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Off Topic-Making a good filmmaker website to get clients
Hey guys, been a while! I guess I didn’t have much to contribute regarding Vegas, though I’ve been using it every day.
I’ve been making a lot of YouTube videos but want to get into making commercials (online and on TV) and music videos. I want to make a website to do this and am willing to pay to have someone build one for me rather than doing it myself. I could do an ok job and have had a website before, but I’m so busy and would rather have an expert handle it.
So, any experience doing this? Any pitfalls? Learning moments? I want to be hired to be a filmmaker, not a videographer shooting things like events or corporate videos. I’ve done a little work in commercials and music videos before and am sure I could get good clients who understand why they’d hire me as opposed to a videographer and have me help craft a great story for them.
I have a few videos I could put on the website to start that stand out as videos that show the kind of work I do and have gotten some degree of popularity. Those will help establish that I have a specific point of view and am not a videographer for hire (nothing wrong with that and I did it for years). I’m only a good fit for certain clients.
Thanks!
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If you want my opinion (I know, you didn’t ask, but hey, why not), and feel free to ignore me if you want, I would think that for what you’re looking to do it means much more about who you know than how you market on a web site… I am not putting down having and using a web site (Hell, I’ve made my fair share of sites and charge to make em for others) and I think you should have a site, but for this particular area, it’s much more about who you know…
I believe this because those ‘clients’ who would be looking to hire someone like that, will be asking people in the ‘industry’ for recommendations…
That’s just my thoughts.. I’m not a marketing expert, but I have taken many sales and marketing classes that that’s the impression I get from the situation you describe.
Still, I’d suggest making (or having made) a web site… I’ll even help you do it if you want to discus it with me…
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[James Hauge] “If you want my opinion (I know, you didn’t ask, but hey, why not), and feel free to ignore me if you want, I would think that for what you’re looking to do it means much more about who you know than how you market on a web site… I am not putting down having and using a web site (Hell, I’ve made my fair share of sites and charge to make em for others) and I think you should have a site, but for this particular area, it’s much more about who you know…
I believe this because those ‘clients’ who would be looking to hire someone like that, will be asking people in the ‘industry’ for recommendations…
That’s just my thoughts.. I’m not a marketing expert, but I have taken many sales and marketing classes that that’s the impression I get from the situation you describe.
Still, I’d suggest making (or having made) a web site… I’ll even help you do it if you want to discus it with me…”
I don’t think that’s bad advice at all. It’s actually very important, and something I need to work on. I’ve still got a lot of figuring out to do as far as what my options are and my budget.
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Sounds good… If you’d like to discus it I do give free consultations and I think this would be best a conversation taken away from this forum before we get in trouble 😀
send me an email at hauge.james@gmail.com and we’ll be able to talk and I’ll give you my skype id and phone number there…
–James
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