Years ago I read a great article written by Donald Libey, a business consultant on the east coast. He talked about Consumer Bundling, which was simply non-competing companies working together to hit a common target. Over my years at Hasselblad you saw promotions and advertising we did with Kodak, Bogen Photo, Polaroid and even L.L. [...]
My friendship with Joe Farace is a prime example of one of the things I enjoy most about the photo industry. The two of us have never formally met, but we’ve talked on the phone a few times, emailed a lot and we share some great mutual friends, one of them, Scott Bourne. Along the [...]
I’ve written several posts over the last few years, both here and on GoingPro. With WPPI right around the corner it just seems to make sense to hit it one more time and here’s why. Time is your most valuable commodity. You’ll never have enough of it! Second on the list, for most people, will [...]
I found a great quote from Andy Warhol that got me thinking…
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Whether you’re just starting out as a professional photographer or aspiring to be one, there’s very little that happens in this industry by itself. You’ve got to be proactive and you’ve [...]
It’s Friday morning and one of those days where I’ve simply got too many things going through my head. Looking for a little inspiration I went to one of my favorite quote sites to get a new perspective on things. I found four great quotes and just want to share them with everybody.
For those of you relatively new [...]
One of the reasons Scott Bourne and I are such good friends is the way we both think about the industry, especially the challenges photographers deal with outside the obvious of the economy and changing technology. Through GoingPro we’ve talked with thousands of photographers and the common denominator isn’t always the fact that they’re new and just [...]
WTF stands for “What the Flash” and a special guest post thanks to good buddy, Bob Davis. I’m really having fun sharing this guest post this morning, because it’s completely different from anything I’ve ever run on the blog. This couldn’t be more “how2″ and I love the way Bob put it together.
I first met [...]
I originally wrote this post a short time back for GoingPro, but here’s why I’d like to share it with you here today.
Yesterday I had a great conversation with a photographer who’s about to go full time. Her work is terrific, her website, while it needs a little fine-tuning is all in place and [...]
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 [...]
Good buddy, Scott Bourne, ran this a little while back on his blog, but it makes such a good point about storytelling and that in turn ties into print competition. Storytelling is more important today than ever, especially with so many of you starting to shoot video and mixed-media. Photographers have always been the ultimate storytellers, but like everything in the [...]
