I didn’t plan things this way, but there’s a lesson in this post and it’s followed me most of my career. Here it is…When something doesn’t go as planned you need to be honest with people, readjust and then move on. It accomplishes nothing to point fingers at other people and create a lot of lame [...]
Late yesterday afternoon I spoke at PhotoPlus Expo, doing a program on marketing and building business in a tough economy. There’s so much you can do to neutralize the challenges and still keep your business on track. (A big congratulations to David Ziser and his gang for putting together an outstanding trade show and convention. [...]
As many of you read this I’m hopefully on a plane pointed toward Cincinnati for PhotoPro Expo which runs through Sunday. At a time of uncertainty in this industry, especially with workshops and conventions, PhotoPro Expo is headed towards record-breaking attendance and has a sold out trade show floor. Think about the work it’s taken to pull this off.
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We know time is your most valuable commodity and there’s never enough of it. So in putting together this year’s program we took the key points from everyone’s feedback following last year, and built a new Skip’s Summer School!The three top requests from our 2011 post-program survey were more hands-on training, more marketing/business and a more central location.
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One of the reasons Scott Bourne and I are such good friends is the way we both think about the industry, especially the challenges photographers deal with outside the obvious of the economy and changing technology. Through GoingPro we’ve talked with thousands of photographers and the common denominator isn’t always the fact that they’re new and just [...]
Yesterday I was making some changes in my presentation for next weekend’s PhotoPro Expo show and I started to feel just plain rushed. For a minute or two I had sort of an out of body experience, feeling like I was trapped in an old Jimmy Stewart movie and to pass the time they just [...]
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 [...]
Sunday we head to Las Vegas for DIMA, PMA and CES – three major events all in one city, which is one of the best things PMA has ever done. Virtually every major vendor in imaging and electronics will be in attendance…All in one city at the same time, saving us time and the expense [...]
This week I wrote a post for GoingPro about making mistakes that will run some time over the next week or so. What prompted the post was listening to the panic-stricken voice of an aspiring professional photographer as he went through the “what if” reasons for not being ready to go pro, even though his work [...]
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, [...]
