I love tech.
I love education.
I love outsourcing.
I'm Colie James
I'm
Colie James
Pic-Time allows me to automate the delivery portion of my photography services. Their marketing apps and slideshow creation app leads to higher product sales
Pic-Time
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Showit gives you the most flexibility in design of any other website designer. Easy navigation and the ability to show off images, makes creating a highly converting website easy.
Showit
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I use Dubsado throughout the inquiry, booking, and onboarding stages of the client experience. With beautiful forms + automated workflows, my business practically runs on autopilot.
Dubsado
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My top three must-have tools!
Client Management
Website Creation + Hosting
Photo Online Gallery Software
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Social media
Sarah offers a VIP week which includes an audit of your Instagram account, creation of Instagram templates, and planning for 6 weeks worth of content.
Social and Stuff
bookkeeping
Leave the financials to the professionals so you can focus on growing a business that works for you. Pssst... they specifically work with photographers!
Tidybooks Boutique
graphic design
Chinelle is a magician when it comes to logos. She has done all my logo work for the last 6 years and many of my clients. Check out her work!
The Blk Creative
Outsourcing
The actual people I pay to do shit for me!
Customer research
Voice of customer is priceless in getting the highest conversion rates for your offers. Melissa takes the task of interviewing your clients off your hands and delivers a research report you can use to update your copy and other marketing assets.
Melissa Harstine Creative
Recommended Business Tools
I use ClickUp to manage and organize my Dubsado VIP Day setups as well as the CEO tasks in my business.
clickup
This software is now the backbone for managing both of my brands and getting the 30,000 foot view of all of the metrics in my business. This software helps me make data-driven decisions.
airtable
I use Flodesk for all email marketing and delivery of my freebies. I LOVE the design capabilities for emails within this platform.
flodesk
Email Marketing
Database Application
It was initially rough to give up InDesign, but Canva is incredibly intuitive and easy to use. I can design all my social media graphic quickly and even present and record presentations.
canva
This makes ALL my software talk to each other. This helps me save time so that I do not have to re-enter client data into every single piece of software I use.
zapier
For my photography clients I record welcome videos + tips for using their online gallery software. For Dubsado clients and students, I record offboarding videos and how-to tutorials.
Loom
Screencapture Software
Task Management
Automations
Design Tools
Allow your audience to get connected and find exactly what they need directly in your Instagram DMs
MANYCHAT
This software allows me to batch schedule all of my social media posts with AMAZING metrics. I currently schedule Instagram. LinkedIn, YouTube shorts, Pinterest, and TikTok all at once.
Metricool
Social Media Scheduling
Automation Messaging
Podcasting
Tools + Resources
Podcasting Tools + Resources
This podcast host makes it easy to upload your podcast episodes to Apple, submit your show to the main directories, and magic mastering makes EVERYONE on the audio sound great!
buzzsprout
This is like the Canva of the video/audio editing world. Transcribe audio or video in minutes with easy editing tools to eliminate word gaps, overdub, and so much more!
Descript
This application allows you to create a separate studio for each type of recordings, download separate audio and video for each participant, plus trim, edit + export different clips from each episode!
Riverside
Podcast Recording
Podcast Editing
Podcast Hosting
Starting a podcast this year was a beast, but so worth it! The tools listed below are the ones I settled on after a ton of research. Best part? You can automatically move your podcast from one application to the next using their tools!
Is starting a podcast on your goal-list?
If it weren't for Jocelyn, my podcast would STILL be sitting on my to-do list for 2022! After our VIP Day, I launched my podcast in less than 30 days. Now she has a group program created from the same amazing tools she used in my VIP Day PLUS group support as you work on launching your own video podcast!
The Remarkable Show
Podcast Launch Strategy Group Program
pricing
This is the best course I have ever taken, period. If you need a complete system to create a sustainable and profitable photography business, you need this course! *I have a bonus inside on automations!
Simple Sales Blueprint
copywriting
Words are important, even for visual artists like us. Photographers, if you want help writing a website that sounds like you and gets you booked, Rachel + Crew are your people! Done for you or templates available!
Green chair stories
Tools for Photographers
AI CUlling
Save hours per session while their magical unicorns cull your sessions. I use Aftershoot to make my first pass, eliminating any images that were out-of-focus, blinking eyes, or motion blur.
Aftershoot
Photo Editing
The best part of working with The Image Salon is their onboarding process designed to learn & replicate your process. I outsource my images and they look just like my editing!
The Image Salon
planning
The course that teaches you all the skills you need to avoid burnout. Learn how to create a schedule, plan your time well, market your business intentionally and set your business up for long term success and sustainability. You need this in your life. Work-life balance can exist!
The organized photographer
Dubsado
This is my very own Dubsado implementation course for family photographers. Let's get your backend streamline and automated so you have more time to work ON your business instead of in it!
CRM Blueprint
*Note - a few of the links on this page are affiliate links. If you use them I might receive a small compensation.
