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Microbudgeter
by Jake the film guy
Helping you quote, land, and lead 4 and 5-figure video productions. I'm your host, Jake the film guy, from microbudgeter.com and this podcast is simply the audio content from the microbudgeter YouTube channel, stripped from their videos for all you auditory listeners out there!
Episodes
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Video Producers: Make These a Part of Your Continuing Education
Fellow video producers and microbudget filmmakers, in this video you're going to revisit some old ideas and some new ideas about how you view your education. It doesn't stop with a paltry high school diploma or even a highfalutin college degree. You must continue to seek out education, and…
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Don't start work until you have these!
Video producers and budding filmmakers, when you are running your video production business, there will be a temptation to jump the gun. A temptation that might take you sometime - if left unchecked - for you to counteract. The temptation is to assume you have a deal when you don't yet truly have…
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Doing Business As... The Simplest Way to Start!
Throw up your "We're Open" Shingle right now. You just need a niche and a lotta grit. With the DBA, you can launch your business for dirt cheap. Niche? What the deuce? FOCUS on one area: http://microbudgeter.com/blog/video-production-niche Next step - pitch like crazy!...
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Boilerplate Video Contracts - Don't Panic!
Video Guys and Girls, don't panic! Boilerplate (Investopedia Definition): "The term boilerplate or boilerplate text refers to text, or a standardized document, method, or procedure. "Boilerplating" is sometimes used disparagingly to refer to a lack of originality or sincere effort. In the field…
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Video Producers: Bank, Credit Union, or Online Bank?
When you are bootstrapping your video production business, my fellow filmmaker, you're going to have to get a separate checking account. Don't do everything in the same checking account, even if you are a sole proprietor! In this video, we're going to briefly examine the classical bank and then...
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Why You Need Business Cards for Your Video Production Service!
Why you need business cards for your video production service! Video producers! You need to have business cards! I talk about this elsewhere when starting a video production business (below), and it’s important for a myriad of reasons. First of all, Benjamin Franklin is still handing out his...
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Video Production: A Home-Based Business?
Hola friend, With a home-based business, you can do your video production from the comfort of your own home. That means pajamas or showing up in your Air Force dress blues with polka dot boxers just like the top brass at the Pentagon surely do. It'll save your wallet a lot of heartache, and you…
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VIDEO PRODUCERS: Should You Give a Discount?
Video producers, when I was starting out, I gave everybody under the sun a discount when they asked for it. Little did I know that you can say no as with all things in life. However, there are a few exceptions you might want to consider -- and as a bonus item not disclosed in this video, perhaps...
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Video Producers: Have the BEST Customer Service This Side of the Mississippi
Video Producers, level up! Bring your A-game after every video with these practical ways to say THANKS! ... Watch at https://youtu.be/yGkBv2-RbiQ
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Video Producers: Track Your Emails!
In this video, my fellow video producers and budding filmmakers, we’re going to look at what it looks like to have a HubSpot tracking plug-in installed inside your Gmail. Even the free version will give you enough juice as you prospect people for your video business and/or literary managers for...
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Handling Complaints And Objections
Don’t get stonewalled by these common video production objections! Need more? Qualify your prospects: https://youtu.be/uOs_2FdxsHw Why a business NEEDS videos? https://microbudgeter.com/blog/the-value-of-video Help your client checkout with Paypal:...
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Before You Submit Your Screenplay
1. Save $ - even $5 a month in a slush fund is better than $0 and a May deadline. 2. Make sure inner monologues and useless dialogue are cut 3. Peer review out the wazoo. 4. Spellcheck my friends. You ain't got no excuse not to do that there spellcheckin'. 5. Make sure you cover up any…
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The First Thing(s) You Need When You Start a Video Production Business:
1. It doesn’t matter if you’re doing it full-time or part-time or super part-time, you don’t want to waste time getting an LLC or some other legal entity set up first. One, it costs money that you don’t have. Two, you might be really terrible at sales and have no business lined up outside your...
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If I had known these when I started...
If you are about to watch this video, it's because you're starting out in your video production side hustle or full-time business, and you don't want to make a heap of mistakes. Take it from me, these are some lessons I wish I had known when I was wet behind the ears like in this thumbnail. Save...
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How to Do a Facebook Ad Reach Campaign - Audience Variable
In this super overly complicated video part II, we're going to walk through, step by step, how to set up a Facebook ad via the Reach campaign. We're going to split test the audience variable (this time), and we're going to do it with mucho Pizzazz. Why? Because you might need to get your video...
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How to Do a Facebook Ad Reach Campaign - Creative Variable
In this super overly complicated video, we're going to walk through, step by step, how to set up a Facebook ad via the Reach campaign. We're going to split test the creative variable, and we're going to do it with Pizzazz. Why? Because you might need to get your video production service or film…
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How to Follow up With a Video Production Prospect
In this third part and final part of this video series on prospecting somebody who doesn't know you from Adam or Eve, I'm going to give you a simple example which includes the reason for following up. We always want to know why, just ask your kids; they always want to know why! Give your prospect…
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How to Pitch a Video Production Prospect
In the second video, I will go through, step-by-step, how you can make that custom pitch for the prospect you found in the previous video. You may want to get the freemium service Email Hunter to assist you in this process, and you might need to say your prayers and eat your vitamins while you're...
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How to Find a Video Production Prospect
In this talk, you’re going to walk through the steps of finding a new video production prospect. Yes, somebody in your backyard that can benefit from your skills as a video producer and budding filmmaker. Do you know how to run Google and Facebook ads? Equally powerful. After all, the big guys...
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Where Should I Submit My Screenplay?
Promise me this, budding filmmaker, that you don’t submit your first screenplay. Not your second and not your third. I’m talking wait ‘til you have two digits worth of screenplays under your belt. This one competition is the world heavyweight champ of screenwriting competitions, so you might as...
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Video Production During the Coronavirus?
In the first video, I talked about some all-purpose seasoning for your video production business and life now that this global event is going on. With the coronavirus taking the US by the thousands, it’s time to get to brass tacks when it comes to your video productions. Our landscape keeps...
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How NOT to Pitch Your Screenplay
I have been pitching literary managers for some time now. My fellow budding filmmakers and video producers, if you want to get stories made into feature films or TV shows or whatever format our visual stories will take on in the next 10 and 20 years, right now there are still a lot of gatekeepers...
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7 Things to Do in This Pandemic
Video producers and filmmakers... In this video, I'm going to walk through seven practices you need to be going through as the world around us continues to change. I can't guarantee the next several months are going to be easy. I can't guarantee you're going to have a steady flow of income. When…
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What Camera Should You Use in 2020?
Film producers, storytellers, video producers, and boys and girls of all ages... I can save you the suspense and give you the quick and dirty version: the camera you already own. Gasp. Don't get obsessed with gear. Don't go into debt. Rely on creativity. This video explores WHY it is more…
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100 Tips For Your Video Production Business
This episode is MUCH easier to navigate at YouTube: https://youtu.be/JLLEit52rig In this episode, I share 100 quick tips about your video production business. Every single one of these I have either experienced, some of them several times. Nothing speculative here. Just brutally honest, real-life...
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Video Production Objections... or Not?
Know the difference. This is a real-world example of recognizing complaints vs. objections. Yes, in this video, I provide you an illustration straight out of the Vault. And not the Mouse Ears Vault, but the Jake the film guy Vault o’ failures and missteps. As I said recently, I fail more often…
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Video Production: Failing More Than Succeeding
1. It builds your confidence... with your pitches 2. It makes you more resilient… next time you fail, it’s no biggie 3. It's a great teacher when it comes to mistakes 4. It forces you to develop more ideas, refining your creativity muscle 5. It keeps you humble 6. It gets you one step closer to...
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Video Production Tax Breaks
By no means is this quick, and I mean like 90-second video (sans the obligatory intro/outro), a good rundown on what you need to understand about taxes when it comes to your video production business, but it'll get you started thinking about these things. My best advice is to find somebody in…
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Why Start a Video Production Business?
It just makes sense. God bless you in your video production side hustle or FT gig! Need more? Mas?! How to start a video production business: http://microbudgeter.com/blog/start-a-video-business Or watch: https://youtu.be/R4ysGQ9l0Eg or https://youtu.be/WV0B-zk2h5M Start a video production…
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Video Production Pricing Formula
What the deuce do you charge as a video producer? How do you know if you are getting taken advantage of and working for rock-bottom prices? Do you have confidence in your abilities? Or do you understand your time and talent? If you are tired of taking low-paying jobs because you don't know how to...
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Why Veterans Should Be in Video Production
In part 2 of this series, let's talk about the ways a veteran will absolutely bring the best skillsets with them into the video and film world: 1. customs and courtesies 2. honoring appointments 3. follow-through 4. attention to detail These soft skills probably aren't what you're thinking about...
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Vet Benefits in Your Video Production Business?
Veteran? Fantastico. I spent years combing through the dark forest of VA benefits. I still am! But you don't have to! Been out 5 years? 10? Longer? You don't need to listen to Uncle Bob rambling about storming the dark side of the moon just to discern what's available to you as a past military...
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Video Production Cold Pitching Mistakes
In the course of your film and video productions, you’ll find that you’re making a lot of mistakes when you pitch somebody an idea. If they haven’t heard your idea before, welcome to the club. It’s a cold pitch, amigos. Without looking like a total buffoon, here are a couple of things you can do…
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Start a Video Production Business With No Money
Video Production is easier than ever to jump into these days. The supply and demand curve of visual content suggests a great need for an army of visual storytellers, and you can jump in with nada. Nothing. You don't need a dime to your name, just some persistence, patience, and a lotta prayer…
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4.5 reasons WHY film and video producers should be on Facebook in 2020
Forget the naysayers. Like an amphitheater for large outdoor crowds or a stadium for 45,000 screaming fans, Facebook is a venue. It's not a 1-size-fits-all venue, but it's a venue nonetheless, and you have to respect these reasons WHY you as a video producer or filmmaker should be interacting...
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Video Production: How to Stop Getting Treated Like a Beginner
Video Production guys and gals. If you're not brand new in your service as a video producer, then this is relevant for you. You'll always find various shades of decision-makers and authority figures who think nothing of bulldozing problems, obstacles, and collateral (which can include you!), so...
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Video Production: Four Ways You're Being Manipulated
Recognize the signs when somebody is trying to (mis)use your skillsets as a video gal or guy, take advantage of the business relationship, or just plain disrespect you and your video service. Don't be fooled; God gave you a wonderful lump of organic matter inside your head that helps with the...
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Video Production Followup Mistakes
I got a couple ideas to run by you in the video, and this idea of following up is not just to get somebody to sign on the dotted line, but to build a team, nurture a team, or even raise funds for your next film. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/j29MTzLymf4 ... Weary? In need of rest? Start…
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Facebook Video Tips and Things to Be Aware of in 2020
Video producers and budding filmmakers, you need to be aware of these metrics going into the new decade. Don't just haphazardly throw a video onto Facebook. Do your homework first, amigos! TL;DW? 1. Videos beat out pics, links, and naked text. 2. Shorter is better (less than 13 sec.). 3. 80% or...
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How to Get Your First Video Production Client
TL;DR? Step 1: Pick one niche, not 12. Step 2: Tell everyone you know, even Uncle Bob. Step 3: Tell everyone you meet out in the real world. Step 4: Rinse and repeat. Eat your vitamins, say a prayer, and over-deliver.
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Is it Worth Pursuing Film if James Dean is Coming Back from the Grave?
James Dean coming back from the dead? The film world was in a frenzy over the idea of James Dean “playing” a supporting role in a Vietnam War film. Do you think there is an argument to be had for using digital avatars of deceased people in cinema or do you think it crosses a line? Should we be...
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10 Tips For Facebook Video Views Ads
And why you should even consider Facebook Ads in the first place. They're still priced somewhat fairly heading in 2020, though that will change, much as it did for Google Ads per Gary Vee's intuition. But while the getting is good, get your video or short film some more eyeballs on it with this...
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Where do I put my finished video?
Fellow video producers, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this strategy works for any type of video we create, even if it is a short film. Grant Cardone says that businesses die because of obscurity, and if you are a filmmaker or a video producer, you are definitely a part of a business....
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Start a Video Production Side Hustle While Raising a Family
No excuses. Get started by turning off Netflix, watching less news, soaking up more of the Word, and get to telling everyone you know the "Checkout" lane is open for customers. If reading doesn't strain your brain, get additional help at...
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Building Your Paid Team - Paying Subcontractors
Paypal? CC? Cash? Check? So many ways to choose from. Spell it out in your contracts, mate, lest Davey Jones beat you at Liar's Dice and you spend eternity on the Black Pearl or whatever Jones' ship was called (I know it's not the Black Pearl - I think it was "Pearl Jam"). Read the full post at...
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Helping you quote, land, and lead 4 and 5-figure video productions. I'm your host, Jake the film guy, from microbudgeter.com and this podcast is simply the audio content from the microbudgeter YouTube channel, stripped from their videos for all you auditory listeners out there!
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Helping you quote, land, and lead 4 and 5-figure video productions. I'm your host, Jake the film guy, from microbudgeter.com and this podcast is simply the audio content from the microbudgeter YouTube channel, stripped from their videos for all you auditory listeners out there!
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