Relaxed and Connected
Prepping Clients for a Perfectly Unposed Session
with Maryam Salassi
Kick client anxiety to the curb with Maryam's guide to stress-free sessions!
Connect with your clients from the first contact & set them up for a relaxed, organic session!
This course is for you if...
- You want to learn how to get your clients to relax in front of the camera (you'll go behind the scenes with Maryam at a client shoot to see exactly what she does!)
- You want to elevate your client experience (from the moment they contact you until the gallery is delivered!) - and you'd like phone scripts, email templates, and questionnaires to help you along the way
- You want to see how Maryam culls a session to deliver a gallery full of beautiful, relaxed, and authentic images
YOU'LL COME AWAY WITH
- Everything you need for effective client communication, from sample phone scripts to email templates and more!
- A step-by-step process that will help you create connection with your clients from the very first contact
- Maryam's tips and tricks for getting kids and families to open up to you during sessions (and you'll even see her in action in the behind the scenes video!)
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WHAT'S INSIDE YOUR ONLINE CLASSROOM?
PDF with my workflow, phone scripts, email templates, and questionnaire templates
A Pre-Session video
Behind the Scenes video of a relaxed session utilizing Maryam's unposed posing
A culling video
peek inside the course 
BY THE END OF THIS COURSE,
you will have a start-to-finish plan for client communication and day-of prompts that lead to relaxed and connected sessions...each and every time!
about your presenter
Maryam Salassi is an award-winning family photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area who balances the chaos and energy of fun family sessions with the help of workflows and systems for a smooth and painless client experience. While she has a degree in fine art photography, her background as a claims adjuster, former salon owner, and elementary art teacher have had the biggest impact on the way she runs her business.
This is such a fantastic course! The course ebook is a wealth of information. Maryam shares her entire workflow, email and questionnaire templates, and great tips on client communication and ways to ensure that your clients have a great experience from start to finish. I can’t wait to implement them in my own business. I also really enjoyed watching her in action in the behind the scenes videos. Maryam is so good at connecting with the kids and following their lead throughout the session. I’ve learned so much from this course, and I’d highly recommend it to anyone who wants to take their client experience to the next level. Thank you, Maryam!
Hi Bhavya, thank you for taking the time to leave a review! I’m glad you found the class helpful and am looking forward to hearing more about how you use some of the techniques in your own workflow!
I loved watching Maryam’s process from start to finish. I was so helpful to see how the pre-session questionnaire/call led to conversations in the session and how the session vibe played into the culling process. I was thrilled to get access to the questionnaire to use in my own business!
If you are looking to see how someone uses their own personal strengths and people skills in their photography business workflow and style, this is it! Maryam beautifully models how to make clients comfortable and confident in order to create genuine and personalized photos that they can have to memorialize this season of their life. While watching the session videos, I laughed along with the clients while simultaneously taking copies notes on Maryam’s technique. Here’s to hoping she makes more content on Click Photo School, soon!
Thank you for the review, Alyx! I’m so glad you found it helpful and I can’t wait to hear how you’ve implemented some of the techniques in your own business!
Such a great class! Maryam shared a ton of great info on how to set client expectations from the get go. She shares her entire pre-shoot workflow, which is so helpful in creating a positive client experience. I’ll definitely be implementing some of the advice from her PDF. But what I found the most valuable was the behind the scenes videos. I loved watching how natural and conversational Maryam was with her clients–you can see that she made it a priority to put down the camera sometimes and just connect with the kids. With my own photography, I sometimes have a tendency to go into ‘director’ mode when I photograph my client, so it was really nice to see how Maryam just let the scene unfold and capture natural and playful moments. Glad I took this class because I gained valuable insight on how to get clients to relax and just be themselves.
Hi Young! Thank you for taking the time to leave a review! I’m so glad the behind the scenes were helpful, it can be difficult to get out of “director” mode sometimes! Keep asking questions in class, I love sharing knowledge!
Relaxed and Connected: Prepping Clients for a Perfectly Unposed Session by Maryam Salassi is a course I wish existed when I was first starting my photography business. Even now, a few years into a business, there is so much information I can take away and implement today in my own practices. She literally takes you through her entire process of working with clients from beginning at inquiry to end even after the gallery has been sent. Her course is as happy and entertaining as she is so it’s fun to watch her work her magic in her videos. You can almost hear her voice coming through the pages of the ebook as if you were being mentored one on one with her while reading it. I’d highly suggest this course to beginners getting their businesses started as well as those established in a business that might want to fine tune their workflow and/or elevate their client experience. I know that’s one area I have some work to do so I can’t wait to sit down and brainstorm some of my take aways to implement soon!
Thanks so much for the kind words, Missy! I’m so glad you got something out of the class right away, and that it is helping you fine tune your client experience! Be sure and ask questions in the classroom if you have any, I’d love to answer them!