Starter Kits enable you to fulfill three very important objectives for your business

1) They enable you to “Show Off” your Photographic style
2) To present your work in an album that your customers would love to own
3) To create a wealth of opportunities to sell your products and services to your prospective clients

We have therefore created starter kits that that provide you with the tools to “up sell” to your clients and also to showcase the quality of your work.

The kit includes:

1) Three different size Digital Art Books
2) One Photobook
3) A Handmade presentation box containing your sales kit of:

i. Swatches;- Standard & Deluxe Leather finishes plus Buckram covers for photobooks
ii.Page construction samples:- Saffron, Tamarind.
iii. Paper Options:- Lustre, Gloss, Metallic & Digital Printed
iv. Printed Text and Swatch brochure

Our Photobooks have hard back covers and all text pages are printed on our HP Indigo digital offset press ensuring quality images throughout the book. There is a wide choice of cover colours and the book can be produced either full bound in Buckram or 1/4 bound with your choice of image on the front.

Photobooks are a cost effective solution for weddings, corporate events, portraits and even your own portfolio and if produced in multiple quantities the unit price drops quickly enabling you to increase your profits.

We now have available Carnival Mounts in black and these have a heavy weight cover with double mount effect mat exactly as before and are made to the same specification and on the same board as previously.

These can currently be purchased in packs of 50 as plain mounts from photogether.co.uk and we will shortly be offering the option of personalised on the front or on the bottom of the aperture. Personalisation will be offered using die stamping from your supplied artwork. This method of printing uses a block as foiling does but leaves a raised image and allows for a much finer level of detail within the font thereby letting you use smaller fonts and even detailed crests such as school badges.

Should you want to personalise your mounts all you will need to do is order them as normal from photogether.co.uk indicating that you would like them personalised once you have added them to the basket once this feature is switched on. You can type your text in and choose from our standard 3 fonts or send us your own artwork as a PDF and instructions on how to send this will be on your confirmation email.

We will shortly be producing Avanta Mounts and expect these to be ready for sale by the end of April.

While Spicer Hallfield as a company will not return, specialist manufacturers will be producing the very best of the Spicer Hallfield ranges along with new and exciting products under exclusive licence. We aim to deliver products and services that you the professional photographer want – to increase your profits and display your work in the best possible way.

Digital Art Books are currently available and we will soon be launching Carnival and Avanta mounts and folders register now to be kept up to date with new product launches.

Spicer Hallfield ranges are available exclusively online at www.photogether.co.uk

We are really pleased  to receive a compliment on our email and the transparancy of the unsubscribe option on the stropharia.com blog. We always try and ensure that our communications to our users are clear and helpful and we will make sure the unsubscribe button whilst being in the blurb at the bottom will always appear loud and clear in all our emails.

The Spicer Hallfield Sales Aid Kit is presented in a strong compartmentalised presentation box constructed in washable, durable, black Arbelave Library Buckram, handmade in England by master craftsmen, and is designed to present the different range of materials available to customers in the best possible way.

Measuring 265mm long x 230mm wide x 30mm depth the box opens to reveal large swatches of the five main top-of-the-range calfskin album finishing options. The box has a further compartment showcasing miniature book blocks in the three main photo page finishes; lustre, gloss and metallic. The final compartment houses the full range of foil blocking and embossing styles and the type styles and sizes available.

The Sales Aid Kit is designed to fit neatly into the Starter Pack presentation box.

We had over 700 visitors to the stand during the 3 days and we are really pleased that the feedback we received was positive with most commenting not only on the quality of the prints which are run out on our Polielettronica photo processing laser lab but on the binding and finishing of all the sizes.

We have to thank Paul Wilkinson again for the fantastic photography we had available and this certainly helped generate interest in the books as family and baby albums as well as wedding albums.

Building on all the comments we received we are now working on additional options for sample albums which will allow you to choose which albums individually rather than having to have the 3 sizes defined in the pack we have created for £199 plus VAT. Each of these sample albums will have a discount against the full price of around 30%.

Finally we are also working on cover designs and colours and these will be described in full detail on the site shortly giving you a wide range of options to choose from, but remember we can create any book you want in the style you want so give us a call on 01844 295174 to find out more.

We do not plan to have these available in large quantities and are therefore keen to hear what colours and materials you are interested in seeing available so please leave a comment below or on the photogether forum.