BPI July.Indd
Contents WHAT’S INSIDE Welcome News and Analysis ...............................................................4 Growing your business ....................................................... 15 Business spotlight .............................................................20 Twenty years ago, as a fresh-faced youth, I used to sell Guest opinion ...................................................................... 25 cameras for Jessops in Nottingham. I loved it. I was able The Interview ......................................................................26 to get my hands on all the equipment I read about in Movers and shakers............................................................ 31 photography magazines and then impart my knowledge on the camera buying public. It feels like I’ve come full circle to PMA Newsline .....................................................................33 be the new editor of a magazine for the photographic trade. And Finally ..........................................................................38 Of course, BPI isn’t just for the high street retailer, it’s also for the lab owner, the distributor, the sales rep, the PR executive, the Saturday sales assistant, the managing director. Anyone, in fact, involved in the photographic industry. Some of you may know that I’m no stranger to the industry. I swapped the www.bpinewsnow.com cut and thrust of retail for the bright lights of publishing in 1990 and have spent the past 20 years working on and editing a variety of titles. BPI is my BPI is no longer just a magazine. Our news of how a rare Nikon lens sold fi rst trade title, though, and I’m relishing the new challenges it brings. daily updated website is online at for over $34,000 as well as how But enough about me, let’s talk about you and how you can make BPI work www.bpinewsnow.com and gives you certain Sony cameras were going for your business.
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