hi guys! we are in today's fifth and final wedding workflow series so I'm
very, very excited because today we're going to be combining so many of the
things that I love most- which are getting published and blogging and
social media sharing into your workflow. so before we move forward I just want to
remind anyone if you're stumbling across this video and you haven't watched the
other four go back watch the four, download the free guide it's down below
and join us because this is such a cool series and I think that it's going to
help a lot of people alright so in videos three we talked
about sharing during that golden window 24-hour period and about sharing with
vendors so those are the images that we're going to be talking about today so
not only are you providing vendors with images that they're probably going to
share and get you published and featured and lots of link backs to your name but
they're also going to be the same gallery of images that you shared with
the vendors those are the images that you're going to take and submit while
you shared those images with those vendors you're also everyone is going to
be benefiting because everybody's going to get shared and tagged and you're all
going to build each other's audience's up so be sure to include in that email
when you first send that vendor email and say hey we work together at this
wedding here are the images let them know your social media handles let them
know other people's social media handles and encourage them to share but to
credit properly so I like to blog the images from each and every one of my
weddings but I can't always blog the images because sometimes when you submit
you're also required to be exclusive meaning you can't have the images on
another blog even your personal blog for your business so depending on whether or
not I am submitting to a print publication or a very exclusive blog I
may or may not at this point blog the images if I do decide to blog the images
I will go ahead and use a program called blog stomp blog stomp allows me to with
literally a click of a button just combine images side by side or create
collages rename and resize them all at the same time saves you so much time
it's so if you want to see that video
actually have another video about that showing a little bit behind the scene so
I use blog stump to go ahead and get my images ready - blog and the great thing
about blogging is that you can link all the other vendors once you have logged
your images and you decide what you're going to share and you've credited
everyone who contributed to the day be sure to blast an email to all of those
people and say hey you're featured on my blog I cannot tell you how often I just
say guys you know why like your stuffs on my blog and then they go and they put
it on Instagram at Facebook and Twitter and all these platforms for free for me
so get that free marketing and go ahead and share that you blogged about those
people they will appreciate it at this point you've done your sneak
peeks you blogged about it maybe you've shared a little bit on social media I
will always share something like Instagram I will even throw some stuff
in Instagram stories sometimes I show behind the scenes in snapchat I'm going
to trickle this information a little bit so the images throughout my social media
pointing back to my blog for about two weeks so it's okay if it repeats
especially if you're on Twitter where things recycle very quickly you can
repeat a little bit but I like to switch up the content sometimes it's a link and
a quote sometimes it's just an image with the link it says hey go check out
the rest of this stuff so as far as social media sharing be sure to be
consistent keep recycling and stick with stuff don't just tweet one time that you
have a new blog post or post one insta story
chances are the majority of your followers didn't see that because not
everybody is on these platforms every single day so don't be afraid to keep
recycling your content and keep sharing and blasting out about it at this point
my workflow I'm going to submit the shoot to be featured so I'm going to go
on a site like two bright lights or top 100 wedding blogs and just look and try
to find first and foremost where I think my images will fit and what blogs are
looking for images so sometimes they'll do call like an open call and say we
love to see a wedding that has Vietnamese tea ceremony or we'd love to
see a wedding that has more reds and jewel tones that kind of thing so you
can get a good idea of who is interested in your work based on what your work
looks like and what blogs are putting out that they would
see websites like stymie pretty also have entire blog posts about how to be
featured what they're looking for what they want to see and read about your
submission that really makes you stand out so if you're interested in getting
featured check out this video and download my submissions checklist
because it's at this point in my workflow that I go through that
checklist and I decide where it's going to get featured or where it we shall
submit and I'll go forward from there so if you have to be methodical and has to
be a part of your workflow otherwise you probably will never find time to
actually submit these things because it does take time now that we're at the end
of the series I need something from you guys I need to hear what else do you
need to know about workflows I know that we kind of brush through some things
really really quickly these are my workflows and I'm sure lots of you still
have questions if you have specific questions I'm going to be answering them
in a live wrap-up video leave me your questions and suggestions for the
wrap-up pertaining to all things workflow and efficiency
I will absolutely get to it and I can't wait to see you guys there so be sure to
subscribe like this video leave your questions and I'll see you guys in the
live wrap-up bye guys