So ole girls tell me I pay $400 for my hair, Divinity Ultra Premium http://divinityup.us cannot be as good. I give her a blank stare because I was not talking to her! So her friend who did make a purchase calls me on my cell at 3AM “ OMG Daren I love this thank you “ Then Ms. $400 calls me at 5:30AM hay can do you have more of the Brazilin Remy. I wanted to cuss because she called my cell and not the office. Then she wanted a discount! So for what you pay $400 Divinity Charges $268.00 so there is a 132.00 discount I then tell her to follow my twitter for the discount codes. Mrs. $400 tells me I don’t have a twitter account. Man am I really having this discussion at 5:30AM.  I tell her go to the site and make it happen you still will save 132 dollars.

It called Ultra Premium for a reason

Don’t cry now that your job is gone!

You came to work Thursday morning and you company notified you that today is the last day the doors are closing! You angry hurt and thinking about your future. You curse the business for closing, saying profits are all that matter and that people are important how could they do this to you?

What did you do for the business? Did you give 100% or in theses thought economic times did you give 110% ? The small things, did you do them showing up on time, not taking unnecessary time away when you were need.  Did you stop the actions of other that were detrimental to the business? Did you actively promote the business or was this just a pay check.

Its true that the propose of a business it to make a profit for the owns or share holders. Those who invest n the business get to reap the reward. If you do not invest in your employer then you are owed nothing but you next pay check you are not owned a guaranteed of continued employment. 

As an employee, to invest in the company go beyond and move your fellow employees to beyond. Act as if your livelihood depends on your employer staying business and to provide you with a pay check. Become an advocate for your employer when you’re not a work let the world know you have the best widget or the best service. Tell your social network to stop by the store for person attention.

I have been employee and a business own I have had failures and success. I have never regretted giving 110% 

No image with this post just some thoughts 

 

I love women for that matter I love beautiful people  but it is women who are most often the focus of my camera. I find that I love the curves of a woman, the scent of a woman, the laughter of a woman, the tears and fears of a woman so I shoot them, no I make them glamour Goddess  my assistant said and I quote “ You find the beauty in everybody

Here is my secret for  all you wanna be photographers who think Photoshop is a must have. Your lighting should be an 7 so if you subject is butt ulgy a  1 on a scale of 1 to 10 then if  your lighting is a 7 and subject is an 1 the you already have an image that is an 8 if you do not  know the technical side of photography your shit will always suck.

My work is some time referred to as soft porn but the people who say that are same who call me to spend $1000 for my fine art nudes. This it I love women I can find the beauty in anyone I have taken the time learn women, to know them. Do I know fashion yes do am I a make up artist yes.

I wont apologize  for shooting beautiful women , here is a secret of my work its not what you see  it what you don’t see When you expect to see something and it is not there your mind fills in the blank so if you see porn in my work that’s the porn in your mind.  My work is actually not explicit but I don’t care what you think as long as you enjoy it

Last week I let myself be controlled by a negative situation and I feel like a nut its not my actions that I am not happy with as I am a professional is was the way a felt. My goal is to provide outstanding images and service.

Customer called on the phone wanted to book a shoot I go through my sales pitch which involves me asking the customer a bunch of questions to get an understanding of what they want, it works well to make sure I meet the customers expectations. The next sep is to explain the requirements for a shoot, which is that customer, leaves a deposit and reads the emails I send. The deposit shows a comment to make it to the shoot happen. The emails answer most questions that the customer forgot to ask while we were on the phone.

This potential customer does not want to leave a deposit and wants a discount. Well the deposit is not an option we have multiple options for the despots credit or debit card on line or western union. So I told her without the deposit I could not work with her. She got pissed off said that “she don’t do that “ I said that I understood and that she should try to find someone else to work with She the goes into the ghetto tirade about how bad my customer service is I ignore her because it doesn’t not bother because me  I do involve myself with ghetto situations and I hang up the phone.

Two day later she calls again and says “ do you remember me “ my reply is “no I talk to a lot of people everyday so please tell me who you are” she says “I am the one who told you. you had a bad attitude” I ask her what can I do for you” she still want to book a shoot I tell her that I still require a deposit. Once again the same over the top tirade about who she is and who I am not, I ask why are you calling me and offer to give her the name of some other photographers who may be able to work with her. She doing some over the top ghetto stuff over the phone so I tell her I am busy and hang up the phone.

Two weeks later guess what she calls again she wants me to shoot her. This day I am cleaning the studio I tell her if she can get here before I leave I will shoot her (this was a very bad move) but I will wont wait . She says she will be there at 11:00 but shows up at 1:30. Well guess what she is a 6’3” GHETTO transsexual I don’t have a problem with buddy being a transsexual the problem its the over the top rude ass behavior that I have a problem with .  But I need the money and every deserves a good picture so I do the shoot. Treating the customer as I do all my customers buddy also showed up with his mini me transsexual  I do the shoot. When its time for payment and he is 12 dollars short. 12 dollars may not seem like much but tell your mortgage company you will short them 5% on your mortgage and see what happens.

I tell buddy that He will have his images in tomorrow and how would he like them FTP or FedEx then he starts with the over top yelling ghetto crap oh now “I want my pictures right now I do that I don’t pay for pictures without getting them the same day” Dude did not read the email and my rules. I don’t reward bad behavior so acting a fool with me wont get you anywhere  it actually makes sure that you get what you want. Now I have somewhere to be so I burn the images with and send buddy on his way. Now the buddy call me 3 hours later and he cant read the CD who fault is that.

He his doing the ghetto flamo transsexual over the top shit again on the phone I tell him that the CD is good not sure what wrong with his PC but again I am giving good service no matter what.  This dumb ass starts with the I am going to call the police and and I am calling the local news station and all sorts of stupidness then he goes to my studio beating neighbors doors screaming buddy murder. Talking about how he has to get home to her kids and the she is late for work at strokes ( a strip club). This guy thinks he fooling someone dude you don’t work at Stokers and two if you gave birth to any kids I am Elvis.

Later that day I give him a replace CD ( he lost the original because I asked him to bring it to me and he could not ). I meet him at the train station and hew wants to sit in my car to check the CD – No way the line ends there I drive a S Class Mercedes and you are not sitting your ghetto ass in my car I don’t care how cold it is.

This crap put me in a bad mood and messed up my Positive Mental Attitude New rules Pay before the shoot and No GHETTO customers.

I am pissed at myself because I let buddy have to much of my thought process for the day. My own fault for letting it happen some people are just off !

The images at the not is not the traany that I shot. Like I want his image on my blog.