Introducing Wednesday Webinars! Two Bright Lights Tips and Tricks

7 May

Ever wonder how to upload an engagement session? About how to put an editorial submission together in under 5 minutes? About how to write a creative brief for a blog redesign?

Good news! We are launching a bi-Monthly 30 minute Wednesday Webinars to answer all of these questions and more.

This week’s webinar is:

How to Upload Events to Two Bright Lights: Weddings, Engagement Shoots, and Styled Shoots

When: 12-12:30pm ET

How: Click here to register.

We will send out an invite on the Tuesday and Wednesday of that week (via Twitter and Facebook) and all you have to do is register and login! We will make sure to make it short and sweet, and get to the core parts of how to get the most out of Two Bright Lights.

Making sure its easy to get answers about how to market your wedding business like a pro is very important to our team and is the guiding principle behind all of the Two Bright Lights tools. All of our webinars will be about how to use Two Bright Lights to grow your business. But we want your suggestions on what would be most helpful. So email, comment on the blog, tweet or facebook us your suggestions!

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TBL Tips: How to Upload an Event

6 May

Create an Event: Easy as 1-2-3-Upload!

Step 1

Input the names of the couple to help identify the event when you share or submit it. Don’t worry, we don’t do anything with this information other than use it to name the event!

(If this event is NOT a wedding, (e.g. a Styled Shoot) just put a descriptive title in the Last Name fields and put XXXXX in the First Name fields. If it is an Engagement shoot, just put the word “Engagement” after the second person’s last name.)

Step 2

Identify where the event took place. If it was an engagement shoot or other non-wedding event, you can just enter “Engagement Shoot,” “Styled Shoot” or “Portrait Shoot” as the venue.

If a venue isn’t in the database, you only have to add it once. It will be there the next time you need to attach it to an event.

Step 3

Choose vendors you wish to share this event with by searching for them in the database and attaching them. If they are not in the database, you can add them as a “ghost” account. They can take over the account at any point in the future and all of the image content you have shared with them will be there.

If it was an engagement shoot or other non-wedding event, you can just enter “Engagement Shoot,” “Styled Shoot” or “Portrait Shoot” as the vendor.

Upload!

You are now ready to upload! Select between 50 and 100 images that are relevant to vendors and editors. This usually means mostly details and NO family formal shots. Also keep the couple shots to a minimum.

If you need help figuring out which images are best to share and submit, read our Image Selection Guide!

Also, make sure not to upload images that are either multiple images canvased together or images with logo/watermarks. (We add photo credit for you

That’s it! You are done!

Now that you have a wedding or an event uploaded, you are ready to submit it for publication! (We’ll cover that in another email, but if you can’t wait, be sure to stop by the Education tab to learn how to submit a wedding for publication.)

As you start to upload more weddings, you can keep track of the vendors you have worked with, create marketing collateral, send vendor referrals to couples and find out which images are being used by the vendors you share with!