Every year Summer School gets a little better thanks to the feedback in the survey we do a week or two after the program ends. After last year’s school we heard requests for more hands-on shooting, more marketing and business and several suggestions to make the program more centrally located. Well, we’ve managed to do [...]

The Summer School site for 2012 launched this morning, but there’s a lesson here that’s definitely worthy of a post! I appreciate all the great feedback and suggestions that went into this year’s program. I get a lot of accolades, but the truth is, the success of the program has little to do with me. [...]

I didn’t plan things this way, but there’s a lesson in this post and it’s followed me most of my career. Here it is…When something doesn’t go as planned you need to be honest with people, readjust and then move on.  It accomplishes nothing to point fingers at other people and create a lot of lame [...]

We know time is your most valuable commodity and there’s never enough of it.  So in putting together this year’s program we took the key points from everyone’s feedback following last year, and built a new Skip’s Summer School!The three top requests from our 2011 post-program survey were more hands-on training, more marketing/business and a more central location. 
There [...]

This morning we wrap up Summer School and it’s interesting to see the transformation that’s taken place after just two days of a group of people being together. Even the word “interesting” so understates the enthusiasm, fun and the privilege I feel at being a part of Summer School.  Sure, it’s my event and my [...]

One of the fun pre-program aspects of Summer School is looking at the demographic data to understand more about who’s coming to this year’s program and why. Here’s this year’s profile.
We’ve got about 300 people coming as of this morning and to start it’s a 45/55 split between men and women. There are more women [...]

I’m blown away by the involvement of this year’s sponsors at Summer School. Here are a couple of exciting new ones that just came in!
Triple Scoop Music, the amazing music licensing service used by just about all of the top photographers and videographers is announcing today OVER $4000 IN MUSIC PRIZES exclusively for Summer School attendees!
Every registered Summer School [...]

In getting ready for Summer School, I’ve talked about or run guest posts for every speaker except me. Seems kind of funny to do a profile, but if nothing else, this will give you a chance to get a feel for what I’ll be talking about in my marketing workshop on Wednesday morning at Summer School.

In terms [...]

Ever had a day when your to-do list looks like the breakfast scramble from a New Jersey diner. It’s a little bit of everything with no real focus except breakfast! Well, that’s the best analogy for this morning’s post!
This is one of those weeks where travel, projects and life in general have me going in eight [...]

This is one of those days when there’s so much to talk about that a post winds up looking like the Meat Lovers Special at Denny’s! It’s a lot of disconnected thoughts, but plenty of meat in the concepts!
On the Summer School Scene: This year’s sponsors are a pretty amazing group of companies and the first [...]