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 [...]
Yesterday I got an email from Bob Bell at United Funding. I’ve never met Bob, nor do I have any kind of relationship with his company. I got the letter because I’m on the attendee list from last year’s Imaging USA show. What Bob didn’t know when he sent it out was how timely his [...]
The original post that follows was written by my good buddy Scott Bourne, but I want to expand on the concept, because there are only a few weeks left to 2011. Come tax time, most of you are going to be scrambling for receipts, tax records and racking your brains trying to remember what you [...]
There’s been a lot written about things you can do to build your business. I’ve written about it, we’ve written about it on GoingPro and recently I ran across this post on Photofocus by my good buddy, Scott Bourne. We live in an instant fulfillment society with too many photographers wanting it all right now. Wanting [...]
Last year we had an idea and decided to launch our own association. No, let’s correct that, we wanted to start your association. We got the site up and running, started to tweet and within a day had the industry wondering what in the world we were doing. After all, the last thing anybody would think [...]
Everyone knows how to focus their cameras, but more of you need to focus on your business and just do a better job of setting your priorities. It’s not an easy task. Day to day it represents the biggest challenge even for a seasoned vet (sounds more professional than “old fart”) like me. So I’m [...]
