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Like choosing a prom date, jitters and stomach butterflies often precede the courting process.
Skip the aversion of choosing which speaker to see and attend my Platform Seminar on Monday morning where everyone is platonic dance partner.
Sunday, Feb 19, 2012 – 6:00 PM
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Las Vegas has a sinful allure that draws to mind concupiscent women, overflowing drinks, accessible narcotics and high levels of adrenaline with every shoot of craps. It is the oddest phenomenon, but I tend to have no reluctance to creolize my structured identity and live a life of vice…at least for the few days in [...]
Continue Reading →Ever been to WPPI or PPE conventions and see rows and rows of companies offering the same products or services? Literally exactly the same. Here’s one – album companies.
Many less experienced companies differentiate themselves with price. “Come look at me! I produce the same thing for cheaper!”
“Forget that company, I’m even [...]
Continue Reading →Growing up in an Asian ethnic enclave, I know all about discounts. At times, it’s part of the culture. Even when I was visiting China, a buyer could automatically presume that the proposed price given at markets is 10x its real worth.
No joke.
Personally, I hate dealing with people who ask for discounts. [...]
Continue Reading →Do you know of the feeling after having visited Disneyland as a kid? It was a mixture of excitement, happiness and exhaustion. Well, an equivalent for photographers would be WPPI Sacramento Road Trip.
I had the honor of being invited to speak in Sacramento about the Making and Marketing of Fusion Movies. For those who [...]
Continue Reading →A number of people have emailed, twitter‘ed, facebook‘ed me about bridal shows. All of the messages were about the same.
I don’t want to be another business card or brochure that they’ll never see when they get home. How can I be different? If there was one thing, what would it be? [...]
Continue Reading →If you are wondering, “What is fusion and why I should care?” this is the meeting for you. Learn about the next generation of marketing opportunities by combining the old school still images with the exploding consumer demand for video media. Apple iPhones, iPods and iPads are driving fusion photography up to the next big [...]
Continue Reading →Now that you have a Facebook Fan Page, blog and Twitter account, what’s next?
Blogging
While you are asleep, your online store front is always open – 24/7. How sweet is that!
Your blog is an extension of you. The goal is to elicit your personality and style through words. It sounds [...]
Continue Reading →If there was a competition at WPPI for not the prettiest booth, I would win hand’s down! I’m just glad that they still let me do my thang.
PROMISE – next year it’s going to be wicked. I have some insane, never done before, type ideas.
For those who missed out, I was doing [...]
Continue Reading →My girlfriend, Julie, is a substitute teacher. She recently taught at a high school where one kid really caught her attention. He was carrying a Nikon DSLR with a matching Nikon bag full of lenses; this was abnormal for a high school student’s budget.
“That’s a nice camera, John! Do you carry this around all [...]
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