Marc grew up in the photography business, helping his family run their local youth sports and senior portrait business in Washington State In
2005 Marc decided to work on cruise ships, where he was able to hone his skills in the Souvenir Photography business first hand He worked as part of a team that launched 2 new ships for Norwegian Cruise Line in Hawaii These new ships quickly became the top producing photography ships in the NCL fleet
After launching the NCL Pride of America and Pride of Hawaii, Marc was asked to be the leader of a struggling ship in the Mediterranean After three months onboard, the ships photo percapita spending (PPD in cruise terms), doubled and exceeded budget
After cruise ships, he went back to work for his parents to help improve their youth sports photography business During this time, Designer Studio went from servicing less than 10 000 youth sports athletes per year, to now servicing over 100 000 youth sports athletes with over 200 league and school clients
Marc launched Souvenir Photograph in Souvenir Photograph evolved into capturing and selling photos at small scale dinner shows and events In 2013 SP was approached by The Color Run, a fun 5 K race where participants throw colored corn starch at each runner The event would be similar in appearance to the Holi Festival in India This event went viral with attendance ranging in size from 5 000 people to
40 000 people Souvenir Photograph quickly became the key photography provider for event participants across the United States
Around this time, many other events sprouted up in large part, because of the success that the Color Run was seeing In the first year of operating at 5 K’s, Souvenir Photograph captured 500 000 participants in all 50 states In the second year of doing 5 K’s, S P was capturing over 1 M participants In 2015 Souvenir Photograph was approached by The Galt House Hotel to provide guests at their Christmas Lights attraction 500 000 people per season), with a free Digital Download This was SP’s ascension into large scale Santa operations SP operates Santa Easter Bunny Photo at almost 20 locations across the U S SP’s goal is to operate more than 50 venues (Theme Parks, Zoos Aquariums and Malls) by 2025
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