Happy Monday everyone! Today I (K) wanted to share some photos from the fabulous, beautiful baby shower that Marissa, my sis Kelli, and my momma threw for me! This was such a special day, and at the end of it I just couldn’t stop smiling. I feel so incredibly blessed to be surrounded by so many great friends to encourage me, love me, support me, and shower me with love in this season of my life. Baby boy and I got spoiled big-time. 🙂
So the theme of baby boy’s nursery is all about “Adventure.” It’s based on a book that used to be my grandfather’s when he was a little boy – called “Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax.” (I’ll be sure to post a few pics of the nursery reveal once it’s ready!) So this is what Kel and Riss used to go off of for the decor of the day. The shower was held, of course, at the Divas home – our San Diego studio! All of the little details were so adorable, and I just loved seeing how they set everything up.
Let’s talk about all of the food you see here. As a prego woman, I love to eat… and Caroline with Cucina Coronado created some absolutely DELICIOUS appetizers and small bites for the shower. Everything was beautifully prepared and displayed, and Caroline was so sweet. Even though we just met her on that day, it felt like she fit right in with the Diva family!
And that adorable cake!!!! It was made by Truly Scrumptious Cakes – and it truly was scrumptious!
Thank you, Riss, Kel, and Momma, for giving me such a special day. And a special thanks to Mama Cece and my other sis, Ash, for all your help in setting up the shower! AND… thank you to all my family, friends, and Diva fam who got to be at the shower – it was so special having each of you there. Love you all! xoxo, K
We are SO incredibly honored to say that we were recently featured in FINE MAGAZINE!
There’s an awesome write-up about us in there (click here if you want to read the whole thing)… and beyond that, Marissa was also able to shoot an entire editorial spread for the November edition of the mag. SO cool!
Here are more images from that editorial shoot. Oh, and be sure to scroll to the bottom of this post to watch an entire behind-the-scenes video of the shoot!!!
We wanna give a huge thank you to the fabulous Daisy Varley for filming and editing this awesome video for us!
Hi Guys!
Good things happening around here that we wanted to fill you in on. First off – some of you BI members who did the year-long subscription, well… your year may be up! And if so, you will be getting a personalized email from us soon. But don’t be bummed about that because we have exciting news!! Those of you that are month to month, no worries, you are good & won’t be getting an email from us, however you may want to considering going yearly, because it’s SUCH a better deal! (If you want to go yearly, just email us: [email protected])
NEW PRICING
We wanted to make sure you knew that it’s now even MORE AFFORDABLE to sign up for a full year – it’s only $150! That’s like less than getting 2 fancy coffees at Starbucks each week. 🙂 
We wanted to make sure you knew that it’s now even MORE AFFORDABLE to sign up for a full year – it’s only $150! That’s like less than getting 2 fancy coffees at Starbucks each week. 🙂
WE WANNA FEATURE YOU
Also, we want YOU to be featured on the Boudoir International BLOG!!!! Once you sign up for a yearly membership, then we want to make sure we give you a little love in return, and get you hooked up with a “Featured Member” post on the blog.
Also, we want YOU to be featured on the Boudoir International BLOG!!!! Once you sign up for a yearly membership, then we want to make sure we give you a little love in return, and get you hooked up with a “Featured Member” post on the blog.
The goal of the BI BLOG is to get potential boudoir clients more invested and excited about an experience, and then start looking for someone in their area to be their fit as a boudoir photographer! Hopefully that’s you!
You probably already know that we’ve been advertising on Green Wedding Shoes for the past year. But did you know that we are also starting to run campaigns with Google AdWords? We have been doing this for the past couple of months and we are definitely seeing the benefits, as our site stats continue to climb! Our goal is to get more eyes on this site, and more eyes on YOUR PROFILE!
MEDIA KIT
If you haven’t already seen the updated media kit, take a few minutes to read it over!
If you haven’t already seen the updated media kit, take a few minutes to read it over!
QUESTIONS?
Shoot Sarah (she is our fabulous Associate Editor for Boudoir International) an email if you have questions about anything here, she is at [email protected]! Also, if you want to update any of your info on your profile page or send us new images for your gallery, you can do that by just emailing them to Sarah directly as well.
Shoot Sarah (she is our fabulous Associate Editor for Boudoir International) an email if you have questions about anything here, she is at [email protected]! Also, if you want to update any of your info on your profile page or send us new images for your gallery, you can do that by just emailing them to Sarah directly as well.
THANK YOU
Thanks again for joining us on this journey… Boudoir Photographers, UNITE! xoxo, Marissa & Kimberlee
Thanks again for joining us on this journey… Boudoir Photographers, UNITE! xoxo, Marissa & Kimberlee
The Holidays have the potential to be one of our best seasons for our business, but it seems that every year they sneak up on us a bit. So this year we made it a point to plan all of our marketing early (see previous blog post)! And not only that, since we were going to launch one of our biggest sales ever, we wanted some hype to go with it. So we set up two commercials in hopes to get our potential clients excited, thinking and planning about Christmas earlier in the Fall. It’s not too late fellow Bou Photogs! What are you going to do to maximize your holiday? A sale, a marathon, mini sessions, a new set, a new product that has quicker turnaround so you can continue to shoot closer to Christmas?
Our goal with this one was to inspire ladies to make this holiday a little sexier than the norm. And those of us that have been married a long while know that romance can take some planning!
And this one…. well A) we wanted to goof off and B) we wanted to announce our sale in an excited and different way!
Happy Monday everyone!!! We just wanted to follow-up with you about Intuit’s Small Business Big Game Contest, and let you know that unfortunately we didn’t make it into the next round. BUT – we wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU to all of you who voted for us over the past few months! We got SO much love and support from all of you, and all of your votes got us ranked SO HIGH on the list! We were in the top 100 and even in the top 50 for a while there. So thank you, from the bottom of our hearts. If you didn’t have a chance to watch our Small Business Big Game Commercial, go check it out!
And while we’re talking about videos… have you subscribed to our Boudoir Divas Youtube Channel yet?! We love posting videos of our photo shoots, our travels, our lives, and lots of silly behind-the-scenes vids from the studio. We have some really cool videos in the line-up that will be coming soon, so if you don’t want to miss any of them, make sure you go subscribe! Hope you all have a fabulous week. xoxo, K&M
It was a chilly fall morning when we took Peggy (our gorgeous and talented hair and make-up artist!) to the outskirts of San Diego for a just-for-fun outdoor boudoir photo shoot. Pegs was recently hitched, so we took this opportunity to snap some shots of her in her beautiful, vintage wedding day garb with our own boudoir twist! With Halloween right around the corner, we feel this shoot perfectly captures the “spirit” of the holiday. Thank you, Peggy, for getting up at the crack of down with us to play around in the wilderness. We love you. <3
Okay so it’s not, but for us in the gift giving business, it is!!! It’s time to plan our your early bird specials and plant the seed for the perfect Christmas gift! We plan to launch two fun “commercials” we shot on our You Tube channel, Facebook, on all our blogs and newsletters too. We want to make sure that we take advantage of this season more than ever, pushing our “Bombshell Books®”, our Gift Cards, our early bird photo session and eventually our last minute photo sessions. Next week we are going to kick off a big early bird sale!
So since we are hard little elves at work, we thought we would give our fellow boudoir photographers a little reminder. Tis the season to get motivated! Make the most of the Christmas season and start early!! A video isn’t totally necessary, as long as you make up some cute jpegs to get people feeling that holiday fuzzy good feeling you are set. Then blast them every where 😉
Oh and PS, don’t forget to remind people about your turnaround times to light a fire under their booties to book asap, here is an example of what we put on our blog that’s geared toward potential boudoir clients….
Merry Christmas, I mean Happy Halloween from Marissa & Kimberlee 😉
Dang owning a business can be hard can’t it?!
I mean…. it’s a blessing…. we are BLESSED with this amazing life, but it doesn’t mean that some weeks aren’t a little tougher than others. Or A LOT tougher than others.
BUT, we have found the antidote to most stress for the photographer. It’s called “Believe in beauty”, and it’s a reminder why we do what we do. To create art.
Get a model or a friend, and just go have fun and MAKE MAGIC!!! This is the antidote when you have too many bills to pay, when you have to do any kind of terrible admin task, when you have to stay late to clean the toilets or organize your billions of receipts. Or fix that darn techie thing that needs fixing and is beyond frustrating.
When you are overwhelmed, take a 5 hour break and go shoot something you always dreamed of shooting. And then when you get back to the mundane, whoa, it’s like you appreciate it. Because it’s those exhausting things that afford you the time to be you .
The other day, K was in town, so we had serious to-do after even more serious to-do to plow through, and when we were feeling blah we said, ” let’s get up early and let’s make some freaking magic.” And it lit our souls on fire.
As my all time favie movie “Vanilla Sky” said so wonderfully, “you can’t taste the sweet without the sour.” Meaning how sweet is the sweet part of our job once we get through the sour. Let’s make our own magic people, we are blessed with a job where that is our number one goal. So let’s make it a priority.
We really feel that it is the marketing that we have done over the years that has really pushed our boudoir studio, The Boudoir Divas San Diego, to a level we could never have imagined! We get so many marketing and advertising questions from boudoir photographers all the time, and since there just isn’t enough time in a day to write everyone back, we made this free marketing webinar to learn what exactly it is we do to gain attention for our studio. We tried to pack it in with plenty of marketing and advertising tips for boudoir photographers…
We hope you enjoy this and that it is helpful for you!!! We would really appreciate any feedback or comments below, as this was a doozie of a project and it’s our hope it was helpful to some out there in the internets world 🙂 Have a beautiful day!!! xoxo- Kimberlee & Marissa
Coming this week: a FREE Boudoir Marketing Webinar for photographers! Sign up for our newsletter list if you want to know about it as soon as we launch it! xoxo, K&M
