It’s Friday morning and one of those days where I’ve simply got too many things going through my head.  Looking for a little inspiration I went to one of my favorite quote sites to get a new perspective on things. I found four great quotes and just want to share them with everybody. 
For those of you relatively new [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Having moved to Sarasota last October we’ve gone through the normal challenges in finding new services. We needed the usual trades people, contractors, plumbers and electricians. Then there were landscapers, yard maintenance, personal stuff like hair salons and manicurists and the darkest side of them all, new doctors.
It’s ironic that the most professional of all, the [...]

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. 
There [...]

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 [...]

WTF stands for “What the Flash” and a special guest post thanks to good buddy, Bob Davis. I’m really having fun sharing this guest post this morning, because it’s completely different from anything I’ve ever run on the blog. This couldn’t be more “how2″ and I love the way Bob put it together. 
I first met [...]