5 Unique Methods For Keeping Your Video Production Business on Track In a Bad Economy
During a bad economy, you’ll find it difficult to get a loan from banks when you need it to fund your video production business. And why is that? It’s because they believe that you won’t have enough resources to pay for the loan. That’s just how…
How To Sell Video Production Equipment to Make Money
We’ve all got that piece of gear that we don’t know what to do with. Right? We bought it on a whim because, well, “I’ll find a use for it somewhere.” Or, “That’ll be handy on so many projects.” Now, four years down the line,…
Moving From Photo to Video: How To Transition From Photography To Videography
In this modern world, as a photographer you can’t ignore film. It’s almost like a law of nature. This is my guide to photographers making that transition to videography. If you’re ever considered going from photo to video, this one’s for you. If you know…
Clients For Your Video Company: 9 Steps to Get More Clients Than You Know What to Do With
Do you know how many friends the average Facebook user has? The number seems to be between 155 to 200. This seems to support Dunbar’s number. He’s a British anthropologist that realized a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size. “By using…
7 Tips On How To Conduct An Interview in Your Video Production Business
As you get busier and busier with your video business, you’ll eventually get to a point where you’re looking to hire in additional people to help with the workload. Whether we’re talking freelancers here, or someone to add as a permanent part of your team,…
5 Things You Absolutely Need to Get Your Video Company Moving
Okay, it’s time to get down and dirty. You have ILC (Internal Locus of Control), and you have a partner or two that you know also have ILC. You also realize that the journey of building your own video company will be hard, but you…
15 Tips to Start & Grow an Animation Video Company
We’ve all seen them. Those witty animated videos that last about one minute, usually promoting a product or service. In fact, you’ve probably seen so many that you haven’t put much thought into their logistics. Video marketing is now an everyday part of our “internet…
5 Tips to Avoid Information Overload in Your Video Business
I want to talk a little about information overload today. How it pertains to business, to life, to filmmaking and everything else. We live in an information saturated world these days. The internet is awash in information and our inboxes are flooded with new ways…
The Best of Filmmaking & Video Production July 2016
This is the 10th installment of this feature here on Filmmaking Lifestyle, where we chart the best-of-the-best from around the filmmaking and video production world. This article covers the best posts from July 2016. Every month, I post a round-up article featuring the best things I’ve found around the…
Working With Videographers: Notes From a Wedding Photographer
Anyone who makes wedding videos, or is involved in wedding cinematography is some form, will come into contact with a wedding photographer. If we haven’t worked at a wedding, we’ve attended weddings where a photographer is present. You can’t have a wedding without a wedding photographer…