Photographer Jesse Goff branched out from looking for large-format printers to doing the work himself — and then launching a series of online output services. The latest business offers a great way to preserve pictures: Print My Watercolor is a San Francisco boutique print shop that outputs on high quality watercolor paper, hand-cut and hand-assembled in a wood hanger.

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Retailer Stephen Weiss purchased Creve Coeur Camera in 1998. This year he expands the chain and opened his 10th store, and is now responsible for over 50% of all camera sales in the St. Louis Metropolitan area — and is in the top 10% of all camera retailers in the U.S.
What’s the secret to his success? How has his company grown in these tough economic times? Listen in to our interview to find out!

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Photobucket unveiled an all-new user experience it says “alleviates once and for all the major pain points behind backing up, organizing and accessing all your photos and videos.”

The company also developed “Photobucket Stories,” a feature which will “transform the act of photo sharing into the art of storytelling,” the company adds. “Never before has there been a more complete, collaborative and contextual means for storytelling.”

The Denver-based company says it the largest dedicated photo and video sharing site, with 100 million users, and that it serves 3.5 billion images per day. In this interview, CEO Tom Munro and Marketing VP David Toner discuss the new features, and the importance of telling stories with photos.

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Beauty Box from Digital Anarchy makes it easy for photographers to quickly fix portrait shots. How was the software made, how is it used, and what are the implications of image manipulation? We talk with company founder Jim Tierney to find out.

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The worldwide market for royalty-free micro-stock photography got a big boost from digital photography — but it’s now feeling the impact of social imaging.

Dreamstime has 4,500,000 registered members, more than 130,000 contributing photographers and over 13,000,000 images online.
Based in Romania with offices in Tennessee, Dreamstime is a member of the Picture Archive Council of America.
Co-founder Serban Enache tells us how he founded and grew the company, and looks at where online imaging is heading in the near future.

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How could a household name of more than 120 years quickly slip into oblivion? Photo industry expert John Larish followed Kodak for more than three decades, and in his latest book he provides an inside and highly documented look at how Kodak stumbled its way through a half dozen chief executive officers into the depths of darkness.
“Out of Focus: The story of how Kodak lost its direction,” gives an unprecedented view of how any large corporation can be so blinded by its own views of the world around it, Larish says, so that its personnel feel it is too big, too strong to fail.
The book is more than just an indictment or a litany of Kodak’s failures: Larish, a former Kodak employee himself before becoming an independent writer and consultant, tells us that readers in a wide variety of businesses have already told him they’ve learned valuable lessons from reading of the film giant’s mistakes.  The book is available here

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A sound social media strategy that communicates internally and externally to clients or potential clients is all-but essential for businesses today. In this episode, Steve Nicholls, author of Social Media in Business, explains how even top-level executives must understand how to implement social media into their business to maximize results.

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There are two types of new photographers: those satisfied with their low-cost point-and-shoot cameras, and those more enthusiastic photographers who recognize the limitations of low-cost equipment and want to improve their pictures.

For those who are no longer satisfied with simple snapshots, author Darrell Young explains on today's Imaging Executive Podcat how to move up to a more complex camera — one with interchangeable lenses and manual controls — to satisfy their artistic urge.  Click here for info on his book discussed in the podcast.      

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How can you get started in video production? “Shut Up and Shoot,” says Anthony Q. Artis, author of a new freelance guide. In this interview he advises to get out there and start creating video works for hire — and tells how to go about making it a profitable business.

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On the Imaging Executive podcast, RPI launched its new personalization storefront, offering print products made by RPI and branded by the retailer and consumer. RPI says its personalization make-on-demand platform can be seamlessly embedded into any retailer’s existing website.
In this episode of the Imaging Executive podcast, RPI chief executive officer Rick Bellamy details what the new service provides store owners, photographers, and brands big and small: a no-risk, no-inventory step into the personalized printing business.

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For more than 50 years, Tomio Taki has consulted for, financed, or directly managed both private and public companies on nearly every continent. His new book, Zennovation ,  presents the experiences that shaped his business philosophy, the lessons he learned along the way, his approach to business, and the roots of his success. On this edition of the AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Taki shares his insights into the complex nuances of global business, and provides management and leadership lessons.

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New research sheds light on how today’s connected generation of photographers choose devices and methods for taking, enhancing and sharing photos. For the 6Sight Social Imaging Survey Report, 1,065 North American photo-taking consumers were surveyed to learn how these photographers choose their products and services, what drives their decisions, and in what direction their choices are trending.

Join us as report author Hans Hartman shares what he found about social imaging, and how it can impact your photography business. To purchase the survey in PDF format, please visit the PMA Store

We often talk of focus in photographic terms – but in Life and Business, Focus is the key to getting things done: making goals, prioritizing, and seeing a task through to completion. In The Power of Focus, author Les Hewitt offers strategies for maintaining focus in the most turbulent of times. For a new 10th Anniversary Edition, he was joined by co-authors Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen — and in this episode, he joins us for a discussion on achieving goals.

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Can you transform your businesses’ marketing and public relations from a costly process that does little for the bottom line into a source of successful sales? Alex Goldfayn of the Evangelist Marketing Institute, former syndicated technology columnist at The Chicago Tribune, explains how to do it in this AIE podcast.

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Do you have deals that you thought would close months ago, yet somehow they remain in your pipeline — stale opportunities? It’s time to start closing those deals, with ten top 10 ways to accelerate a deal to close, from Kevin Graham, Managing Director for EmpoweredSalesTraining.com

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