livebooks success stories

We have fully embraced multimedia and social media and our liveBooks site does a wonderful job of allowing us to incorporate it all into one neat package. liveBooks puts a lot of work into delivering a strong design with ease of use, and I’m thankful they’ve made it so easy on photographers like myself.

I had an existing liveBooks site that was really successful, but after 5 years it was time to upgrade it to a Scaler site. Ryan and Adam from liveBooks’ in-house design team are great collaborators. They built me a site that stayed true to my brand, and that’s also fresh in design and functionality.

When I began thinking about my website, I had broad conceptual ideas
about the look, feel and function of my site, but it was the collaboration
between myself and the design team that let me turn the ideas into a fully
functioning, unique website that spoke to my brand.

I chose a liveBooks Scaler website for the big images, ease of use and the integration with Vimeo. I also knew I could start with a predesigned website template and then customize it to make it my own. There are SO many decisions to be made concerning a website that it can become overwhelming to the point of not beginning at all. So to start with a well designed site that has had a lot of thought put into it and having the ability to personalize it to my taste and needs, made liveBooks an obvious choice for me.

The first response I get from people looking at the site is “love the big images”. Personally I love the intuitive navigation. It is important that you do not have to search around the perimeter of the page to figure out how to navigate the site. I specifically chose a template that had the navigation roughly where I wanted it – on the right side and at the bottom – and then made minor adjustments to make the site my own.

I love the collaboration with Vimeo. Being able to connect to a proven host where I already know the workflow has made integrating video into my site SO easy. And the viewer experience is awesome.

I try to be present in all of the obvious places and portals that art buyers will be looking. All of those places just redirect to my liveBooks website as it has a strong impact. It is important for buyers to instantly know what I do – and they can tell the moment they visit my site. My liveBooks website has made it easy for me to have a successful online presence that allows me to focus on creating new work.

We have had our liveBooks website for several years and it gets us as much new business today as it did when we launched. I hate it when we have to send out an analog portfolio, all those big prints, fedexing and messengers, they put stickers on our beautiful expensive leather books, and they sometimes even steal your prints… liveBooks is the only way to showcase your work.

As a director and photographer, I needed a website that could host both video and print. liveBooks was the obvious choice. I’m constantly generating new work and it is important that I be able to manage my own content from wherever I am in the world. I also appreciate that liveBooks is constantly developing, upgrading and adapting new technologies to their website templates. And liveBooks is extremely user friendly. It allows me to keep my websites looking fresh and up to date. I especially love the new Scaler sites. In my business, so much of the bidding process happens digitally, so it’s important to have a strong website that is easy to navigate and makes a statement about my particular sensibilities.

I recently completed a multimedia public art project for the City of Culver City in which I had created a series of photographic diptychs and directed a film called “The Secret Life of Swimmers.” When I was asked by the City to create a dedicated website that could function as an online virtual gallery for the work, I went straight to liveBooks.

If you can think of it, they can implement it. I’ve been extremely happy with liveBooks.

Your website is the first opportunity that most people will have to view your work. It is all about people seeing our images as big as possible at the highest quality possible. liveBooks’ Scaler does this better than anything on the market, and does it with ease. I don’t have to compromise anything. My website is crucial, not only for getting clients, but also for producing photo shots. liveBooks really understands what photographers need to be successful.

In my 15 years as an On-Air television personality, I was on TV every single day and therefore never had to brand and market myself. However, now, more than ever, the web is where everyone is going to watch video content and to learn about companies.
As a newbie in the world of entrepreneurism and the web, I had no idea how to design and build a website. Needless to say, I was overwhelmed at first, until a photographer friend recommended liveBooks. Since our website is driven by video content, liveBooks is a perfect fit.
liveBooks websites are so user friendly and the staff is always eager to help. Trust me, I was on a first name basis the the technical staff at liveBooks:) I literally built the entire website all by myself. It was such a great challenge and by the time I finished, I felt a huge sense of accomplishment.
If it weren’t for liveBooks and their great team, I would not be in business.

I chose liveBooks because it is important that clients look at my video work as they would my stills.  I want the video to standout as much as the stills, not as an afterthought. liveBooks helps me do that.  I’m interested in clients that have a real need for mixed media, not a photographer with a video camera.  The seamless navigation of my site and ability to categorize my stills AND motion have contributed to my success greatly.