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Ridiculous! You’re thinking. What’s an about page, without ABOUT ME! Maybe you feel like throwing your old D90 backup camera at me (you don’t like it anyway), or feel like crumpling up that post-it-note and shooting it through your Starbucks straw (don’t do that…you’ll forget whatever is on that note!) Either way – just hear …

The BIGGEST turnoff is talking about yourself in your about page! Seriously STOP IT! Read More »

I’m not kidding. The headline is the truth. You can now use some specific copyright songs from mainstream pop artists like Justin Bieber, Drake, Fifth Harmony, Beyonce, “Barbie Girl” by Aqua (a little nostalgia up here).   Even ADELE is allowing “Someone Like You” to be used. YouTube says this, “You can use music that …

Permission to use Justin Bieber and Beyonce in your Videos (For Real, Yo) Read More »

My stomach was fluttering. My palms were sweaty. Would anybody show to my gallery opening, or would it just be myself, my husband and the gallery curator drinking these two Black Boxes of wine and 3 Quarry Brewery part pigs? 20 minutes later it was standing room only, and an hour later the wine was …

Why stories sell photographs: 6 Steps to Generating a Profit (How I earned 7k From My Own Passion Project) Read More »

Have you ever been DYING to get that Canon or Nikon lens…you know, maybe it’s the 70-200, 2.8 lens, or the 85mm 1.4, or even a sweet 45mm tilt shift lens. And an off-brand just won’t do. The price tag? Roughly $2,200-$2900 (unless there’s some new dream-land website that offers them much cheaper and isn’t …

Stupid crap photographers say like, “That lens is only $997, here’s my credit card!” Read More »

Do you roll your eyes when someone says they’re a “writer?”   Well, chances are, people are rolling their eyes when you’re saying you’re a “photographer.”   Then they proceed to tell you about their Aunt Joan who takes nice pictures of flowers and posts them to facebook and oh, just yesterday, one got 343 …

5 Minute Trick to Get People to Take Your Photo Business Seriously Read More »

“Which photographer do you think charges more?” The copy-writing instructor asked after showing us screenshots of each of their websites. I kept it hush-hush that I knew the answer. One? Was a big-name speaker at WPPI, PPA, and everything else with douple P’s and A’s. The other? A nobody in the speaking world. The average …

I Eavesdropped on a Group of Writers Comparing Photographers – and What I Heard Baffled Me Read More »

It was like playing Super Mario Brothers

and discovering a dreamland of mushrooms

down a grass-green plumbers pipe.

Wait a minute. You CAN still tag your clients on facebook?

My mind was blown.

Tagging your clients on your fan page is alive and well – and will take you just one extra click of the mouse to do.

Your clients tell you your work is different.

It’s unique.

One-of-a-kind.

So then, why do they always buy the traditional portrait to hang up on their wall?

It makes no sense. Does it?