Our first attempt at an ad

I was so excited to create an ad, put a lot of time into and was very proud. That is, until a friend asked "Did you pay attention to the words in the music?" Oops. . . maybe it's not the best to put on the website. Not quite 'bridey'. But now I think it's hysterical and definitely worthy of the Blog. Leave your comments below, I'm interested to know what you think!

Below is an email sent to all 2009 and 2010 wedding clients:

I just wanted to take this opportunity to update you on a few things going on here at Berryphotos. I’ll keep it short and sweet:

• We updated our website and there’s two great links off the wedding page. The first is an online form you fill out just before your wedding that gives us a bunch of info we need for the wedding day and gives you a PDF of helpful tips http://www.berryphotos.com/WeddingInfoForm.html.
• The second is an online form that aids in the album ordering process and offers price lists, cover options and a whole bunch more http://www.berryphotos.com/AlbumLayout.html . Hopefully those will be helpful to you.
• Speaking of albums, we have created a blog that shows every album we’ve laid out in the past year. The cool thing is you can search by reception location or church, so maybe there’s one for your reception location you could check out http://berryphotosalbums.blogspot.com/.
• OK, Economy. I’m sure you’ll be pleased to know that we’ve reverted all our album, print and framing prices to their 2007 prices! We know the economy is tough, so rather than raise our prices, we’re lowering them – hoping to get more sales. Pretty simple, but helpful to you too J
• Along that theme, I just wanted to remind you of our referral program. For any new client that signs a contract and simply mentions your name you get a $100 credit toward your album, prints and framing orders. We’re not asking you to be our sales team, we simply want to offer a humble and genuine Thank You if you were so kind as to refer someone to us. There are a lot of bridal attendants, friends and co-workers out there. . .
• OK, last, so I don’t have to bother you with long emails again you can check us out on Facebook. Just search for Berry Photos (not Keith Berry, I’m keeping that one private J ) We’ve also got a group with discussion threads too. I’ll send you an invite.
  
  As always, as we get closer to your wedding please let me know if there’s anything I can do to help. We’re always a call or email away!

Three more sample albums

Our goal this winter was to create three sample albums to place at some of our favorite venues. Just this past week we dropped off albums at White Cliffs in Plymouth and the Coonamessett Inn in Falmouth. This coming week we plan on dropping the third at the Seaport hotel and World Trade Center in Boston. This year we'll be keeping an eye out for additional venues to add to this list. Things we look for are how they treat their brides and grooms, how they treat their vendors, availability of great photography locations and feedback from clients.

One thing we refuse to do is pay to add our name to a venue's "Preferred vendor list". Some venues actually have their preferred vendors pay to be on their list. That's either called advertising, or kick-backs, but it just doesn't seem right. I guess those locations prefer money.

Any place we associate with will refer us because they've worked with us and know our service and product and feel comfortable referring us to their clients.

To see some of these sample albums go to our Albums blog at http://berryphotosalbums.blogspot.com/

Michelle and Peter

Hotel Marlowe is a very unique beautiful and modern hotel in Cambridge. It has lots of vibrant colors done in a tasteful, contemporary way.