It’s 5:43 a.m. and for the fourth time in three weeks I’ve just completed my morning call to Network Solutions.  Months ago I had problems with their email product and threatened to make the switch to another company when they supposedly set up the system for routine maintenance during normal business hours of a big part [...]

Watching TV last night I found myself thinking about branding.  It was just one of those days when I couldn’t get my brain to shut off, but here’s what I was thinking.  You need to be working to build brand awareness, literally with just about everything you do.  There’s so much noise in our lives [...]

Yesterday Scott Bourne had a great post on his site, “Who’s on your team?  Photographers need a network.”  The blog hit a few nerves with a lot of people, because Scott talked about one of the most sensitive topics out there, support from your family and those people closest to you.
In all honesty, it’s not hard to [...]

“We tweet, we text, we e-mail.  Everybody’s chatting, but is anybody listening?  Why America needs to revive the vanishing art of conversation.  We need to talk.”
It was the headline of a story by David Dudley in the AARP Magazine this month and yes, I admit to reading AARP and damn proud of being old enough [...]

The other day I picked up on the frustration of a photographer who commented about how his business “just isn’t coming together this year!”  When asked about his marketing efforts, he was excited about totally reworking his website and it really did look terrific, but that was all he’d done.   So, what do you do [...]