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 [...]

Good buddy, Scott Bourne, ran this a little while back on his blog, but it makes such a good point about storytelling and that in turn ties into print competition. Storytelling is more important today than ever, especially with so many of you starting to shoot video and mixed-media. Photographers have always been the ultimate storytellers, but like everything in the [...]

All of us are bombarded daily with message after message from companies pushing us to buy their products. We’re caught up in a constant barrage of in-your-face testimonials and ads. They’re loaded with a subtle and sometimes not so subtle choice of words to suggest using certain products or services will increase revenue streams, magically improve sales, even modify [...]

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, [...]

If you’re headed to PMA or CES in a couple of weeks pay attention to two interesting programs.
How about a Las Vegas Photo Adventurewith professional photographer, Mark Comon as your tour guide? It all starts on Friday evening with a “how to” presentation and dinner is included. Then you’ll head into a night time shooting session [...]

This is an amazing industry and so much of every one’s success is based on networking.  Well, meet a relatively new friend who’s friendship just keeps growing all the time, Levi Sim.  I “met” Levi through PWSPI when it first started. Sadly, PWSPI didn’t survive in the current economy, but the friendship with Levi did.  He [...]

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 [...]

We’ve got great friends here this weekend, Bob and Holly Coates. Bob and I first met at WPPI years ago, then came Holly, then the four of us getting together in Sedona and the list of dinners around the country at various conventions goes on and on, but the topic this morning isn’t about the wonderful [...]

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 [...]