Senior season is just about upon us. We’re busy scheduling and shooting our senior spokesmodels. Now it’s time for us to update our high school senior albums. Over 80% of our clientele ordered a senior album with their package and it was a big success story at our studio.
We use Finao Elements album for all our high school seniors. We love the cover options and the thickness of the pages – not to mention the fact that we can do a 10 page minimum. Additionally we like ProDPI‘s new press books, which are some of the nicest looking press books we’ve seen in a while.
In our studio 90% of our senior albums are ten page Finao Elements albums. The majority of the albums are 8×8 inch square albums. The rest of our clients upgrade to the 10 inch albums with leather cover options.
We keep the designs, simple and classic. We want these albums to become family heirlooms, featured prominently in our clients’ homes. In order to this to happen, we need to create designs and use albums that won’t become dated quickly.
Here is a design for our most recent senior spokesmodel. As you can see, we keep them clean and simple with a contemporary look.
I hope this gives you some ideas and gets you going on adding senior albums to your mix, or just updating the ones you have. I hope you have a great High School Senior season.
Fundy
Fundy is the creator of the Fundy Album Builder and co-creator of Mobile Fotographer. Both products have two week free trials.
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3 Comments at "Senior Album Season is Upon Us"
I have a bit of a hard time selling albums for as much as wedding albums. I have instead promoted them as “guest/signature” books for grad parties encouraging people to write messages to the senior as a great momento and fun album to look back at. Because frankly, once they get a little older they will have an even bigger – better – wedding album they’ll cherish for many more years to come.
Thoughts?
Travis,
Our senior albums are no where near as much as our wedding albums.
We sell 8×8 inch 10 page albums to seniors and families that are on average, about 1/3 the price of our cheapest wedding album.
Find a good product, a good price and they sell like hot cakes, promise.
Fundy
I totally agree with Fundy here. I sell an album to just about every single senior client that comes through our doors. We start suggesting it from the beginning, suggest it at the session, suggest it at the sales session. If they don’t buy then, they buy during the winter. But 95% buy one. I make sure I shoot and show enough images that they really have to buy an album to get all the images they love.
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