Birthday boy here, with little signs of aging except that I wish I could forget how old I’m getting. I shouldn’t feel so lonely about it, though. A couple of my friends had their birthday yesterday, so they feel the pain before I do. Also me and my sister-in-law are the same age so I know [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2008’
The best advice Michael Dell ever received
I watched a quick clip with Michael Dell on CNNMoney.com where he talked about his business and his success. When asked about the best advice he ever received in his career, he reflected upon the wisdom of the late Dr. George Kozmetsky. “When you encounter a problem, fix it as fast as you found it.” [...]
It’s my birthday week!
Howdy. We are packing up the house and getting ready to move to the Seattle area in August. It’s sad to leave our home here in Portland behind but it’s exciting at the same time. Cami is working on some business plans with her sister that looks pretty dynamite, and I can hardly wait to [...]
Quintuplet Photo Shoot
A few weekends ago I enjoyed taking time out from work and writing for a photo shoot with my nieces and nephew. My sister-in-law was approached by a producer in L.A. about making her or the quints the subject of a reality t.v. show. So I did my part by helping out with an updated portfolio [...]
Back in the air
I’ve been working from home for six weeks until today, and it’s been awesome to be able to spend so much time watching Molly grow and develop into the little person that she is. So it’s with mixed emotions as I get back on the plane today and head back to “work” in the Bay [...]
Quick tips for Landing Page Design
Here are some quick, if not obvious (to me) strategies to help improve the quality and effectiveness of your website. I just browsed several photog websites, so please bear with me while I think out loud. Feel free to comment and let me know your thoughts. Instead of Googling for “10 tips on Landing Page [...]
Are you testing your website’s marketing effectiveness?
By the way I had just created a nice post on Xanga and the editor timed out on me, prompted for my password and lost what I had written. So this is my first post to my Xanga blog using Windows Live Writer. I just finished watching a short webinar given by Bryan Eisenberg and [...]
Flash SEO legitimized by Google and Yahoo
On Tuesday, the announcement came that content in Flash websites will now be crawled and indexed by Google and Yahoo search engines, with Microsoft no doubt to follow closely behind. This is good news for photographers who’s entire website is embedded in a .swf file. Typically what those website owners had to do is create [...]
