PMA Magazine - Connecting the Imaging Communities articles from October 2003

PMA Magazine - Connecting the Imaging Communities archives from October 2003

Calendar of events.
October 1, 2003... October 15 PMA New England Division Inc. Annual Meeting Peabody Marriott Hotel Peabody, Mass. PMA Europe 2003 The Chateau Impney Droitwich ...

Build your photo business by teaching digital photography.(Viewpoint)
October 1, 2003... You can build new and lasting relationships with your customers by teaching photo courses. Since the hot topic of the day is digital photography, your fastest return on the time and money you spend teaching comes when you specialize in teaching...

PMA Fall Conference wrap-up.(Photo Marketing Association)
October 1, 2003... In addition to three days of sessions and trade show time, the annual PMA Fall Imaging Conference and Mini Trade Show offered attendees numerous networking opportunities. There were many chances to catch up with colleagues and make new...

The xpress lane: continuing to innovate after 85 years, Ritz Camera offers new service for fast prints.(Feature)
October 1, 2003... The year is 1918, and Benjamin Ritz has opened a photo studio on the boardwalk of Atlantic City, N.J. Several years later, his younger brother Edward joins him. The business grows and expands into the New York City and Philadelphia areas....

Retailers build business with photo greeting cards: with a little effort, photo greetings can mean big sales.(Features)
October 1, 2003... Digital minilabs have made dramatic changes to the way things are done in retail photo labs, and in no case is this truer than with photo greeting cards. Making a photo greeting card used to be a long and labor-intensive process; now. it's...

Pushing the right buttons: major retailers across Canada, and now the United States, incorporate PhotoChannel solution to offer online photofinishing.(Feature)
October 1, 2003... The online digital finishing question is no respecter of bottom lines, years in business or number of outlets. It's an equal opportunity conundrum. Everyone from the small mom-and-pop store to the international giants is in a "do I/don't...

In memoriam: Paul Kenneth Herson.(Association News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Paul Kenneth Herson, 92, of Trinidad, Texas, passed away July 17. Herson served as president of Photo Marketing Association International, then known as the Master Photo Dealers & Finishers Association, from 1966-67. At that time, he was the...

Newsline International adds weekly marketing research feature.(Association News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Photo Marketing Association's Newsline International. which is updated with photo industry news Monday through Friday at www.pmai.org, has debuted a weekly "PMA Data Watch" feature. It highlights information from the PMA Marketing Research...

Correction.
October 1, 2003... The article in the August 2003 issue of Photo Marketing magazine, entitled "Digital camera memory cards: Cheaper, Faster, Better" should have said that Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc. markets, rather than manufactures, Secure Digital, CompactFlash,...

Online image security: proactive consumer home backup still remains a safe bet.(Feature)
October 1, 2003... Reminders of the 2001 PhotoPoint.com demise can still be found online today. "Due to the collapse of PhotoPoint without any warning, I lost approximately 300 pics that I'll have to scan again," reads a notice at a popular and...

Digicams introduce new consumers to photography: challenge is convincing them to print more pictures.(Processing)
October 1, 2003... Digital cameras are becoming feasible as a household's only camera and may be bringing a new segment of consumers to amateur photography that otherwise may not have been photo-active. During each of the past two years, more than 26 percent of...

"Creative fee" portraits could lessen copyright worries: shifting profits from prints to sitting fees is key to strategy.(Processing)
October 1, 2003... While digital technology has created numerous new imaging services and products, it has made copyright violation easier, too. Any consumer with a computer, inkjet printer, and flatbed scanner can copy an 8-by-10-inch professionally taken...

Cameras on the shoppping list of many consumers: digital models will dominate.(Retailing)
October 1, 2003... More than 18 percent of U.S. households plan to purchase a new camera or camcorder in the near future (defined as within the next three years), with digital still cameras dominating their purchase intentions, according to Chapter 5, "Camera...

Feeling upmarket Downunder: three Australian photo retailers share what's hot, what's not.(Retailing)
October 1, 2003... Australia has a land area as large as the continental United States (excluding Alaska)--but has a population of only 20 million. Because of the arid interior, the relatively recent settlement, and the fertility of the coastlines, 88 percent are...

Shouldering the HR burden: PEOs make personnel management easier for business owners.(Feature, Professional Employment Organization)
October 1, 2003... Administrative functions like doing payroll and managing benefits programs are many business owners' least favorite duties. Companies that can afford to often hire someone, or a whole department, to handle personnel issues. But for many...

Young at heart: retailing keeps Photo Sprint owner feeling young, challenged.(Feature)
October 1, 2003... Juan Ponce de Leon devoted himself to finding the mythical Fountain of Youth in Florida. But Edmond Hakin found his own version of that fountain in northern California. It's his retail photo business, Photo Sprint. Hakin chuckles when...

Connecting photographers and labs: labs have many options when it comes to online workflow solutions.(Feature)
October 1, 2003... As more photographers move to digital capture, portrait/social labs are implementing digital workflows to meet the needs of those customers. The labs can choose from a variety of solutions that offer online previewing, editing and ordering. ...