Facebook like button & pro sales reports
For next week: more Facebook integration
Here’s a preview of what will go live next Thursday evening (Aug 13th):
When someone likes your photos in SmugMug or Journal styles, or in Lightbox, it goes in their Facebook feeds for their friends to see. Pros tell us it’s a major component of their marketing, and most others tell us it’s huge for sharing. Much like SEO, the more your site is mentioned across the web, the more traffic you’ll have coming back to you. Google (plus potential clients & fans) love that.
To opt out globally, just disable the Quick Share feature that will appear in your Control Panel’s Settings tab. Otherwise, by default, it will follow your normal privacy settings: visible when the share button is enabled, which you can set with any gallery’s Easy Sharing option in Gallery Settings. It won’t appear in password-protected galleries or on photos that you’ve hidden.
Better .csv sales reports for pros
Check out your sales history page and bask in the splendor of not 1 but 4 downloadable spreadsheets! Now you can see filtered versus full history and detailed versus order details.
And now we include various features like coupons, taxes, branding, and packages. The big objective is to provide fully filterable data that you can inspect and query and mash around to your heart’s content. No duplications, no hand editing…
Just add columns and define formulas, or use built in features of your spreadsheet. Want more gory details?
Selling bulk digital downloads
If you’ve priced digital downloads at a gallery or portfolio level, a new option appears when logged-out users click the buy button: Buy all digital downloads. It’s an easy way for customers to select a digital version of every photo in the gallery with a click.
Enhancements and a bug fix
As a result of user testing, the Simple Uploader got some UI love that included automatically starting uploads–saving a click–and better feedback on the progress of uploads.
The free trial signup page was simplified and prettified, making you look even more savvy when you recommend SmugMug to a friend.
And finally, we fixed a bug where the date selector for statistics closes without letting you pick an end date.
Did you see that we’re giving away a free 20×30 MetalPrint from Bay Photo on Facebook?
All the best,
The SmugMug Family
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This is great news! I am very excited about this upgrade! Smugmug and facebook, will make good power partners for artists! Thanks.
LOVE IT! Every week you announce great news, and this is one of them!
Cool. When are you going to allow bulk downloads so my family can get my photos without tediously saving them one picture at a time? I know this is sort of available with the third parties you provide links to but this should be incorporated for free withing SmugMug. Thanks.
It’s on our radar Peak. You can follow it’s progress here on uservoice: http://feedback.smugmug.com/forums/17723-smugmug/suggestions/394321-enable-bulk-gallery-downloading-?ref=title . But we tend not to talk about features before they go live, lest something unexpected keeps them from going out when we thought they would.
I agree with Peak, i’d really like a bulk download button for my viewers if i want to enable it. (Love your updates though! keep up the good work)
Thanks – it’s good to know that Smugmug keeps improving themselves. I’ve been a customer since 2005 and I’m happy. I really want to know when you’ll have some premium packaging options for sending customers their pictures (sending in premium boxes for example). Where can I find more info on whether this is on the roadmap? Thanks for your help.
Tricia
Stay tuned!
I agree with Peak & Phillip! When you do that, I’ll like it all over the shop.
a big THANK YOU for this option.
Android App….Android App….Android App….Android App…and a SM cap (see I can type something else)
Selling Bulk Digital Downloads – like the new options and seeing progress in this area (with the single zip download option is great!)
Now we need an option to set digital downloads for the ENTIRE gallery – one price for all – give them an incentive to download ALL of the photos for less instead of ALL of the photos at the individual price.
Thanks!
GREAT update. I spent some time with Jfriend trying to get the “Like” button rolling a month or so ago — nice to see it all official.
Both of these are in the works (no need to keep saying so
Sweet!!!!
I love the link up! Facebook, Smugmug you make a great match!
love it! awesome! smugmug is going socially viral! I am so glad that we use you and found you years ago.
Guess I had better Stop holding my breath, it did not happen today. Just can’t wait for the facebook integration, my customers will love not having to Pinch the watermarked pics to their FaceBook. It is my best for of advertising.
Any Ideas when this is going live? Thought yesterday, but must have been some hold ups. Smugmug team rocks. Crazy amounts of updates.
Also anxiously awaiting Quick Share.
It’s the 14th and I can’t see it on my website. I hope everything is ok. Smugmug is one of the best companies I have dealt with.
haha that’s what happens when Smugmug flags upcoming Updates. Keep up the good work SmugMugs it just keeps getting better
Hye! I’m a Smug Mug Power User. I have a question. When a Facebook USER click the Like button on a photo in Lightbox view, Facebook will post something like this on his wall stream:
“USER likes GalleryXXXXXX on http://www.photography.smugmugcom.”
But that only tells he likes the GalleryXXXXXX, and not the photo associated with the Like button thathat he clicked.
Could Smugmug include the URL link which supposed to show the photo itself, not the the gallery ?
Extra question, could Smugmug provide other types of social plug-in such as Share button, next to the Like button….:) or perhaps a Like button on each gallery…;)
Thank You!
Excited for the new sales report tracking.
Rita R.
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