Most of you who read my blog are either professional photographers or aspiring professionals. You’ve relied on positive feedback about your images from the very beginning. It might have been a family member or friend who gave you that first push and lit the fire for the passion you have for the craft today. Do [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Okay gang, this is short and sweet and I’m hoping, after you read this, you’ll click and vote immediately.
I’ve talked a lot about various charities in our industry over the last few years. One of them, near and dear to my heart, is Cameras for Kids Foundation, started by fine art photographer, Betsey Chesler.  Betsey, starting [...]

I originally wrote this post a short time back for GoingPro, but here’s why I’d like to share it with you here today. 
Yesterday I had a great conversation with a photographer who’s about to go full time. Her work is terrific, her website, while it needs a little fine-tuning is all in place and [...]

Every day there are things that happen that have become normal events, but there aren’t any words out there to describe them.

I was on the phone one morning talking with the Queen of Lighting, Bobbi Lane. About three minutes into the call we got disconnected. It was instinct, since I originated the call, to just call her [...]

A key component of every marketing program I’ve ever presented has included talking about photographers using their own images for holiday cards and stationery. Think about it for just a second. There isn’t a better, easier or more subliminal way to use your images. You’re just there, soft sell, no pressure, just showing your work.
This [...]

Two years ago, in the very early days of Skip’s Photo Network, my now good buddy Scott Bourne wrote the following post. It couldn’t be more simple to understand. It’s ten points to help you be more effective in your use of twitter, blogging and podcasting. 
What prompted me to give Scott an encore performance was something I [...]

Okay, I’ll apologize in advance for the rant. This is about a challenge in just about every one’s marketing efforts. It’s an easy point to understand and even easier, at least for most of you to fix… Stop showing mediocre images!
I just spent an hour looking at images in the galleries of over a dozen [...]

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 [...]