Thursday, July 2, 2009

July Update

Are you enjoying your summer? We sure are, but it’s not slow and lazy, we’re as busy as ever.

We want to let you know about an exciting new promotion we’re staging this fall. It’s our Santa Charity Event. We supply you with gorgeous holiday portraits and you help us raise funds for charity.

Portrait packages for Santa Charity are sold at a special discounted price, and all packages include one 8x10, one 5x7 and four wallets. The first package is $100, if you purchase a second its $75, and a third will be $25. Thirty dollars from each first package purchased goes directly to Children’s Hospital.

The beautiful sets that will be created for the Santa Charity are Country Christmas, Formal Christmas, and Winter Wonderland.

Our Santa Charity Event is scheduled for November 7th and 14th. We anticipate this will be a very popular promotion, and we’re giving you the opportunity to schedule your appointment now while there’s still time available on our schedule.

We’re hosting a party! A Facebook party!

More and more we’re connecting through social media, so why not look your best to all your old and new online friends? Get some friends together and join the fun at Hilyard Photography for our Monthly Facebook FĂȘte. Last Friday evening of the month, Hilyard Photography hosts a Facebook FĂȘte. Come and enjoy a welcome break from your hectic month. We’ll treat you to a cold beverage and a tasty treat while you take a moment to relax and be pampered.

For only $25, you’ll get an image you’d be proud to share on the World Wide Web. Bring a friend or two and you’ll each get an image for $12.50. The portrait session will last 10 minutes, and you’ll have a choice of backgrounds to create a casual, personality-driven image.

A few days after your portrait’s taken, the image will be uploaded to the Hilyard Photography album, and we’ll email you a link so you can tag yourself and drag the image to your desktop to use on your social networking or e-dating sites.

We want you to be the first to know about our 48-Hour-the-more-you-spend-the-more-you-save sale!
Purchase a $75 certificate on July 10th and July 24th, and receive an additional $25.

The more certificates you buy, the more money you save on everything from portrait sessions, prints, albums, frames, and accessories.
There is no limit to how many certificates you may purchase, but the certificates must be purchased July 10th and 24th .

Does your high school son or daughter participate in the school musical? If so, we want you to know about how we partner with local schools to support the arts.

We’re excited to tell you that we initiated a program to highlight the accomplishments of local drama students. In addition to creating several community posters, we take headshots of the kids involved in the production. Your school may use those images, free of charge, in their program guide.

If you’re curious about what’s in it for us, other than the satisfaction of supporting and encouraging young talent, running programs like this creates awareness of our studio, and honestly, we hope many of those kids and their families will think of us when they have their senior portraits taken or when they need to update their family portrait.

So please pass on word of this partnership to your local high school drama department. We would love to highlight the young talent in our community.