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Have you been on ShopPP lately? Our online directory (putting photography products and services at the consumer's fingertips) has a brand-new look and even more features. So, head on over and...

• Update or upgrade your listing
• Offer exclusive deals to the browsers
• Share photos/videos
• Drive traffic to your website

Come see how others are using it and how you can, too! Visit: shop.ppmag.com.

 Once a year, Professional Photographer and Imaging USA unite for a magazine issue with maximum exposure. This coming January issue will not disappoint--it will be our widest reaching one yet! An advertisement in this issue gives you access to this power:

• The only magazine given to every Imaging USA attendee.
• The photographic magazine with the largest paid circulation--They buy it to read it!
• 110,000 circulation with pass-along readership and Imaging USA distribution.

This is the issue you need to reach more of your best customers. Want to learn more about putting this combined power to work for you? Visit ppmag.com/mediakit, but act fast--the deadline is November 11!

Have you heard the good news? ShopPP is here, and your company is listed in it already!

For the first time, Professional Photographer's loyal readers and online visitors will be able to find everything they need and want in ONE PLACE with this new online buyer's guide! With ShopPP, your best customers can search for you by name or by category. Then, you can woo them with words, entice them with video or pictures, and send them over to your own site to purchase.

Exciting stuff, right? That's why we gave you a helping hand to start. We've already set you up with a free Basic listing! You're ready to go, and all that's left to do is bedazzle the photographers even more.

Don't miss your chance to take FULL advantage of ShopPP:

• Search for your company name. (Can't find your company? Add it in via the Advertise tab.)
• Claim your listing to update your information.
• Upgrade for more exposure and eye-catching frills if you so desire.

One of our goals here at Professional Photographers of America (PPA) is to help photographers realize their potential. And one of the ways we inspire and offer advice is through Professional Photographer, our official magazine. It's also the perfect place for companies like you to have photography products reviewed.

After all, this is the magazine that pro photographers need to read, according to the Magazine Association of the Southeast's GAMMA Awards judges and our readers themselves.

There's No Better Place...
During those recent GAMMA Awards--which recognize editorial and design excellence in magazine publishing--Professional Photographer was named the best business-to-business/association magazine in the Southeast.  Judges applauded the "highly practical content" and so much more (see all the 2011 awards and quotes here). Of special note, though, is the Best Service Journalism award granted to "The PPA Business Handbook," a business guide for photographers created through the findings of PPA's Financial Benchmark Survey. It was honored for "giving photographers exactly what they need to profitably run their businesses" with "actionable advice."

These awards validate Professional Photographer's 104 years of helping readers excel in the photographic industry with professional advice and inspiration. Plus, the simple fact that it has more paid subscribers than any other magazine in the industry speaks to the value photographers--your clients--place on its contents!

...To Submit Your Product for Review
And you can be a part of it with a product review. It's easy to submit your product for consideration:

• Email Joan Sherwood, Professional Photographer's senior editor.
• Provide your product release or details about the product or service in the email.
• Write your subject line in the following format: "For review: Company Name..."

It's always smart to be where your clients are, and Professional Photographer magazine is an award-winning location. If you're interested in more opportunities with the magazine, visit www.ppmag.com/mediakit.