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—— Forwarded Message
From: Kevin Swan  <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:27:03 Â -0500
To: The Boudoir Divas  <[email protected]>
Subject: pink. just for  you.
http://www.kissweddingbooks.com/blog/
We wanted it, and we got it! Even though the we lost the pink vs white vote, they still gave it to us. Can wait to do a 10×10 studio sample! Thanks Kevin and Shaun for stroking our ego and telling us it was “Just for us!” The girl in us eats that right up, but I can’t help but believe that there are going to be a lot of boudoir books coming your way cuz of this color. Yes!
That’s right, I could barely believe it myself, but we got 500 additional hits from this inexpensive and focused advertising direct to our ideal clients. This one took a lot of expensive mistakes to figure out, so we are only telling our workshop attendees. Plus it wouldn’t be as valuable if everyone was doing it. So a big hush, hush workshop peeps.
Hi to all of our Vegas workshop peeps! Just wanted to let you know that we’ll be sending out a newsletter over the weekend with a few more details for you! We’ve booked our hotel suite where we’ll be holding the workshop (SOOO excited to tell you where it is!!!) 🙂 So we’ll get that info over to you, along with some other details. If you have any questions after looking over the newsletter, you know you’re always welcome to email us with your ?s! We’re looking forward to seeing you all in Vegas, Baby!
Valentine’s Day is a huge part of our biz so I just posted this reminder on our Woman Captured blog. We have a big promo going here in the studio, if we reach 28 boudoir shoots between now and Feb 14th all the hardworking gals here in the studio will receive a bonus. I think they will get it by the looks of
things! -Marissa
I received the email below last month and I figured that this may be a question that a lot of you have. Here is the question.
“Hi Marissa,
I just wanted to say that you are a huge inspiration in my boudoir work and your images are absolutely stunning. I just wanted to ask how you talk so many clients into agreeing to reveal their faces for your website and blog? I’ve YET to have a client that has agreed so all of the images on my blog are well…..faceless. They agree to sample albums but nothing online… Thanks so much and enjoy your weekend! -Eric, Raw Photo Design
Hi Eric,
Thanks so much for the kind words. No need to make my head big! 😉 When we started out we had that hiccup in our marketing plan as well. We started asking gals in a way that made it seem more like privilege rather than a favor. Something like, “Your photos came out so wonderful, we would for you to be one of the gals we feature on our blog and website in hopes that it would encourage other wives to come and do a shoot.” Now it seems that girls want to be on our site and bring it up even before we get the chance to ask. Like a bit of a status thing. We also tell them that the only way to keep us from eventually deleting their photos after their order was to sign our marketing/model release. Another option is to let them choose the photos that they are comfortable with showing. Maybe some that are bit less racy.
So K n’ I didn’t have to time to make a fun episode out of this question….. so I will just sing the outro song. Na na na na naaah, nu nu nu nu nu NAH! 😉
-M
Ok friends… we’ve had a few comments from people saying that you haven’t received our newsletters even though you’re signed up. So rather than email everyone individually, I’m just going to post the last link here online, so that everyone can view it. Also – if you scroll to the bottom of this newsletter, you’ll be able to see our most recent past issues. Check it out here! And if you’re not signed up for the newsletter list, be sure you sign up here! (We promise not to flood your inbox with junk… we email everyone about once a month, and we almost always include fun tips & free downloads).
Email me if you want to book a shoot in the Dallas area (we’ll be shooting in a super-cool hotel suite in North Dallas). Date: Saturday, Jan. 23rd (and POSSIBLY Sunday the 24th, if there is enough interest after Saturday books up). To Book: send me an email… we’ll require a 50% deposit to hold your spot, with the remaining 50% due the day of the shoot. We’ll accept payments through Paypal or checks made out to ‘The Boudoir Divas.’ After we receive your deposit, we’ll send you all the juicy details! And yes, I WILL be able to get your photos processed in time for Valentine’s Day! 🙂 We’re also thinking about offering shoots for photographers during WPPI week. We’ve had a few of you already email us to say that you’re interested, so we’ll be finalizing details soon!
