What's It Like To Be Michael Grecco? A few weeks ago I had the honor to interview celebrity and portrait photographer Michael Grecco who is quite famous for his lighting techniques. He even published a bestselling book about it (click here for details.) I am always very curious about my guests and
Confidential Stock Photographer Survey
Posted in: Made Me Look on 24. May, 2010 •
Whose Making What? One of the major issues in our industry is the question - how big is it? Rumored for at least a decade to be around $2 Billion, the truth is, nobody knows. Since Getty went private we lost access to some very important industry numbers and with Alamy's announcement that they are
Oh Shoot, Where Did It Go?
Posted in: Discover on 29. Apr, 2010 •
PhotoBizCoach Where Did You Go? This week was a very stressful one, to say the least. I was relaxing all nicely on Sunday evening when I got the call from my newly hired Executive Assistant Michael. He said that the blog went black. It's five days later the blog remains offline. Wordpress'
Freemium and Freeconomics – A Hot Debate
Posted in: Discover on 22. Apr, 2010 •
How Can You Make Money In a Freeconomy? Following my last two blog entries on "I Am Mad" and "My Ego Was Badly Bruised" I figured I take this lively discussion perhaps a step further. This morning I was browsing through my editions of "Speaker" magazine. From the October 2009 edition I once again
Ask the Photo Business Coach: How Should I Follow Up on My Proposal?
Posted in: Videos on 20. Apr, 2010 •
New Video at Blackstar's Blog Please take a moment and take a look at my new video column at Blackstar's Blog. This one is about how to properly follow up once you have submitted a proposal and or estimate.
Membership Call Recap
Posted in: Free Call on 5. Mar, 2010 •
Interview With The Stock Photo Guy John Lund I am pretty lucky. Why? Because I do what I love and I get to talk to very interesting people. For my upcoming "How to Make Money With Stock" course that I did with Jack Hollingsworth we interviewed industry veteran Ellen Boughn. She mentioned this
Headshots for Haiti Photo Fundraiser
Posted in: Events on 22. Feb, 2010 •
How To Raise Over $5000 for Haiti Photo producer Ellen from NeatProduction.com organized a fundraiser for Haiti. All proceeds went to Partners in Health. Meet five of the six photographers on the video, the sixth was Christina Gandolfo (I was not avoiding anyone intentionally, I simply had to
Great Photos Dont Sell Themselves
Posted in: Free Call on 29. Jan, 2010 •
Is It Time to Get your Marketing Machine Ready? Do you want to know how excited I am? Very and here is why. He has said yes about five months ago and that is how long it took me to get this marketing guru on my February 9th FREE CALL with me - and YOU. I’m proudly to announce that my guest
Silent Auction New York
Posted in: Events on 19. Nov, 2009 •
When I was working at Corbis, Red Carpet Photographer and industry staple Frank Trapper was publishing a book. It is called "Red Carpet, 20 Years of Fame and Fashion" and published by Publisher Lena Tabori from Welcome Books in New York. Lena is an extraordinary publisher and interested in many
Do You Feel Lucky? Do Want To Win Something?
Posted in: Discover on 17. Nov, 2009 •
We are about half way through this month and I wanted to send a mid month reminder. The month of November 2009 is my time to give thanks and I am doing it by giving away a copy of my "From Flash to Cash System." The system retails for $597 and could be yours for absolutely free. So what you need to
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