small business management

this will likely rank as most boring post ever, but i need to make it. don't worry, the following post will be much better.

i need suggestions for small business management software. nothing super fancy or over the top, but it would be nice to use something we can grow with. and, of course, it needs to be for Mac OS X.

things we'd use it for

  • scheduling and bookings
  • finances
  • email correspondences (this is a big one, as we sometimes are left to dig around for old emails)
  • contact management

was that vague enough? good. hopefully someone can give me some good insight on solid, Mac-based software.

aaaaaand go.

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go go, Montgomery!

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cut out for it

[no, this is not a picture from the event, but you get the idea]

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Jac & i have been sitting on what was initially a "good news" opportunity that has now turned into an "amazing/brilliant/incredible/no words for it news" reality.

early last week, Jac was contacted by a representative of LWT to see if we'd be interested in placing a bid to be the photographers for the annual Blue & Gray Colonels Ball here in Montgomery. what began as a "send us your bid soon!" quickly became a "let's meet on Wednesday" (last Wednesday) affair.

this was something wholly new to us, and frankly, a bit surprising. of course i know that Jackie has the talent and skill for this; the surprise was more in the "we've only been at this, full-time, for a little over a month now" department. we quickly wrangled together our resources and know-how (a huge thank you to Apple's brilliant app, Pages, for its part) into conceptualizing an eye-catching presentation for the meeting. the one big catch, however, was a pretty massive requirement: four photographers were necessary to cover the event. this is where its good to have friends in the business. we quickly came to a consensus (after five seconds) and called up our good friend Lori Dill of Appear Photography in Birmingham who (thankfully!) will be able to join us.

proposal: done.

the meeting was fantastic and the threesome that interviewed us and went over our bid seemed to not have enough words for how impressed they were with Jackie's work, top to bottom. they also were taken with our website (holla'!). every single thing was falling into place.

and then we waited. and waited. Friday was excruciating. all day today was excruciating. just waiting on a phone call or an email. Google Voice, through which we route the L.A.P. phone number, was acting wonky all through the weekend and through today. all very nerve wracking.

then the call came at 4.30pm, and it was Mr. Leonard from LWT, letting me know that we won the job.

we won the job.

i cannot, and i don't think Jackie can either, express how amazing this is to us as a burgeoning photo business in an incredibly crowded field of amazing Montgomery photographers, some of who've been at this (again, full-time) much longer than we have been. this is incredible when also considering that the BGCB folks have been using the same photographers for over 20 years. and we are their choice to take up that mantle.

i know for some folks reading this, it doesn't make much sense as to what all this means, and its sort of hard to explain in a concise manner what the BGCB is and what an institution it is in Montgomery. so... just trust me: this means great things for us, hopefully for a very long time to come.

happy Monday to us! this journey is getting awesome!
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