The March Brisbane Meetup
Well we are all still coming down from buzzing with excitement over our very first Brisbane MeetUp! WHEW! with over 60 people in the room after just days notice that we were going to do this: we are calling this one of our best social outings yet! Not to mention we had the inimitable Portrait Doctor Steve Saporito as a special guest star for the night! DOUBLE WHEW!
So the plan was simple: see if we can gather a few PhotoMerchant users and people who are “PM-curious” at the gorgeous QA Hotel in Newfarm. We would be happy with just a few because with some of the team still in the USA, and our CEO Elmar & CTO Derek having just gotten back from the huge WPPI we didn’t have much time to get the ball rolling….
WOW! as mentioned we were blown away with the passionate reception! Around half of the people in the room were totally new to PhotoMerchant and were keen to get their questions answered. Of course the other half were dedicated PM users who kept us all on our toes with technical questions and lots of key feature requests! Derek had people audible gasping in delight as he laid out some of the new features of the next version of PhotoMerchant especially what we are calling the “Promo Engine“…
Another surprise for everyone was legendary Steve Saporito; The Portrait Doctor was able to re-shuffle some flights and come and hang-out. He was even able to pull out a killer 20 minute presentation from no-where and inspired a lot of the photographers in the room to really think different about booking in clients. Great stuff!
Lastly this was a special event for little old me as it was my first official public debut as the CHAMPION FOR THE COMMUNITY! I was personally overwhelmed with everyone’s love and support and genuine excitement about what we want to do! The best is yet to come folks!
We are trying something new with the photographs of the night: Not only have uploaded the photographs we took of the night to our Facebook page here, {so please head on over and tag yourself and everyone you recognise} But we have also put all the images up on PhotoMerchant, so you can try the digital downloads for free, or even buy a very cheap print! Check it out!
See you at the next one!!!
DJ Paine.
Some of the Brisbane PMMU gang obviously having way too much fun.
The beautiful Team Toowoomba!
No matter if you are tall or short... all are welcome to the PMMU!
Elmar, Steve, Derek & DJ do their best Vogue / BlueSteel
Elmar & Steve have a deep meaningful by the bar of the QA Hotel.
