“What good is working to create the finest images of your life if nobody knows who you are?” That’s pretty much the foundation of every marketing workshop I’ve taught over the last couple of years, along with my long time favorite, “Just because the media tells us it’s going to be a bad year, doesn’t [...]

WARNING:  It’s a Monday morning rant…
I accept that we live in an instant gratification world. I accept that Twitter has changed the way we spell. I’ll even accept the gr8 words U can cre8 to cram a full paragraph of thought in2 140 characters.
However, what I refuse to give up is my belief that nothing [...]

Lately I feel like I’m trapped in an old Jimmy Stewart movie and the hands of the clock are spinning.  Time is literally flying by and projects I wanted to be finished with already are barely started. Julieanne Kost, in regards to asking her to be involved in a project we were working on, once [...]

Most of you have attended at least one major trade show and convention during the first quarter of the year. If you’re like most people, you came home with tons of notes. You had lists of great ideas. You might have even photographed a few speaker slides or new products creating ideas of things you [...]

Good buddy, David Ziser, has been kind enough to share a few of his best posts with us and this one, like all of his posts, is another top-shelf presentation.  It might be from last year, but that doesn’t make the topic any less relevant.
As a combination of the tough economy and advances in [...]

Over the last few months I’ve run a number of great videos leading up to Summer School.  In fact, I’ve found great videos on just about everybody, with the exception of Jules Bianchi and her sister Joy Bianchi Brown and Roberto Valenzuela, but both of them did a couple of terrific guest posts. Jules and [...]

This morning the United States Department of Attitude released their annual report on professional photography. It’s incredible to see that things have completely turned around with the economy as well. Photography was listed as the most lucrative career field in the U.S.  National advertising and promotional statistics showed photography as the only career choice where [...]

I’ve discovered, when you do a blog every day, material to write about can be found in the most obscure places, like the fortune in the cookie at Hunan’s last night:
“Don’t wait until your ship comes in.  Swim out to it!”
Yes, I’ve finally reached a new point in blogging wisdom and I’m quoting fortune cookies, [...]