changes that add up to cleaner previews, clearer downloads, and faster tools where you use them most.

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Keep creating magic,โ€

Candy ๐Ÿฌ

Letโ€™s get in touch

If youโ€™re a photographer looking to add NowCandid services to your wheelhouse โ€“ set up a call by clicking the button below.

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How to customize formatting for each rich text
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Whatโ€™s a Rich Text element?

The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.

A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!

Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.

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  • List Three
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  • List Five

This is a link

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