Left to right: Chris Slivers of Ultimate
Exposures and his wife Caressa; Mark Fitzgibbons
and his wife Holly Freedman of Ultimate
Exposures; Bo Lewis, CCS; Brian Speers,
CCS and his wife Joann; John Gautsche from
National Sports Photos; and Elizabeth Atencio
from NorCal Candids photographed in the
lobby of the Conrad Hotel in Hong Kong.
Congratulations to our recipient of this
year’s Jack Counts Jr. Customer of the
Year award, The Strong Family, of Texas-based Flash
Photography!
Customers of the Year, the Strong Family
from Dallas/Ft. Worth, left to
right, Page and Carol Strong,
and Ric Strong.
This
year’s CCS Promotional
Trip will be
to beautiful tropical island of San
Juan Puerto Rico! You will find local exotic
hideaways, miles of white sandy beaches, mountains
and valleys, and many other natural wonders. In
addition to the natural splendors of Puerto Rico
you will find great food and a fun night life.
How to Win a Trip:
$30,000 increase in CCS print finishing wins a trip.
5% increase in CCS finishing if you did over $100,000
in finishing in 2007.
4% increase in CCS finishing if you did over $200,000
in finishing in 2007.
3% increase in CCS finishing if you did over $300,000
in finishing in 2007.
2% increase in CCS finishing if you did over $500,000
in finishing in 2007.
Any new CCS customer that does over $40,000 in CCS
print finishing.
Details:
Additional trips can be won by exceeding the above
requirements of each category by $30,000. For example,
if you did $100,000 in lab business in 2007, in 2008
you would need to do $105,000 to earn your first
trip and $135,000 to earn your second trip.
Customers must be a majority owner of all eligible
accounts, and print finishing from multiple accounts
will be combined. Any business acquisitions from other
CCS customers will be added into the base for comparison
of same period 2006 vs. 2007.
Maximum of four (4) trips per customer/owner. First
winning trip is NOT transferable. It must be used by
customer/owner. Customer/owner must not have any outstanding
liabilities to Candid Color Systems. Increases in print
finishing will be based on the same period (1/1/2008 – 12/31/2008)
in the previous year. Each customer’s status
will be updated on a quarterly basis using the end-of-month
report. During the last quarter the reports will be
updated monthly.
For those of you who attended the CCS 2008 Winter
seminar, you were able to see Eye-Fi in action! CCS
used Eye-Fi to wirelessly send images to a computer
and display them on our plasma TVs during several events. Eye-Fi wireless memory cards hit the market a few
months ago after two years of development. Eye-Fi
cards store the camera’s images like any other
memory card. In addition, with it’s built-in
Wi-Fi transmitter, the Eye-Fi card can simultaneously
transmit those images to your computer up to approx
100 feet. Each image transmits in approximately
4-10 seconds depending on data file size. Connect
your computer to a projector and with the use of a
continuous refreshing slideshow, your projected images
can be viewed at an event. Because images are
transmitted from the card to the computer wirelessly,
you are free to roam you’re event while shooting. You
are no longer tethered and restricted to one location. With
the excitement this system can generate at an event,
it not only makes a great booking tool it can also
increase traffic to the online images.
Items needed to shoot and project wirelessly: 2GB Eye-Fi SD Memory Card
Purchase from B&H
Photo
SD to Compact Flash Card adapter - $30, purchase from
B&H
Photo
D-Link 655 or equivalent Wireless Router - $120, purchase
from Best Buy
Computer Projector – The choices change monthly. Look
for Epson, Infocus and ViewSonic projectors.
FastStone MaxView Slideshow Program - $20 (This
is one of the few slideshow programs that refreshes itself
and includes any new images saved to the Eye-Fi image
folder.)
A recap on how it works:
Images are 1) written to the memory card, 2) transmitted
to a wireless router, 3) directed to the computer,
4) and finally to a specified folder on the computer. An
internet connection is required to configure the Eye-Fi card, but not to use
it. Each card is configured to a specific router and computer. If
you change a component, you will need an internet connection
to reconfigure the card because it must connect to
the Eye-Fi website server.
Contact Amy Ramsey at 800-750-0494 ext 439 in Customer
Support for assistance.
Just Released for Spring Sports- 2 new products!
Candid Color has added two new products for the Spring
Sports season! We have added the Home Plate Plaque
and the Soccer Ball Plaque.
These
will be available in QP2, CORE and QuicPost by
March 24th. They are available
with customizable captions that you can set or
the retail customer can enter when ordering online! If the announcement of these two new products is too
late for you to add them to your order forms for this
season- don’t worry! These great products can
be used as appreciation plaques for Coaches and Team
Sponsors! We also suggest offering them as a way to
drive customers to reorder on the web! Order your samples today for display at your league
shoots!
The
new product names/numbers/prices are as follows:
13156 Plaque – Team Home Plate $11.45
13157 Plaque – Team Soccer Ball $11.95
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