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10 Effective Strategies for Photographers to Find New Clients
As a photographer, finding new clients can be a challenge. You may feel like you've exhausted all of your options or just don't know where to start. But don't worry - there are plenty of effective strategies you can use to attract new clients and grow your business.
Why Every Podcast Needs a Contract: The Benefits of Legal Agreements
Why Every Podcast Needs a Contract: The Benefits of Legal Agreements
What if I want to be a Cinematographer, not a Filmmaker or Content Creator?
As a cinematographer, your primary focus is on capturing and creating beautiful, visually striking images for film and television. While this is an important aspect of the film industry, it's important to remember that as a professional in the industry, your ultimate goal should be to grow a successful business.
Why Most Photographers and Videographers Get Taken Advantage of by Using Generic Contracts and How to Avoid It
As a photographer or videographer, your contracts are the glue that holds your business together. They set out the terms and conditions of your agreements with clients, and provide legal protection should any disputes arise. However, many photographers and videographers make the mistake of using generic contracts that they find for free on the internet, without realizing the risks that these contracts can pose.
Why Business Websites Are Better Than Portfolio Websites for Photographers
As photographers, it's important to have an online presence where potential clients can learn about your services and view your work. But when it comes to building a website, you have a choice between creating a business website or a portfolio website.
How to Land a BIG Mortgage Company as a Filmmaker
Building a successful business as a filmmaker and content creator is as much about finding (and landing) the right clients – like big mortgage companies, for example – as it is about the technical side of producing polished, professional, and persuasive videos.
How to Land a BIG Auto Performance Client (Tips From Owner)
About Chris Baily ; Baily’s Hyperformance
Chris Baily is the owner of Baily’s Hyperformance – a high-performance auto shop. The man had a passion for cars since he was a kid, that’s why he is sure that this is the best kind of business that he could have gotten into.
It has always been in Chris’s family to race cars and build cars, so he has literally been born and raised around them.
Chris finds that working with his hands brings a piece of calm to the chaos of modern life. This business is something that not only allows him to be self-employed, but it is also something that he truly loves and that really does make him happy.
How to Land a MARKETING COMPANY (Tip from the CEO)
David Farmer is the CEO of Ad Giants. Back in the 1980s, he went into the marketing industry as an art director who would hire photographers and illustrators and then make sure that the visual components of the whole campaign look great.
How to Land a BIG Hotel Client (Tips From Owner)
Vic Patel is the owner of a local Comfort Suites hotel. Comfort Suites is a franchise that, basically, does the marketing for you. The majority of clients find the hotel thanks to the world-recognized name. But it does not mean that the owners of such hotels don't need to create their unique content.
Below, you will find a few tips that will help you figure out what big hotel clients are looking for when it comes to content creation. If you’re a GOLD member, you’ll also get to discover more about the marketing budget, negotiating contracts, 360 and drone content, and a lot more.
How to Land an AUTOMOTIVE Client (Insider Tips Directly From CEO
Today, Fred Butler, the CEO of Fasty’s Garage will share his story about how he turned a small business into a world-known brand. Fred confesses that that might not have been possible without a strong social media presence.
He is going to give a few tips on how to land an automotive client and especially for the GOLD members, Fred will dive deeper into the topic of how content plays into the financial aspects of the business.
Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Comes to iPad And We Predicted It.
Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Comes to iPad And We Predicted It
On Thursday, October 20, 2022, Blackmagic Design announced its launch of DaVinci Resolve for iPad, allowing editors and creators to take their work wherever they go. It's optimized for Apple Pencil and MultiTouch technology, with much-loved features like cut and color pages available on mobile devices.
Ty Turner is Teachable’s Creator of the Month for October 2022
Video production expert Ty Turner discusses balancing creativity and strategy
Vimeo Experts Course Chat with Ty Turner: How to get the right clients for your video production company.
Vimeo teames up with FlashFilm Academy to create a video marketing course designed for Vimeo users.
Mind Your Motto: Why a Company Motto is Important as a Content Creator
What does your business stand for? What is your personal work ethic and belief? What do you represent to your clients? What can they gain from you if they hire you? All these answers can be found in one place: a motto. A simple saying that is framed along with your business name as the encapsulating text which represents your business to the market.
How to Price Your photography and videography Perfectly
How to Price Yourself Perfectly
When you’re in the business of filming and photography, you can see a lot of money coming in week after week. Or you could have your camera still in the bag, waiting for a message, because no one can afford to work with you. You need to charge money to stay in business. Other people have to be willing to pay it. Unless you’re the only camera for hundreds of miles, you’ll have competition and clients will have choice. The first thing a potential client looks at, always, is the price. What comes after is the service, the products, the packages, the solutions on offer - the reasons for that price. It’s up to them to decide what’s fair, but it’s up to you how they find their way to that decision.
5 More Insights to Know to Grow your Business
Navigating the field of the photography and videography industry is hard for beginners. Once you get your footing, the march is long and steady, with hills and slopes, rough ground and soft. There’s success and failure, and you need to know how to get through it with the right amount of effort to move forward while still managing a successful, profitable business. Somewhere along the line, thinking about ten things at once, you might forget how to walk - the basic of basics and the simple things can slip past you. Here are 5 of those forgettable tips that might help you get your footing back.
8 SIGNS You NEED To Be Aware Of With BETA CLIENTS!
Starting a business or taking a new step forward in your established business is always a risk. There’s a limited market share of clients out there with needs to be fulfilled who will seek out services like yours. So how can you be sure you’re going to get those clients in the future? You can try starting with a Beta Client. A Beta Client is a representative of a client in the industry. They aren’t paying you, and you aren’t paying them. You give them your ideas, your systems, and processes, and they tell you if it’s good for a potential client. They’ll give you a hard perspective on how real clients will receive your work and give feedback that you can immediately implement to upgrade your business.
5 Tips to Get to the Next Level
5 Tips to Get to the Next Level
Is your studio getting rewarded for the hours of work you’re putting in? Are those hours going to the right place? How can you get from where you are now, in a rut or a struggle, to the next level of success?
What’s In a Company Name? Success or Failure.
Every business has a name, just like every child and every person. Those names carry a weight and history into the world, and offer meaning into who or what they are. For people, names have etymology, roots and historic context. For businesses, you don’t need that. We name businesses for their function, not a deeper meaning. One hangup that could be reducing your callbacks and clientele is the name they associate with your business. If you picked a wrong name, it’s not too late to change it - but if you stick with a bad name, even if it’s meaningful to you, it won’t be meaningful to the people who pay you to work.
5 Reasons You Haven’t Succeeded…In starting your video production business
Being a content creator seems like it’s all fun and instant profit on the outside. One viral hit, one big stream, one day at a time and you’re in it with the big leagues. So why hasn’t it happened yet? Whether you’re a classical pro doing freelance video production or a new web startup trying to sell yourself and your skills in front of a camera there’s a limit to how far you can go before you run out of options and wonder: When is it My Turn? Success is not a guarantee, and everyone needs some help sometimes.