Great ideas come from great people!
You know what they say about friends: “In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.” We are very lucky at QtAlbums - we have many, many chocolate chips. And one of the sweetest is Eirik Halvorsen, with whom I had the pleasure to discuss how we can promote our albums in 2020 when it’s hard to predict the coming months. It’s great to know we can all support each other in these new, challenging times.
Eirik posted this super cute story about his couple getting an anniversary album. You can read it below
This is possibly the best prank I’ve ever pulled off (yes, I pranked my client) 😂
Heidi got in touch with me a few months before their one year wedding anniversary. She wanted to surprise Sturle with a wedding album. We secretly corresponded via her work email so that he wouldn’t find out.
What an awesome idea! The one year anniversary is after all the paper anniversary (hint, hint to you album- and printless couples out there) 😉
But after a few weeks something even more awesome happened. Sturle secretly got in touch with me to surprise Heidi with a wedding album on their one year anniversary!
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I really love what Eirik wrote at the end of his post
The lesson in this story is, don’t be late! I’m here to help you design and make your dream album. I don’t want your wedding photos to be trapped on a hard drive on a computer somewhere. Let them breathe. Let them be seen and cherished ❤️
If you’re wondering how you can fill the gap this summer while waiting for restrictions to lift, maybe you can use THE ANNIVERSARIES ALBUMS IDEA?
Talk to your couples from last year or many years past. Think of all the couples who didn’t invest into wedding album. Maybe now they feel the time is right. Maybe they have more time to go through the details with you. Or maybe they feel like something is missing now that nostalgia for the past has set in.
Their wedding anniversary is approaching - May, June, July, August 2019 - a wedding album could be a great gift idea!
Don’t forget about your ideal clients who DID purchase a wedding album from you - you can collect their personal photos taken since then and create an album featuring their first (2nd, 3rd, 50th) year together. Hopefully this will start a yearly tradition!
All images by Eirik Halvorsen
We don’t know what the summer season will look like, but we can probably agree it won’t be the same this year, as a majority of weddings have been postponed into autumn and winter or even next year.
But people will still get married and they will still need photographers. We can still make the most out of 2020 - it’s only May!
