Video Business Growth: Tips & Strategies for Production Company Owners
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So many of us work primarily as corporate or wedding filmmakers - and love what we do - but have dreams of doing more. Of pursuing passion projects and making a living from them.
It can be hard to know where to start, however. How can we set up our businesses in a way that allows us to expand and...
Most of us didn’t get into filmmaking in the first place to take on clients and run businesses. When we picked up a camera for the first time and were captivated by what we could do with it, it was because we ourselves had something to say. Our own story to share.
The deeper into the world of film ...
As filmmakers, most of us spend the majority of our time thinking about how we can best tell the stories of our clients. When it comes to our own businesses however, we often neglect to think about the stories that make us unique and might help us connect with new prospects.
Bill Baker is the Fou...
A few years into my video career I got a big time scare.
Not one, but two filmmaker friends of mine were sued by big record labels for using unlicensed music on a couple of videos that happened to go viral.
I’m ashamed to admit it now, but during my first few years making videos, I didn’t even k...
Have you ever come across a tool that makes you business run so much more smoothly that you would gladly pay 5x the price for it and still feel like it’s a steal?
Yeah, me too, and for me, Wipster is one of those tools.
Wipster is something of a “Google Docs for video”, allowing for commenting and...
If you’re anything like me, when you first started your creative business, literally the last thing you wanted to be spending your time on was selling. For me, it was all about creating emotional films that moved people, but as I took on more work and got busier and busier I ended up spending less...