With Charity Fest this week it’s appropriate to remind everybody of the two key reasons you need to build up your efforts for charitable causes.
First, it feels good! You’re looking for the community to be good to you, so you need to be good to your community. It’s that simple. No matter how much success [...]

About six years ago I met Kenny Kim for the first time. He came to a program I was doing in Cleveland with Pictage. Kenny drove over from Chicago and it was the first time we’d met. Since then, I’ve bumped into him at just about every major event in professional photography.  He’s always got a big smile and his [...]

Here’s what I love most about the Internet.  It’s made the world smaller! News that a few years ago might have taken a month to get to us, and then, only if we were reading a story in one of the photographic magazines, now comes in seconds via email!
Yesterday I wrote a post about being more [...]

Next week I’ll get things back to focusing on the “how to” aspect of photography, kicking off the week with a great guest post from Catherine Hall.  However, for now I’m left with absolutely nothing pressing to write about this morning! That’s happened, at best, maybe three times in the last two years!
So that puts me in [...]

It’s coming up on two years since I launched this blog and during that time there have been a number of posts by me as well as guests, talking about ways to give back. Some ideas have been very local, others national, but each has represented a big dream. It doesn’t matter what you’re doing [...]

I met Terry Clark when he won the bid on me for some marketing support through the annual Mentor Auction done by Jim Hicks and his team for Thirst Relief last year.  They do a terrific job each year on the auction, usually held just before WPPI. Terry bought a couple of hours of my time to help review [...]

Almost a year ago I wrote about the importance of giving back to your community.   It’s such an important part of your efforts to build your brand that it deserves a few more comments.   As business starts to pick up you need to make sure you don’t lose sight of how much it can help you build your [...]

The Thirst Relief Mentor Auction is up and live on ebay with a great cast of industry experts to help you with the challenges of your business – photography, marketing, business and your portfolio are just a handful of the benefits.  It’s on eBay and all it takes is a bid and a click – [...]