I am ready to hire an associate to take on some contracts for me, but I’m not getting any interest in local photography groups. Any other ideas?

You're an OG of a community that exists to help you gain more portrait clients, serve a wonderful population (preschool families), and create magical images. Let's get to know each other! Comment below sharing where you are in the world and something you like to do for fun. 😊 I'll get us started. I'm in the greater Washington DC area, specifically Sterling VA. If you fly into Washington Dulles International Airport, you'll see my studio! For fun, I love eating lots of different kinds of food and drinking the double shot lattes my husband makes me.

I had to break it into two parts, so just part 1 is up. Please let me know what you think! We are under a heat dome like Europe was last week. It's going to be a broiler. Stay safe everyone!

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I would love to see how you utilise Dubsado for your preschool workflow. Do you import parents into there or just centres and automate your emails to centres/schools etc. Do you use it for your workflow to keep ontop of tasks for each preschool ? I have had a google sheets workflow built by a VA that lets me know tasks coming up, tasks due today and tasks overdue along with centre shoot dates - all intuitive with updates when I click boxes, trackers and centre info that integrates with google calendar, Order due dates, delivery date estimation etc which is fabulous, but the next step is automated my emails to centre directors when I get enquiries. I love that my workflow for preschool shoot to delivery tasks are in the spreadsheet (no ongoing monthly fees with a CRM), but perhaps a CRM might be useful to help with ongoing automation with preschool enquiries and workflow with the directors side of things. Ive coped for the last 12 years without a CRM though - but as I do about 35 centres a year and looking to scale to about double - it's time I think to get a CRM for that side of admin.