iPrints Professional
by Dale Laboratories
Marketing Ideas For Working Professionals

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Earn Easy Profits by Offering Package Prints To Schools


How To Order Package Prints

Profitable Ideas For Promoting Package Prints For Event, Seasonal and Corporate Shoots

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Dear ,
 
Package prints can be very profitable.
 
Each fall millions of children pose for their individual class pictures...and nearly every parent buys at least one package.
 
Large schools are often tied in to national studios, making it tough for independent pros.
 
But, there are hundreds of smaller public, private and religious schools that would prefer to deal with a reputable local photographer like you.
 
All you'll need to get into this lucrative business is a background and a set of studio flash units.
 
We can help! Our laboratory will provide you with finished package prints that are far better than the ones from chain studios...at low, competitive prices that guarantee you a good profit.
 
Our Package Print System:
    • We provide you with free, easy-to-use online ROES templates for all the various print sizes you'll need to structure your offerings.
    • You'll shoot dozens of individual portraits in front of a single background but be able to provide a full array of print sizes and packages.
    • You'll be able to crop and order with our ROES software in just minutes.
    • We've Got Your Back - With our lab corrected prints we'll apply individual corrections to your images if you have "missed" or uneven exposures so that you'll still get good prints.
    • The Bottom Line: You'll be in a perfect position to compete with even the largest national studios.
Let us help you make the profits you deserve!


Best regards,
Dale

Please read on for tips on how to create and market package prints for schools and other applications.

Or ... click here to see our "How To" Video!
Package Prints


Creating Profitable Print Packages Is Easy!

These are just a few of the templates you can use as your "building blocks":

8 x 10
8" x 10"


2 - Up 5" x 7"













4 - Up 4" x 6"

8 - Up Wallet Sized Prints
















  • Offer "packages" of different print sizes. We suggest offering three different print packages at gradually increasing prices.
  • Excellent mark-ups with our low $1.50 per 8x10 print unit cost for lab corrected prints. Or...
  • Pay just $1.25 per unit for our new studio corrected prints where you do the color correction.
  • Fast lab ordering (Under 2 minutes per subject...even faster with our Packager* system for higher volume studios)

Click here to see a video that will show you how to create and order your package prints!

Other Ways To Use Package Prints


Consider Package Prints A Tool You Can Use For Shooting Venues Beyond Schools

Package prints give you an inexpensive way to make a large number of portrait prints that you can sell at a nice profit .

All you need is a group of people at a single location who will sit for a few minutes in front of your backdrop to have their pictures taken.

This is fast, easy shooting. You snap the picture. We do the rest in our lab! You make a nice profit on every shot.

Here are some ideas that work:

  • Family photographs in churches or as PTA fundraisers in schools.
    • Give a percentage of your proceeds back to the organization.
    • This is an easy way for groups to benefit their members with pro portraits while raising much-needed revenue.
  • Santa & Easter Bunny pictures in malls.
    • Provide dye sublimation or inkjet prints on-site for low-end packages.
    • Offer a choice of print packages for enlargements from wallet-sized to 11" x 14."
  • Friends' gifts at weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs & quinces -
    • Imagine what a nice gift a professional portrait package would make for bridesmaids, groomsmen or the parents of the child's friends.
    • Set up your background (for a very nominal or even no fee) as an event "station."
    • Deliver all the print packages with mailing envelopes to the hostess for her to address with her "thank you" cards.
    • Charge a relatively low unit price and make your profits on the volume of prints you'll be providing.
  • Corporate seminars & conventions -
    • Get past a DVD only shooting contract with an "add-on" portrait station.
    • Provide prints to all participants.
    • Either deliver the prints to the corporate office or offer to mail them out (for a fee) to each employee or executive.
  • Pet portraits -
    • Make a deal with a large, local pet supply store's manager.
    • Use a similar format to Santa shots.
    • Either mail the prints to pet owners or have them pick up at the store. (Work out details with the manager.)

Package prints produce big profits based on volume. From a single day's shooting you'll sell a large number of prints.
 
We give you the technical "leverage" and quality that makes this an easy way to make money.
 
If you have school contracts lined up we're ready to serve you now. If not, consider promoting package prints to local schools and churches for the Spring shooting season.

Check in your local community to see if you can use any of our other suggestions.

Our job; to make you look good and to give you an easy way to get the best package prints in America.
 
Please call us at (800) 327-1776 if you have any questions. We're here to help!

I hope you find these ideas useful.
 


Best regards,
Dale

Dale Farkas
iPrints Professional by Dale Laboratories
South Florida's only ROES/Kodak DP2 Pro Lab

P.S. Please contact me if you have any suggestions or comments on this email or others.


*Our Packager system let's you pre-design your various print packages. Then, you just drag-and-drop your images into a single template saving even more post-production time. Please call our Customer Service department if you are doing a large volume of prints and we'll set up your account so that you can use Packager. Click here to see instructions on how to create custom packages with Packager. Here are specifications and requirements for our package prints.

Our thanks to Raul Riera at Penguins Creations, www.penguinscreations.com for his package print portraits.

 

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