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Simplify your life – And win some actions +Yr long Iris membership

Jul

31

To  make this easy:

1. SIGN UP FOR A FREE MONTH OF IRIS

2. You are now ENTRED TO WIN YOUR PICK OF A PHOTOSHOP ACTION SET (2 winners)

3.  You are ALSO entered to win a YEAR LONG membership to IRIS! (2 winners!)

 

 

About 6 months ago, I started to use IRIS works as my studio management program. After I had it all set up, I watched it do it’s magic.  As a photographer, we spend hours a day replying to emails, sending contracts, invoices, reminder emails, what to wear emails, thank you emails, etc etc.

Now, when I get an email, I put their information into Iris as a potential new client. Once they convert, I let Iris know, put their session into my Iris calendar (which will sync to my ical as well as google cal if you have that) and thats it! I have attached workflows for each of my types of sessions. For instance, if someone books a newborn lifestyle session, at the time of booking they will receive a questionnaire all of which will help me guide our session together.  In that, they enter their address, etc. All of that info that my client enters goes into their file. I don’t enter a thing. You can have auto emails set up, contracts in there as well as invoices.

Iris works

After I enter my client into my calendar, I head over to invoice them for their session fee. I literally add in the drop down what I want, pick a client, and click go. They can then pay on paypal right away. Contracts, the same thing. I pick a client, pick the type of contract, click go. They fill it out and it automatically goes into their file. Guess what. All of that took me 2 minutes. Ok… maybe 1.

And you know what all this means?

I get to see THESE 2 goofballs, more. 🙂

kids

 

Side note…. Tyler is going to Kindergarten in 3 weeks! So I NEED to be spending any free time I can with him 🙂

TYler

 

Iris and I have teamed up for a GIVEAWAY for you! If you sign up for a FREE trial through the month of August, TWO of you will be entered to win one of my Photoshop action sets of choice as well as a 1 year FULL membership to Iris!. The winners will be noticed on Sept 1st!

SIGN UP FOR IRIS HERE. 

you will be automatically entered to win your choice of one of my photoshop action sets (see more about those here)

We will be keeping track of all of those who sign up for the trial thought the month of August.

 

To learn more about Iris, visit the link HERE! There are a ton of more features in there, but I wanted to touch on my workflow so you can see how EASY it is! Plus I have my clients info ALL over now, so that would be tricky showing you all that haha!

 

 

 

 

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  1. mary beth says:

    I have been wanting to check IRIS out, so this the nudge I needed to sign up!

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