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Keynote Speaker

The PPA's very own business of photography guru, ANN MONTEITH
M.Photog.Cr, Hon.M.Photog, CPP, ABI, A-ASP, Hon.A-ASP

Ann Monteith is the industry’s leading authority on studio business management and serves as a consultant to studios throughout the country both privately and under the auspices of major industry suppliers. Her Guerrilla Management Workshops have helped hundreds of studio owners dramatically improve the profitability of their businesses.

Speaking Topic:

Pricing! Pricing! Pricing!

You've asked for it, you've got it from the industry's best!!!!! Ann will be delivering a business changing Keynote Speech on pricing. There really is a methodology to pricing yourself and you will truly be enlightened.

Biography

Ann K. Monteith

Master Photographic Craftsman
Honorary Master Photographer
Certified Professional Photographer
Associate, American Society of Photographers
Honorary Associate, ASP
PPA International Juror
PPA-Approved Business Instructor
PPA-Approved Photographic Instructor
Fellow, Irish Professional Photographers Association

In demand as a lecturer on business management and portraiture throughout the U.S. and abroad, she is a former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PPA International School of Professional Photography and past president of Professional Photographers of America (PPA). She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles published by the industry press including The Business of Wedding Photography (Amphoto, New York, 1998), The Professional Photographer’s Marketing Handbook (Marathon Press, Norfolk, NE, 1997) The Professional Photographer’s Management Handbook (Marathon Press, 1999), and the Marketing Resource & Activity Planner (Marathon Press, 2005).

Currently a consultant to Marathon Press and 2006-2007 Chairman of the Board of Directors of PPA, Monteith was instrumental in creating the Association’s Business Initiative and its Studio Management Services division. She is the author of the “Once Upon A Lifetime” children’s portraiture client education program; and the PPA “AN-NE” award for marketing excellence was so-named to honor her (AN) and former PPA president Marvel Nelson (NE) for their efforts in improving the marketing skills of professional photographers.

An active portrait photographer, she and her husband Jim are directors of Countryhouse Studios, a 7,000 sq. ft. studio located in a converted Dutch barn near Hershey, Pennsylvania, as well as a prestige portraiture business and teaching facility in Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. In 2010 they opened Persnickety Pet Portraits as a "warm, fuzzy division of Countryhouse Studios."

Ann Monteith holds the B.A. degree in English from Bucknell University.

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