Business Life
Don’t Let This Fake Friend Ruin Your Career | Part II
Remember Avoidance? We’re on her tail today. You have to battle before you can conquer, but don’t worry, we’re going to start small n’ easy. Next week we’ll pull out the big guns – but for now, here are three baby-step strategies that you can put into action TODAY to stop avoiding and start doing:…
Read MoreDon’t Let This Fake Friend Ruin Your Career | Part I
Don’t you hate it when you’re watching a movie, and person who you thought was a nice, useful character turns out to be the bad guy? And you think aww man, I thought they were helping but turns out they were plotting disaster!! Boo, hiss. Well, there’s someone in your life right now who you…
Read MoreCopycats Are Not a Threat – But THIS Is.
People have asked me if I worry about copycats. I don’t. And I don’t think you should, either. Not only are copycats not actually able to truly ‘copy’ you, worrying about them is a waste of time because it takes your focus off the real threat. I will never write like Hemingway. Non-news-flash of the…
Read MoreWhat We Can and Can’t Learn From Our Photography ‘Heroes’
When I was a baby, I went through a period of time where my skin turned slightly orange. Why? Because I utterly refused to eat anything other than sweet potatoes. No joke – I’d clench my gums together and spit anything else out. (My poor mother even tried to trick me with every other orange…
Read MoreHow To Photograph Friends Without Killing Your Friendships
The road to professional photography seems littered with broken friendships. It’s starting to concern me. Alongside our profession, it seems, is the rubble of friendships shattered on the rocks of photoshoots gone bad. We need to put an end to it. When we start a business, it’s no surprise when we turn to friends first.…
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