Meet Light Blue at the SWPP Roadshow in Coventry

12/11/2018

On Thursday 22nd November we’ll be attending The Societies of Photographers Roadshow in Coventry. It’s free to enter if you register in advance, here: https://thesocieties.net/events/coventry/ Free Tradeshow There’s a free trade show from 09:30, which is a great opportunity to meet a wide range of trade suppliers, including Light Blue! Free Masterclasses Christina Lauder FSWPP Master […]

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Farmers' Market

12/09/2018

We’re excited to announce that we’ve been nominated for an award for Best Software for Photographers in the Farmers’ Market awards. There’s a variety of other categories to vote in, with many worthy nominees, too. We’d be truly grateful if you could spare a moment to cast a vote: Vote for Light Blue as ‘Best […]

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Teen portraits - The Next Big Thing in Portraiture in the UK - Christina Lauder

01/08/2018

Leicestershire family portrait photographer Christina Lauder is originally from Toronto, Canada. She moved to the UK 20 years ago for a job transfer in software consulting & eventually found herself starting a new career as a portrait photographer, something she’d wanted to do since she was a child. I’ve had the chance to try pretty much […]

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Using scheduling tools to allow your customers to book shoots online with Light Blue's API

11/07/2018

Photographers all over the world are using Light Blue’s powerful forms to streamline their workflows, using them to feed new enquiries straight from their website into Light Blue. They’re really easy to set up and embed in your website, and you can also our forms as part of your online booking process. Light Blue also […]

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Sending text messages with Light Blue

30/05/2018

Light Blue allows you to send text messages to your clients, which is great for appointment reminders and marketing. There are two different ways of sending text messages from Light Blue: Via our dedicated number service, which is available in most countries. Or, if you’re based in the UK, Ireland, or Australia, you can send […]

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Importing Light Blue contract templates issued by third parties

24/05/2018

Light Blue’s online contract signing service is one of the most popular features of our online services. It’s really easy to publish contracts for your clients to sign quickly. You need to set up at least one contract template which contains your terms and conditions in order to send contracts to your clients. We don’t […]

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Asking your clients to opt into your mailing list

22/05/2018

New Mailing List Opt-In Form With Light Blue 7.1.2, you can now send your clients to a special form that allows them to opt in to your mailing list. Each of your contact records has a special URL that identifies them, and you can get that URL in two different ways: If you only want […]

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Come and see Light Blue at The Societies' trade show!

08/01/2018

We love meeting photographers and hearing how they’re using Light Blue to grow and streamline their photography businesses, and we’re going to be doing just that at The Societies’ 2018 convention and trade show, which runs from Friday 12 January to Sunday 14 January. If you’d like to find out more about how Light Blue can help […]

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Unmissable masterclasses at the SWPP 2018 convention

05/01/2018

The Societies of Wedding & Portrait Photographers convention is one of the highlights of our calendar. We’re looking forward to talking to photographers during the extensive trade show on the Friday, Saturday & Sunday. There’s a wealth of talks and masterclasses being held during the convention, and we’ve listed a selection that we think are […]

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Using Light Blue to help send a festive message to your customers

05/12/2017

As Christmas approaches, many photographers are turning their attention to contacting their customers in order to send their season’s greetings. You’ve been adding information to Light Blue throughout the year, and now’s a perfect time to get that information to go to work for you. Using Light Blue you can find the records of customers who […]

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ClickBook follow-on bookings are now being sent to Light Blue

04/12/2017

For members of the Click Group, Light Blue has an integration with the ClickBook booking system. We’re continuing to work with the developers of ClickBook v2 to make our integration more helpful to photographers using our systems. We’re pleased to announce that ClickBook is now sending details of follow-on bookings made in their system to […]

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Building a professional image to your customers with Light Blue Software. 

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 […]

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Using Light Blue for non-photography related work

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 […]

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Using ClickBook v2 with Light Blue

02/11/2017

The new ClickBook system has been integrated directly with Light Blue, so ClickBook v2 bookings will appear directly in your copies of Light Blue when you sync it to our servers. Using ClickBook with Light Blue requires you to be using Light Blue version 6 or newer, and to have a subscription to our online […]

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The Societies' Trade Awards

19/10/2017

Here at Light Blue Software we work hard to deliver the type of customer service that we’d like to receive ourselves, and like to think that it makes a difference to our customers. The SWPP Trade Awards offers us an opportunity to be recognised for this, and maybe take home a trophy too. So if […]

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The Societies of Photographers Roadshows in Gravesend & Birmingham

03/10/2017

We’ll be at The Societies of Photographers Roadshow in Gravesend on Wednesday 4th October & Birmingham on Thursday 5th October. It’s a great opportunity to come and see us at the free trade show as well as enjoy the fantastic programme of masterclasses. Gravesend masterclasses Sanjay Jogia FSWPP – Evolve or Evaporate (10:00-11:00) Scott Johnson FSWPP […]

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Moving from adhoc organisational systems to a centralised system

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 […]

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The Societies of Photographers Roadshow in Widnes

12/06/2017

We’ll be at The Societies of Photographers Roadshow in Widnes on Wednesday 21st June. It’s a great opportunity to come and see us at the free trade show as well as enjoy the fantastic programme of masterclasses: • Catherine Connor – Refine your Business (09:30-10:30) • Jocelyn Conway – Newborn Photography Safety (11:30-12:30) • Terry Donnelly […]

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Meet our SWPP stand team - Suzanne Black

12/01/2017

We’re really luck to have Suzanne Black joining us one our stand at the Societies Convention 2017. Suzanne is an award-winning professional Scottish wedding photographer offering a bespoke client service, shooting all types of weddings from intimate elopement weddings to grand Scottish castle weddings and everything in between. Working from her studio on the family farm in Fife, Suzanne also shoots […]

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Meet our SWPP stand team - Mark Ashworth

12/01/2017

We’re delighted to have Mark joining us on our stand at the Societies 2017 trade show. Mark Ashworth has been a full time photographer for over 20 years, and prides himself on the very best in professional photography and unsurpassed customer service. His studio specialises in portrait photography for all ages and a variety of genres. Mark is also a […]

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Meet our SWPP stand team - Jay Emme

12/01/2017

We’re excited to have fine art film wedding photographer Jay Emme working with us on our stand at the Societies 2017 Convention. Jay has a tremendously relaxed and fun approach to her wedding photography which you can see on her website. I’m an international film wedding photographer, and run my business from my office at home. As […]

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The Societies Convention 2017 - SWPP

04/01/2017

There are so many excellent talks & events lined up for The Societies of Photographers 2017 Convention that we thought we’d take a little time to highlight some particularly interesting speakers. Catherine Connor – Aspire Photography Training The wonderful Catherine Connor of Aspire is going to be rather busy indeed at The Societies of Photographers 2017 convention as she presents seven different […]

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Merry Christmas from the Light Blue team

19/12/2016

Although we’re still hard at work here in the Light Blue bunker this week (19th December), we thought we should take some time out to let you know when we’ll be available to help anyone who’s going to be busy over the Christmas and New Year period. Whether you’re a wedding photographer who’s looking forward […]

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Why you should always record enquiries in Light Blue

11/11/2016

Because your photography business is based around shoots, a lot of Light Blue’s features are centred around shoot records, too. Whenever you receive a new enquiry, we’d recommend creating a new shoot record. Recording enquiries manually doesn’t take a great deal of time, and to start off, you only need to record some basic information: When is […]

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