Success Stories

20/07/2023

It’s safe to assume that you didn’t choose to run a photography business because you want to spend lots of time doing admin, right? With one simple change Loudoun County Newborn, Family, and Birthday Portrait Photographer Jess Lynn and her admin assistant Annie are now able to spend more time with their families, focus on […]

14/02/2022

Increasing your average sale for every session that you shoot means reaching your business goals more quickly or by relying on a smaller number of clients. Newborn photographer Mhari-Clare of Flutterby Photography shared how she’s seen a 2.4x increase in average sales from her sessions with a few simple steps.

17/01/2022

We all work hard to find different ways of attracting new clients and bringing in new business, but how much untapped potential is there in the list of clients you’ve worked with before? We spoke to Brentwood newborn photographer, Kristina Mack about how she was able to use her existing customer list to fill the […]

23/08/2019

Lynne Kennedy is based in the far north-west of Scotland, next to the Isle of Skye, where she specialises in photographing elopements and small weddings. The majority of her shoots are on Skye but she occasionally travels a little further afield to another island or remote part of the mainland. She’s been photographing weddings since […]

16/08/2019

Do you follow up on enquiries? You could be missing out on work. We loved this tweet from Graham Carruthers. It can be difficult to keep on top of enquiries, but with Light Blue you can set up a workflow that automatically follows up enquiries. Workflows can be used to add a series of tasks, […]

14/06/2019

Keeping on top of your finances is really important when you are running a business and, while we have some great tools in Light Blue to help with this, some business need even more accounting tools. Many of our customers use QuickBooks to do their accounts and had asked for an easier way to get […]

24/05/2019

Based in The Wirral, Amy Knowles runs Slinky Photography, a newborn family and maternity photography studio. Amy got in touch with us after reading our blog post about how to use scheduling tools to allow your customers to book shoots online with Light Blue. She took the advice and ideas that we’d presented there to […]

14/02/2018

Grahame Smith LMPA is an award winning weddings, portrait, and dog photographer, based in Dunbar, Scotland. After a lifelong interest in photography, and a short lived career as a trainee aircraft technician in the RAF, Grahame (assisted by his wife Allison) embarked upon the journey into professional photography in the early 1990s. And now (with […]

22/11/2017

This is the second in a series of articles written by photographer & Light Blue customer, Nick Church, about how Light Blue has helped him to grow his photography business. In my previous article, I discussed how Nick Church Photography relies on Light Blue to handle all aspects of my bookings, customers and shoots to […]

22/11/2017

We’ve made Light Blue a powerful and versatile tool for running your photography business. We understand that photography businesses come in all shapes and sizes, and with different needs depending on your particular genre(s) of work. What you may not know is that Light Blue can also be used to help organise other types of […]

19/10/2017

Matt Ross is a family and headshot photographer, offering a mix of on location, and studio based shoots from just outside of London, in the UK. After a successful career in the world of finance, working in both the Formula One industry, and for a Big Four professional services firm, Matt brings his professionalism and […]

15/08/2017

This is the first in a series of articles written by photographer & Light Blue customer, Nick Church, about how Light Blue has helped him to grow his photography business. Do what you do best, outsource the rest To be a successful photographer, your business needs sound marketing, PR and sales strategies as well as […]

07/08/2017

Nick Ray is a photojournalist, and wedding photographer based just outside of London, in the UK. Following his boyhood dream, Nick studied photography at art college, and worked his way up to becoming a photographer for The Times in London, where he spent more than 10 years covering assignments in far-flung destinations alongside some of […]