The other day I picked up on the frustration of a photographer who commented about how his business “just isn’t coming together this year!” When asked about his marketing efforts, he was excited about totally reworking his website and it really did look terrific, but that was all he’d done. So, what do you do [...]
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain
It’s just a quick thought for a Saturday morning, [...]
Social Media is more than just a way to stay connected or communicate. For me it’s become the ultimate doorbell when it comes to knocking on the doors of photographers who I’ve never met and who are inspirational. I’m not sure how the friendship with Nicole Wolf even started, but I wound up on her site [...]
It’s Saturday morning and as my regular readers know, I like to keep it light on the weekends. I like to stay away from heavy business and marketing concepts…all the serious stuff. That’s why it seems ironic today that I’d want to ask the question, “Are we all getting too serious?” I could boil every challenge [...]
I’ve talked a lot about taking advantage of the first quarter’s “down time” quality to analyze what you could have done better last year. The quote I found from Steve Ballmer at Microsoft, seems a little ironic, considering the public’s attitude that Microsoft has often been out of touch. Regardless, it rings true for everyone in business today.
“We [...]
I know it’s going to seem like a series of infommercials, but that’s the kind of morning it is – so here are a few cool reminders to think about.
1) Registration for Skip’s Summer School will hopefully open the end of this week. Things kick off on Sunday afternoon, August 8 at 3:30 with a sneak [...]
Years ago we used to have Denis Reggie speaking in the Hasselblad booth. After each presentation there would always be at least one photographer who would come up and ask us to “spec out” every piece of gear Denis used. A year later, this same photographer would come back disappointed that none of his images [...]
I know some time before Facebook, before Twitter, before email, blogging and the Internet, I actually had a life. It wasn’t too different from The Brady Bunch minus Alice and just two of the kids. Yeah, I’m dating myself a little, but just look back at how your life has changed in the last ten years!
The Internet changed [...]
I ran across a quote from Buddha yesterday: “The mind is everything, when you think you become.”
It’s a heavy concept, but now take the same thought and listen to Chevy Chase from one my favorite movies, Caddyshack, “Be the ball!”
It’s pretty ironic that there’s a message here. Chevy Chase refers to a force in the universe “that makes things happen and all you [...]
It’s an African proverb that I Tweeted the other day, but the more I see it, the more I’m in awe of how much these seven words really say. They sure seem to fit with everything we learned in 2008 and 2009.
Think about it. The economy was horrible and you worked harder than you’ve probably ever [...]
