We're Getting Excited here!

Hello New York!

It's heating up now. Less than 60 days before the conference and everybody is getting excited! Our speakers are excited, the conference team is excited and hopefully YOU are excited! Among other things, we'll be bringing you some messages from our speakers, so you can get a real feel for what you can look forward to in March!

We mentioned before that about half our speakers are on Facebook, and how great it is to get a peek into the daily lives of people we hold up as celebrities. It gives us hope to see them battle the same "stuff" in life as the rest of us, but forge ahead and make their dreams work in spite of it all !

DID YOU REALIZE that we are starting conference programming on SATURDAY this year? Yes! Usually you don't get anything good until Sunday, but tis year we figured... why waste a day?! The Regional Affliate Print Judging starts on Saturday afternoon -- earlier than usual -- but if you're not a print judging kind of person, Beth Forester is kicking it off early with her presentation on senior portrait photography! and she's got a lot to say.

As a matter of fact, Beth wrote me a note last week and asked me to pass it on to our members and anyone else who might be coming to the conference, so here it is:

Envelope-to: kelvin@ringold.net
From: Beth Forester
Subject: Re: Since you two...
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:21:52 -0500
To: Kelvin

Hey Kelvin,

I am so excited about the PPSNYS conference in March. I have been working hard on my new program and I have loads of exciting information to share. It's all about Buzz Marketing and how to connect with the teen market. In the program we'll discuss topics such as:

-Word of Mouth marketing and why it works in the Teen market

-Viral networking; Facebook--how and why

-Podcasting

-Create a Frenzy--building demand in your area

-Creating Buzz-worthy product lines

-Designing for the Teen Market

-Selling the experience

It's going to be great and I am so looking forward to the event. See you there!!

Beth

Beth Forester, CPP, M. Photog. Cr.

Forester Photography

http://www.foresterphoto.com

I like the way that's starting off !!! And some of the other speakers are sending me messages too, so stay tuned or those !

Registration is STILL only $149.00 for PPA or PPSNYS members for everything ! 4 jam-packed days of seminars, conference parties, tradeshow ! I asked myself... how many red hot ideas would I need to bring away from this thing, from 10 of America's hottest photographic talents... to make it worth $149.00 ? One? What's the chances of coming away with just one ? Yeah.. .Exactly.

And mon-members get all that for only $215.00 PLUS they get a full year of unrestricted membership in PPSNYS ! Top is off by taking an additional $25.00 off those give-away prices just for registering online and using the special vendor discount code of TSP2009 that's printed on those 10,000 trade show passes that are floating around right now.

What an incredible bargain ! Less than you're probably going to pay for your next pair of shoes.

Anyway, I'm getting excited. And if you especially didn't fly to Phoenix for IMAGE USA, and you're not flying to Vegas for WPPI, you can drive on over to Albany... and you'll even get a chance to meet them and talk to them and shake their hands, instead of just peeping at them through the binoculars from the back of a big room

Okay ? Register now for this no-way-to-lose price, then call 1-800-448-3500 to reserve your hotel rooms at the beautiful (and very cozy) Desmond for only $132 per night (plus tax) because... no way are you going to want to miss Winifred Winfield on Saturday night (hey... she just joined PPGNY! She's a LOCAL girl now -- sort of)





And after her awesome presentation, you've got the room so you can stay for the party! then wake up refreshed and hit the trade show in the a.m.

Stay tuned for more. Have an awesome day!

Kelvin

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