Quicksites

QuickSites provide an immediate web presence for your studio while your website is still in development. This landing page contains your contact information, links to Marathon’s client education content and allows you to begin uploading password-protected sessions before your new website has gone live. There is no setup fee involved with a QuickSite, and it’s free when you start your monthly hosting.

Photographic Shopping Cart

Marathon takes no commission on sales, and there is no charge for uploads. Update pricing on your own—any time—at no additional charge. Enable package pricing and sell multiple poses within each package. With this online photo shopping cart and the use of a payment gateway, your customers may securely order images anytime from your website.

Custom Website Design

For an established studio with well-defined marketing needs, a custom-built website allows the utmost artistic and technical control. Key to the success of a custom site is to start with a well-thought-out plan that clearly communicates your expectations for the purpose, design and functionality of the entire site, as well as a clear understanding of its costs and production time. Allow your personal team of Marathon Internet Professionals to work with you in developing a unique website that expresses your personal style and reinforces your brand identity.

Website Hosting

Marathon’s website hosting service represents the best value anywhere for photographers. It includes all of the following at no charge: setup, e-mail accounts, web-based e-mail access, basic SPAM filter, session proofing, site statistics, preproduced client education pages, and live phone support Monday through Friday 8am to 5pm.

Domain Registration

Looking to purchase a new domain name or just hoping to see if one is available? Register or check for the availability of your desired domain name using Marathon's newly automated domain name registration process. Gain total access to your account when securing your domain name through this registration method.

Client Education

An extensive collection of client education web pages provide studio clients and prospects with helpful hints and insightful information that will enhance your ability to create better portraits and increase the size of client orders. This preproduced content is available exclusively to Marathon hosting clients.

Terms and Conditions

The growth of Internet-based tools has provided photographers with a host of opportunities to expand their marketing reach to consumers through the phenomenon of "viral marketing." Internet marketing allows studios to connect with qualified prospective clients that they might miss through other more traditional marketing efforts. Sometimes a website is the first and only opportunity a studio has to make an impression on a prospective client, therefore the image, professionalism and personality that it portrays is vitally important.

"Marathon has helped our business by giving us the ability to showcase our great work with an affordable template that looks custom and my prospective clients love. Some clients even booked us just from our website!

We love our site for two reasons: 1- that we can easily update the galleries ourselves, and we have room to customize. And 2- we LOVE YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICE! It's so important to know that anytime I call I can get help from any of the customer service reps with a problem and that in most cases it can be resolved immediately. I love Arlen and some of the other guys who have been so patient and helped me when I tortured them on many occasions with questions. Everyone is always efficient getting answers to my questions if they can't answer them right away and if I have a change that actually can't be implemented in my template, someone always gives me an alternative solution.

That is really comforting to know when you are a busy studio and you are always trying to change to keep up with the industry.

For all the reasons above, I have had a great overall experience with Marathon."

Thanks again!
Christine Kovnat
owner of K&K PHOTOGRAPHY