Hello friends!!

Many know my story of my love affair with photography and entrepreneurship... and how it wasn't until 2004/2005 that I started applying what I'd been taught and learned to my own business. It was June 2006 when I was knocked over the head with the realization with one of my true callings in this lifetime... to help others achieve what I myself had once thought impossible in this business.

Fast forward four years... I'm so humbled to be blessed with a career and life that I LOVE ... and to be free of the financial burdens that once held me down. It's not easy doing what needs to be done to run a successful business. Numbers and research and planning is not always fun. But it's made a world of difference in my life and business and I have hundreds of letters from others who know the same victory as I do. There is no greater pleasure than seeing this triumph and now it's time to publicly open up this opportunity as a gift to others.... it's been going on privately for over a year and now it's time that I need help seeing these opportunities.



Do you know a photographer or other small business professional ready to take their business to the next level, enforce business health and profitability, and QUIT working an 80-hour work week??

We're accepting nominations now until Tuesday April 15th at NOON EST for our April 29th Boot Camp. Finalists will be posted on the BananasEDU BLOG Tuesday afternoon. The winner will be announced Wednesday April 16 and will be granted full tuition for the April 29th BBC held in Atlanta, GA, a Profit Center DVD mailed in advance, all materials and meals included too!

Please send nominations to info@photobizbootcamp.com with subject line: NOMINATION: ______ (photographer's name who you are nominating).
Please include relevant information on the photographer (Name, City/State, Contact Info for you and them, Web Address), a story about what makes them different in their industry, what they do when they're NOT running their business, and why they should be chosen for this scholarship. Sending in pictures to illustrate help too... please make them formatted for web and include in the email. Nominees should be available and able to attend in April. You may nominate yourself too!

Winners will be chosen based on originality of submission and need by a panel of trusted advisors.

Thanks for all your help with this!!!

xoxo,
Liana

*** HERE's the LINK TO BBC INFO ***

Awesome idea Liana! I'm so gonna nominate someone who I think totally deserves exposure to your wealth of business knowledge and expertise!

And it's so nice to see you back on OSP after a long time off ...I thought maybe you were in Turkish prison or something...but I'm glad I was wrong.

So cool! Liana, your workshop looks like such a wonderful experience! Best of luck to all the nominees!

Aaaarrggghhh, this is just what I need, but I don't know that I can pull off asking for 3 days off of work in such short notice, especially since I already took 3 days to go to OSP Indy. I'll see if I can make this happen and then nominate the one guy I know needs this desperately....me!

Thanks Dan! Looking forward to reading the nomination!! There have been SOOOO many AMAZING ones so far... it's going to be REALLY REALLY difficult for my peeps to pick!!

LOL Re: Turkish prison! Nope, just busy... in the Offline world..

THANK YOU To everyone who's sent stuff in already... the more info the better!! Keep 'em comin'!

We've definitely missed you...

BTW -- did you have your last name officially changed to Banana?

yep.... did that special for the search engines!!

Last call for Nominations!!! (Due in tomorrow AM)

Thank you to everyone who has sent things in already!! WOW. wow. WOW. That's all I can say... oh, and I feel REALLY bad for my folks who are having to make this decision... it's going to be a tough one!

Very, very cool thing for you to do Liana! Someone is going to learn so much from this.

bummer, too bad I just saw this this morning. I would have nominated Chris, so he can quit his full time job and work from home with me. Can't wait to hear who gets chosen!

I'm finding myself distracted today....*pins & needles, pins & needles"

Well, I didn't make the cut. But when I see the stories of the finalists, I can't be too disappointed. They are all very deserving ladies who have fabulous stories....you should check it out. I don't envy the folks making the decision!

Congratulations to you all!

Argghhh! I always come across these things a day too late (or 5 days too late!). Well, it looks like it was a hard decision, and the winners are so deserving. Thanks for your generosity!