Welcome
Welcome to the ASMP Strictly Business Blog. We plan to bring you business tips, thought provoking ideas, useful resources, videos and podcasts all focused on professional photography. Our team of contributors are ASMP educators who will share posts you can enjoy with your morning coffee, on a break or a commute. Add the ASMP Strictly Business Blog to your daily routine and start focusing on your business now.
We start off with a bang by bringing you the first two chapters of the Strictly Business 2 Interview Series. These segments ran as lecture intros throughout the ASMP Strictly Business 2 weekends in 2008. We interviewed six successful and diverse photographers and came away with a wealth of information on what it takes to be a professional photographer today.
In this first video, our photographers tell us how they got started in the business. (5 min. 56 sec.)
Now hear what these photographers have to say about copyright. (5 min. 37 sec.) Don’t be surprised that the intro repeats, these videos are designed to also work as solo acts. Personally, I benefit by repeatedly hearing Chase Jarvis telling me, “… you don’t just drop your price or raise your price for no reason.” Enjoy.
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Really nice … great work.
Jim
Great!
Can you add Bloglines to the list of RSS feeds, please? Thanks!
This is a fabulous idea!
I look forward to reading it.
Glad that you started this. I’ve got your feed!!!
Bravo! Fab start to a great tool for the membership!
Inspiring video and interviews. Thanks for putting this together ASMP.
I am looking forward to the future of the Strictly Business Blog and the community it may build. You have a great start!
Thanks, and great job to all that contributed to this valuable resource.
Looks wonderful.
Congratulations!!! This looks great and is launching just in time for a mention in the news section of the ASMP Bulletin’s spring issue!
Jill
Great! I joined ASMP late last year and missed the SB2 seminars, so I’m exciteed to see the content and look forward to future posts. Just a thought, the intro quotes ran about 1:30 (about a 1/3 of the total post); you can probably cut that down.
Thanks, again!
I too believe in copyright. but most magazine companies(ie conde nast, merideth, etc) and ad agencies are trying to take copyright with their contracts, especially in this terrible economic climate.
It is wonderful to see ASMP moving to web 2.0 (now get ready for 3.0…). I enjoyed hearing the comments, and generally agree with the views expressed. I would have liked different intro information for each clip, as I think that will make people want to keep clicking. Now were do we post our own videos and blog posts?
Edward
I’d love to subscribe to the blog so that entries are sent to me by email. Is that possible?
You can always scroll past the intro – the movie downloads quite quickly because it’s a small compressed flv file – so it’s downloaded before within 5-7 seconds and you can just move the playhead past the intro.
peaking of Web 2.0 what is ASMP’s policy on this:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=62567771059&ref=nf
http://www.asmp.org/articles/press-release-09-02-18.html
Here is a press release regarding the recent attempt to change Facebook Terms of Service. What may be of greater concern than the proposed changes is the current terms of service which allow Facebook to pretty much do anything they want with your content as long as you maintain an account. If you participate, you should consider your content fair game for the world!
Gene
Please ditch the minute and a half long intro over every video. Most of your viewers are going to see every episode. Don’t put yourself in the position where every viewer clicks forward to get to the actual content. it’s really annoying. I watched both videos and had to wait around 1:25 to get to the “goods”. The “goods” end at around 5:30. And then there’s around 27 sec of credits. Add the intro and the credits and thats 2 minutes of 6 minutes total. Cut the intro and credits and you save 1/3 third in bandwidth charges. On an unrelated note: The Bruce Davidson talk was awesome.
Great job! I hope that people new to the business will listen. It would be great to do something about negotiating and pricing. In our economy every photo buyer tries to get a deal and agencies undercutting the prices. If a photographer sells images directly it is important to stick up to your prices!
Check out the latest video on Paperwork. Runs about 8 minutes +. For the folks who are “annoyed” by the intro – you have the very simple option of scrolling past it.
I’ve tried numerous times throughout the day to see “Copyright.” I keep getting “could not load media.” Could someone please check it? I opened and viewed the two others without any problem.
Thanks.
Hey very nice blog!! Man .. Beautiful .. Amazing .. I will bookmark your blog and take the feeds also…
Excellent information, this type of info is enough to have me join ASMP.
Thank You
nicely done. I do agree with the writer above that jumping right in may reach more people than the long intro.