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Advantages of Smugmug fulfillment: Customer can place an order 24 hrs a day via the web with a wide variety of sizes, prints and finish choices. Orders are shipped directly to the customer so you don't have to deal with shipping, mailing or delivery. Credit card payment through Smugmug. Smugmug help desk available to help your customers with any order ...

Customer shopping carts are not visible to anyone but the customer. One way in which you can easily collaborate with a customer in the manner in which you are asking, is to set up an "Event" for that customer's photos. You send the link to the event page, which has their gallery or galleries. The customer selects their favorites (by way of clicking on the ...

Can't say increased sales (no way to really know that) but I can tell you that the Daily Photos community does have a pretty high viewership, since they are 1) good photos for the most part and 2) there's lots of activity (comments, thumbs). These show up in SmugMug's Daily popular photos on the browse page. Being involved in a community is a great way to ...

I am plagued with this challenge too. To date, I have opted for the approach mentioned by Mark: private galleries are unlisted, and public galleries shine in all their glory. I would amend that suggestion with the following: I have put all personal galleries in a specific category; it removes one level from organizational methods (I only have ...

You are able to setup a coupon for a digital download per the SmugMug Help site: Currently coupons apply to all prints, merchandise, and downloads for all printable images on your site and are not product specific. Unfortunately I don't see a way to achieve that for an entire gallery while using coupons, short of handing out multiple coupons. Another ...

First identify your target audience and then go from there. That will guide you where to best put your resources. Scream it from the roof tops. Write it on the bathroom wall. Put it on a bumper sticker so that people have to read it while sitting at a stop light... Do anything to get your name out there. SmugMug | Market yourself

For situations where you aren't going to premake them all, Smugmug really doesn't offer a decent way to sell these. Your best bet is to either install your own self-fulfillment order/payment scheme for this one item (often done with paypal) or just have people contact you directly when they want to order a Memory Mate. You can create a page in Smugmug ...

The order details shows where the image came from, but since as you said its a virtual copy its misleading. I ran a test and it look like it only shows the original gallery, not the virtual gallery. You could setup Funnels on GA, but I think they would be misleading because the sale actually comes from https://secure.smugmug.com/cart/ not your domain. In ...

Great answer by @jfriend00, plus: - shipping cost only happens once- from the LAB to the client - with smugmug you can set up your own branding. The product gets to your client with your own sticker on the box and a thank you print 100% customized by you. I use the print to thank them and remind them to like us on Facebook and recommend our shop. During the ...

My understanding is if you have a professional account anything that is sold from your site you get the profit from. You need to set the price list to have the markup you desire or else you will not make any money. You can find the information about setting up the pricing at ...

I had a similar 'Field of Dreams' view of Smugmug when I started as well. My advice is basically this: Smugmug Pro is a great place to support your photography business, but a Pro account won't create a photography business. It is simply a component of the business; one of the tools. Simply offering nice photos on a website will not drive huge sales. In ...

One approach that seems to work is to put a comment in the gallery description saying to email you if you are interested in one, then you can make them just for the folks that are interested and send them a link to add it to your cart. Or leverage the good half of the suggestion about the advertisement image by making an advert that you upload as an image ...

There is not a way to view the contents of a non-submitted shopping cart. Comment: This seems strange. Why would your customers build out an order but not submit it? Possible alternative: if for some reason your customers continue to do this, charge them for it. Offer that they can build and submit their order with no processing fee, but if they'd like ...