5 ways to Engage people after the recession
In our series of guest author articles Marcelo Borges, co-founder of insight-2-performance adresses post recession actions to re-engage people in businesses. The recession has damaged national economies and businesses and produced traumatic effects for millions of people worldwide. In the UK alone 2.46 million are currently unemployed. According to the Office of National Statistics, in 2008 [...]
How to grow by sticking to your niche
Not all Stock photography production companies are struggling through the recession or suffer from ever more aggressive pricing demands from clients. Maskot, a Swedish niche photography producer that set up business in 2003 is having a good year. Co-founder Per Levander says this is because they stayed true to the niche they chose 5 years ago. [...]
This will make you reflect on the crisis, superflex movie
While the recession appears to be nearing its end and banks seem to be back to business as usual there are many personal stories that will be told about this period, some encouraging , some confrontational, like this project shows. This has been aired in the UK by Channel 4 and will be featured on [...]
Securing a job after the recession
A few months ago we asked Steve Lake to share some tips on how to set up a CV and how to get a first meeting when looking for a job. Steve worked at Pepper Stark, an industry consultancy where he was responsible for recruitment. A few months later times are still tough but there [...]
Use downturn to displace established players; AOP Summit 2009
The summit of the AOP (Association of online publishers) has taken place in London this week. Brand Republic reports on some of the subjects that have been discussed. You can also follow the comments about the event on Twitter and see video’s here. The Brand Republic article contains links to more detailed information about the the subjects that [...]
Google CEO on the future of newspapers
Danny Sullivan, author of the leading blog search engine land hs interviewed Google CEO Eric Schmidt about the future role of newspapers and how Google plans to work with newspapers to find new models. This interview comes after a prolonged debate about wether Google is harming the future of newspapers. In this insightful article Schmidt tries [...]
The wandering photographer
In this second contribution by Gerry Thies writes about: Extolling the merits of the wandering photographer. (pictures copyright Jim Vecchi) The self-financing contributing photographer is undoubtably one of the biggest image asset groups to any agency. Within this base of photographers there is a select pack that I like to refer to as the wandering [...]
Preparing for your next job
In times of downsizing and redundancies we asked Steve Lake his view on the job market, and more importantly what can be done now to secure an industry job in the future. Steve Lake is a veteran of the Stock Photography industry. He was responsible for recruitment at Pepper Stark in London where he developed [...]
Implementing technology; Abbie Enock about teams
Technology has been a major driver of a number of revolutionary changes in the Stock Media industry. Abbie Enock, Managing Director of Capture talks about the advantages of well implemented technology and warns about some of the pitfalls in this exclusive interview What do companies need to think about right now when it comes to [...]
Chris Buck Interview
Deb Henderson of Moodboard and the Factory blog was inspired by a 2008 interview on Rob Haggarts photoeditor Blog and caught up with Chris Buck. A 20 year veteran he was the first recipient of the Arnold Newman portrait price in 2007. He is now based in New York and Los Angeles. You are hugely successful at [...]
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