Nick Griffin
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Yes. But you DO still pay income tax on YOUR income, even when it’s from a not for profit. (Not for profit refers to them, hopefully NOT you.)
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One advantage of participating in these forums for so many years is I’m able to quote myself. In 2001 in response to a similar question, mostly about sending out demos I write:
Personally I don’t believe in blindly mailing out demos with an introductory cover letter. Getting a video cassette in the mail was novel in the early 80’s. Getting a DVD was novel in the 90’s. Now it’s an everyday occurrence. Call first, qualify, send the tape then follow-up, follow-up, follow-up.
As a suggestion, if you’re sending a reel to someone who gets lots of them, ask when they review new reels. Right away you’re making it seem like you have some regard for them and their processes. Granted you’ll most likely get the response that they have no specific time, but you’ve begun building an informal verbal contract: “I am sending you a reel based on this conversation and you, by informally allowing me to send it are agreeing that you will view it.” Also be sure to ask permission to call back and ask when to call back. WHY permission? Because by doing so you are showing respect and, on a subtle level forming another verbal contract: “If I call back at the time you set, you agree to talk to me.” Does this always work? Of course not, but it’s better than not doing it.
Hope these Sales 101 thoughts add to the discourse.
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Hey guys, Shhhhhhhh! That kind of path to success is supposed to be a SECRET. Don’t tell the newbie that, no matter WHAT you study, everything you really learn comes from on-the-job training. What fun is it if he knows it now instead of finding out much later, the way we had to.
But seriously, I think it’s a mistake for someone fresh out of high school to think that because others skipped or skipped out on the college experience that doing the same will work for them. Hell, I took a theater major but spent 90 percent of my time and 99% of my energy in the radio station, recording studio and coffee house stage. But just being in college proved productive because it’s where I met many of the people with whom I later connected professionally.
Stay in school, Ty! Just learn as much as you can from as many places as you can.
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I just want, for the record, to point out in the context of Ty (quicksilver)’s post about getting started and learning new things, what an amazing resource we all have in the COW. That’s the whole reason I involved myself in its predecessor, the WWUG, and knew that the COW would be even better.
I read the posts, go back into the archives, view the tutorials and can’t help but marvel at what’s here FOR FREE. Who knows where some of us oldsters would be if we had one 1/100th of this resource when starting out.
Moral of the story: use it, appreciate it and, when you can, contribute to it.
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Trish Myers?!?!?!? (There’s nothing wrong with Trish Meyers stuff, just kidding.)
Just be sure to take full advantage of everything that’s here FOR FREE. Repeat after me: Aharon Rabinowitz, Aharon Rabinowitz, Aharon Rabinowitz, Aharon Rabinowitz… and everybody else. And did I mention Aharon Rabinowitz?
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WHAT is going on here, guys?
[quicksilver8907] “what is the best think to do as a recent high school graduate”
[walter biscardi] “I had two interns here all summer from Georgia State University”
I don’t mean to sound like the Dad that I am… but… shouldn’t the best advice to quicksilver be to attend a college, university or even community college and progress from there? Sure it’s possible with a high school diploma to get a job sweeping floors at some production facility. That is provided they don’t require a degree or at least some college as a way of cutting down on the hundreds of applicants they receive each month.
My own start came Freshman year at a college radio station and went from there to a real radio station in my home town, then into audio production and so on, and so on. (And thanks again to my friend Ty Ford, now of the COW’s Audio Pros forum, for giving me that first shot at real radio.)
Also, doesn’t hurt to know a few of the things they attempt to teach you in college. Worst case, it makes you better at Jeopardy.
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[Tim Kolb] “all of us with the grey hair”
Yes, but if you look at Mike’s photo, instead of grey hair he actually is grey.
As to the last free-for-all, Tim, you missed that brawl. Just look out for that Wargo guy. I think he’s on some kind of drugs, getting a divorce, or it’s his “time of the month.” Maybe all three.
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If we had a best post of the month award this one would be #1 with a bullet. Guess the Dr. Phil in you was REALLY paying attention during those abusive spouse video shoots! -
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I kind of agree with Bruce and think that a “contingent fee” (ambulance chasing) attorney might be willing to go after this guy on a civil basis, but then there’s the old expression about letting sleeping dogs lie. Which means that Mark’s comment probably makes the most sense.
Over the next few days you should be able to determine just how long term your injuries are. If the only lasting damage is psychological, move on. This guy easily could be enough of a whack job to pursue you the next time the chemistry in his head shifts. Let him obsess about somebody else and hope he forgets about you.
As to the discounts and shortcuts you’ve mentioned, it seems like more often than not the people who demand the compromises up front are the ones most critical of the resulting end product. Kind of like the client who insists on controlling the creative and at the end, when they’re not satisfied, it all comes down to the fact that they don’t like their own idea. Avoid these people. Run, don’t walk.
There’s also a sentiment I express to prospective clients: I am willing to come up with any number of ways to maximize your production dollars and the value you get from them. Lowering what I charge is NOT one of the ways I will do this.
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Welcome, Mike. (And please bring some of your common sense and polite decorum to what has in recent weeks at times become a free-for-all.)