by Don Giannatti | Mar 31, 2019 | Business, Identity
PERSONAL BRAND: ASSET OR BUZZWORD? ; Personal Brand: Asset or Buzzword? We hear a lot about personal brand and how important it is, but is it something that we need to be concerned about, or just another techie buzzword meant to sell us a lot of crap we don’t...
by Don Giannatti | Mar 28, 2019 | Brain Food, Business
WHEN YOU NEGOTIATE FROM KNOWLEDGE, YOU CAN WIN TAKE A CHANCE AND SPELL IT OUT ; … and it is true. Names have been changed a bit to keep client/photographer privacy. I had lunch with a photographer a while ago. We had met to go over plans for a big project and chose...
by Don Giannatti | Mar 21, 2019 | Brain Food, Business, Photography
; A BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO JIM BRENNAN FOR PLACING IN THE GOLD DIVISION: GRAPHIS PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL, 2019.Yeah – in all caps.I have been working with Jim and developing his commercial portfolio, marketing materials, and website.Jim is a remarkable creative with...
by Don Giannatti | Mar 21, 2019 | Brain Food, Business, Photography
MY FIRST QUARTERLY IMAGE PUBLICATION, 2019 I am committed to making a magazine each quarter of my life from now on. I will fill it with creative ideas and images and designs that I work on throughout the previous quarter. This is my first publication and features...
by Don Giannatti | Feb 18, 2019 | Brain Food, Business
WHY YOU SHOULD MAKE A BOOK EVERY YEAR MAYBE EVEN TWO PER YEAR ; Why You Should Make a Book EVERY Year I remember being in a wonderful little book store in La Jolla one summer’s day. There were shelves after shelves of photography books. Monographs, portfolios,...
by Don Giannatti | Nov 7, 2018 | Brain Food, Business
; Hulu aggregated TV and Movies into a streaming service that operated just like TV. Netflix took the model of the corner video rental store and put it online. Both started by presenting work already created. Amazon came in and made access to movies and TV shows...