The new year brings new plans for Jimmy McDonald Photography. I am constantly brainstorming new ideas and ways to offer additional services and products.
Before the end of 2011 I was contacted to consider arranging the team and individual player photos for Rockingham Parks and Recreation. I’ve considered the challenges involved with “Assembly Line” photography before. It required some thought and planning to make sure that I could have a system with help to handle nearly 300 basketball players and their parents.
Friday January 6th was the true test beginning with approximately 70 of the young superstars. Our system worked great and the kids were fun to photograph. The following day offered more athletes and the process continued to work for us. I plan to make some minor adjustments to further streamline the ordering process. We have another weekend with more basketball teams to photograph coming and I am looking forward to it.
We have been very welcomed by the parents and I have already begun planning for spring sports in a few months. A few templates and samples can be viewed on my blog.
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Another new addition to Jimmy McDonald photography that we introduced during the basketball sessions is mobile credit card transactions. Many parents took advantage of the mobile credit card transactions and were glad to have this option available to them.
Many times I have been out on location and a client has requested to pay with their debit or credit card. This will continue to be a nice convenient payment method offered to all future clients. I have recently completed my second Payment Card Industry training period and am qualified to handle sensitive credit card information to complete transaction. My website transaction will continue to be processed via Paypal as in the past.
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Mini Sessions were very popular during the spring and fall seasons. I plan to offer the mini session during the majority of the year beginning NOW! – This option is $25.00 for a 30 min session at any predetermined location in Richmond County. The photo file CD for mini sessions is available for $50.00. The photo file CD contains high resolution edited files ready for printing with a copyright release form.
Mini sessions can be scheduled for individual, senior, family, pet, infant and promo sessions.
My Facebook fan page continues to grow new friends as it approaches 2400 “likes” This page is a great way to keep up with projects, learn of new specials and offer suggestions. Come hang out at www.jmacphotofanpage.com
2012 appears to be another busy year for me as I continue to book weddings (May is almost full), engagement sessions, bridal sessions, more sports photos than ever, class reunions, senior portraits and family portrait sessions. I look forward to another busy year doing something that I very much enjoy.
Please call or email anytime!
