Successful wedding photographers know what works. They know the images that clients want. They know how to find and attract those clients. And they know too how to demonstrate their ability, promote their skills and bring in the bookings that build a successful and satisfying photography career. THE SUCCESSFUL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER reveals the real strategies currently being used by some of the...
It looks like the easiest — and the most obvious — way to make money out of real estate: find an old house in a rundown state. Pay less than market value because of the amount of work needed. Do it up and sell it on for a profit. But flipping is just one of many ways that real estate investors turn property into profits. REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT METHODS covers all the main strategies followed by...
Packed with insider tips, practical strategies, and case studies, 99 WAYS TO MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR PHOTOS reveals 99 creative ways to make money from your photography. Each chapter reveals what to shoot, how to break in, and where to go to generate sales. Discover how to sell stock, approach galleries, host your own exhibition, earn with Flickr, shoot for social networking sites, create and market...
The book covers a range of business methods that can be used on Twitter including TwitPitching, app-building, trend-spotting and affiliate selling, and is filled with practical ideas for everyone. Illustrated with case-studies and proven examples, 99 Ways to Make Money with Twitter reveals how individuals and businesses are using microblogging to build brands, land sales and win new customers...
Bitcoin is often pitched as more than a currency. To computer geeks, the blockchain that underpins it is a work of technological genius. To libertarians, bitcoin’s lack of a central reserve makes it a revolutionary tool allowing them to throw off the shackles of government. To criminals, it’s a way to buy and sell illicit products without leaving a paper trail. But at its heart bitcoin is always...
Few executives would be happy to walk into their conference rooms to find their leading staff playing poker but in software companies, that’s exactly what’s happening. And the boss is playing as well. The players aren’t gambling with their salaries though, or even their options. They’re betting on the amount of time it will take to develop a feature. The practice is known as Planning Poker and...
When Facebook moved into new offices in Menlo Park in 2015, Mashable called the campus “a child’s candy-fueled daydream.” Designed by Frank Gehry, the building has a nine-acre rooftop park, teepee swings and meeting rooms that double as ball pits. Mark Zuckerberg called the mile-long workspace the largest “open floor plan in the world — a single room that fits thousands of people.” The goal, he...
As communications have improved and productivity platforms like Slack have made it easier than ever for scattered team members to stay in touch, virtual working has started to look like the revolution the gig economy needed. More than a third of the US workforce has said that they have telecommuted and the World Economic Forum has described flexible work both as a “general trend” and “one of the...
DevOps is intended to be a faster and more efficient way for enterprises to roll out software. It replaces the traditional stages of planning, development, testing and implementation with a concurrent system in which development, testing and implementation are merged to form a single, seamless whole. It’s a relatively new way of working—the system emerged from an Agile conference in 2008—but it’s...
The name of the end product might be decided by ad men, focus groups and marketing people who think tags are for displaying brand names, but while a project is in development, it’s the programmers who get to come up with the working titles. It sounds creative and fun, an opportunity for geeks to undo their ponytails, let their hair down and come up with something cool and funky. Often they do...
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