Monthly Archives: October, 2009
RECLAIM YOUR INBOX.
This is not the week to cross my inbox. I declared this week UNSUBSCRIBE WEEK, bought myself a pound of Starbucks coffee to celebrate, and have been burning the midnight oil on projects while pausing to unsubscribe to everything imaginable. You bought my e-mail address from a major photographic industry convention? Unsubscribe. You promised there [...]
WIN AN ADVANCE COPY OF BRANDAID
First, read this. Just go. Read. And then we can continue. Okay, so other than having developed a crush on Johnny B. Truant, you’ll appreciate the fact that I may not be doing this right. There are a million things I should be writing about on this blog, and I’m choosing to say this… In [...]
INCREASE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY WITH ONE SIMPLE CHANGE
I hate grocery shopping. I loooooove to eat, but grocery shopping? 14 choices of toaster pastries laden with calories, while I force myself to reach for something healthy? Ick. Sometimes I convince my husband to go by himself, then jump up and down at my ingenuity. Yesterday’s grocery excursion wasn’t that bad, though, and here’s [...]
CONSISTENCY IS CRUCIAL TO YOUR BUSINESS.
Below, you’ll find a video of Jim and Pam’s wedding. Allow me to explain. There’s a lot of pressure on writers and producers and gurus and execs when it comes to events like Jim and Pam’s wedding. YEARS of sexual tension, flirting, playful comments, dating, a pregnancy – and it all comes down to this. [...]
MAD MIMI : CLIENT E-MAIL AGENT OF AWESOME
If you don’t have a way to capture prospective clients’ e-mail addresses on your blog or website, you’re missing out on marketing potential and revenue. That Mom or brother or uncle or teenager who isn’t ready to pull the trigger on purchasing your services at this moment may be more than happy to do so [...]
THE POST THAT MADE ME CRY
This whole Brand Camp dealio started because I was seeing photographers and artists making really silly mistakes. Good intentions can go horribly awry, and if it’s in my power to help correct ‘em, I will. I didn’t dream that it would end up in life-changing conversations. Or even moderately-noteworthy conversations. This post made me cry. [...]
FOCUS IS IMPORTANT
Image copyright: Amy Meek Found in Denton, Texas. (I am so sad to live so far from such a magnificent business.)
HOW TO KNOW WHICH WORKSHOPS WILL WORK FOR YOU
The great thing about being an artist is, no formal education is required. Many of us learn by a combination of trial and error, talent, mentoring with those we admire, and taking classes or reading books like a fiend. The bad thing about being an artist is, no formal education is required. So if we [...]
WHAT ABOUT THE NEWBIES?
Had an e-mail from a lovely photographer this week, and promised a public response. So I bought the audio from a very well publicized call-in teleconference last week. And, don’t get me wrong, a lot of it is excellent and I consider my money was well spent. But the deal is that a lot of [...]
PIMP YOUR BLOG — BUT BACK IT UP FIRST.
You may have noticed yet another round of changes to the Brand Camp Blog layout. These were, at first, unplanned, as I was attempting to install the IntenseDebate plugin for WordPress and subsequently broke all the blog’s comments. Of COURSE I hadn’t backed up the files before installing the plugin, so um…I broke the blog. [...]
