Tip of the Week-Online Proofing 2.0 Beta

We are excited to inform you that our Online Proofing 2.0 has made it through internal testing and is ready for open beta testing. We would like to invite you to experience the new StudioCloud Online Proofing 2.0. Please email support@studiocloud.com with any problems or questions. If you experience a problem please provide us with as much information as you can about the problem so we can resolve the issue as quickly as possible.

To start using the new Online Proofing 2.0 download the new StudioCloud PSG 2.0 at
Online Proofing

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Tip of the Week-StudioCloud Mobile

This week’s Tip of the Week has to do with accessing your studio while on the go. StudioCloud is excited to announce the new and improved StudioCloud Mobile 2.0. The new StudioCloud Mobile 2.0 gives photographers the ability to add new appointments and clients from any Internet enabled device such as an iPhone, Blackberry, Palm, etc. Having the ability to check your schedule as well as adding new appointments while on the go will help you to improve your studio’s time management.

http://www.studiocloud.com/m2

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Tip of the Week -Tags

This week’s Tip of the Week has to do with Client Tags. Client Tags are an important part of creating profitable marketing campaigns. Tags allow you to create marketing campaigns that focus on specific types of clients. Every client might seem different but many of them have similarities that you can use to create that perfect marketing campaign. For example, similarities such as interests, hobbies, events, lifestyle, estimated income level, employment, etc. can all be used to identify which customers a specific marketing campaign would appeal to the most.

StudioCloud provides you with intuitive, easy to use, tagging functionality that enables you to create that perfect marketing campaign for your clients. Tags also help you to effectively organize your clients to create an even more efficient studio.

To get more information regarding how to setup and use tags refer to the link below:

http://app1.studiocloud.com/support/index.php?/category/135/0/10/

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Tip of the Week - Workflow

This week’s Tip of the Week is focused on increasing your studios efficiency. The key to being efficient is establishing simple and intuitive workflow processes for you and your employees.

To assist you in this, StudioCloud offers advanced workflow features in the Desktop application that allow you to easily setup and maintain your studios product and order workflow. The product workflow is the actual status of each individual product in an order while the order workflow is the status of an entire order.

To get step-by-step instructions on how to setup your studios workflow click the link below.

What is a Pipeline?
http://studiocloud.com/support/?View=entry&EntryID=105

Workflow Instructions:
http://studiocloud.com/support/?View=entry&EntryID=106

As your workflow efficiency increases your order turnaround time will decrease and you will be able to get more work done in less time.

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Tip of the Week – Email Marketing Campaigns

This week’s Tip of the Week has to do with email campaigns. Email campaigns are one of the most cost effective marketing tools available to photographers. However, caution should be used not to send too many emails to a client or to have an email message be too generic.

To help you avoid sending generic emails, StudioCloud allows you to create marketing campaigns based upon session types, dates, tags, relationships, organizations, and numerous other criteria. By utilizing StudioCloud’s email marketing tools you will be able to craft a custom message for a specific group of clients. Not only will StudioCloud let you create email marketing campaigns but it will also send those emails out for you.

Marketing just got a lot easier.

To get step-by-step instructions on how to create an email marketing campaign click the link below

http://studiocloud.com/support/?View=entry&EntryID=101

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Client Numbers

Last night our development team stayed up late to bring you the new Client Number feature. StudioCloud wants to thank those of you that have been patiently waiting for us to add this new feature.

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Customizable Invoice Numbers and Online Gallery PayPal Support

We have a lot of customers who have been asking why the blog has been quiet lately. The blog's focus has been on new features and products. The development team has been working diligently on getting them released and they expect them to be available in the next few weeks. A lot of the updates over the last few weeks have been in preparation for those new features. Hopefully you will be excited as we are about the new features when they are announced.

Last night’s update added some exciting new features. The first feature is primarily for international users, QuickBooks users, and new StudioCloud studios. You can now change the invoice number so that it matches with your current studios invoice number allowing you to continue using the same invoice numbering system you have always been using. It will make the transition to StudioCloud just that much easier.

To learn more about editing Invoice Numbers click on the following link:
http://studiocloud.com/support/?View=entry&EntryID=91

Those of you who are detail oriented will also have noticed that the developers added a few visual items to speed up your processes. The title bar when you edit an invoice now contains the invoice date as well as the invoice number.

StudioCloud is also pleased to announce that the Online Gallery now has the capability of accepting credit cards through PayPal. This new feature gives your clients a simple and efficient way to purchase those must have images. This new PayPal capability is an option that can be turned on or off on a per album basis.

To learn more about Online Gallery’s new PayPal capability click on the following link:
http://studiocloud.com/support/?View=entry&EntryID=93

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