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 [...]

Good buddy, David Ziser, has been kind enough to share a few of his best posts with us and this one, like all of his posts, is another top-shelf presentation.  It might be from last year, but that doesn’t make the topic any less relevant.
As a combination of the tough economy and advances in [...]

As much as this might sound like an infomercial, it’s also meant to get you thinking about every program you attend. Time will always be your most precious commodity and it’s imperative, especially when you’re attending a major convention, that you always get the very most bang for your buck.

Just a few weeks ago Scott [...]

In the news this week you’ll read about our second GoingPro Bootcamp coming up February 18 in Las Vegas. This is an all day seminar covering everything but photography. Bootcamp is about all the ingredients to help you get your business off the ground or fine tune your existing business in marketing, management and promotion.  [...]

Just trust me on this: Go get a cup of coffee and then sit back and watch Kevin Kubota, Jeff Medford and Ross Hockrow (the film-makers) in action on  this video, How to Photoshop Everyone. Not only does Kevin deliver an award-winning presentation, but pay attention to the production values Ross and Jeff brought to the [...]

In getting ready for Summer School, I’ve talked about or run guest posts for every speaker except me. Seems kind of funny to do a profile, but if nothing else, this will give you a chance to get a feel for what I’ll be talking about in my marketing workshop on Wednesday morning at Summer School.

In terms [...]

I normally don’t post press releases on my blog, but this one is too exciting not to share. I’m very proud to be associated with this new project.   So many of the benefits we’re working on developing for the photographic community are thanks to the feedback from many of you and our readers/followers at GoingPro!

Ever wonder what [...]

I know I’m sounding like a “broken record” and I also know I’m aging myself using that expression!  LOL  In fact, I’m guessing better than half of my readers don’t have record collections sitting in boxes in the basement somewhere, so I need to explain the point!  A “broken record” was a scratched record that [...]

If there was a way you could get a better handle on the steps you need to start your photography business, wouldn’t you want to know about it?   Or, maybe your business has been up and running for the last couple of years and it just needs fine-tuning, mostly because you started at a time when [...]

Circle October 24 on your calendar when GoingPro hits the road for a full day to help you get your business started or fine-tune what you already have!  Scott Bourne, Tony Corbell and I will be at the Sheraton, Newark Airport.    We want to give everyone a chance to attend this boot camp so we’ve [...]