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Howard Frank

Howard Frank

Co-owner and Director of Camera Electronic, a family-owned photography retailer in Perth, Western Australia.

Jul 21, 2026

WillHOST
13:15
Always, always.
13:15
Incredibly, incredibly challenging.
13:17
I mean, you know, we've been really blessed.
13:20
We've always believed that we all do business with people.
13:23
It's all about relationships, right? It doesn't matter who we are, what we are.
13:26
And it's like when we met, we didn't worry about contracts.
13:29
We shook hands and said we either trust each other or we don't.

6 MINS LATER

19:41
retail sales staff from a phone.
18:30
Mm.
18:31
No, we're face-to-face relationship people, and we couldn't get face to face with all of our vendors either.
18:36
A- and then, you know, that's hard when you're in...
18:38
We love being in Perth, Western Australia, but it's so isolated.
18:42
And when you can't get to all the head offices in Sydney and Melbourne and meet with people, that, that makes it tough.
18:46
You can be a little bit too much in the background.
18:49
A, a lot of our customers are involved in wedding industry, for example.

10 MINS LATER

28:55
Right.
speaker_0ADVERTISER
2:30
and I thought, well, he can't
2:32
be.
2:32
I thought it can't be him.
2:33
And so I'm looking at him and I just said, I was like, I need to go.
2:37
I said, you're Seal, the singer, aren't you? And he goes, yeah, sometimes I go by that name.
2:41
I was like, oh, my God.
2:43
Because he was there, he's into photography.
speaker_2HOST
5:23
point.
2:09
Yeah, and I thought, well, it can't
2:11
be.
2:11
I thought it can't be him.
2:13
And so I'm looking at him and I just said, I was like, I need to go.
2:17
I said, you're Seal, the singer, aren't you? And he goes, yeah, sometimes I go by that name.
2:21
I was like, oh, my God.
2:23
Because he was there, he's into photography.
5:02
point.

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