Monthly Archives: January 2011

Creative Collaboration

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve had a number of conversations with clients and colleagues about new approaches to business relationships: competitors shifting into co-marketing relationships, vendors and suppliers functioning more like partners and neighbors on the food chain … Continue reading

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Help Wanted

Like many businesses responding to change, my partner and I are thinking about diversifying our studio’s offerings.  Before we jump whole hog into anything, though, we’re doing a bunch of informational interviews. Done well, informational interviews can be an enormous … Continue reading

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Rock Your World

Got back late last night from the ASMP’s Strictly Business 3 conference in Los Angeles.  Took the entire morning just to brain dump all that I learned into my partner, Mike’s, head. If you are a photographer, want to become … Continue reading

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Strategic Reinvention

This weekend, I’ll be presenting several seminars for the ASMP’s Strictly Business 3 conference in Los Angeles.  The conference promises to be amazing – a dozen speakers, 2 keynotes, 22 workshops. The LA stop is the first of 3 – … Continue reading

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D’oh

After working on my annual brain dump, I’m finding myself opening up to new ideas and possibilities. After all, nature abhors a vacuum and it seems my brain is no exception. Of course these lightning strikes never come at a … Continue reading

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