I recently saw an email blast from my buddy, George Varanakis at Rangefinder/WPPI. He listed the top ten reasons not to miss WPPI. Personally, I’d drop a few and add a few, one of them being your ability to interact with vendor after vendor to help strengthen your business. I’d also add, one trip to Vegas gets you exposed [...]
It wouldn’t be the week between the holidays without a nice walk down Memory Lane. In November, 2010, I talked my Dad into writing a post for me. Now, a year later and having moved to within a few miles of his home, I’m even more amazed at the relevance of his experiences from business, starting 70 [...]
This is one of those weeks when we all tend to reminisce. So, in starting to look back over the last year, I found myself going back even farther and read one of my first posts, originally run on GoingPro, almost two years ago. Like the post I got my Dad to write over a [...]
WARNING: This is an adult post. If you’re bothered by sarcasm and use of the word “turd” please don’t read on.
We’re living in the age of instant gratification. We text, we tweet, we abbreviate. Our spelling has become absurd, phonetically attacking a conversation for the sole purpose of packing a full paragraph into just 140 [...]
Moving into a new house I’m being reminded daily of what not to do when it comes to customer service. Every day it’s another lesson taught by any one of a half dozen different vendors. Today’s chapter in “Consumer Hell” is brought to you by ADT. It’s interesting that while ADT may well be the [...]
It’s just a short thought this morning on marketing and promoting.
Moving into a new home I’ve had eight telemarketing calls in the last 24 hours, four from ADT and four from various water purification companies. They’re vultures and they’ve picked up the scent of fresh meat in the area! However, every single call starts out [...]
This post might be almost two years old, but great ideas never age! The challenge is how to make yourself stand out, but don’t forget the basics first. If you don’t know what you’re doing with a camera in your hands, then all the marketing in the world can’t fix bad images! Concentrate on the [...]
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 [...]
With Summer School starting in just a few days, whether you’re joining us or not, you need to be thinking about your network. A good network doesn’t happen by accident – it takes work to keep it maintained, active and useful. In this Real World Real Lessons post from GoingPro, I hit on a whole [...]
Yesterday’s post, if nothing else, at least added a few chuckles to every one’s day. Let’s wrap it up today and then feel free to send me any good basic way to lose business that I’ve missed. If there are enough I’ll run them in an additional post. Send them to Skip@mei500.com.
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