Jostens’ Yearbook Avenue receives patent
Yearbook Avenue, an innovative yearbook creation website for schools created by Jostens, Minneapolis, Minn., has been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Yearbook Avenue has significantly changed the way school yearbooks are created and school yearbook programs are managed, Jostens says. Staffs use the page ladder feature in Yearbook Avenue [...]
PMA reports June print volume is level
PMA – The Worldwide Community of Imaging Associations reports the amount of digital printing remained flat overall for the month of June. According to PMA Marketing Research, the volume of prints made at instant kiosks grew 36 percent. Overall, retail prints comprise more than 56 percent of print volume. Online ordering fell 7 percent and [...]
PMA Education & Research Foundation debuts
PMA – The Worldwide Community of Imaging Associations announces the creation of the PMA Education & Research Foundation to support the global photography and imaging community. Its mission and promise is to meet the research and educational needs of the industry by identifying consistent and ongoing industry benchmarks; analyzing technological change; and offering industry support, [...]
September issue of PSPA newsletter now online
The latest issue of School Photographer, the newsletter for the Professional School Photographers Association, is now available online. Highlighting this issue is a look at how school photo companies can hone their social media strategy. Dirk Knemeyer, CEO of Involution Studios, Arlington, Mass., offers tips for owners, including, “Be brand consistent, and be nice. If [...]
Why being nice is bad business — on the Imaging Executive podcast
We all learn early in life that we’re supposed to be nice — but Brian Cole Miller, principle of teambuilding firm Working Solutions and author of the new book, “Nice Teams Finish Last,” says being nice can be a big hindrance to achieving goals in the workplace. He joins the Imaging Executive podcast today to [...]
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 [...]
PPFA launches Consumer Awareness Committee
The Professional Picture Framers Association (PPFA) has launched a Consumer Awareness Committee to raise the profile of the custom picture framing industry, and to help PPFA members attract customers. Mary Fender, MCPF, Frame Nation, Richmond, Va., will chair the new committee. “I’m so excited about what we’ll be able to do, and know we’ll accomplish [...]
Learn how prints can “flöt” on a wall – today on the DIMAcast
Tom McAuliffe and Juergen Reinold founded sentiam, the company behind fotoflöt, because they wanted to offer people a better way to display more printed images – without glass, mats or frames. Today on the DIMAcast, how their company is changing the way consumers think about hanging a picture on a wall.
PMA 2007 speaker Stephen Dubner, author of “Freakonomics,” now on PMA TV Classics
At PMA 2007, Official Business Session speaker Stephen Dubner, co-author of the groundbreaking international bestseller “Freakonomics,” explained how economics, at its root, is the study of incentives. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Dubner demonstrated how people get what they want, or need — especially when other people want or need the same thing. The [...]
Help your customers take great pictures
Retailers and labs can help customers take better photos and build loyalty with newsletters from PMA, Jackson, Mich. “It’s a challenge to find the time or ideas for a twice-monthly or monthly newsletter,” says Laura Covey, Executive, PMA Membership Sales & Services. “PMA+ offers newsletters that can be customized to include a retailer’s logo and [...]
