Studio Training
Ashley Nostalgia provides complete and comprehensive training on everything for your Old Time Photo Studio. Everyone knows that the only real way to accumulate wealth is through knowledge. Ashley Nostalgia can provide you with that knowledge as thirty years worth of studio experience has taught us about successful Antique Photo Businesses. (We have already made those costly mistakes and learned from them!)
Each training session includes the following:
Designing Your Studio
- Electrical needs
- Lighting, both general and photographic
- Studio flow and maximizing visibility
General
- Traffic flow problems and how to avoid them
- How to create your prices and price list
- How to calculate incentive programs for your employees
- Advertising
- Other Photo opportunities
- How to find good locations and market the one you have
Initial Sales / Sales Philosophy
- How to encourage guests to impulsively buy product
- Quickly and efficiently answer arguments about why ‘not to buy’
- “Casting” techniques which put guests in character even before a purchase is made
- How to quote prices without scaring guests away
Costuming
- Find that special costume (the right style and color)
- Making guests feel comfortable in clothing
- Fitting all shapes and sizes
- How to dress entire families quickly
Camera and Digital Equipment
- Complete training on all equipment, i.e. lighting, cameras, lenses, etc.
- Positing techniques and guides
- Handling children, the photographer’s nightmare
- How to achieve incredible volume while maintaining quality
- Trouble shooting all equipment and software
Final Sales
- Add-on products that double your sales
- Display techniques
- Online Sales
- Selling Down to insure that no one walks away without an add-on
- Product diversity-expanding the sale beyond the moment
Tech Support
- Technician available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for the first year
- and much, much more…