Meet Kari Kane | Professional Photo Organizer
We had the good fortune of connecting with Kari Kane and we’ve shared our conversation below.
Hi Kari, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
As someone who loves to organize anything and everything, including my personal photos, I realized photo & media organization is a service that so many could benefit from. Most people have decades of disorganized photos stored in albums and boxes or abandoned on multiple outdated devices that they’ll deal with ‘someday’. With the reality that more digital photos and videos are added to that mix each day, people are overwhelmed and looking for help. That’s where I come in. I am passionate about helping people reconnect with their memories through consolidation and organization, giving them the means to display and share their photos and sleep well knowing everything is safe from loss.
A huge reason I am so excited to work as a Professional Photo Organizer is because every client has different needs allowing me to offer a diverse set of services. My most popular service is digital photo organization which involves consolidating all the client’s photos to one main hub, removing duplicates, sorting into chronological folders, and finally backing up to a cloud or external hard drive. I also offer video conversion (VHS tapes, VHS-C, and camcorder tapes), print photo scanning and organization, and photo book design.
What should our readers know about your business?
I truly believe that our photos and their stories matter and I want to help clients revisit their memories without the stress that most people feel tackling such an overwhelming project. Enjoying our photos is made so much easier through simplification and organization and I work with each client on an individual basis to ensure they get exactly what they’re looking for (and often, what they didn’t even know they wanted). In March 2020, I was in the early stages of starting my business and considered putting it on the backburner when the world shut down. Instead I told myself exactly what I tell my clients, “There will never be a perfect time, but if it’s important to you, you’ll find a way to make it happen.”
Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
Having lived in Wisconsin most of my life, it has been fun to explore all that Texas offers. Say we have friends and their children visiting in the spring (to avoid the Southeast Texas heat!), we might spend the day at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo going on rides and playing carnival games before catching the concert on the main stage that evening. My family has loved exploring the miles and miles of greenbelt trails all over Kingwood, so the next day we might take a bike ride, stopping at a few parks before heading out for some authentic Mexican cuisine that evening. A day trip to Galveston never fails as you can walk along the beach, do some shopping downtown, grab some seafood for lunch, and top it off with a scoop of Texas’s own Blue Bell ice cream. Other favorite day trips on our list are the Houston Zoo and the Houston Children’s Museum. (Did I mention we have children?)
Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
Cathi Nelson is the CEO and founder of The Photo Managers, a community of professionals not only passionate about helping their clients manage photo collections and tell their stories, but also committed to offering courses and support to consumers interested in DIY. Finding The Photo Managers and becoming a certified member of the organization solidified my belief that people need our help to get their photos under control and introduced me to a network of business owners I can learn from and grow alongside. I am grateful for Cathi’s love of photos and the stories they tell because I believe they are the motivation behind her drive to keep The Photo Managers a leading educational community supporting professionals around the world.
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