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  • Vital Signs: October 10, 2008

    Dozens of worry-inducing words have been used to describe the economic outlook for the rest of this year and into 2009. The financial crisis on Wall Street has only added to our unease: the seizure of Fannie Mae and Freddie...

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  • Review: Epson P-7000 Multimedia Photo Viewer

    Professional Photographer Magazine Web ExclusiveBy Joan T. Sherwood, Senior EditorThe new Epson P-7000 Multimedia Photo Viewer takes the same basic package of the P-5000, puts in a new screen (Epson Photo Fine Premia Technology), adds 80 more gigabytes of storage...

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  • PPA President's Message - October 2008

    I always feel blessed to be a part of the photographic industry. This month's magazine is focused on commercial photography, an area of photography in which I have very little training or knowledge. But while I have chosen to concentrate my business on portrait photography, I do have the opportunity to tackle a few commercial jobs every year. One of my first commercial jobs--a job I accepted my first year in business--had a great impact on my life, or my almost lack of life.

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  • Epson Print Academy, Industry's Premier Educational Photo Printing Seminars, Kicks Off All-New Program With Latest Breakthrough Technologies

    All-New Program with Tailored Tracks for Advanced Amateur Photographers and Professional Photographers, Provides Tips and Techniques for Using the Latest Products to Create Spectacular Prints

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  • Going Green! Marathon Receives Forest Stewardship Council Certification

    Bruce Price, president of Marathon Press, has announced that Marathon is now affiliated with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) through its Chain of Custody Certification.

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2007 AN-NE Spotlight: Best High School Senior & Best Image Marketing Campaign

“Competitions—like the AN-NEs and print competitions—make me work harder, “comments Sarah Petty. “They force me to think through what I’m doing.”

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2007 AN-NE Spotlight: Best Web Site (Braniff)

Web sites become more important every year. The simple fact that Internet searching is readily available increases the chances of people running into your site. When they come to your site, what will they see or think? More importantly, what will they do? Farrah Braniff, owner of Farrah Braniff Photographs in Houston, Texas, knows the importance of a photography Web site. In fact, her site tied for first place in the AN-NE Marketing Awards’ Best Web Site category.

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2007 AN-NE Spotlight: Best E-mail Marketing Campaign

Word-of-mouth marketing used to be about the only marketing that Wendy Rouleau of Portraits by Wendy (in Buford, Ga.) needed. “Now, with the economy, we’re finding that we have to market more,” she says. “And e-mail marketing is a good, inexpensive way to get your news out to clients.”

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2007 AN-NE Spotlight: Best Web Site (Rouleau)

“I always had a Web site from Day 1, back in 1999,” remembers Wendy Rouleau of Portraits by Wendy in Buford, Ga. “But it was pretty bad and hard to manage.”

So how did she garner a tie for the 2007 AN-NE Marketing Awards’ Best Web Site? She realized that she needed an outside resource and hired a talented firm to transfer her ideas online. It was a big decision, and when Wendy first heard the price quoted for re-creating her site, she about fell over. “But I decided that this was too important to do halfway. Give your Web site first place in your marketing. Then, add on with other pieces.”

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