Do you know how well your marketing dollars are working for you? Find out in today’s episode of the AIE Imaging Executive podcast. Joe Roy, author of the e-book “Marketing Metrics and ROI: How to Set Up a Measurement System That Can Double Your Profitability,” shares easy ways to ensure you’re getting enough value from your marketing investment. This podcast includes a special free offer for AIE Imaging Executive podcast listeners.

Interview starts - 1:38
Interview ends - 20:18

Linda Galindo is founder and president of Galindo Consulting. Her company advises CEOs, leadership teams, and boards of directors in making personal accountability their organizations’ central organizing principle.
  In her new book, The 85% Solution: How Personal Accountability Guarantees Success—No Nonsense, No Excuses, Galindo reveals personal accountability as not only a mind-set, but also a skill-set that everyone can learn. Discover how – and why it matters – on today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast.

Interview starts -1:37
Interview ends - 17:18

Award-winning photographer Chase Jarvis has produced an application to improve mobile imaging, a website for image sharing - and he's published a book showcasing shots captured on an iPhone, entitled “The Best Camera Is the One that’s with You.” Best Camera is a $3 iPhone photo application. The website is a feed of images from around the world created with the iPhone application.

Interview starts - 2:37
Interview ends - 19:40

Photographer, journalist and consultant Elmo Sapwater joins us for a
discussion of what features will drive future sales for digital cameras.
Sapwater has been in the business for more than 25 years with Photo
Electronic Imaging and Professional Photographer magazines, and now with
Photo Imaging News.

Interview starts - 1:58
Interview ends - 24:43

The imaging innovator isn’t resting on its laurels after being acquired by Cisco: new products will continue to push convenience and simplicity.
Simon Fleming Wood, senior director of Americas Marketing for Cisco Consumer Products, provides us with the latest details.

Interview starts - 1:38
Interview ends - 29:35

In this episode of the AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Josh Leibner, who is co-author, along with Gershon Mader and Alan Weiss, of the new book: The Power of Strategic Commitment: Achieving Extraordinary Results Through TOTAL Alignment and Engagement,” presents listeners with a challenge: to determine whether or not they might be a narcissistic boss -- and if so, what to do about it.

Interview starts - 1:32
Interview ends - 15:42

What is the cost of what you don’t know about your business? Gary Patterson, author of the new book, “Stick Out Your Balance Sheet and Cough,” helps you find the answer, and learn how to avoid the risks those things may bring, in today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast.

Interview starts -1:52
Interview ends - 20:42

Office politics and workplace conflicts are big drains on morale and productivity. Dr. Sylvia Lafair, author of the new book, Don’t Bring it Work: Breaking the Family Patterns that Limit Success,” explains how to turn destructive patterns into positive ones on today’s episode of the AIE Imaging Executive podcast.

Interview starts - 1:30
Interview ends - 37:12

Succession planning is one of those duties that often gets put off until it’s too late – leading to poor decisions made out of desperation. Developing a good succession plan doesn’t have to be tough. On today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Dr. Linda Henman, president of Henman Performance Group and author of the book, The Magnetic Boss, as well as the soon to be released follow up, The Magnetic Executive, explains how to do it.

 

Interview starts - 1:25
Interview ends - 10:04

Many business executives are striving to make the best possible use of social media, but in this brand new world, it’s tough to know how to go about it. Online, anyone can say anything they want about you and your company. On this episode of the AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Dr. Rachna Jain, chief social marketer for the Mindshare Corp., discusses the growing importance of online reputation management, and how executives can make sure they present themselves, and their companies, in the best possible light.

 

Interview starts - 1:31
Interview ends - 18:41

 

Dr. Robert Epstein, former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, teaches "Innovation and Leadership" at the Rady School of Management at the University of California San Diego. The author of 14 books, he's widely known as one of the world's leading experts on creativity and innovation. In today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast, he shares simple and inexpensive ways to spur creativity during times of crisis.

Interview starts - 1:15

Interview ends  - 21:06

 

 

In her new book Aesthetic Intelligence: Reclaim the Power of Your Senses, Rochelle Mucha, Ph.D., shows how improved interactivity as practiced in a theater troupe can be crucial to growing and improving a business overall. In this week's interview she discusses how her clients have benefited from implementing her techniques, what lead her to trying these methods, and provides some tips you can implement right away.

Interview starts - 1:52
Interview ends - 25:55

Over his 70-year career, management guru Peter Drucker revolutionized modern business practices and influenced developments like decentralization, privatization, and empowerment. But Drucker also taught about the importance of managing not just your company, but also your self. In today's AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Bruce Rosenstein, author of the new book, "Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker"s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life,” shares Drucker’s insight on being the CEO of your life, as well as your company.

Interview starts - 1:12

Interview ends - 15:10

 

Dotphoto founder Glenn Paul has long been a key player in Internet and mobile imaging – and in this week's episode he shares what he's learned about the profits and pitfalls of online photography.

Interview starts - 1:15
Interview ends - 20:40

Learn a few simple strategies when conducting performance reviews of employees with difficult personalities or bad habits.  Janelle Brittain, president and CEO of the Dynamic Performance Institute, Chicago, Ill., and author of the recently published book, “How to Say It. Performance Reviews: Phrases and Strategies for Effortless, Powerful, Pain-free Reviews,” shares those strategies, as well as a special offer for AIE Imaging Executive podcast listeners.

Interview starts - 1:25

Interview ends -  20:39

Richard Weisgrau was the Executive Director of the American Society of Media Photographers for fifteen years. Join us as he describes the changes that have impacted the commercial photography field, and what pro and amateur shooters need to do to make a sale.

Interview starts- 1:15
Interview ends- 19:06

 

Management expert Tom Northup of Leadership Management Group in Newport Beach, California tells executives how to avoid five mistakes they may not know they are making.

Interview starts - 1:17
Interview ends - 22:23

Today on the AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter discusses how to create and sustain a sense or urgency in your business. Kotter is author of 16 books, including 12 that have been business bestsellers. His newest is titled "A Sense of Urgency."

Interview starts - 1:18
Interview ends - 19:31

Infotrends associate director Alan Bullock discusses how social sites such as FaceBook are affecting the imaging industry, and how picture sharing continues to boost photography.

Interview starts - 1:16
Interview ends -  16:13

 

Denise McVey, president of creative agency S3, Boonton, N.J., explains how her company has helped many clients, including 150-year-old Eight O’Clock Coffee, expand their markets on Twitter – and how you can, too.

 

Interview starts -   4:42
Interview ends  - 27:21

Carnegie Mellon spin-off Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition is developing “face mining technology” that enables new video viewing experiences.” CEO Henry Schneiderman discusses how the technology will impact photography.

Interview starts - 4:55
Interview ends - 19:18

It’s obvious that good communication – often in the simple form of conversation – is critical to business success; but research shows half of all business people find it difficult to have an open, honest conversation at work. In today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Jamie Showkeir -- a partner at Phoenix, Ariz.-based business consulting firm Henning- Showkeir & Associates, which has helped organizations such as 3M, HP, Kaiser Permanente, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, and The Nature Conservancy improve workplace culture – explains how business leaders can create better, more effective conversations with and among staff members.

Interview starts -  4:07
Interview ends  - 30:04

Nicoletta A. Zongrone, Kodak’s general manager, retail systems solutions,
consumer digital imaging group, tells us all about new photofinishing
systems that let customers make photo books and more in-store, and how it’s
a key strategy for potential growth.

Interview starts -  5:58
Interview ends -  29:19

Photo journalist and book publisher Rick Smolan details the creation of the Obama Time capsule book, the first professional publication that each buyer can personalize -- and how new printing methods will completely change the photography book business.

Interview starts - 5:42
Interview ends - 15:02

Change is constant and swift in the world of business, so being nimble – able to alter course rapidly as needs dictate – can be critical to long term success. Joining the AIE Imaging Executive podcast today is Laura Stone, CEO of Stone & Co., a management and strategy consulting firm based in Boston, Mass. She discusses how structure and emotion impact nimbleness, and what business leaders can do to more effectively cultivate a nimble organization.

Interview starts - 5:19
Interview ends -  24:08

Bill Treasurer was once afraid of heights, but conquered his fear and went on to become captain of the U.S. High Diving Team. He took his lessons in conquering fear and developing courage to the business world, founding Giant Leap Consulting, which has helped businesses like CNN, EarthLink, and the Centers for Disease Control be more courageous. Treasurer is also author of the book “Courage Goes to Work: How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, and Get Results.” In today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast, he tells PMA Senior Editor Jennifer Barr Kruger why courage matters in the business arena, and how owners and executives can bring out courage in their employees.

Interview starts - 3:39
Interview ends - 17:19

Despite the fact that different people have varying emotions and experiences, there is a single key to motivating anyone: purpose. In today’s AIE Imaging Executive Podcast, Bates Communications president and CEO Suzanne Bates, author of the new book “Motivate like a CEO,” explains how to leverage purpose to get your employees motivated, regardless of the circumstances.

Interview starts - 4:20
Interview ends -  20:28

Photographer David Huffman tells how to choose and use a digital camera for great vacation photographs. Huffman served 20 years with Kodak, and was their director of photographic instruction.

Interview starts - 5:45
Interview ends -  23:38

Dr. Ed Boswell, president and CEO of The Forum Corp., Boston, Mass., is no stranger to the many challenges business owners and executive face every day. His firm specializes in helping other companies, such as DuPont, Mellon Financial, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Carlson Wagonlit Travel and Merck, leap hurdles like transforming their sales force, refocusing on the customer, shifting to a performance culture, and developing leaders at all levels. These tasks and others are all the more difficult in a poor economy. In today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Boswell shares his insights on many topics, including what leaders can learn from history, and what steps to take while navigating an organization through choppy waters.

Interview starts - 5:23
Interview ends -  28:42

Almost half of all business owners and executives are introverts – a personality trait that offers both challenges and benefits in the working world. In today’s Imaging Executive podcast, PMA senior editor Jennifer Kruger interviews executive coach Dr. Jennifer Kahnweiler, founder and president of AboutYOU Inc., an Atlanta-based leadership consultancy, who shares the insights she gleaned on this topic while researching her new book, “The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength.”

Interview starts - 5:15
Interview ends -  26:50

Hear about the latest in custom photo books in today's AIE Imaging Executive podcast.  Leading photo book maker Blurb just released improved new design software, Blurb BookSmart 2.0, and is now offering 12-by-12 square photo books. Founder and CEO Eileen Gittins provides details on her company’s latest offerings, and the market overall. We’ll also hear about the 2009 Photography.Book.Now juried competition, which encourages photographers to publish their own books.
 
Interview starts - 3:48
Interview ends -  35:33

Leader mentoring is an important practice for business owners, but one that is often done improperly or not at all, according to Dr. Michael Shenkman, author "Leader Mentoring: Find, Inspire and Cultivate Great Leaders" and president of Arch of Leadership, a leadership mentoring firm based in Albuquerque, N.M. In today's AIE Imaging Executive podcast, PMA senior editor Jennifer Kruger interviews Shenkman, who explains the need for leader mentoring, and how business owners and executives can do it successfully. The podcast is hosted by Paul Worthington.

Interview starts - 5:03
Interview ends - 24:52

Renegotiating a contract – like rent or an equipment lease – can help business owners get through tough times. Jim Camp, founder and president of The Camp Group and author of the book, “No: The Only Negotiating System You Need for Work and Home,” has developed a negotiating model taught in MBA programs from Harvard to NYU. Camp is interviewed by PMA senior editor Jennifer Kruger on today's AIE Imaging Executive podcast to offer listeners advice on how to approach a contract renegotiation. The podcast is hosted by Paul Worthington.

Interview starts - 3:20
Interview ends - 16:15

Light Crafts offers affordable image editing with Aurora.
Light Crafts calls its new program “powerfully simple photo editing, organizing and sharing software.”Aurora uses algorithms to mimic how the human eye processes images, and presents suggested photo corrections so all the user has to do is chose and click. For more on image editing software market, 6Sight Report editor Paul Worthington speaks with Light Craft’s founder Fabio Riccardi.

Interview starts - 4:56
Interview ends - 25:44

The battle is on in the low-cost portable HD camcorder market. Leading camcorder maker Pure Digital now offers the Flip Ultra camcorder with HD capabilities, a 2-inch LCD, and doubled the memory to two hours of recording time. Meanwhile, new competition includes the Genius G-Shot HD520, which captures both 720p high-definition video and 11-megapixel stills. There's also the VholdR ContourHD, billed as the first wearable HD camcorder. For more on the pocket HD camcorder market, 6Sight Report editor Paul Worthington speaks with Pure Digital Marketing Director Scott Kabat in today's AIE Imaging Executive podcast. Also this week, hear five examples of leading-edge imaging research.

Interview starts - 9:21
Interview ends - 19:04

The commercial photography business is changing dramatically: How can you best compete? In this AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Suzanne Sease and Amanda Stone explain how photographers can thrive in tough times, as they discuss their new book, “The Photographer’s Survival Guide.”

Interview starts - 3:06
Interview ends -  26:32

Today on the AIE Imaging Executive podcast, PMA Senior Editor Jennifer Barr Kruger interviews Keith Ayers, president of Intergro Leadership Institute and author of a new book titled “Engagement is Not Enough: You Need Passionate Employees to Achieve Your Dream.” Ayers explains why business leaders shouldn’t focus on engagement, but rather they should strive to ignite passion within their employees – and how to do it.

Interview starts - 5:23
Interview ends - 24:53

Today, the AIE Imaging Executive podcast welcomes the president of AIE, Tom Rieger of Rieger Imaging in Clarksburg, Md. Rieger tells listeners about his history in the photo industry, the secrets behind being successful in business for 35 years (so far), and his advice for other businesses during tough times.

Interview starts - 3:27
Interview ends - 23:28

In today’s AIE Imaging Executive Podcast, ImageSpan CEO Iain Scholnick talks with 6Sight Report editor Paul Worthington about his solution for solving the problem of the unauthorized use of images online that he says hits photographers with an estimated $65 million in lost revenue. ImageSpan’s LicenseStream makes content intelligent, so it moves freely across the web with defined ownership, rights and restrictions, enabling pricing based on use. ImageSpan has partnered with PicScout, which searches for image copyright infringement.

In February, ImageSpan announced its partnership with PMA, the National Press Photographers Association, and the American Society of Media Photographers to offers discounts on key LicenseStream Creator services.

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In today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Jennifer Barr Kruger interviews Dr. Susan Smith Kuczmarski, co-author of the new book, “Apples Are Square: Thinking Differently About Leadership.” In today's podcast, Kuczmarski explains the seven-step process for rejuvenating your workplace.

Interview starts - 5:09
Interview ends - 22:37

What were some of the hottest cameras and technology trends at the PMA 09 in Las Vegas? In today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast Future Image analyst Paul Worthington talks with Imaging Resource founder David Etchells, and DigitalCameraReview.com editor David Rasnake.

Interview starts - 4:28
Interview ends - 40:11

Average turnover in the call center industry, which is known for poor working conditions and low morale, is 80 to 90 percent. At Beryl, a health care call center in Bedford, Texas, that number is only 17 percent, due to a company culture that values employees above all else. In today’s AIE Imaging Executive Podcast, PMA Senior Editor Jennifer Barr Kruger interviews Paul Spiegelman, cofounder of Beryl, and author of the book, “Why Is Everyone Smiling? The Secret Behind Passion, Productivity and Profit.” He explains some of the simple things he does to make his employees happy, and earn customers for life.

Interview starts - 3:38
Interview ends - 27:49

The expert is the person everyone turns to -- so becoming the expert is a great way to build your business. In today's AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Ken Lizotte, a certified management consultant with Emerson Consulting Group, Concord, Mass., and author of "The Expert"s Edge: Become the Go-To Authority People Turn To Every Time,” explains how to do it.

Interview starts -  5:07

Interview ends -  32:34

 

Ninety percent of all business strategies fail, according to Scott Glatstein, president of Imperatives LLC, a Minneapolis, Minn. based consulting firm focusing on business strategy development and marketplace execution. But with the proper planning and execution, your strategies can result in increased business and a better bottom line. Glatstein, author of "Strategy Activation: How to Turn Your Vision Into Marketplace Success,” tells PMA Senior Editor Jennifer Barr Kruger how business owners and operators can set their strategies up for success in today's AIE Imaging Executive podcast.

Interview starts - 4:13
Interview ends - 17:02

New features are added to cameras every year, but the key to a good photograph in most situations is light sensitivity, not megapixels. Early consumer digital cameras performed poorly when it came to shooting in low-light situations without the flash, but there have been distinct improvements in this area. Now Fujifilm takes it one step further, combining pixels on the sensor to seriously boost light sensitivity. In today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Fujifilm Marketing Manager Darin Pepple tells Future Image analyst Paul Worthington about the Super CCD EXR sensor and the new FinePix F200EXR camera, featuring the sensor.

Interview starts - 5:55

Interview ends -  17:32

New GPS systems integrated into cameras and camcorders have taken technology one step further than geotagging. Integrated GPS systems will soon let your camera or camcorder tell you where you are, as well as where to go with maps and guided tours that ensure you see -- and photograph -- the best locations at your vacation destination.
  In today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Ivan Sheldon, in charge of marketing and business development for Portable Devices at NAVTEQ, tells Future Image analyst Paul Worthington how picture-taking devices in the future will also help us get to the best places to take pictures.

Interview starts - 4:00
Interview ends - 26:13

Believe it or not, there are some good things about a bad economy. Today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast presents an interview with tax and business attorney Barbara Weltman. She is also author of several books, including her newest, titled “Guide for Tough Times: Tax and Financial Solutions to See You Through.” Weltman explains what opportunities businesses have in today’s difficult economic environment, and how to hit the ground running when things start to improve.

Interview starts - 5:24
Interview ends -  16:42

There are pictures in the camera, scans on the computer, JPEGs attached to emails, and tunes on tiny players, but there's also the old-fashioned stuff. This includes photos in shoeboxes, videos in the attic, documents in desk drawers, and songs on tape and vinyl. How do you transform all of these different elements into a convenient archive you can store in your computer, easily reach, and actually enjoy?
  In today's AIE Imaging Executive podcast, author Aimee Baldridge tells Future Image analyst Paul Worthington how her book "Organize Your Digital Life" delivers basic step-by-step instructions for streamlining and organizing your content so you can find what you need instantly. It also offers ways to create presentations friends and family will love.

Interview starts - 3:52
Interview ends - 25:56

Certainly there is much human value in a business leader’s integrity, but it also has an actual dollar value, according to Dr. Tony Simons, associate professor of management and organizational behavior at Cornell University and author of the new book, “The Integrity Dividend: Leading by the Power of Your Word.” In today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Simons tells PMA Senior Editor Jennifer Barr Kruger what he has learned from his extensive research into the impact of trust in business.

Interview starts - 5:00
Interview ends - 25:44

The internet offers the potential to reach current and prospective customers like never before, but this potential can only be realized if those people can actually find your site. Today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast presents an interview with Heather Lutze, founder of Lutze Consulting in Englewood Colorado. She has spent the last decade helping businesses of all sizes maximize their internet exposure. She is also author of the forthcoming book, "The Find Ability Formula: The Simple and Non-Technical Approach To Search Engine Marketing."

Interview starts - 3:25
Interview ends - 19:25

Today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast presents an interview with PMA 09 Official Business Session speaker Dr. Michael Raynor, of Deloitte Consulting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Raynor is one of the world’s leading experts on disruption and the author of two books, “The Innovator’s Solution” and “The Strategy Paradox.” In this podcast, listeners will get a jump start on his upcoming session, “Thinking Through Disruptive Technologies.” Learn how to develop a truly strategic perspective for your business, no matter what disruptive technologies come next.

Interview starts - 4:37
Interview ends - 25:06

In the latest AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Greg Downing, co-founder of xRez Studio -- which specializes in extreme resolution large-scale panoramic photography -- discusses the technology that created a photograph 50 feet long and seven feet tall that reveals more detail the closer you get. Downing explains how dozens of photographers and robotic camera controllers all worked together to create one of the biggest pictures ever, a photo-realistic simulated view of Yosemite Valley, for the Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project. Downing also tells Future Image Report editor Paul Worthington about the latest in HDR and other futuristic imaging, and how retailers and enthusiasts can get in on the action.

Interview starts - 2:58
Interview ends - 26:39