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…
Great Info: Photo/Business Reference Tome
I've been blogging for some time now and have written mostly about how I have gone about running my photography business. In that spirit I would like to point you…
Use The Web For Your Own Good
New technologies that compress time and space in how we communicate or conduct business changes us profoundly, especially in business. This is the main posit from the book Giants Of…
The Process Of Becoming Successful Is Success Itself
Catchy title isn't it? Catchy titles garner attention and I use them to get peoples' attention. After they have paid attention, I begin the process of selling myself. This creates…
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…
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…
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…