I Can’t Wait To Work For Myself!
I've lost of count how many times friends and acquaintances have said to me during the past two years, "I can't wait to work for myself!" Or something to that…
You Are Entitled To As Much As You Make Yourself Worth Part 2
To continue from part one of this series, I will now discuss a bit about how I work with my vendors. But first I'd like to back up a bit…
Help Yourself By Being Interviewed
Do you realize how many sites looking are looking for content only the wonderfulness of you can provide? I have been highly motivated during my career to get the word…
Shameless Promotion
I received the most flattering and thorough review of my book. It is all I had hoped for in a review and clearly Dr. Roach read my book cover to…
You Are Entitled To As Much As You Make Yourself Worth
"You are entitled to as much as you make yourself worth." Douglas Kirkland spoke these words at an APA event I attended in the early 80's. Right then and there…
Contracts Tell A Story
My final 2009 entry is about how I think about and use contracts. I was a member of APA (Advertising Photographers of America) for many years and the contract format…
Giving Back
Hello folks, how is everybody? Things are picking up; my first book will be in stores early next month (pre-sales have exceeded expectations), my rep Wendi and I are lining…
Parlaying Sales Through Good Karma
So today's entry is about leverage, more specifically how to parlay one job into the next. For this discussion I will review one of my latest projects, a group portrait…
One Self-Employed Success Measurement
These days, one of the tasks I relish is when former students who are now in the workforce (as self-employed individuals), reach out to me for advice. They are finally…
Group Portraits and all that Schtick
So yesterday I photographed the 600+ people who work for Disney Animation Studios in Burbank. As some of you know, I was one of the main outside photographers doing business…