At WPPI’s opening program, Photographer’s Ignite, I met Byron and Wendy Roe. In their Ignite presentation they hit on a topic so timely in today’s market.  It was all about couples working together. Whether intentionally planned or an accident in today’s difficult economy and job market, there are more couples working together in photography today [...]

Every day I hear more stories about husbands and wives working together in the photography business. While the typical scenario is one spouse was already in the business when the other was caught in a lay-off, there seems to be every possible reason for non-photo spouses to get involved.
At WPPI a few weeks [...]

Lately I feel like I’m trapped in an old Jimmy Stewart movie and the hands of the clock are spinning.  Time is literally flying by and projects I wanted to be finished with already are barely started. Julieanne Kost, in regards to asking her to be involved in a project we were working on, once [...]

I was in a bind this morning. Nothing to write about and a little unprepared since we’re flying out early and headed home after WPPI. But then like magic, my good buddy Terry Clark sent me an email in response to yesterday’s post about their being no shortcuts to building your business.
 
After 20+ years in [...]

Being at WPPI this week I’ve had a chance to talk with a lot of photographers, both old friends and new ones. Most people are optimistic about this year and many are already seeing slight changes in their business, all in the right direction. However, there are some common themes.

If anybody tells me they had [...]

I recently saw an email blast from my buddy, George Varanakis at Rangefinder/WPPI. He listed the top ten reasons not to miss WPPI. Personally, I’d drop a few and add a few, one of them being your ability to interact with vendor after vendor to help strengthen your business. I’d also add, one trip to Vegas gets you exposed [...]

It wouldn’t be the week between the holidays without a nice walk down Memory Lane. In November, 2010, I talked my Dad into writing a post for me. Now, a year later and having moved to within a few miles of his home, I’m even more amazed at the relevance of his experiences from business, starting 70 [...]

This is one of those weeks when we all tend to reminisce. So, in starting to look back over the last year, I found myself going back even farther and read one of my first posts, originally run on GoingPro, almost two years ago.  Like the post I got my Dad to write over a [...]

Scott Bourne ran this post a few days ago on GoingPro, but it’s so relevant to everybody. He was targeting new photographers who were just turning pro, but here’s what I’ve seen with this tough economy. There are way too many people running around with great ideas and terrific dreams who are just afraid to [...]

WARNING: This is an adult post. If you’re bothered by sarcasm and use of the word “turd” please don’t read on. 
We’re living in the age of instant gratification. We text, we tweet, we abbreviate. Our spelling has become absurd, phonetically attacking a conversation for the sole purpose of packing a full paragraph into just 140 [...]