hey everyone Mike Burke here with inside
real estate photography and in this
video we're going to discuss delivering
images to your clients so years ago I
used to send a Dropbox link along with
an invoice to my clients in order for
them to download their images and
hopefully pay their invoice in a timely
manner but what I found out the hard way
is that some clients would not pay and
I'd be chasing invoices for months and
this is a huge waste of my time and
resources I'm a photographer not a debt
collector so I really needed to find out
a way for my clients to pay in order to
get their download link for their images
and that's when I found out about pixie
set pixie set has beautiful photo
galleries and user interface and it's a
much nicer way to present your photos to
your clients as opposed to just sending
a Dropbox link in an email and the best
part is you don't have to but you can
make them pay first in order for them to
download their photos which saves you a
ton of aggravation and believe me when I
say a lot of stress off your shoulders I
know some photographers out there will
disagree with this philosophy but it's
been a real godsend to me and my
business and I love it and my clients
love it I get compliments on my photo
delivery quite often and please if any
of you guys out there have a different
way of delivering photos to your clients
that you really love please share it
with the group in the comments below all
right let's take a quick look at pixie
set and how I deliver my photos alright
guys so here we are at the pixie set
website and I'll just show you the
process of just how I upload and send
the photos to my clients pretty
straightforward but I just want to show
you this to you so you have an idea of
how this works so I'm going to open my
dashboard and then first thing we're
gonna do is go to client gallery and
here we have you know a bunch of houses
that I shot and we'll just go to new
collection and we'll type in an address
here 1 2 3 Main Street we'll just call
it for the sake of this tutorial
and I always err to watermark to my
photos which is really important because
if you don't then if you have a shady
client maybe they can just screenshot
all your images and upload them to MLS
without paying you so this again is a
way to protect yourself from not getting
payment so
I use just watermark - and you can
upload watermarks and things and
settings here so you could have your
logo and you can really customize this
so and here's a watermark you're gonna
upload your watermark and you know you
can really customize this when it's
delivered to your client it looks like
you know it comes from your own website
you can you can change actually the
domain that it comes from - and get a
custom domain so that it looks like it
comes from your website you know it
removes kind of the pixie set branding
so it looks like something you created
you know it's all great stuff here let's
go back to the client gallery here so we
created our one two three main street
gallery here I'm just gonna click on
that and we'll go to add photos so I
have this example folder here and I'm
just going to drag these in box here and
upload these that's gallery alright guys
so the images have finished uploading
I'm just gonna go to manage collection
here you'll see they all come up in here
I saw the first thing I would do would
be to change the cover photo
because usually just picks one at random
and I usually don't like the one at pix
I would just go to change cover and go
back to my folder just pick one that I
like that's the one they picked that's a
better photo in my opinion better angle
it's a drone shot that'll do I'll choose
that and I'll just drop it in this box
and upload it alright so now our new
cover photo is uploaded I like the way
that looks and also in here you can
change the design on how this looks with
the text and how its oriented and all
this stuff in here you can play around
with this and find a look that you like
you know I have my look here and I just
stick with that so I have consistent
look when I deliver photos after I get
my cover photo situated really all I do
here is I just go through here download
we're gonna shut this off because we're
not allowing them to download images
without paying in any way shape or form
if someone did pay prepay you can send
this one on and then you could have a
pain or no pain or whatever if you just
want to be able to let
download it for free that's my jam
though that's what I love most about
this whole thing so I shut that off and
favoriting I shut that off there's no
reason to have that on and then the last
step here is store we have this on and
this is how make them pay here before
getting their images so you would create
price sheets like I have a whole
different price sheets of different
prices here of stuff so I'll show you
how you create one really quick and set
it up so they have to pay first in order
to download their images so you would
just go to setup your price sheets here
you click on that that takes you to the
price sheets page and then you would
just hit Edie prices sheet and I just
put in certain amounts for the different
services that I have and how much I
charge for those services but just say
for the sake of this video you want to
charge
I don't know 225 for your photos and
down here you want to go to
self-fulfillment we're not using a lab
they're not doing prints or anything
a commonly sold products no we don't
need that so we're gonna uncheck that
how about a create I've already used 225
so obstinate a product to this price
sheet so we're gonna do digital download
because we're selling a digital download
of our photos so we want to click all
photos because we want them to be able
to get the whole gallery I set this on
to high resolution thirty-six hundred
pixels you can choose one of these other
ones I find this works nicely it's low
enough megabytes so that they don't have
any problems uploading it to MLS or
anything like that and then here you
want to put the price so again 235 is
that's what we're charging for this so
now we have this set and we'll hit save
so that's done so now if we go back to
our gallery go back to settings and go
back to store now we'll find 235 here in
our price sheets
so I'll select that because that's what
we want to charge for this gallery I'll
show you the preview of what this looks
like
your client opens the length is what
they're going to see it's really a nice
looking they can hit the open button you
know your logos here and see you'll see
my watermark on all the photos so if
they click on one they can't just do a
screenshot here of the image and steal
your image because as a watermark on it
so you're protecting yourself there and
so they have to click on this cart and
you'll see all photos high resolution
235 they check out and then the link is
sent afterwards so they have to buy the
photos first in order to get them so
that's exactly what we want just a
little look you know how good is this
look this is beautifully you know
designed and I really love the look of
this like I said clients always
compliment me on how this looks they
think this looks really professional and
they love it so the last thing we want
to do is publish and yes we're ready to
publish this collection we have it all
said we have our cover photo said we
like the way it looks and we have the
right price sheet on it so we'll hit
publish now you would put your clients
email address in here I'll put my own in
here and then I made an email template
for real estate clients just says
congratulations on your new listing and
instructions on how to pay and download
your images gives you a preview over
here on how the email will look you know
this is great you have the photo in here
your logo and this is really just nice
design here great branding here great
look professional look makes you look
good to your clients and then you just
hit send invite all right here's the
email in my inbox just to show you how
we look for your client to receive it
you know it looks clean it looks nice it
looks professional I have very little
problems with it and my clients love it
alright guys so that's how I use pixie
set to deliver images to my clients it
looks beautiful and is a powerful tool
because it enables you to make your
clients pay in order to get their images
now pixie set just allows you to deliver
the images it doesn't do anything beyond
that like hosting a property website or
a virtual tour or anything of that
nature so if you're looking for
something beyond that you would have to
use a different service like HD photo
hub or something like that but for me
personally 95 percent of my customers
are really just looking for a link to
download their photos and I love the way
pixie set looks it's beautifully
designed and it's simple and I love it
alright guys so that's it for this video
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