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  • February 11 – 13th, 2013 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts

    Inspire is a retreat-style conference for professional wedding and portrait photographers. The conference is comprised of sessions on a variety of subjects, from business practices to shooting techniques, led by local professional photographers. The next conference is February 11 - 13th, 2013 in Sturbridge, MA.
10-19-2011

2012 Speaker Lineup

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WE ARE SO EXCITED TO MAKE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT!

It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for… our speakers have been invited and have all confirmed!  We received a ton of wonderful proposals, and had to turn away quite a few that sounded great.  This year we settled on the theme “Turning Personal Creativity into Financial Profits” and this focus helped us hone in on the kind of sessions that we needed to select.

We are putting together a sizzling hot schedule made up of sessions led by the photographers listed below. We’ll be announcing course details later, but we wanted to share this amazing lineup right away.

We have a lot more exciting new stuff planned for Inspire 2012, so stay tuned for more exciting announcements!!!

And now…. without further ado… here are our speakers for Inspire 2012:

Robert Norman – Seeing Beyond Seeing
Lauren Rutten – Is Your Heart In Your Art?
Carla Ten Eyck – Managing, Motivating, and Maintaining an Amazing Team
Danielle Fuller – Time Management 101
Mark Andrew Higgins – Social Search (Online Marketing in a Post-SEO World)
James & Kate Federico – Operation Wedding: Client Communication Workflow
Leah Haydock – Profitable Wedding Photography – Lessons from Corporate America
Kristin Korpos – Sales Tax Rocks
Doug Levy – Killer Reception Light (Shooting Demonstration)
Paul McNerney – Digital Asset Management
Nicki Pardo – Make Anyone Feel and Look Good in Front of the Camera (Shoot)
Allana Taranto – Portfolio Intensive
Larry & Tabitha Sherrell – Family and Business: Let’s Make it Work
Victoria Schepps – Practical Lessons about Business, Law, and Ethics for Photographers
Jason Aten – Sales 101: The In-Person Sales Session
Carrie Draghi – How to Rock Wedding Consults, AND Consistent Reception Lighting with Off-Camera Flash (Shoot)
Eric Foley – Making The Jump: Going Full-Time v.2.0, AND The Art of the Engagement Session (Shoot)
Amber & Eric Langlois – Explosively Feminine Boudoir, AND Control in an Uncontrolled Environment: Executing Off-Camera Flash on the Wedding Day (Shoot)
Asha Ramakrishna – Success in Business: Your Unique Selling Proposition
Lara Woolfson & Kate Harper - Albums: From the Shoot to the Sales Room
Jane Schauck – Commercial Photography
Krista Guenin – Using Facebook to Maximize your Business
Ned Jackson –  Sourcing Inspiration and Problem Solving in Portraits

We will share details about the schedule and session topics shortly, but for now we wanted to put this list of wonderful photographers out there and encourage you to visit their websites and get to know them. Please don’t bombard them with questions about their classes: we promise the schedule with details will be posted here soon!!

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Paul - This new site is awesome:) Love it, cannot wait for Inspire 2012!!!

krista - SO excited!!!! :)

Robert Norman - Im psyched– excited to speak again as well as the new venue!

Carrie Draghi - I am so excited! And, this new site IS awesome! Well done!!!

Fed - We are so excited! for another inspire!! Can’t wait to be hanging with everyone there.

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06-16-2011

Press Release: Announcing Inspire 2012!

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We are soooooo excited to announce that planning and registration are under way for next year’s Inspire!!! We have a lot of nifty new things up our sleeve for Inspire 2012. First off, we will be at a new venue! Inspire 2012 will be held at the Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center, in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. We LOVE the staff at this venue, the location is perfect for our attendees (who have historically travelled from ALL over New England, including Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and Connecticut, as well as from farther afield. The facilities include really clean lovely rooms, an indoor pool and hot tub, a very spacious indoor courtyard which will be perfect for impromptu networking meetings and hanging out, an outdoor fire pit (weather permitting), and spacious up-to-date conference meeting rooms with great technology.

Earlybird Registration opens on Friday, June 17, 2011. 50 tickets will be sold at a discounted rate of $399. After those tickets have sold, registration will continue at the general rate of $499. We have a special Vendor Registration rate of $750 which includes a TON of brilliant access and interaction with our attendees (see the sponsors link below for more information).

We are ready to begin accepting speaking proposals (and can’t wait to start reviewing them!).

We have some exciting and innovative ways for sponsors to become involve in our conference.

Download the official Press Release here: InspirePressReleaseJune2011

So, come one, come all, jump on board for what is certain to be another amazing and INSPIRING Inspire conference!

 

PS – in case you didn’t notice, we’re now calling our conference “Inspire”. Since we’re drawing folks from all over New England (and beyond), it seemed fitting to drop the “Boston” – don’t worry Boston, we still love you!

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