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  • Edward Zemba
    Creating High-ticket Sales and Champion Clients
    • Learn how to maximize every sale
    • Find out the specific sales techniques that improve profitability
    • Understand a client's needs, expectations and wants
    • Create champions who drive other clients to your door

    Edward Zemba started working in his father's regionally celebrated studio that was struggling financially to survive. Today, the same studio has been lauded by Scott Kurkian, CFO of PPA as an inspiration to many photographers throughout the country and is one of the most successful of its kind in the US.

  • David Ziser
    Sizzling the Client Experience – Sizzles the Profits, Too
    • Book a higher percentage of wedding clients
    • ‘Juice’ the sale to make that hard day’s work shooting worth the effort
    • Explore the BEST viral marketing techniques to grow your business
    • 45 minutes of ideas to fuel your profits for years

    David Ziser, an internationally-renowned wedding photographer, has shared his knowledge with tens of thousands of photographers in five languages and in 14 countries worldwide. David is one of 101 worldwide who hold the highest honor of "Fellow" bestowed by the American Society of Photographers.

  • Rod Evans
    Facebook Marketing Not Just for Seniors
    • Add Social Marketing to your marketing plan for maximum impact
    • Maximize the ROI of your social marketing program
    • Ins and outs of advertizing on Facebook
    • Social Marketing campaigns that WORK

    Portrait artist and PPA National Award winner, Rod Evans, is a member of the prestigious Society of XXV, an international group of the world’s finest photographers. He lectures internationally at a host of venues including PPA’s Imaging USA, WPPI and Senior Portrait Artists events.

  • Kevin Kubota
    The Year of the Relationship: It Could be Your Best!
    • Learn a simple, step-by-step system with things everyone can do to build the most important foundation at the base of your business
    • Find out how to inexpensively build brand awareness – for the price of a nice lunch
    • Discover Kubota’s simple and effective ways you can develop a brand people talk about, strong word of mouth referrals, and dedicated life-long customers

    Kevin Kubota has been professionally photographing weddings and portraits since 1990. Recently awarded the 3rd annual Monte Zucker Humanitarian Award during WPPI 09, Kubota was also named one of the “Top 10 Wedding Photographers in the World” by American Photo Magazine. He was selected as the Nikon “Legend Behind the Lens” #2 on the Nikon website. Kevin Kubota pioneered the field of completely digital wedding photography and was inspired to share his experience and natural teaching ability with other photographers.

  • Tim and Beverly Walden
    3 Proven Strategies for Marketing Success
    • Learn how emotion, the magic formula, can elevate your marketing and business to new heights
    • Discover how to connect with EVERY client who enters your studio
    • Explore why creating a sense of theatre increases sales

    Master and Craftsman degree holders, Tim & Beverly Walden are members of the prestigious Society of XXV, an international group of the world’s finest photographers. Tim and Beverly are well-known international speakers and Kodak mentors. Tim is also a PPA board member and International Jury Chairman as well as an Imaging Excellence degree holder and Fellow of the American Society of Photographers.

  • Jen Hillenga
    Essential Elements of Design
    • Defining your Style Message
    • How bad design hurts great content
    • Fonts – how many and which ones should you use?
    • Psychology of Design – how movement, interaction, text, image
      should be placed together to portray your style message to your client

    With a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art and Graphic Design and a Master’s degree, Jen Hillenga began her career in 1997, working for 3 portrait studios before opening her own studio in 2004. Together with her partner, Kate Thram, they quickly became a leading studio in their area through aggressive marketing. Jen has been named MN Illustrative Photographer of the Year, Portrait Photographer of the Year and Wedding Photographer of the Year as well as a Kodak Photographer to Watch.

  • Lori Nordstrom
    Getting the Most from Your Charitable Marketing Program
    • Charitable marketing, choosing a charity and a theme
    • Branding and Marketing your event
    • Making it work (shooting, sales, voting and more!)
    • Making it profitable

    Lori Nordstrom has owned her own studio for 9 years in the tiny town of Winterset, Iowa. A Master Photographer, Photographic Craftsman, Certified Professional Photographer and SMS Consultant, Lori’s also a nationally published educator and owner of phototalkforum.com.

  • Kia Bondurant
    Senior Marketing Strategies
    • Learn how to shoot for and create products that high school seniors will love so much they’ll sell their parents for you
    • Maximize your time with each outfit, pose and background with my shooting tips
    • Find out the upcoming trends to keep the seniors in your market coming to you

    Kia Bondurant co-owns Antisdels Photography with her mother, Sana Antisdel and is the co-founder of Senior Portrait Artists (SPA). She’s been named Kansas Photographer of the year and was valedictorian of her college class. Kia has been married to her high school sweetheart for 14 years and has 4 children.

  • Kent & Sarah Smith
    Growing a Great Senior Business, One Seed at a Time
    • How to realize all the sales possibilities with every high school senior
    • Learn how to prepare your client before their session to maximize your order
    • How to plant two rows of seeds during their first visit to increase your profits
    • Discover how to turn senior clients into family portrait patrons

    Kent & Sarah Smith have all the degrees, won all the major awards and taught other professional photographers about high school seniors for over 20 years, but their greatest accomplishments happen one client at a time. They are busy doing what they teach! With a small staff of 5, they generate over a million dollar in business annually, all while being their own lab.

  • John Hartman
    Do you Have What it Takes to Succeed in Today’s Marketplace?
    • Understand why and how your work has to soar above everybody else’s in your marketing area and why you’re doomed if it doesn’t
    • Get inside the mind of your buyer – what to say, when to say it, how often to say it
    • Secrets to making it hard for your clients to buy just a little and easy for to buy a lot
    • Discover how letting the client decide can actually make you the most money

    John Hartman is considered one of the nation’s foremost experts on marketing and merchandising professional
    photography. His Marketing Boot Camp is the longest-running and most successful business seminar for the portrait
    and wedding studio.

  • Vicki Taufer
    Relationship and Event Marketing
    • Learn to market your business effectively and efficiently by building relationships in your community
    • Vicki’s step-by-step event building success kit including “Girls Night Out” and “Dogs Days of Summer”
    • Generate buzz for your business with events that have IMPACT

    Vicki Taufer not only runs a successful 7,000 square foot studio, but also educates photographers throughout the world. An award winning photographer and marketer, Vicki’s accolades include an AN-NE award, highest scoring print at Orvieto Fotografia and WPPI’s Grand award.

  • Dane Sanders
    The Big Picture of Marketing Your Photography Business
    • Get a bird’s eye view of your photo business from 10,000 feet
    • Understand & master the 4 critical roles every successful photographer must play if they intend to win
    • Maximize your business across the 8 essential stages of fast track business cycle

    Dane Sanders is an internationally sought after photographer, author and speaker. He has been invited to be a platform speaker at WPPI, Imaging USA and as a sponsored speaker at PhotoPlus East in New York City. “Fast Track Photographer: the definitive new approach to successful wedding photography” is Dane’s first book.

  • Sarah Petty
    Building a Strong Identity and Brand BEFORE You Start Promoting
    • What does an identity include – from name, to logo to web site addess
    • 4 places there is a disconnect with small businesses
    • What you can do to make sure your identity is consistent

    Sarah Petty, after only 5 years in business was recognized by PPA’s Studio Management Services as one of the most profitable in the country. With over 18 combined years of advertising and marketing experience at Coca-Cola, a top area advertising agency and her own successful boutique photography studio, Sarah is thrilled to bring some of the top industry leaders for these two days of photography marketing education through The Joy of Marketing!

  • Allison & Jeff Rodgers
    He Said: She Said of Social Networking 101
    • Create enduring client relationships through twitter, facebook and blogs
    • Get schooled on building the brand of YOU
    • How to keep yourself in the forefront of your clients’ minds, without becoming an annoying infomercial

    Allison and Jeff Rodgers left their positions as Art Directors at prominent Memphis ad agencies to create Allison Rodgers Photography, one of the most profitable studios in the US. Each year their sales increase due to their unique design skills, marketing techniques and client relationships

  • Marilyn Sholin
    Selling and Pricing Your Fine Art: Viral Selling!
    • Learn what can be sold as fine art
    • Discover where to get the most sales for your art
    • Uncover how to use the Internet for exposure and sales
    • Identify the easiest pricing methods for multiple products

    Marilyn Sholin, a Master Craftsman and CPP Photographer, owned a highly successful portrait studio for 25 years before turning the corner to become an artist. An accomplished painter, she is one of only 36 Corel Painter Masters in the world and is the author of three books. Her newest book, The Art of Digital Photo Painting, is the best-selling digital art book on Amazon.

  • Julie Klaasmeyer
    A Cut Above
    • Use design, pricing and photography to create demand for a product that is a cut above
    • Differentiate yourself from the studio down the street
    • Take your ordinary product and create custom boutique art pieces

    Julie Klaasmeyer credits her consistently high sales average to providing her clients with only the very best. She goes out
    of her way to find custom products and unique items that are only available through her studio. An accomplished
    photographer, Julie has had prints chosen for both PPA Loan Collection and PPA General Collection books and has won 3
    Fuji Masterpiece Awards and a Kodak Gallery Award among many others.