Coupons for pros to use with their customers?

[boxofrocks]

I hear these are on the way soon (fianlly ).

Can you leak any details?

[SmugMug]

Originally Posted by boxofrocks

I hear these are on the way soon (fianlly ).

Can you leak any details?

No leaking here

[jonnydonut]

Yes, I really really want this. Or even store credit, and smugmug bills me, or just takes from my unpaid profits. .. yes!

[SmugMug]

Originally Posted by jonnydonut

Yes, I really really want this. Or even store credit, and smugmug bills me, or just takes from my unpaid profits. .. yes!

Yep, we are working on them, just don't have any real details wrt timing yet.

[jonnydonut]

this is even more exciting then the 5d mark II shipping tomorrow. ok, maybe not but pretty close.

[janetg]

omg - it ships tomorrow?

[jonnydonut]

sorry to hijack a thread but that's the news according to canonrumors.com.

[boxofrocks]

It's not like I never did that.

[boxofrocks]

As well as coupons, a great feature would be store credits or gift certificates to provide customers.

For example: I shoot a lot of HS football. Parents always request I shoot their son, but a lot of them never buy prints. By the end of the season my list is a mile long and impossible to use effectively, so I wind up shooting just the players whose parents have been ordering. Then the other folks gripe after the season is over because they didn't get enough photos.

If I were able to sell them a gift certificate good for $$ credits towards prints, and ask that they purchase at least x dollars in order to request I shoot their kid, that would do several things:

1. Make them have some skin in the game when it comes to requesting I take photos
2. Make my shoot list more manageable/profitable
3. Drive incremental sales for smugmug

Sounds like a winner to me. Can you guys delliver this?

Thanks!

[SmugMug]

Yes, gift certificates are on the list as well. I am not sure whether we'll get GC's out in the first phase with Coupons, but they are definitely on the list.

Markham

Originally Posted by boxofrocks

As well as coupons, a great feature would be store credits or gift certificates to provide customers.

For example: I shoot a lot of HS football. Parents always request I shoot their son, but a lot of them never buy prints. By the end of the season my list is a mile long and impossible to use effectively, so I wind up shooting just the players whose parents have been ordering. Then the other folks gripe after the season is over because they didn't get enough photos.

If I were able to sell them a gift certificate good for $$ credits towards prints, and ask that they purchase at least x dollars in order to request I shoot their kid, that would do several things:

1. Make them have some skin in the game when it comes to requesting I take photos
2. Make my shoot list more manageable/profitable
3. Drive incremental sales for smugmug

Sounds like a winner to me. Can you guys delliver this?

Thanks!

[toverman]

Sweet news! Can't wait until the coupons are unleashed (and gift certificates, etc.). Will be much easier to track print credits and whatnot with a little help.

[Comanche]

Originally Posted by boxofrocks

For example: I shoot a lot of HS football. Parents always request I shoot their son, but a lot of them never buy prints. By the end of the season my list is a mile long and impossible to use effectively, so I wind up shooting just the players whose parents have been ordering. Then the other folks gripe after the season is over because they didn't get enough photos.

If I were able to sell them a gift certificate good for $$ credits towards prints, and ask that they purchase at least x dollars in order to request I shoot their kid, that would do several things:

1. Make them have some skin in the game when it comes to requesting I take photos
2. Make my shoot list more manageable/profitable
3. Drive incremental sales for smugmug

Sounds like a winner to me. Can you guys delliver this?

Thanks!

Oh yes - this would really work! I get very tired of parents asking me to take shots of #12, then never buy. I waste time and energy. Gift certificates would be a great way to do help me be more efficient and take shots for dependable customers, not "requesters" . Also, I often get requests to shoot something different than the usual HS game, such as a junior high game. I ask for a deposit now, but with a gift certificate, that could be the "deposit" and I'm covered.

Would SM set it up so people could buy gift certificates on our sites?

[SmugMug]

Originally Posted by Comanche

Oh yes - this would really work! I get very tired of parents asking me to take shots of #12, then never buy. I waste time and energy. Gift certificates would be a great way to do help me be more efficient and take shots for dependable customers, not "requesters" . Also, I often get requests to shoot something different than the usual HS game, such as a junior high game. I ask for a deposit now, but with a gift certificate, that could be the "deposit" and I'm covered.

Would SM set it up so people could buy gift certificates on our sites?

That is part of the discussion we are having. Nothing is yet decided or set in stone on Gift Certificates.

[Tom]

Can you just set it up for me? I don't really care about anyone else that posted on here.




:)

[brad]

Self-fulfillment and packages are also on the list, I hear....