Your CRM is only worth what you actually use between shoots
A CRM for photography businesses keeps every inquiry, booking, gallery delivery and follow-up in one place instead of scattered across email and a spreadsheet. I audit how you work in two to three weeks, for $2,000, and hand you a written plan. Then I build it, migrate your client list, train your team, and hand it over working.
I'm Filip Radisic, founder of Linked Core LLC. I've set up the business architecture for dozens of companies, including one of my own I tore down and started over from zero.
Now I build CRM, sales and automation systems for other business owners priced and delivered in stages, so you pay one stage at a time.
If this page solved one problem you recognized, there's a good chance the rest of your business has a few more just like it.
What goes wrong without a real setup
Inquiries that go cold. A couple asks about wedding availability and never hears back before booking someone else.
Contracts and deposits tracked by memory. Nobody can say at a glance which shoots are booked, paid, or still pending a signed contract.
Gallery delivery delays. Edited photos sit finished for weeks because there's no system prompting delivery and the upsell for prints.
Past clients who never rebook. No system reaches out the next year for a family session or an anniversary shoot.
No system for tracking usage rights and licensing. Which client purchased which usage rights lives in memory instead of a searchable record.
Second-shooter and assistant scheduling by text. Coordinating who's booked for which shoot happens in scattered group chats instead of one calendar.
How the setup actually runs
Three stages: the audit in two to three weeks, the build in six to eight, then launch and training in two to three. You keep working the whole time.
Stage 1: I map how you already work. How inquiries come in, how contracts get signed, how galleries get delivered. The system gets built around that, not around a software demo.
Stage 2: Build and connect. Booking automation, contract and deposit templates, and gallery delivery reminders tied to shoot dates.
Stage 2: Move your history across. Client list and past shoot history out of spreadsheets or email, cleaned and de-duplicated.
Stage 3: Train your team. On real bookings and real client accounts, with written procedures for any assistant or second shooter.
Questions photographers ask
Can it handle seasonal booking spikes? Yes, automated inquiry response and booking confirmation are built for busy seasons like fall minis or wedding season.
Will it help me sell prints and albums after delivery? Yes, post-delivery follow-up and upsell sequences are part of the standard setup.
Can it track usage rights and licensing? Yes, licensing terms per client and per shoot are recorded and searchable, not left to memory.
What if I only want the audit, not the full build? That is a real option. Some people take the written plan and either do it themselves or bring in someone else.
Do you only work in Florida? No. The build is done remotely and works the same anywhere in the US. Linked Core LLC is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
What it costs
✓ Full audit of your tools, calls, scheduling and paperwork
✓ Written plan of what to build and in what order
✓ Honest answer on whether you need a full build at all
✓ The build, priced by what actually gets built
✓ Data migration from whatever you use now
✓ Team training and written procedures
✓ Two weeks of support after go-live
One hour, free, no pitch
Tell me how many people you run, what you use now, and where work falls through. I will tell you what I would fix first and roughly what it costs.