It’s a familiar moment: sliding your SD card into your computer and excitedly leafing through your images from an event.
It can be tempting to immediately edit and upload all of your photos to your website in a bid to make them as accessible as possible to participants – but it’s likely that this does more harm than good. Dropping megabytes of bulky high-res photos into your website slows down your page’s load time and negatively affects your SEO – two things that no photographer wants.
This is where your personal GeoSnapShot gallery comes in handy. After uploading your edited images, you’ll be provided with a unique link to your event gallery. Sharing this with athletes and organizations across social media or an e-mail allows them to view all photos from an event and find their images to purchase in your dedicated, user-accessible gallery – without slowing down your website.
Go one step further and easily embed your gallery into your website by simply copying and pasting the your custom piece of code into your website’s own code. You can find this on your event gallery page. This way, you can still promote your images across your website without compromising loading speed and SEO.
Bonus Tip: Hosting your images on an external server doesn't mean you need to compromise on brand! When creating an event gallery, easily customize page colors and formatting in order to create a unique experience for your customers.
The majority of participants have worked hard to get to the starting line and have created lifelong memories by the time they’re at the finish – photos of these moments are worth the spend in order to have access to these moments forever.
One of the biggest reasons you’re missing out on photo sales? It might take the average athlete hours to flick through countless event photos in search of images of themselves. Take out the work for them and ensure they can find and purchase all photos of themselves from an event in seconds with GeoSnapShot’s selfie-search. In your event gallery, participants can search-by-selfie to be presented with all photos and videos featuring themselves from an event.
Bonus Tip: Get ahead of the promotional game. If you choose to distribute your custom GeoSnapShot QR code linking to your event page, participants can opt-in to be notified when their media is ready to view and purchase.