With a huge image resolution of 1800x1200px, your images will scale beautifully. Choose to have your viewers enable fullscreen viewing on their own, or enable automatic fullscreen viewing for your clickbooq website and Presentation Mode will take over automatically once a portfolio is accessed.

This is a free update for all clickbooq users!

Click here to learn more about Presentation Mode. And if you’re already a clickbooq user, download our User Guide to enable it for your website.

Click here to learn more about our Lightbox galleries.

As an added bonus, we’ve also removed our previous limitations on Portfolios and Content Pages, so you can have the flexibility you need to show off your best work.

There’s no better time to sign up and create your custom website with clickbooq.

This is the deal you’ve been waiting for!

Existing user? Learn more about switching plans in our Support Center

Features:

• Redesigned Homepage with interactive pulldown menus to navigate quickly and easily to any portfolio or Content Page
• You get the same great viewing experience and featureset on iPad, iPhone, or Android devices.
• Automatic detection for mobile devices allows full-screen image viewing with touch-enabled swipe gestures.
• Smart, pre-caching loads the next image while you view the current one, to make the viewing experience seem faster for slow mobile connections
• Thumbnail grid allows viewers to jump quickly to any image in your portfolio
• Captions displayed in an overlay if your images are pre-populated with them
• Animated Homepage slideshow

Check out any of our user’s websites in our Gallery on your favorite mobile device to see for yourself. Here’s a few screenshots of the experience on the iPad:

Visit TravisShinn.com!

1. What are your three must-have accessories / tools on a shoot?
A really good pair of sneakers (I love a good pair of sneakers ), multiple t-shirts (I sweat a lot), & a bandana (I really do sweat a lot).

2. What is your favorite website / blog?
ffffound.com

3. Once piece of advice you’d give to all music photographers?
A sense of humor is key, and don’t take yourself or anyone else too seriously. I mean it, seriously.

4. What are some ways you get a celebrity actors and musician to open up at a shoot, enabling you to get the shot that you want?
I shoot fast. I don’t give them too much time to think about the fact that they are getting their picture taken. Play good music.

5. Which photographer serves as your greatest source of inspiration?
My wife. She doesn’t have website. She should really start one. she is so modest about her work. She is amazing!

A winner will be selected for various categories and will receive:

• A PDN Photoserve portfolio ($860 value)
• A B&H gift card ($100 value) and one grand prize winner will receive a B&H gift card ($500 value)
• A Sony Nex Camera and one grand prize winner will receive a Sony Alpha Camera kit
• A page in the October 2011 issue of PDN, which has a distribution of over 25,000 including over 5,000 influential art buyers, photo editors and art directors
• Exposure in The Look contest online gallery hosted by Clickbooq and a Clickbooq annual plan ($588 value)
• One grand prize winner will receive a Milk Studios Prize Package worth $5,000. The package includes: one rental of Milk’s formula studio, an equipment and lighting rental and one day of Milk Digital Capture Services

For detailed information, including rules, regulations, etc., please visit the official website at www.pdnthelook.com.

Register now for Blu Wedding Magazine’s editorial fashion photography workshop in beautiful Laguna Beach,  CA  on March 21-22. This hands-on experience will be led by fashion-beauty photographer Sean Armenta and includes in-depth training on lighting, shooting and software techniques–plus a live photo shoot!

For more information, please visit http://wedblu.com/seanarmenta.

As an ongoing effort to showcase the work of clickbooq users, we had a quick Q & A with photographer Pablo Garcia.

1. What are your three must-have accessories / tools on a shoot?

California Sunbounce, Profoto 7B, and my beloved zeiss 85 1.2.

2. What is your favorite website / blog?

There so many, its hard to say, I like gadgets and technology so I visit Gizmodo and Engadget frequently.

3. One piece of advice you’d give to all wedding photographers?

Tell a story!

4. What is your greatest challenge in running your own studio?

My greatest challenge has been keeping my website up to date, always showcasing my latest work is important. That is one of the reasons I chose clickbooq, I can update them easily and frequently.

5. Who or what serves as your greatest source of inspiration for photography?

People have always been my source of inspiration, there is always an expression, a movement, a moment, an instant that captures that pure essence which makes them unique.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Pablo began toying with photography at an early age using his father’s camera. With the intention to steer him clear of photography as a career, but rather turn it into a hobby, Pablo was given his first darkroom at age 16, and has pursued his passion for photography since. Following his studies in Savannah, GA, he moved to New York to train under Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and the Starn Twins. “I love portrait photography because of its timeless quality,” Pablo says. “That is what I look for in a picture, that it withstands the test of time.” His work has been published in Vogue, Ocean Drive, Maxim, Poder, Haute Living among others. Besides photography, Pablo directs commercials and music videos, most recently the Ford Fiesta Campaign. His corporate clients include Ford, Sony Ericsson, Carolina Herrera, Microsoft, McDonalds, Sony Pictures, Univision, State Farm. He currently lives in Miami. To view his work visit pablogarciaphoto.com and noonphotography.com.

Your best source for new clients is referrals from your existing clients. If you’ve done your job well, the best time to ask your clients for referrals is at the conclusion of a project or when delivering their photos. Create a referral card your clients can give to friends and family with a special offer or promotion. Then reward your customers for any referrals they bring in. Rewards can be additional reprints, credits towards future purchases or a cash incentive.

Support your community and think local. Are there events in your town that could use your services? If your specialty is family portraits, why not team up with a parents’ network or mother’s group that puts on Halloween costume parties, easter egg hunts, and other festivals or fairs to offer special packages or one-day event photography? Ask for promotional signage/sponsorship logos in exchange for supporting the event and have postcards or brochures ready to distribute. You can also capture emails when someone signs up to have their photo taken at an event.

Check out the site, meetup.com, for local communities in your area.

And finally, never leave home without your business cards – you never know when you might run into someone who is looking for your services or can refer you to others.

One of many MailChimp newsletter templates.

Ah, the ever promising email newsletter.  What exactly is a newsletter, though?  And why is it important to have one?  In this day and age, having a newsletter is a necessary component  for your business’s web marketing campaign.

There’s some key steps you should consider when setting up a successful email marketing campaign.  Among them are making your text easily scannable for readers, ensuring information is properly presented in small “bite-size” sections with links to read the full article, and keeping the majority of the newsletter’s content “above the fold” or visible without having to scroll down.

Next, you’ll need an audience.  Be up front and have a clearly viewable link to your email newsletter sign up form on your website.  Drive signups by offering incentives to newsletter subscribers.  What will make it most worthwhile for them are special promotions.  Take it a step further and offer specials for folks who refer new subscribers.  Gather emails from past and present clients, events, and through good old fashioned networking.  You can advertise your newsletter on fliers, stickers, price sheets, or any other sort of print collateral you use.

Plus, you should also promote your latest newsletter when it first posts.  It’s smart to tweet a link to your newsletter, or to post it to Facebook.  And finally, respect your audience by allowing them to unsubscribe at any time and protecting their contact information.

We highly recommend using an email newsletter service provider to help manage your newsletters and email campaigns. One such service is MailChimp, the one we use here at clickbooq. Our experience with them has been excellent and they provide lots of templates and tips to help you get started plus great reports for measuring the success of your newsletters.

Here are a few helpful links to guides you can download for free from their site:

1_ MailChimp Guides: How To Create An Email Marketing Plan, Email Marketing Field Guide, and Common Rookie Mistakes.

2_ Email Blueprints:  email newsletter templates that are easy to use and have intuitive modifiable fields so that you can tailor it to your own branding and content.