The September/October issue of PMA magazine is now online
The September/October issue of PMA Magazine – Connecting the Imaging Communities is now available in an interactive format. The browser-based digital edition preserves the publication’s layout, as well as includes hyperlinks and search features. Readers can share and print individual articles, as well as download a PDF for offline reading. Clicking on an article’s headline [...]
PMA Canada Photo Expo 2010 featuring trade show marked by cutting-edge technology
The fast-approaching PMA Canada Photo Expo 2010 – offering top-notch educational seminars, product training by suppliers, and keynote speakers – also features a three-day product show for trade members to learn about the latest in photo imaging technology. The list of exhibiting firms includes such notable camera manufacturers as Canon Canada Inc., Nikon Canada Inc., [...]
PMA Canada Photo Expo 2010 featuring high-caliber pro photography education
The PMA Canada Photo Expo 2010 show, Sept. 11-13, 2010, at the Toronto Congress Centre, Toronto, Ontario, will feature three outstanding pro photography sessions, covering such timely topics as outdoor photography, senior portraiture, and digital retouching. Ethan Meleg, a freelance outdoor photographer from Ontario, will address his photo-capturing specialization of outdoor recreation, natural landscapes, birds, [...]
Here comes Photo Expo
How exciting is this? PMA Canada is slightly less than a month away from the launch of the first PMA Canada Photo Expo, booth space is almost sold out, and the lineup of learning opportunities for both consumers and the trade is superb for the Sept. 11-13 event. This is the first time the event [...]
New store concept for Black’s
According to a story in Canada’s Marketnews, Black Photo Corp., headquartered in Markham, Ontario, launched a new store concept in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in July, with a second store, in Toronto, Ontario, following suit. The concept includes a new interactive studio space where customers can relax and develop personalized photo-based projects, aided by a [...]
Photo Expo is born, from PMA magazine
PMA Canada event welcomes enthusiasts, pro photographers Now for something completely different. Well, for Canada, that is. PMA Australia has been doing it, and PMA 2011 will do it in September 2011, in Las Vegas, Nev.: a combined trade and consumer show. What would have been PMA Canada Exposition 2010 dons a new name and [...]
PMA Canada Photo Expo 2010 touts education, hot new products; welcomes photo enthusiasts
The PMA Canada Photo Expo consistently features top-notch educational seminars, product training by suppliers, keynote speakers, and a two-day product show for trade members to learn about the latest in photo imaging technology. New this year for the PMA Canada Photo Expo 2010 show, Sept. 11-13, 2010, at the Toronto Congress Centre, Toronto, Ontario, will [...]
Make money with social networking
As print making declines, how do you reach consumers who appear satisfied by sharing billions of low-resolution images on Facebook and other social networks? Attend PMA Canada Photo Expo, Sept. 11-13, Toronto Congress Centre, Toronto, Ontario, and sit in on these two sessions: 106 Digital Photography Done Right: Learn about a market and technology strategy [...]
Photo gifts: No longer “trinkets and trash”
All the speakers for the photo gifting session at the PMA Canada Expo 2009, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, saw this market as one loaded with potential, just waiting for retailers to pounce on it. Retailer Paul Clairmont, Lord Photo, St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada, states emphatically he was not happy with his photo gifting business, and is determined [...]
Track your marketing efforts
For Karla Elder, Jackson’s Extraordinary Custom Framing, Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada, success is learning to not only attract, but also retain, customers. To that end, she explained at a PMA Expo Canada 2009 business session, she is very particular about her marketing strategy. She has to be able to track whatever marketing tool she uses, [...]
