Increase subscriptions to your photography email list. Whether you call them lead magnets, incentive emails, email optins, or something different, the best way to get someone to join your …
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How to Mute Stories on Instagram
It turns out you can mute stories on Instagram. With the ever-increasing number of media formats in Instagram, I’ve found that there are some folks where I want to see their posts, but I don’t want …
7 Smart Questions for iPhone Photo Backup
Backups don’t matter until you don’t have one. As I think back to my time in the mid 1990s selling computers at a now-defunct retail establishment, early digital cameras were available and in …
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Becoming Proficient
Professionals are proficient. In any industry, professionals spend time learning their tools and becoming proficient in their use. As photographers, the first tools that often come to mind are …
Flickr Adds a Home Screen Widget for iOS14
Making my iPhone look even better… iOS 14 (released in October 2019) added home screen widgets, allowing us to add at-a-glance information to our iPhone and iPad home screens. With an update to …
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Print Becomes More Niche: No More Costco Photo Centers
Consumer printing is pining for the fjords… Yesterday, Costco announced that it’s shutting down its in-store photo centers (CNN, PetaPixel). With nearly 800 warehouse stores, this represents a …
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