We’re so excited to have so many incredible people speaking at our booth at WPPI this year.  Catch these and more at our booth (#1140) Here’s what’s lined up:

Monday:

10 AM – Becker and the [b] School peeps coming by to kick off the show and pick up T-Shirts via Black Box Merch

NOON – Danny Bay of Photojunction (Demo of Photojunction Integration with AlbumExposure!)

2 PM – Jason Aten of Start Workshop at AE Booth

3 PM – Mike Larson at AE Booth

Tuesday:

11 AM Kevin Swan of KISS at AE booth

1 PM Danny of Ph0tojunction at AE booth (in case you miss it on Monday)

1:30 Gary Sikes of AE live on AskDane.com at the Fast Track/New Media Lounge

3 PM Michael Corsentino at AE booth

3:30 AE goes mobile at Dane Sanders‘ platform talk

6:00 AE at Fast Track after party at Centerfuge Lounge at the MGM

Wednesday

2 PM Dane Sanders’ at AE Booth to close out the show

Can’t wait to meet you! Keep up with us  on twitter (@albumexposure) for more during the show!

We can’t wait for WPPI this year, and we’re really excited to be exhibiting alongside so many other great companies.  We have some special surprises planned with some of our friends, and some great show only offers while we’re there as well.  It’s going to be a lot of fun, so stay tuned!

If you’re not already planning on attending (or even if you are), below is a FREE PASS to the tradeshow. Please feel free to share it with as many people as you like!

Today we’re happy to announce another little feature we hope you’ll like: we’ve changed “embed” to “share” because now you can not only embed your albums on your blog or website, but when you make an album public you’ll also automatically get a public url to share your album.

The public album page shows the same viewer you get with the embed, but automatically created for you without having to paste the embed code anywhere.  We hope this will also be useful for those of you wanting to a url to use with PickPic to link to your albums.

For an example, here’s the same demo album from the embed post, but at its public url:

http://albumexposure.com/elevation/public/demo

Cheers!

Today Jason Aten talked about AlbumExposure and simplicity in his album workflow on his blog, a pleasant surprise for us.  Here’s an excerpt:

In every aspect of my business, I’m constantly evaluating and asking myself “what am I doing that’s unnecessary or unhelpful,” and “how can I eliminate it from the customer experience?” … Since I’ve eliminated the complexity – and made things simple for my clients and me – my album sales have increased about 300%

Check out Jason’s workshops and his blog at http://startworkshop.com, lots of good stuff in there!

This might be old news if you’ve already seen it, but not so long ago  we added a handy delete all button to the upload screen so that if you’re replacing a large number of spreads you won’t have to click each little x:

Cheers!

Happy new year everyone!  We’re really excited about the first quarter plans that we have for AlbumExposure and can’t wait to see what this new year is going to bring :)

Make sure you catch Mike Larson this month on his Pictage User Group tour speaking about client relationships, the industry, workflow (including AE :) ) and more!

We’re so happy to have Mike on board as an AlbumExposure user and supporter!

Find out more about Mike at http://mikelarson.com, follow him on twitter at @mikelarsoninc, and see all his speaking dates at http://mikelarson.com/seminars

Need a last minute gift idea for a photographer or album designer in your life?  Only for our existing paid subscribers, give a gift subscription for a year of AlbumExposure for $75, %50 off the regular price!  Plus, we’ll also set you up as the referrer, so you’ll collect residual commission in the future.  Just send an email to support [at] albumexposure.com and we’ll get you set up We’ll even prep a fancy email to your recipient if you would like :)

Not an AlbumExposure member yet?  There’s still something for you: enter the promo code “HOLIDAZE” when upgrading and you’ll save $10 :)

Happy Holidays from us at AlbumExposure!

Per usual, along with a handful of small tweaks and fixes, we launched a new feature this week that should be helpful for those of you who are working with higher volumes of albums.

On the albums screen, there is now an “Archive” arrow:

This will do a few things:

• Archived albums don’t show on your login screen, or on your main working screen, so that those are not cluttered by old albums.
• Archived albums DO allow you to continue to embed the album in your blog or website.
• Archived albums CAN NOT be sent to print as the original hi-res files are removed when you archive your album.  Make sure you only archive albums that you no longer need to send through albumexposure to production.

We hope that this cleans up those screens for you while still leaving you with the embed functionality for as long as you like.

Cheers!

This week, along with a handful of small bug fixes, we also pushed out one of the most requested features on our feedback page, the option to turn off the center shadow in book view.  The shadow is designed to give a little depth to the book view, but many of you didn’t like the appearance of the shadow, especially on albums with a lighter background where it is more visible.

You’ll find the option on the bottom of the create/edit album screen:

Cheers!

Today we’re pleased to announce that we’ve partnered with Triple Scoop Music to bring you a special offer:

10% off all Triple Scoop Music for AlbumExposure users!

If you’ve upgraded, you’ll see the link on the songs page once you log in, and you should also receive it by email today.

We’re big fans of Triple Scoop Music and think that they’re dong great work making legal, affordable music available for so many people for all sorts of uses.