Oh hey, it’s day 2! Yay Amy!! Major High-Wootness-Five to Amy Wolf Jones who let me know that she joined in and did all the activities of yesterday. Now that right there’s Wootness, I don’t care who you are. Wootness challenge – take a photo of your office. Right now, Before you do anything else …
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Shoot with purpose.
I think it’s time to slow down. Everybody needs to take a look at their numbers and truly examine their shooting style, as in, how many frames do you typically shoot during a session or a wedding? I’m not sure that there’s any magic number. We all just need to stop taking advantage of the …
61-derful: DAY 1
Welcome to Day 1. Heh heh heh. Wootness challenge – take a photo of your office. Right now, Before you do anything in the 61-derful challenge. Don’t move a thing. Take a few different angles. Hold onto them for safekeeping. 😉 Seriously. You’ll be utilizing these later. MAIL CALL! OK – here’s the deal. There’s …
61-derful Days to Wootness!
Here’s the plan. I have committed to streamlining, upgrading, and Super-Powering my photography studio to a better place by December 31, 2011. Are you in a rut? Each day, for the next 61 days I will do something to improve my business. Think “Extreme Makeover” for a photography studio. But in business and office organization …
Don’t be a Gumby!
What, pray tell, is a Gumby? I just made this up, but I’m gonna keep on using it. A Gumby is a person who bends. Specific examples of being a Gumby: Waiving a session fee because the client doesn’t have the money at the moment in order to book their session with you. Giving free …
More blog posting/social media integration…
So, I’m checking my blog updates to Facebook and I see the above. WHAT??? Last week I wrote an article about how to syndicate your blog posts and save yourself some time through the usage of Networked Blogs, but now I need to revamp that advice a bit. NetworkedBlogs (NB) continues to be a viable …
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I’m not all that and a bag of chips.
Newsflash: I’m not all that and a bag of chips. I ain’t even the bag of chips by itself. Recently, I had some email correspondence with a reader. After I replied, the response read, in part: OMG, thank you so much. I did not think you would write me back. Wow, really? Now, this isn’t …
Takin’ the easy way out…
The last few weeks of Photography 102 class I’ve been customizing the lessons and homework a bit. I asked each student 3 questions: What have we learned that you found particularly pleasing? Perhaps it was something you really enjoyed or found that you had a knack with. What have we learned that you didn’t care …
Attention to Details: Your Voicemail Greeting
Back in the day, I would have said something about answering machine messages, but I guess those aren’t big sellers any more. I’ve called quite a few photographers and have had the opportunity to listen to a variety of voice mail greetings. Sometimes it’s VERY hard to understand what the greeting says. I called someone …
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Do your best. Then relax.
I’m teaching a class today called Studio & Business Boot Camp. So, I have pre-written this article to keep me from freaking out at the last minute that nothing would be posted and scrabbling for an article. I know myself well. My mind is full of wonderful ideas for the class, but of course, as …