We recently launched Simply Classic, our second custom blog template, in the ProPhoto Blogs Design Store along with the luxury marketing pieces in The Bee’s Knees to carry the design throughout all marketing avenues.  We’re still new in this world of designing beautiful marketing pieces for photographers at affordable template pricing, and have big plans to do more of it in the future. After all, not everyone can afford a custom developed $5,000 brand for their business.

With the Simply Classic set, you can still have the look of a custom developed brand at a much lower price point.  How does a blog, galleries upgrade, and luxury marketing set for less than $900 sound?

Introducing Simply Classic, featuring classic custom fonts throughout the site, four masthead template designs, and flexible space that can be used for vendor ads, blogsite gallery links, client features and more.  The colors have been professionally selected, but are fully customizable.

And for those of you that love the idea of your portfolio site and blog combined into one, we also offer a Simply Classic Blogsite Upgrade:

And since your marketing pieces will need to match your new blog, we’ve also released the Simply Classic Luxury Marketing Suite:

Including: business card, facebook welcome tab (including installation), cd case & disc, sales receipt, virtual welcome magazine, envelope, and letterhead

For the client that doesn’t necessarily need all the bells and whistles, we’ve also released the Simply Classic Stationery Suite:

Including: business card, sales receipt, envelope, mailing label, and letterhead.

Finally, we’ve released the 15-page Simply Classic Virtual Welcome Magazine as an a la carte item.  Featuring pre-written text from the welcome magazine I present to my own clients, the template includes a special introductory note from the photographer, pages devoted to describing your studio, your style, what to expect with post production and viewing appointments, what to wear tips, signature products, and space for your complete pricing information!  We also provide detailed instructions for embedding your Welcome Magazine into a password-protected page on your blog so it’s viewable like this:

(To protect the integrity of the product, the actual text included in the download has been replaced with dummy text.)

I believe the only thing we’ve left out is the kitchen sink.  But those are too expensive to ship.  Happy Thursday!