Flip Page Creator

So, as I’m sure most of you guys know, I finally launched my photography business three weeks ago. If you’re new to the blog check out my previous posts which have documented much of the planning and preparation I have done leading up to this point. I’ve spent the past five days researching marketing techniques that other small photography companies have used to land new clients. I’d made a shortlist of marketing techniques I wanted to try out by the third day and was all rearing to go. One technique I read about on a blog post from a competitor was turning my website into an interactive flippingbook and then sending that to a potential client. My competitor, according to his blog post, had landed some pretty big-ticket clients using this technique, especially as a lot of people aren’t using this method yet, so it is still different and novel enough to grab people’s attention. The idea is to take key sections of your website, so in my case it was; about me, services, previous client work, price list, and contact details and save that info as a PDF or Word file and then convert that lifeless document into a dynamic, interactive flippingbook brochure. Thing was, the competitor detailed the whole process but didn’t mention the actual flippingbook software he had used! There were screenshots in his blog post but I couldn’t make out what the actual software was. I emailed him and sent him a Facebook message asking about it, but no reply. There was only one solution. Finding it myself.

Hello dear readers. As most of you already know, due to several requests, I have decided to run an experiment where I compile some of my most read and most commented on blog posts over the last 5 years (yes, it’s been 5 whole years, time flies) into a PDF file and convert them into an attractive, interactive, flip page publication using a flipbook creator like Yumpu Publishing so that you lovely people can access them more easily. Especially as some of those blog posts really are timeless and even I find myself referring back to some of them once every couple of weeks. I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that I have finally managed to get the job done and have an attractive, slick, super sexy flip page publication of my most read blog posts (will be emailing you guys the link tomorrow, don’t fret), the bad news is that getting to this point has not been an easy task at all. Those of you who follow me on Facebook already know about some of the issues I’d been having in getting this publication made. But I thought I would write up my experience in this blog post for those of you who aren’t following me on Facebook (shame on you) and are wondering how I went from a bunch of my finest blog posts to a super slick flip page publication in less than three days.