Some of the best ideas never get old

Ron.... I Finally got my last sessions posted from our Spring animal session, This has been an amazing year We started Shooting on the 19th of March and ended the following week on the 27th. On a normal year we would do from 40-55 sessions This year with a little help from our social networking sites we did 100 sessions, Wow! Facebook thanks for the free advertising.

This year we had Ducks , Bunnies, and a Lamb and on the two Saturdays we had a special guest, a beautiful Miniature horse named Chula belle, Chula Belle was a great hit with everyone.

If you're not offering children's pictures with live animals your missing out, this is a great opportunity to build your customer base. You will see children from just a few weeks old to the oldest we had this year was 20 but for the most part we saw kids from 2 to 7 years old.
While families were waiting in our studio for their turn to shoot they watched a slide show on the flat panel TV, this gave us a opportunity to showcase our other photographic services. We booked several other sessions for families and children and many took information for Senior photography.

A few tips if you decide to do a event with live animals, always have a animal handler, someone who can keep the little critters corralled and close to the children. Another good idea is to use a full length canvas background, the backgrounds that we use are 12ft wide by 20ft long ideal for this type of work. The reason for the canvas is it's very easy to clean, not if but when the animals decide they need to go potty, believe me muslins or carpet is not a good idea.

So gather up the animals and put the word out and they will come. We asked our customers this year how they heard about our Spring animal special just to see how they heard about us, there were very few newspaper a fair amount of word of mouth and a lot of Facebook. Also over 30% of this year's customers were first time customers with us. The coolest thing is many of the parents who brought their kids in for pictures had the same type of session with us when they were children. So it just goes to show you, some Ideas just never get old.