One of my FAVORITE local magazines, NORTH, contacted me last month about doing a quick catalog shoot for Delaney’s Boutique for their upcoming holiday gift guide. When I walked into the Fishers Delaney’s, I fell in LOVE with their boutique! If you still have Christmas shopping to do, check them out! They have chic clothing, adorable gifts, beautiful jewelry and so much more! Click HERE to view the online gift guide!

Yesterday afternoon was an exciting afternoon to say the least…we found out that 2 of our wedding pet photos were published in the LA Times! Click HERE to view the awesome article!

If you are getting married in the next 2 years and you haven’t booked your hairstylist, make-up artist or transportation yet, LISTEN UP! Our friends at Five Star Limo have an AWESOME Groupon deal today – $45 for one hour of luxury limo service, which is a $120 value! CLICK HERE to take advantage of their awesome deal, it expires at midnight tonight! Also, for those of you who may not know, we have an ongoing referral promotion set up with our good friends at Karen Hall & Co. where if you book their services and mention that you were a referral from us (whether you are a client of ours or not), you’ll receive a FREE trial run before your wedding! CLICK HERE to check out their website, they book up quickly so don’t delay, contact them today!

I’m soooo excited to announce that our newly redesigned website is now LIVE!! John at InspireMedia did SUCH an amazing job on it, he’s awesome!! It was such a huge project to take on, but it was so worth it…the new site features include: animated drop down navigation, flash based slideshows, page transition animation, full screen images and some of my favorite music set to the custom photo galleries. I think my two favorite galleries are “Bling” and “Pets” you’ve GOT to check them out!! We hope you all enjoy the new website and find it easier to navigate and full of ideas! XOXO

Most of you know John, my awesome online marketing guru husband, but some of you may not know that he owns InspireMedia, a web development company here in Indy that specializes in custom web design, branding, blog development, SEO, SEM, online reputation monitoring, email marketing, social media, etc, etc etc. He does it all! He not only created this fabulous blog but you’ll also probably recognize the work that he’s done for FC Tucker, Beach Bum Vacation, Classic Cakes (new site coming soon), Shoot Fore Sammi, Meridian Floral Design & Events, A Touch of Elegance, Tyler Mason, Employment Source, among several others!

I often receive emails from other photographers and vendors asking about our marketing strategies and how they can implement similar principles, ideas and promotions into their businesses to help them grow, so I wanted to blog about some exciting new things that John & I are creating for business owners (in any industry) who are serious about growing their business and really taking it to the next level.

He & I are teaming up to develop a series of Marketing Intensive classes that will focus on various subjects within the broad spectrum of marketing. The first class will focus on “Creating an Online Marketing Plan that Works” and it’ll be held on Thursday, 6/3/10 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. at my office. We’ve reserved the board room for the afternoon so we only have 10 seats available for the workshop! The cost is only $299 for this 3 hour event, however, if you register before this Sunday (5/24/10) the cost is only $249. John is also offering a freebie for the early bird registrations…you may choose to receive either a free website review of your existing site OR a free search engine optimization report! (Both valued at $99)

I am also offering a freebie for our early birds!! Since I will be there to give my input on some of his topics, I plan to bring my camera along and shoot free head shots for any business owner in attendance so that you’ll have a brand new, fully edited photo of yourself to put on any of the social media sites (facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, etc) or your website after the workshop! (And yes, when I say “fully edited” that means I’ll retouch any wrinkles & make you skinny if you’re worried about any of that!)

For more information about our workshop, click HERE or to sign up for the event, click HERE!