In the news this week you’ll read about our second GoingPro Bootcamp coming up February 18 in Las Vegas. This is an all day seminar covering everything but photography. Bootcamp is about all the ingredients to help you get your business off the ground or fine tune your existing business in marketing, management and promotion.  [...]

As many of you are reading this I’m headed to the first Monday morning program of Summer School. Everybody attending this year is going to hear at least ten different educators talk about some aspect of professional photography, from marketing and business to technique.  Unfortunately people, especially new photographers, spend so much time being distracted [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There’s been a lot of excitement at RETV this week with the two scholarships they’re giving away for Summer School, (Hit their fan page and put in “I want to go to Skip’s Summer School” for a chance to win one of two scholarships.)  So,  it seems like a great time to share with you some of the [...]

Today’s blog might sound like an infomercial, but there’s simply no excuse for holes in your skill set.   There are websites, blogs and especially hands-on programming available, literally to EVERYBODY.
Akron Photo Series: I’m making it the first on the list, but it’s only because last week’s programming was pretty remarkable. We got Bambi Cantrell to the [...]

At WPPI last week an old friend commented to me, “Wow, you’ve really reinvented yourself!”  It’s funny, but I don’t see it as a reinvention, as much I’m just doing all the things I’ve always loved doing and believe in, especially education.  

Summer School went live two weeks ago and it’s hard to believe this far in [...]

Michael ONeill sent me this guest post before the WPPI convention and I didn’t have a chance to really read it all until I got back. Michael pretty much nailed it, especially when he talks about coming home overwhelmed with how much you learned. It’s almost a sequel to Scott Bourne’s guest spot last week on [...]

It’s Sunday and I’m in Las Vegas heading home this afternoon.  We came in for an amazing launch of Album Inc’s new Epoca albums.  Great products introduced as only the Cardello’s could pull together.  The event was attended by some of the best known photographers in our industry and it got me thinking about the passion we [...]

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 [...]