Zane Barker
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Your question is quite confusing. Multiple screens has always refered to having multiple computer screens conected to one computer.
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Sounds like you may have a bad drive. I would set up an appointmet for the Genuis Bar at an Apple Store and key them take a look at it.
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At this point that thing us just a rumer. When I saw that I could find nothing conferming it’s truth on apple.com
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[Douglas Wright] “There’s still one thing, for the people that are viewing my reel and liking the level of work that I’m offering already… what could I be doing to close more on those clients before I get to the point of being able to take on big budget clients? “
Well I think that we have been addressing this in ALL of our replies.
The key to getting someone to agree to hire you do do anything for them is to make them confident that you can deliver the product they want and need. If I was I potential client that wanted a commercial or corporate video and I saw your demo reel I would NOT have that confidence in you. Seeing a video with noting but a bunch of clips of rap videos will most likely appear immature to a business provisional, and that will not make them have any confidence that you can deliver a professional product.
I mean absolutely no disrespect top your work, its just that I would never show a reel like that to anyone wanting a more professional commercial or corporate video no matter what the budget of the client.
Think about what type of video your potential client wants to have done and throw something simple together that will make them feel confident that you can deliver what they want.
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Place a strip of clear packing tape on the drive and then place the printed label onto that..
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[wes koetje] “I am Planning on heading out Door to Door tomorrow to sell web videos.”
I am a bigger fan of not just stopping buy random places, take a little time and drive around looking for places that you think your product may be good for. Then go back to the office and look them up on the web first and actually see what is on there web site, after all you are trying to sell them web videos.
Doing a little research about the people that you are going to approach will make you much more prepared when you actually go and talk to them.
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[Douglas Wright] “For the level that we are at now, how do you think we should approach the more corporate clientele other than giving it away?”
Noting is wrong with giving it away, just don’t over do it. When I was getting started I even did a couple of video for free for friends that I knew who had there own businesses. Offering to do a 30 second video spot for a friends store or in service that they can post on there web site it a good way to get some more diversity in that demo.
You can also just make up a video for nobody. Create a commercial for some sports drink or something, just make up a name for the drink photo shop up a logo and label and place it over a bottle of gatorade or something and make a commercial for a product that does not even exist. Or for a corporate type video find a friend/relative that has a woodworking shop in there garage and so a simple safety training video for a power tool.
A sample safety video for something could probably be busted out all in a day. Pick some item, look at the safety portion in the manual and spell out those points in the video. The same can be dome for a how to assemble video. Just make a video that follows the instructions in the set up of a desk, a chair or a bookshelf.
These are all simple things that you can do that are only going to cost you time and a few tapes. Remember that these videos don’t need to be long at all, to 30 sec commercial or a 3-5 min training video.
As you get more real work you can simply start working those into your demo real. Its also a good Idea to have separate demo reels for different kinds of work. Have one for events, one for corporate etc.
Now take the lans cap off and get out there and make yourself something to show off.
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[Chris Blair] “No offense…but from a post-production business point of view…that app doesn’t look like a very good deal unless your business if driven by credit card sales. “
Its does a LOT more then just ringing people out. Plus I NEVER said that it was the only option out there, I am sure that there are other options that do much of the same thing.
[Chris Blair] “It’s Mac only…so if you’re a PC shop, you’d have to buy a MAC. “
AGAIN it is NOT the only thing out there that will do this. I am sure that there are similar options out there for windows.
[Chris Blair] “To take credit cards you have to buy their Credit Card Service Plan”
ANYTHING you get to take credit cards is going to cost you a fee to use the service.
[Chris Blair] “They also charge more if you key in the credit card number rather than swipe it. That’s really ridiculous. “
[Chris Blair] “Who believes it costs more for them to process keyed in information versus information read from a magnetic stripe? “It actually makes a LOT of since. There is a MUCH higher risk of the credit card number being entered in wrong when it is manually entered. Having the credit card number entered in wrong will cost that company money. I one time had a unknown charge of about $500 on my debit card from a place I had never been to, my bank knew that the card number had been manually entered in and therefor manually entered in wrong. I did not have to pay for it but somebody out there does, so that extra fee makes seems vary reasonable.
Now I NEVER said that that one software was for every one, but it is a vary good software. Having all your transactions go through something like that (checks or credit cards) can provide a lot of useful information on sales and other things.
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If you actualy look at the link I put it explaines what it is.
It is NOT extra murchandise that it sitting next to a cash register it is the cash register itself. The software that I put a link to is esentualy cash register software for the computer. You can then attach a credit card device to that.
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I would look into getting a point of sale package.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!