Hey there, person who already reads my blog.
What do you do for a living? What types of clients and/or jobs should I send your way? What sort of business related internet material do you find interesting to read?
How can I help you and your company make money? How does advertising and imagery fit into the [...]
I’ve got a lead on a possible gig shooting for an upcoming trading card game. Has anyone worked on one of these before or knows someone who has? I’m trying to get an idea of how much they typically pay illustrators. If I can find someone who has done photography for a project like that, [...]
I haven’t thought about the term Satisficing since my days as a programming major at Carnegie Mellon, but the topic came up again and I realized that I lean towards a satisficing strategy most of the time.
In a nutshell: Satisficers are content to make less than optimal decisions, on the theory that most of [...]
A blog article by Kevin Kelly discusses an alternative model to the naive “Rock Star or Bust” business model which most professional artists work towards. Kelly’s model is referred to as “1000 True Fans” or the micro-patronage system.
The basic argument goes like this: if you can find 1000 fans who are willing to spend $100 [...]
The kind people at uCertify have put up a link to my review of their Photoshop ACE Prep kit, and are offering a 10% discount to my readers on the uCertify PrepKit of their choice.
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If you are thinking of entering a Competition but concerned that your rights might be infringed by doing so, these peole will take a look for you FREE if you use the form that you’ll find at Pro Imaging – International support for professional image creators – Competitions.
As many of you are hopefully aware, intellectual [...]
Hopefully, I have created a temporary fix for the spam issue I’ve been having. What’s most disturbing to me is the number of people who have told me, “Oh, I saw those on your feed. I assumed you had put them there yourself.” I’m not sure how I should respond to the idea that posting [...]
I got a little slap-happy while designing my first mailer, to send to photographers I want to work with. I can’t decide if this is a brilliant tactic, or an idiotic idea. Give me your opinion?