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Work during this crisis
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I don’t think anyone, including Walter, is acting as if nothing is going on out there. But there are many companies that are not feeling the effects of the economic downturn, especially companies that provide services that people need whether the economy is good or bad…like Health Care. Insurance is another area that isn’t significantly feeling the effect (yet).
You’ve got to figure there are many companies cutting wages, freezing spending, and laying off workers because they CAN. I have a friend that works for a property management company that owns scores of big apartment complexes. Their occupancy is at record levels.
Yet just this week a memo was sent stating that all executives and management will get a 10% pay reduction and that layoffs are coming. Obviously, it’s management folks are baffled and angry. Their costs have not changed significantly, yet their CEO is acting as if business is bad. It doesn’t take a lot of smarts to see this is a company whose board of directors is saying, “hey…everybody else is doing it, we can do it too (and get away with it) and make even MORE money for us and our shareholders!”
Then there companies like Toyota doing everything possilbe to avoid significantly cutting wages or laying off workers. Like reducing work-weeks from 5 days to 4 for salaried employees, re-tooling assembly lines to be more efficient, moving products to assembly plants that can build faster or leaner, etc.
So I think finding innovative ways to cut costs, and getting better at estimating and pitching your services to clients is a HUGE key to survival. Advertising, marketing and video work isn’t going to cease. There will be plenty of it, but getting better at finding the available work and getting better at winning I believe will be a big key to surviving.
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
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[Bob Zelin] “while the “…old guys” that know it all fade away, and cry about the good old days (of Quantel, CMX, D2 machines, etc.)”
What? D2 machines are no longer current?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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[Tim Kolb] “What? D2 machines are no longer current?”
And just what am I supposed to do with the Sony BVH-2500 1″ VTR sitting in the corner of my office?? (Oh, that’s right. It’s a prop so the more naive of our clients will see it sitting there and think we must really DO television. Without it our offices would only have computers just like all of their offices do.)
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Man I’m old… when I do a seach for 2″ quad, all I get is results for Intel processors!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%22_Quadruplex_videotape
Steve
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Some of us have more work than others. It’s just human nature to own our success, and blame our problems on the environment. Sometimes, that is even true. Sometimes it’s an excuse. You can’t generalize. The best of us and the worst of us can succeed or fail, either because of our own talents or despite our weaknesses. That’s not to say, Don’t work hard — it’s just to say, Have some humility when you’re successful, and don’t necessarily get down on yourself when you’re not.
What got our country into this economic mess? It’s because too many people started judging their own self-worth on the basis of their place in society. Some of us got jealous of those neighbors who made a fortune by flipping their house, or by investing with that genius Madoff, or of people who got huge bonuses by selling shaky mortgages.
My late father-in-law, boatbuilder and wonderful, gentle man, enjoyed racing sailboats. Occasionally he would observe one of us peering anxiously astern or ahead at the rest of the fleet, and he would say, “Sail your own boat.”
That’s really all you can do, isn’t it?
Bob C
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[Bob Cole] “My late father-in-law, boatbuilder and wonderful, gentle man, enjoyed racing sailboats. Occasionally he would observe one of us peering anxiously astern or ahead at the rest of the fleet, and he would say, “Sail your own boat.”
That’s really all you can do, isn’t it? “
Amen to that.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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