Mick Haensler
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Are you a production company or a fitness expert?
Mick Haensler
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The mere fact that they approached you to do “a viral” shows their lack of media knowledge. A video isn’t “a viral” until it goes…well…viral. You don’t produce a viral, you produce a video in hopes that it goes viral.
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[Andrew Rendell] “Open your mouth and it’s way too easy to get misunderstood or misquoted.”
Bingo!! Unfortunately I have A.D.D. which brings with it a lack of impulse control. I’ve worked extremely hard on this as it has bitten me in the butt a number of times. Nonetheless I do have the occasional slip up. This was kinda sorta one of those cases. I think Mark hit the nail on the head with the White Knight analogy too. Couple that with a resentment build up and Whamo!! Open mouth insert foot….
Thanks for the feedback everyone. It’s nice having a place where I can post something like this and get some “been there done that” empathy. If I haven’t said it in a while, this is a great community and I feel privileged to be a part of it.
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DUH!!!
Thanks Peter. As my high school Latin teacher would say when pointing out the obvious. “Congratulations, you now have dee fort corner of dee bed sheet”!!(He was Russian). Easy and fast solution…
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C’mon Grinner, tell us how you reeeeeally feel….
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This is a great thread with a lot of good ideas. As someone constantly trying to improve the way I reach clients and potential clients, I really appreciate threads like this.Mick Haensler
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I will respectfully disagree with putting the rates on there. Reason is, the folks who contacted you didn’t have a problem doing so and ASKING for your rates which gives you opportunity for one on one conversation. I find I get a lot more business from a conversation than an advertisement. By having them call you, they can gauge pretty quickly if you’re someone they want to work with….er no….
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[Nick Griffin] “- if you leave, leave on the best terms you can. That’s a potential source of future work and referral. A ticked-off client, feeling that they’ve been ripped off is not.”
Agreed. I’ve never understood the mentality of folks who would rather create bad blood on a principle that may or may not be justified, than to just turn the stuff over and leave on good terms.
Mick Haensler
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Thanks for the reply Walter. As I said previously, I wouldn’t have any problem handing over all the work so no risk of messy. I’m not a believer in holding content hostage when the client/employer has already paid for the work once. I was just curious for future reference. This is a unique situation in that a lot of additional work outside of my position is thrown my way as well as a bounty of contacts for other work as well. They can write their own ticket as far as I’m concerned. I was just curious in that this work has given me an idea for another business that would be structured quite a bit differently. Thanks again for the input.
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Thanks for the input Nick. That’s kinda what I was thinking. Now how about this, who owns the “project” files? For instance, all of the menus for the concessions are now digital and change on a weekly basis. I have templates designed to make this pretty simple. If I decide to leave, am I obligated to hand over my templates? Wouldn’t really matter since they are done in Motion and this place doesn’t have a Mac and will most likely never get one. Besides, I really don’t care, they’ve paid me for the work and have treated me well. If I ever left I wouldn’t have a problem handing the whole shootin’ match over to them. Just curious as I might want to renegotiate my deal with them some time in the future.
Mick Haensler
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