Message from the APA National President - August 2010

I joined APA because of my interest in their Success Team program, which led to a volunteer position on the NY board.  Jump forward 8 years — I have had such fun growing my position to a national level.  Just last month I had the pleasure of traveling to Washington DC with our National VP [...]

August 18th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: insideColumnist | Leave a comment

Update from the National CEO, August 2010

Last month I wrote that APA National President Theresa Raffetto, APA VP and Advocacy Chairman Michael Grecco and myself were making a trip to Washington, DC to meet with people on Capital Hill to reintroduce APA as American Photographic Artists and to express our views on copyright issues.  Let me say that it was a [...]

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From ADBASE Insight… Social Media Strategies for Creative Professionals

Want to be more strategic about the time and effort you’re putting into social media?

ADBASE Insight is the place where industry insiders share valuable advice and best practices for managing and marketing a creative business. Learn more about how creative professionals are using social media to build business:

Will Tweet for Food by Tiffany Meyers

More commercial [...]

August 18th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: insideBusiness, insideColumnist, insideTopic | Leave a comment

Bring Your Website - and Your Business - to Life with Video

By Matt Bailey – liveBooks

Do you want to add more dimension – and distinction – to your brand? Start using video on your website.

Video can help you market yourself as a professional who brings more to the table than a handful of carefully selected images. It can help you develop an effective brand, [...]

August 18th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: insideBusiness, insideColumnist, insideTopic | One comment

7 Reasons Why Social Media Aint Working for Your Photography Business from PhotoShelter

Photographers are spending a ton of time online these days “promoting” our businesses through social media.  So how do you know if social media is working for your photography business?  Not sure?  You’re probably not alone.

Here at PhotoShelter we’re lucky enough to be connected with thousands of photographers through sites like Facebook and Twitter.  So [...]

August 18th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: insideColumnist, insideTopic | Leave a comment

APA Visits Capitol Hill

July 30, 2010 – To further strengthen the importance of copyright protections, APA National President Theresa Raffetto, APA National CEO Stephen Best, and APA National VP and Advocacy Chairman Michael Grecco attended important advocacy meetings in Washington DC July 28th and July 29th.  Victoria Espinel, Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) from the Office [...]

August 18th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: insideColumnist, insideScoop, insideTopic | Leave a comment

Up Coming Chapter Events

APA Northwest

Streamlining Your Workflow with Lightroom 3

presented by Adobe Certified Trainer Ric Kasnoff

Tuesday, August 17

6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Seattle Pacific University, Demery Hall, Room 150

Seattle, WA

http://apanw.org/

APA Los Angeles

Exclusive Member Only Sneak Peak!

Cutting Edge artist Jeff Sheng gives the APA membership a guided tour of his ground breaking series Don’t Ask Don’t Tell at the Kaycee [...]

August 18th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: insideColumnist, insideTopic | Leave a comment

Message from the APA National President - July 2010

Wednesday night, July 14, I attended the launch party fir Selina Maitreya’s MP3 program The View From Here. It was an intimate gathering of top industry professionals hosted by both RETV and APA.

If you know Selina, she consistently strives to help photographers achieve success and in doing so she’s taking her program one step further. [...]

July 16th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: insideColumnist | Leave a comment

Update from the National CEO

One of the cornerstones of APA is the effort put into ADVOCACY for our members and all photographers.  This month of July 2010 will see a return to Washington D.C. for the association to reacquaint ourselves to the U.S. Copyright Office staff and to meet with new persons on the staff’s of the Judiciary Committees [...]

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How To Make Free Worth Something by Lou Lesko

The vexing conundrum of how to deal with friends to whom I extend photographic favors has been on my mind a lot lately.  Recently, I had to go through years of old notebooks and slide pages.  This surfaced the memories of the significant number of free shoots [...]

July 16th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: insideColumnist | 4 comments
 
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