August Meeting Follow-up

Thanks to everyone who joined us for this month's meeting. We look forward to hearing more of your experiences with the new Canvas prints from Simply Canvas and Pictage. Stay tuned for more exciting developments.

Special thanks to Adam Levner of Critical Exposure who shared with us the great work that they are doing combining the power of documentary photography and youth voice to strengthen campaigns and organizations working to secure a quality education for all children.

Here's a link to the show we saw of students' photos, writing and statistics from the project in PA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcRWnQZDP8g

For more, here is Link to student-created video from a teen pregnancy prevention project in Alexandria, VA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc7GQqOi62Q

You can contact Adam directly at:
Adam Levner
Critical Exposure
1816 12th St. NW, 3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20009
202-745-3745 x19
www.criticalexposure.org
alevner@yahoo.com

Look for September meeting preview shortly.

Geoff

Picnic Success

Despite the rain and crazy location of Fletcher's boat house, the DC PUG picnic was a success.
Thank you to everyone who braved the rain to join us!

We look forward to seeing you all at the next PUG in August.
For some fun photos check out Armin's blog .

PUG Picnic!

Hello All You DC Puggers,

Are you ready for a good old fashion BBQ?

We have thought long and hard about how to make our first annual DC PUG picnic a memorable one... and while we are still figuring out just how to do that, we would love to know if you are able to join us or not.

We can promise lively conversation (we may even talk about stuff other than photography), good food, kid and grown-up friendly out door games and much more.We hope you can join us in creating some DC Pugradery! :D

This will be a pot luck picnic so please check the list on Evite to see what you can bring. Here is your chance to show off the fact that you are more than just masters at photography! We may even have a prize for the most creative/tasty side dish.

If you have any questions you can contact us via email or phone.

Sarah - 703 851 8463 sarah@blinkdc.com
Jess - 202 744 3746 jessica@jessicadelvecchio.com

We will be updating the Evite shortly with a location site so stay tuned! Please RSVP and let us know you are coming!

GigBooks coming to our June PUG

At our June meeting, next Monday, June 16th at 7:00pm, we will be discussing some marketing ideas that really work and we will be joined by Justin Kifer of GigBooks, an online business management system for photographers. Also, Rob Holley will be in the studio spotlight.

Hope to see you there.

Geoff

Couture Books coming to Bethesda 6/13

Friday, June 13th from 1:00pm - 4:00pm, our friend and former Pictage Pro Consultant, Dave Luebke, now of Couture Book (http://www.couturebook.com) will be in our studio showing these amazing products. For those of you who missed these books @ WPPI, they're probably the hottest new books out there - so stop by and check 'em out.

We look forward to seeing you next friday.

pDNA - See what you're made of!

As mentioned last night's PUG meeting, Dane Sanders - Pictage Evangelist, Community Leader, Founder of Fast Track Photographer - has offered us a 15% discount on the pDNA.

What is the pDNA you ask? Great question!

The pDNA is a personality profile assessment built uniquely for photographers to both identify your unique strengths as well as to offer a custom prescription on how to best leverage your DNA as a photographer ... to build a killer business around your best resource ... you!

Imagine someone asking you some questions and a few moments later getting a totally tricked out report detailing what only you do best ...
Then, imagine if it went one step further and also gave you a list of super practical "to do's" to totally take your business to the next level ...
Finally, imagine the power of a small community doing this and being able to help each other really make their mark together!

That's the kind of edge the pDNA offers to both the newer photographer as well as the established pro looking to take their success story even further. What's so cool is Pictage has endorsed this program so that you get an exclusive PUG benefit! Let me explain ...

The pDNA normally costs $20. With our exclusive Affiliate Code you will get an automatic 15% discount ($3 off).

go to: https://fasttrackphotographer.com/buy/pdna/dc

And you'll automatically receive the discount at checkout. Isn't it worth $17 to help understand some fundamental issues central to your business?

I'm about to do it myself and I'll update you all at next month's meeting.

Geoff

May Pug

First, another big thanks to Robert T. Williams for visiting the April PUG combined with the Baltimore group. We had a strong showing of over 40 photographers - you can see some great pics on the Love Life Images blog.

Last night the crummy weather could not hold back a great crowd who came to learn a little more about finding their target market and how they should be establishing their pricing. Most of the information I presented comes from our friends at photo lovecat who really have some great information on their blog for fellow photographers.

Click on the marketing link to find both the formulas for pricing your products and services, as well as the why questions you should be asking yourself to help shape your business.

Thanks also to M.J. Love of Studio of Love for sharing some of his work and showing us his new Justin and Mary Marantz-inspired "close box" with gifts for the bride and groom to be.

Don't forget the Professional Photographer Magazine Cover photo contest - go to ppmag.com. It's free and you can enter as many times as you want.

See you next month for an exciting meeting - details to come.

Geoff