The Top Five Reasons You Should Use Dubsado For Your Photography Business
A Colorado Photographer’s List:
Why I Love Dubsado!
Whew! Dubsado is celebrating its 7th year in business! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRIENDS!
So, naturally, I wanted to pull this blog post up to the top of my list and talk to you again about why I LOVE Dubsado and what it has done for my business.
So, hang tight, here are my Top Five Reasons Why, as a photographer, you NEED the client resource management software Dubsado in your life…like yesterday (I took the leap four years ago and never looked back).
Dubsado is on sale for their 7th birthday! Plus, you’ll save an EXTRA 20% off with my referral code!
Yes, the discounts are stackable!!
1. Have you ever had to type the same email over and over again when responding to client inquiries or sending an invoice? Staaap it!
Dubsado allows you to save template emails so you can just select it and send saving time for more important things. Like making yourself a delicious something or other.
2. When a potential client reaches out, how long does it take for you to get back to them? Yes, I get that sometimes you are available to send that email back but sometimes, you aren’t. You know, because you are doing LIFE!
Dubsado helps you keep your interactions with potential clients happening within a timely manner! With workflows you can set up, when you get an inquiry, Dubsado can respond to them with the information you choose! Ahh!! This is where you use your email templates. Handy, right?
3. Have you ever had the conversation with a client where you go back and forth with dates until you both land on one that works? I have and while I love to chat with clients, I want to talk about fun stuff and not what dates we have open.
Enter Dubsado’s calendar function. I can go in, set up different types of calendars for different types of sessions (sunset sessions, mini sessions, etc) and choose what dates and times I want to show available. It’s super smart too. When someone books that date, Dubsado send’s them a confirmation and it’s added to my Google Calendar. If I want to block off personal time and not mess with going back into the calendar to take a date out, I just schedule my activity in my Google Calendar and Dubsado knows that I am busy and takes that date away. This function alone has helped be book more sessions because clients see I don’t have much available when they want to shoot and they are booking faster and earlier.
4. Have you ever shown up to a session and felt like you didn’t really know your client? Like REALLY know them? For me, I love to know my client’s story. It is helpful for me to connect with them and to create an environment for them that will allow them to connect with each other as well. Show. That. Love.
I use Dubsado to get to my client’s “why” through their forms feature. I can create Client Questionnaires (and SAVE THEM for the future, Hoorah!!) and send them to my clients to ask them allll the questions. The forms feature in Dubsado can be used for so many different documents you might want for your business.
5. More on forms! Do you use a million platforms to get all of the info you need when you book a client? Perhaps you are using your gallery service to deliver a contract? I’m looking at you Shootproof users (I still love you though, I just want to HELP you!). Are you struggling trying to keep it all together? I was too.
Dubsado changed all of that for me. I can now have everything in ONE spot. No more trying to remember if someone paid an invoice or signed their contract before their session date. No more trying to remember which platform I had the information on. Here are just a small selection of my favorite features Dubsado has to offer. It’s 2023! Let’s strive to work smarter, and not harder this year, because you know, that’s just not smart.
Lead Capture Forms
These are customized from the ground up.
You can use to them to collect data on potential clients
Create lead magnets and have them auto delivered with the use of a workflow (hello automation!)
Use for your first contact with a potential client
They fill out your lead capture form and a workflow is start to deliver them both a proposal form and your booking calendar with a template email attached with your warm welcome. No more making client wait to book with you because “someone else” responded first.
Proposal Forms
Full customizable on your own or buy a handy template from The Creative Template Shop
Use these to show potential clients information on what offerings you have, what they include and how much they cost
Collect information from clients and have it routed to be saved in your client address book (hello future marketing potential)
Invoicing
Dubsado can connect and collect payments for you via Squareup (my fav!), Paypal, and Stripe
You can set due dates and reminders for clients that include a template email you create, personalized and efficient!
Create packages so you can quickly import your clients choices and not have to type out whats included or pricing each time. One click and it’s there.
Questionnaires
These are fully customizable as well and helpful for getting to know your client
Contracts
Create and save contracts
Include smart tokens so information auto fills such as client name, collection choices and payment due dates
That is just a small portion of the things I LOVE about Dubsado. Not to mention their easy-to-use bookkeeping system and project workflow management. It’s just all around the best way for me to keep it all in order.
Interested? Want to know the cost? I’ll tell you! Normally, Dubsado costs $400 a year (you can easily get that return on investment with just one booking because of how organized you are!)
HOWEVER, THEIR 7TH BIRTHDAY SALE IS ON
FEBRUARY 20 THROUGH FEBRUARY 24 AT 2 PM PT
DUBSADO IS ON SALE FOR $350 FOR THE YEAR
WITH THEIR 7TH BIRTHDAY DISCOUNT!
Pssst…If you enter the code “heyo” or click the button below, you’ll get an extra 20% off your first year!
That makes it only $280 for the first year! what?!
Don’t worry! If you see this post after February 24th, 2023, you can still use my code “heyo” for 20% off the regular price of $400 (that’s $80 off for a total of only $320!)
