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David DuChemin @ B&H, originally uploaded by themaclady.

Notes from David duChemin at B&H Event Space 07/07/10
Creativity
Craft your career/business is a creative act as crafting a photo
No wizard or yellow brick road
Camogli Italy (near Genoa) Singh-Ray blue gold
Risk can't avoid only select
Determine your path
Stop buying so much stuff
Fire yourself
Know yourself
Know your market understand the clients needs
Free deliverables, finds funding for NGO clients
Find solutions, creative negotiations
Sell without selling out
You + your client (it's not about you)
Benefit oriented statements
Brand loyalty of your brand don't dilute
Don't compare or compete
Practice on your own time
Listen to the best voices
Don't let your niche become a rut
Get out of debt
Lower your overhead
Know your CDB (cost of doing business)
Work your ass off
Work 16 hours for yourself vs. 8 hours for someone else

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Book suggestions
Visionmongers
Managing the Visionmonger
Fast Track Photographer
The 4-Hour Work Week
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Re:Work
Making Ideas Happen
The Art of War
The E-Myth

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