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The Best of Filmmaking & Video Production February 2016
March 2, 2016
February 2016 was a busy month in filmmaking and video production. These are the best posts from around the web in February 2016.
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7 Types of Video Production Equipment You Need To Start Your Video Business in 2026
February 29, 2016
Video production equipment is essential for starting and growing your video production company. Get the lowdown on gear with this detailed guide.
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Why You Need An Intro Video on Your Video Production Company's Website
February 15, 2016
Intro video - your website needs an intro video to describe and promote your service to potential clients. Here's the lowdown!
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The Best of Filmmaking & Video Production January 2016
February 5, 2016
January 2016 was a busy month in filmmaking and video production. These are the best posts from around the web in January 2016.
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Media Storage: Backing Up & Knowing That You’re Safe
December 28, 2015
Media storage is an important part of running a successful video production company. If you don't have things backed up properly you're heading for failure.
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The Nuts & Bolts of Insurance For Filmmakers and Video Production Companies
December 14, 2015
Insurance is a key component of a well set up video production company. Use this detailed guide to understand insurance in filmmaking and videography.
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How To Get Started In Wedding Videography in 2026 Part II
December 7, 2015
Get started in wedding videography with our special guide to starting and growing a wedding videography business. This is part 2.
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Starting a Wedding Videography Business in 2026: A Complete Guide, Part I
December 4, 2015
Starting a wedding videography business? You'll want to read this series of guides before you do anything. Get the lowdown on exactly how to start.
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The Best of Filmmaking & Video Production November 2015
December 2, 2015
November 2015 was a busy month in filmmaking and video production. These are the best posts from around the web in November 2015.
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The Legal Side of Filmmaking and Video Production
November 30, 2015
Legal side of filmmaking - a concept that lots of people either don't understand or don't pay enough attention to. Master the legal side of filmmaking.
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Case Study: How I Got 1,032 Visitors to My Video Production Company Website in 24 Hours Using Reddit
November 25, 2015
Reddit is one of the best community sites in the world and using it properly can get you ridiculous amounts of traffic to your video production website.
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6 Steps to Hiring People For Your Video Production Company
November 23, 2015
Hiring people is one of the central tasks you'll face once your video production company gets big enough. To scale, you need to get used to hiring people.
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From Screenwriting to Video Production: Your Roadmap
November 18, 2015
Screenwriting to video production - making the transition from screenwriting to video production can be hard. This guide shows you how to succeed.
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24 Things To Do Right Now To Improve Your Filmmaking Today
November 12, 2015
Improve your filmmaking today with this list of 24 things you can do right now to improve your filmmaking today that will affect your future.
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The Top 4 Networking Principles For Your Video Production Company
November 9, 2015
Networking principles - this article explains just how important networking is for your business and its marketing.
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Social Media Optimization for Your Video Production Business
November 6, 2015
Social media is incredibly important for all businesses these days and especially the world of video production business where you use video in social media
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Direct Distribution: The Future of Indie Films & Keeping Your Rights
May 9, 2015
Direct distribution is a confusing aspect of the film funding process. Our article on direct distribution will really clear things up.
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Video Making Websites: The Complete Guide To Websites For Video Businesses and Filmmakers
March 17, 2015
Video making websites are one of the key marketing pieces in your video business empire. This tutorial teaches you why and exactly how to set a website up.
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Filmmaker Tips: 8 Mindsets For a Fantastically Successful Video Business
March 11, 2015
To be fantastically successful with your video business, you have to have a strong and solid mindset. This list of filmmaker tips shows you how to do that.
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Goal Setting Tips: Working To Maximize Your Success, Part I – Goals & Motivation
March 11, 2015
Motivation is so important if you want to be successful as a video business owner. This guide shows you the goal setting tips you need.
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How Much to Charge for Videography – Crafting Your Message, Part II: Your Prices
March 11, 2015
Packaging, pricing and making offers that your potential clients can't resist are all central components in knowing how much to charge for videography.
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How to Market a Video Production Company: Clients Knocking Down Your Door, Part I
March 11, 2015
Clients are the lifeblood of any video business. This guide helps you form the foundation of the client getting strategy that you're going to build.
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How To Sell Video Work: How To Close The Sale, Everytime Part II
March 11, 2015
Knowing how to sell video work is one of the most important things you'll learn as a video business owner. We'll let you know how to sell your services.
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Make Money in Videography – Go Out There, Make Some Money & Be Successful
March 11, 2015
It's time to make money in videography. As a video business owner, your goal should be to make some money. This guide shows you how to do just that.
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Productivity Tips – Working To Maximize Your Success, Part II: Finding More Time
March 11, 2015
This guide gives you productivity tips to stop procrastinating and find time. Time is massively important and is a precious resource.
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Video Business Tips: Clients Knocking Down Your Door, Part II
March 11, 2015
To get a client for your video business is fairly straightforward. Once you get one, you can get many. This guide shows you how.
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Video Production Sales: How To Close The Sale, Everytime Part I
March 11, 2015
Raise your video production sales game with our guide. Knowing how to make the sale is a key piece to becoming a successful video business owner.
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Videographer Website – Crafting Your Message, Part III
March 11, 2015
Ever wondered how to create and build a fantastic videographer website? We'll show you how in this complete guide to video company websites.
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Videography Marketing – Crafting Your Message, Part I: Your Audience
March 11, 2015
Audience is the starting point for your videography marketing efforts. Once you know your audience, you can craft your marketing and win video clients.
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Quick Start Guide Part 4: How to Start Videography Business – Getting Paid & Growing
March 10, 2015
Getting paid is central for how to start videography business. If you're not getting paid, then you don't actually have a working video business.
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Quick Start Guide Step 3: Videographer Workflow – Getting Your Work Done
March 10, 2015
Getting work done is crucial to any successful video business. Forming effective methods in your videographer workflow will maximize your business.
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Quick Start Guide – STEP 2: Video Production Marketing
March 9, 2015
Figuring out your video production marketing is key to getting clients. It's time to learn how to get yourself out there and find your first clients.
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Why I Started This Site & Wrote These Guides
March 2, 2015
This is the Introduction to Filmmaking Lifestyle's course about starting your very own video production business. This is the start of our Video Business…
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Business Value: What Are You Presenting To The World?
February 20, 2015
Business value is one of the most important concepts to understand when improving your business and the way you interact with potential clients/customers.
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Filmmaking Finance – A Guide To Videographer and Filmmaker Money
February 11, 2015
This is a guide to getting your finances right as a filmmaker or videographer. Not many people talk about filmmaking finance, but this guide should help.
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The 3 Types of Filmmaking Confidence
September 27, 2014
Filmmaking Confidence is something that you know exists when you have it. In order to achieve Filmmaking Confidence, start by reading this guide.
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Lifestyle Design, Travel & Quitting Your Job
September 10, 2014
We need to be aware of the importance of travel and how this relates to our filmmaking and business.
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The World We Live In and How To Spearhead The Digital Resistance
September 8, 2014
There's a war going on in the digital space. It's a war for attention and if you want to get eyes on your stuff, then you're going to have to work hard
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The Five Beliefs: What They Are And Why You Need Them [With Examples]
August 24, 2014
When you're really getting into the nitty gritty of your filmmaking, the beliefs you have about yourself and your career become very important
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Positivity, Your Identity and How It Relates to Filmmaking
August 22, 2014
Here is a way to boost your filmmaking by improving yourself and thinking more positively. It's time to master positivity!
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The P-Word And What Outcomes We Can Expect When Mastering The Business of Filmmaking
August 18, 2014
What kind of outcomes can you expect when beginning a journey towards improving your filmmaking and business?
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How To Close Clients Using Great Communication
August 2, 2014
If you want to close clients, you need to master communication. This is a post about how great communication is key to business success.
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The Right and Wrong Mindsets For Filmmaking And Business
July 24, 2014
This post examines some of the right and the wrong mindsets in filmmaking and business. Knowing these is so important if you want to take your skills to the…
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How To Find Your Voice, Your Market And Elevate Your Career In Filmmaking
July 22, 2014
Do you want to learn how to find your voice in filmmaking? Starting with understanding your passion is a fantastic start.
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Media, Reality TV and It's Effect on Your Filmmaking and Business
July 17, 2014
An important thing to consider is the media and reality TV's hold over you. Are you taking in too much of there and becoming socially conditioned?
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9 of the Very Best Principles For Taking Your Filmmaking Skill To The Next Level
July 16, 2014
This is an article about the mindset of filmmaking and how it can help you, your business and your creative process. We talk about these principles and how they…
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Working With Clients – How To Deal With Clients As a Freelancer
July 14, 2014
When you start freelancing, one of the first things you'll need to get good at is working with clients. Learn how you can raise your client work game.
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6 Promotional Strategies To Get Your Local Community Talking About Your Film
July 11, 2014
If you want to get your film on the lips of everyone in your local area, then you need to know about these promotional strategies
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Control Your Emotions, Or They Will Control You
June 18, 2014
This is a short guide to controlling your emotions and getting the most out of those moments that you didn't expect you'd have.
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Becoming Outcome Independent In Your Filmmaking And Business
May 11, 2014
One of the keys to a great mindset with filmmaking and business is learning to become outcome independent.
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6 Steps To Get Your Hustle On: What It Means & How To Get It
May 9, 2014
I want to go through 6 steps to get your hustle on. As we know, hustle is an important part of success, so here are 6 steps to get your hustle going.
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Filmmaking and The Fear of Failure
May 3, 2014
We often hear about the fear of failure in business and success and not really know what it means. I hope this article clears that up.
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Productivity and Getting Things Done
May 1, 2014
Let's take a look at productivity and how getting things done is like being given a jet pack towards achieving your goals.
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Why There's No Time Like The Present
April 18, 2014
You may have heard the phrase, There's No Time Like The Present, but here's a guide to taking action on that idea.
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Charlie Hustle, Roger Federer And How To See Your Life As a Championship Game
April 17, 2014
Hustle is a really important part of filmmaking business success. This post shows you why and how to add this attribute to your life.
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How To Think The Right Way As a Filmmaker
April 12, 2014
It's important to think the right way as a filmmaker and business person. This is a guide on how to do just that.
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Body Language & Posture For Filmmakers
April 2, 2014
If you didn't realize that body language and posture is massively important for your filmmaking career, then you need to read this article.
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It's A Funny Old World...Make 'Em Laugh
March 14, 2014
One of the keys to being great at filmmaking (and life) is being easy to be around. Being funny and having a good sense of humor is a great way to achieve this.
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A Book About Tennis, A Rockstar Frame & How You Can Develop A Fearless Attitude
February 23, 2014
The key to big success in filmmaking and business is a strong frame. This article introduces the idea of a strong frame and how to succeed with it.
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Filmmaking and The Law of Abundance
February 18, 2014
The Law of Abundance is important. If you want to master business and filmmaking, you need to consider scarcity and how it relates to the Law of Abundance.
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Failure Is Just Feedback And Reframing
February 2, 2014
Failure isn't intact failure, it's actually feedback. This is one of the key understandings we need to make to improve our business and filmmaking success.
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The Do's and Don'ts Of Health and Fitness For Filmmakers
January 18, 2014
This is the fourth part in a series about health and fitness for filmmakers and videographers.
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Fitness For Filmmakers Part II
January 14, 2014
This is the third in a series on fitness for filmmakers. We hope you get something great out of this series!
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Fitness For Filmmakers Part I: A Complete Guide To Filmmaking Fitness
January 12, 2014
The second in our series on fitness for filmmakers and video business owners.
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3 Great Techniques For Letting Go and Letting the Writing Flow
January 12, 2014
Here's an article that you instruct you on the how-to of starting to write and not stopping writing
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Should I Go To Film School? Part III
January 11, 2014
Are you thinking of going to film school? You need to read this article now!
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Health and Fitness For Filmmakers
January 11, 2014
Let's get your health and fitness in place so that you can dominate in your business and filmmaking life.
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Should I Go To Film School? Part IV
January 11, 2014
Should i go to film school is a question that comes up a lot. Read this guide t get the lowdown on if you should go to film school.
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Should I Go To Film School? Part II
January 10, 2014
Are you thinking about whether you should go to film school? You need to read this article now!
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Should I Go To Film School?
January 9, 2014
Are you thinking about going to film school? You need to read this article right now!
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How Michael Bay Got His Start in the Movie Industry
January 7, 2014
Many people wonder how blockbuster director Michael Bay got his start in the movie industry. This article tells you how he did
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How Shane Carruth Made Primer: A Look At Carruth's Early Career
January 5, 2014
The making of Primer is a true indie filmmaking story. This is Shane Carruth's story of the making of Primer
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Why You Should Give People Money In Order To Get Better With Filmmaking
June 15, 2013
Here's a strange concept - give other people money in order to get better at business? Does that make sense? Read on to find out.
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Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe: The Crazy Story Revealed
April 17, 2013
One of the most hilarious stories in filmmaking is the story of when Werner Herzog eats his shoe after a bet he made with Errol Morris
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El Principios - How Robert Rodriguez Got His Start
July 21, 2012
Robert Rodriguez is a true filmmaking legend. A man who went against all odds to make the film he wanted to make
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13 of My Favourite Screenplay Resources
June 13, 2012
I'm often asked for my favourite screenplay resources. Here's a list of sites that will help you find what you're looking for.
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How To Make a Film Using the Dogme 95 Manifesto
May 17, 2012
The Dogme 95 movement is one of the most interesting movements in film history. Here's an article that tells you how to make a film in this style
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Herzog on the Obscenity of the Jungle
February 8, 2012
When Werner Herzog shot Fitzcarraldo, we embarked on one of the most difficult shoots in filmmaking history
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Francis Ford Coppola and His Apocalyptic Shoot
November 9, 2011
Francis Ford Coppola was involved in one of the most calamitous shoots in filmmaking history, which was chronicled in Hearts of Darkness
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Without Commitment, You Ain't Got Nothing
July 20, 2011
How you can get commitment and what it means to your filmmaking
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The Importance Of Travel
July 11, 2011
Let's learn about the importance of travel and how it affects your filmmaking. There are many benefits and it's very important to what you can achieve
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Why Do We Read So Much?
July 2, 2011
Why do we read so much is a question I often ask myself and I'm sure you have, too. There's a lot of information out there. Which information do you need?
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Become a Story Maker!
June 28, 2011
We all know it's important to become a good story teller if you want to be a good filmmaker. But how do we tell stories effectively?
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Why You Need To Start Now
June 27, 2011
Here's an inspirational quote on why you need to start now.
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Spike Lee's Gotta Have It: A Look At The Making Of The Film
June 24, 2011
Spike Lee is one of the greatest living filmmakers for a variety of reasons. Find out why inside
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Implementing Habits: How & Why To Use Habit [With Examples]
May 15, 2011
Why do you need to implement habits? This article tells you why and how it can benefit your filmmaking
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Why Using People's Names Helps Your Filmmaking
May 1, 2011
One of the biggest changes you can make in how you interact with people is to use their names
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Definitions of the Journey and Some Advice
March 8, 2011
We're all on a journey in our filmmaking lives. How does self-development point the way to your path for filmmaking success?
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Focus, Goals And Staying On The Path
February 2, 2011
How do you stay on path to filmmaking awesomeness? This is a discussion about focus, goals and staying on the path. It's all about the journey and successes
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A Guide For Indie Filmmakers
November 15, 2010
This is a guide to indie filmmaking. If you're an indie filmmaker, this is something that you'll have to read. It's the perfect introduction to filmmaking.
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