Selling Heart in Your Art with Meghan Doll • Minneapolis, MN • meghandoll.com
Prepare to unleash the magic of "Heart Art" in your photography business in an immersive class that will transform your approach to creating and selling artwork that brings pure joy into your client's homes.
Bio: At sixteen, my Grandfather put a camera in my hands. He taught me the basics and entrusted me with his darkroom. Grandad nurtured my talent with care and constructive criticism, leading me to a career that I love.
My work reflects love. I first witnessed that love while shooting weddings, where my career began. I have grown and expanded like those couples and transitioned into focusing on my family portraiture and personal branding. I now capture a love that has matured... the tender maternity, newborn, or family and the self-love and confidence of the entrepreneur.
Life is not picture-perfect, but I strive to create images that will anchor you in hard times and remind you of the love and strength you have in your heart, that love that drives you every day.
Posing for Purpose with Cameron & Tia • Minneapolis, MN • cameronandtia.com
Posing for Purpose: A System for Explosive Growth - Get ready for posing talk that will leave photographers both new and experienced energized with new prompts and an innovative new framework to approach posing as a marketing tool. Cameron & Tia both discuss and demonstrate their signature posing method that centers around creating an experience for clients that transforms them into raving fans. Expect demonstrations of silly, laughter inducing prompts and emotional, thought-provoking invitations. You'll leave with out-of-the-box ways to support your clients, encourage memories to be made, and to supercharge your posing experience into a bold marketing tool fueled by referrals. Think not just rockstar posing, but posing designed to promote memory-making and create raving fans!
Bio: Cameron & Tia are wedding photographers and business coaches based in Minneapolis, MN. They met in second grade at Johnathan Elementary School. Sixteen years later, CAmeron proposed to Tia at that sane elementary school. Cameron is an ex-attorney and Tia is a past dance teacher who transformed their passions into a career that allows them to have a life together filled with independence and tons of travel. Now, they teach others to create the same flexibility and freedom in their own businesses.
They are known for their keen business strategy and systems (yes, there is an Asana task for everything) and polar opposite personalities - Tia is a firecracker and Cameron is smart and refined. Their dynamic posing style is document in viral 1 million+ view TikTok videos and taught in their signature course Posing for Purpose. Cameron & Tia continue to photograph weddings, seniors, and families while managing their team of six associate wedding photographers. Additionally, they are business coaches offering mentoring to photography and non-photography businesses, speakers, and YouTubers. Personally, they are either out and about traveling- Italy, Iceland, Alaska, and Hawaii are their top spots - or hosting an epic themed part at home!
A.I. Workflow Must Haves with Nate Peterson • New Richmond, WI • npdesignphotography.com
Are the robots working for you yet? Nate will demonstrate the time-saving and quality-improving, practical solutions that have come to our industry through artificial intelligence technology. This will be a fast-paced demo of techniques for the following: retouching using two different platforms that will cut your retouch time and costs to a minimum, how to use Photoshop generative fill to extend canvas gallery wrap edges, photoshop's new Remove Tool to get rid of distracting elements and finally Midjourney's generative art to create background world's to place your subject in and what to do to make it realistic looking. And at the pace the A.I. world is advancing, there could event be something new by then!
Bio: Nate Peterson, M.Photog, CR, CPP has been full-time in the photography industry since 2011. He has won many awards and has spoken on the national platform stages, educating fellow photographers on sustainable business practices. Along with his wife, and studio manager, Teresa, they own and operate NP Design & Photography, which specializes in story-telling high school Senior portraits, sentimental family portraits, professional business headshots and edgy sports images. Nate and Teresa live and work together in their 100-year-old historic commercial studio building, reversing the home-studio into the studio-home. Along with a small staff and their French bulldog, Curly, their business that was awarded one of the top 100 studios in the country by the Elite Mastermind group in 2017. Nate has been a member of TCPPA since 2009 and has served on the board for eight years, including serving as President in 2019.
Hacks for the Lazy Photographer with Jeannine Pohl • St. Paul, MN • block-studios.com
Marketer, salesperson, bookkeeper, retoucher, website creator, social media guru, set designer, IT specialist, networker, hype-person, editor, receptionist, wardrobe consultant, janitor. Most photographers wear all the hats in their business. We can become obsessed with editing to perfection until 3am or spend 45 minutes on just one email. Why are there only seven days in a week?! How can we manage all the things we need to do?! Discover how to turn into a productivity powerhouse, learn skills that'll have you working like a boss on a beach, and say goodbye to email overwhelm faster than you can say "cheese"!
Bio: Jeannine has been a photographer since 2007 and has photographed over 1,000 weddings. She has a small but might team at Block Portrait Studios in St. Paul, where she creates visual assets for companies and legacy portraits for families. She is proudly out of the office six to eight weeks a year traveling, reading, gardening, watching baseball, or napping.
Designed to Sell with Vicki Taufer • Morton, IL • vgallery.net
Learn how Vicki created her boutique brand, V Gallery, and how she uses her client experience to increate sales. She will discuss how her boutique business has evolved over the last 25 years. Some of the topics Vicki will discuss include relationship marketing, studio design, sales, and the client experience.
Bio: Vicki Taufer has been involved in the photography industry and has owned her studio, V Gallery for 25 years. V Gallery has been everything from a small home based studio, to a large storefront with multiple employees, and everything in-between. Vicki has a passion for people. Her journey with a camera has taken her around the world. She has been recognized internationally through her teaching, awards, and publications. Vicki's most important goals include a healthy work/life balance for her family and business.
Schedule of Events:
11:00 am - Vendor Trade Show
12:00 pm - Intro/Welcome
12:15 pm - Meghan Doll: Selling Heart in Your Art
1:00 pm - Break: Box Lunches & Vendors (box lunch details coming soon)
1:30 pm - Cameron & Tia: Posing for Purpose
2:15 pm - Break: Vendors
2:30 pm - Nate Peterson: AI Workflow
3:15 pm - Break: Vendors
3:30 pm - Jeannine Pohl: Hacks for the Lazy Photographer
4:15 pm - Break: Vendors
4:30 pm - Keynote Speaker: Vicki Tauffer - Designed to Sell
6:00 pm - Break: Set up shooting bay
6:30 pm - Vendors, Happy Hour and Galactic Shoot Bay
8:00 pm - Optional Dinner/Social at Lakewood Tavern