Speaking, Workshops, and Mentoring

Learn how to develop a business headshot and executive portrait line of business that brings in business 8am-5pm, Monday to Friday. Whether 1-on-1, small business, or large convention/conference volume clients, Mike can show you the path to adding this profitable capability to your business.

Lecture format is an interactive discussion with presentation material meant to help attendees retain and apply what they learn.

Contact Mike to discuss scheduling, tailored content to your group, and budget information.

Still Mike’s most popular speaking topic!

Time is money.  Working more efficiently with a smooth post-processing workflow and return minutes and even hours to your life that you could be spending doing other revenue generating projects or just more time with family and friends.  Mike will walk through the time saving skills you need in Photoshop and related tools to help you get through your work faster and with a repeatable process that ensures the quality you want to deliver to your clients.

Lecture format is an interactive discussion with presentation material meant to help attendees retain and apply what they learn.

Contact Mike to discuss scheduling, tailored content to your group, and budget information.

Targeted at groups that already are using ProSelect for their In Person Sales (IPS) support.  Mike shows how to leverage everyone’s existing investment to create a great customer experience with professional business headshot portraits where no one leaves the shooting area until they see a finished headshot they love.  Leverages some material from the “Business Headshot Portraiture” lecture with an emphasis on the ProSelect elements.

Lecture format is an interactive discussion with presentation material meant to help attendees retain and apply what they learn.

Contact Mike to discuss scheduling, tailored content to your group, and budget information.

Mike explains how to create interior and exterior property images for use by commercial clients in their advertising.  More than just photography transactional real estate , commercial clients use these images longer periods of time and have higher expectations of the accuracy required in the final images.  The business practices are also very different for commercial clients versus retail portrait or residential real estate. 

Lecture format is an interactive discussion with presentation material meant to help attendees retain and apply what they learn.

Contact Mike to discuss scheduling, tailored content to your group, and budget information.

Typically up to a 60-minute presentation, Mike shares his success in selling, designing, printing, publishing yearbooks and corporate event memory books, even when he doesn’t do the photography.  Clients need a project manager to handle the myriad of details in collecting, organizing, and managing the elements that go into these books.  Mike sells his services as a “turnkey” solution to clients resulting in orders for hundreds of books while ensuring he hits his revenue targets for the effort.

Lecture format is an interactive discussion with presentation material meant to help attendees retain and apply what they learn.

Contact Mike to discuss scheduling, tailored content to your group, and budget information.

Many photographer’s rely on passive website sales to “hopefully” get enough orders to meet their revenue goals.  Let Mike show you how to take control of the sales cycle to allow you to sell rather than take orders.  Effective sales is more than just collecting money, it is guiding a customer through a process to ensure they have the chance to purchase everything they could want, resolve objections with mutually beneficial solutions, and become a trusted partner to the client, helping them get what they want.

Lecture format is an interactive discussion with presentation material meant to help attendees retain and apply what they learn.

Contact Mike to discuss scheduling, tailored content to your group, and budget information.

Photo Mechanic is the industry leading software tool to quickly ingest, organize, cull, resize, save, and send images.  Sports photographers have relied on Photo Mechanic for years.  Mike shows how this tool can save you time in culling your images, applying valuable metadata in bulk, and allowing code substitution to do a lot of metadata typing for you “auto-magically”.

At various times of the year, Mike is able to obtain discount codes for attendees to purchase Photo Mechanic

Lecture format is an interactive discussion with presentation material meant to help attendees retain and apply what they learn.

Contact Mike to discuss scheduling, tailored content to your group, and budget information.

Don’t see what you are looking for?  Mike can research, prepare, and deliver a wide variety of topics that target the needs of your members.  Let’s discuss what the need is and how he can fill it.

Lecture format is an interactive discussion with presentation material meant to help attendees retain and apply what they learn.

Contact Mike to discuss scheduling, tailored content to your group, and budget information.

Spend a day with Mike as he takes attendees on a journey through the 6 S’s of Business Headshot Portraiture: Setup, Selling, Shooting, Showing, Styling, and Sending.  Attendees will learn how to prepare their headshot business offerings, equipment, lighting, workflow, and pricing.  This is a balance of business acumen for the corporate client coupled with efficient workflow to quickly serve clients resulting the optimal margin.

Workshop format is a hands-on, interactive learning experience using adult learning theory to increase the ability for attendees to understand, retain, and apply the workshop material.  Workshops are a minimum of 4 hours and typically at least 6.5 hours to be eligible for attendees to receive PPA Merits.  Workshops are great revenue generating opportunities for the host organization.

Contact Mike to discuss scheduling, tailored content to your group, and budget information.

Leave the cameras at home for this one and bring the laptop, Photoshop, Bridge, and plenty of paper to take notes.  Mike transforms his lecture format into a hands-on interactive class with plenty of exercises for attendees to apply what they have learned and have examples they can refer to later to remember and build on for deeper retention and clear application.  This workshop has been delivered across the country to state Affiliates.

Workshop format is a hands-on, interactive learning experience using adult learning theory to increase the ability for attendees to understand, retain, and apply the workshop material.  Workshops are a minimum of 4 hours and typically at least 6.5 hours to be eligible for attendees to receive PPA Merits.  Workshops are great revenue generating opportunities for the host organization.

Contact Mike to discuss scheduling, tailored content to your group, and budget information.

Learn at your pace over using Zoom for an effective virtual experience.  Share screens, show examples, look at each other to build trust and confidence.

Mentoring is a personalized experience using adult learning theory to increase the ability for clients to discuss the development of their business and get support, feedback, and ideas from Mike.   The client leads the conversation based on where he/she has the greatest need or interest and evolves from there as skills are mastered and confidence increases.

A mentoring month consists of one 60 minute video conference, a “reasonable” number of shorter phone calls, and unlimited email conversations.

Mentoring arrangements scheduled for a month at a time and there is no minimum number of months for the mentoring relationship.  All mentoring relationships being with a 60 minute, no charge consultation to ensure the right fit and scope.

Contact Mike to discuss your mentoring interests and schedule your no-charge consultation video conference.

Are you in the Central Ohio area?  Consider an in-person mentoring relationship with Mike at his home studio in Pickerington.

Mentoring is a personalized experience using adult learning theory to increase the ability for clients to discuss the development of their business and get support, feedback, and ideas from Mike.   The client leads the conversation based on where he/she has the greatest need or interest and evolves from there as skills are mastered and confidence increases.

A mentoring month consists of one 90 minute in-person meeting, a “reasonable” number of shorter phone calls, and unlimited email conversations.

Mentoring arrangements scheduled for a month at a time and there is no minimum number of months for the mentoring relationship.  All mentoring relationships being with a 60 minute, no charge consultation to ensure the right fit and scope.

Contact Mike to discuss your mentoring interests and schedule a no-charge consultation call.