I wrote this blog last month for the GoingPro blog, but I wanted to post it here as well. For those of you who might be seeing it a second time, my apologies.
When you’re just starting out, especially in your business, regardless whether it’s in photography or not, most people tend to ask everyone they [...]
As far as I’m concerned there’s nothing like the photographic industry, which must be why I’ve stayed involved my entire adult life. I can hear a few good friends laughing over me calling myself an adult. Okay, so I’ve been in the industry all of those years I was supposed to be acting like an [...]
Yesterday’s blog was one of my highest viewed in the fifteen months since I arrived in “Bloggerville”. Close to 2500 people watched the Kodak commercial. While I’d love to take credit for the brilliance of that piece, all I did was point the way for more photographers to see it. Seriously, if you think about it, I was [...]
Yesterday’s post, talking about the power of black and white, created the perfect opportunity to share this old Kodak commercial from YouTube. Although it’s at least five years old and ran in a shorter version on television a few times, I saw it for the first time in Dane Sanders’ presentation this past August at Summer School. Scott Bourne [...]
In all the years I’ve been knocking around the photographic industry there have been a handful of people who came into my life who left an amazing impression. One of those is Ray DeMoulin, who was VP and General Manager of Kodak’s Professional Film Division World Wide, back in the days when Kodak Professional focused on relationship building first and [...]
There are times when we get so wrapped up in our own thoughts and concerns that we miss some of the bigger moments. When I wrote today’s blog, last night actually, I wasn’t even thinking about what today is – the anniversary of 9/11. Everybody in the world will be writing about it today. I [...]
In the DWF Newsletter recently there was a link to a discussion about the word “rockstar”. This has been going on for a long time and might even be approaching a year. How long it’s been going on is irrelevant, but what is important is the topic itself and what I just don’t get it is why [...]
At the risk of sounding like I’m trying to be Stephen Covey with his best seller, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, it’s not a bad platform on which to launch this morning’s blog. Think about those photographic icons we enjoy the most. What are the characteristics that have made them a success, not just in [...]
Okay, so somebody help me out here…I got an indignant email from a person I didn’t “friend” the other day on Facebook. They were “disappointed” I didn’t allow them in my Facebook “family”. I didn’t because they had no head shot; we had no friends in common and there was nothing that suggested they were a photographer. [...]
It’s the time of year when everyone is praying for business to pick up a little as we go into fall seasonality. You’re looking for some good holiday orders, booking a few more weddings for the year and you’re getting ready to launch your fall marketing plans. There’s a great one liner that I’d love [...]
