I will be totally honest with you -- I am pretty happy with the photosites that I use right now. Both support communities and drive print sales.
I use Pro.Pictage and Pro.SmugMug. All total my clients spend in excess of $2,000 / month on these two sites combined.
Why do I love them so much?
- FTP Upload. My average wedding take is 10GB and I need a robust, scalable highly-batched upload system and the automated FTP system I have created supports my needs very well.
- Album Design Service. Pictage's free album design services provide me and my clients an invaluable feature above and beyond standard print ordering.
- LightRoom Integration. I will not / cannot take the time to apply tags outside of LightRoom. My workflow is not flexible and I will not change it for any reason other than my own. Therefore, I need a solution that fully integrates with my toolset for tagging images -- Pictage and SmugMug both support Adobe LightRoom integration.
- Expensive. Pictage is $100 a month flat rate fee before you even buy anything. That means I have to sell a lot to break even.
- Slow Turn Around. While free album designs are great, waiting 5 weeks to see the printed product arrive at the studio is a PITA.
- Stupid User Interfaces. Pictage's user interface is horrible. I mean, unforgivably terrible.
- Cory
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