So many of you are about to hit any one of several major trade shows and conventions and you’ve got a choice to make. You can fly around the show at random, unorganized and trying to see everything you can, or focus on what you need the most and make it a quality experience.
For me, [...]

If you’re headed to PMA or CES in a couple of weeks pay attention to two interesting programs.
How about a Las Vegas Photo Adventurewith professional photographer, Mark Comon as your tour guide? It all starts on Friday evening with a “how to” presentation and dinner is included. Then you’ll head into a night time shooting session [...]

The other day on Skip’s Summer School on Facebook, Tabi Gibbs, asked what other photographers do to be more effective at Bridal Fairs. We’re not exactly in the season right now, but in a few months we will be. So, I dug this post out of the archives. It’s a really good list of things [...]

It’s just a short thought this morning about “anticipation”.
I’m in San Antonio and in a few hours will hit IUSA. I have very little true business I have to do at the show and I picked up a lousy head-cold on the way down, but that won’t hold me back from the excitement of seeing friends [...]

Every now and then there’s a blog that’s the equivalent of the monster buffet at Mandalay Bay - no theme, just a lot of great stuff! Hey, you have your secrets and I have mine – there’s more meat on this breakfast buffet than anyone should ever try and consume! (And if “Three Buffet Brian” is reading this, Mandalay Bay [...]

I’m working with Scott Bourne on a project called GoingPro. Most of you have probably been to the website, www.GoingPro2010.com.   Part of the project involves a book, published by Random House next summer.  So the chapter I was working on yesterday was all about things you can do to refine your technical skills.   I started writing about [...]

We’re all in the heat of trade show and convention season and it’s sort of a “which came first, the chicken or the egg” scenario.  Is it prime time for conventions because it really is the slowest part of the season or has it become the slow time because everyone is off attending trade shows and [...]