Tired of Your Job? Transform Your Life with a Home Video Studio Business!

Are you feeling stuck in your current job or life situation? Have you ever dreamt of turning your passion for video into a profitable business that you control? If so, Home Video Studio offers an incredible opportunity for individuals and couples to build a fun and creative business, whether you're transitioning from your current career, coming out of retirement, or looking for a fulfilling part-time venture.

TRANSITIONS - STARTING A VIDEO BUSINESS FULL OR PART-TIME

At Home Video Studio, we specialize in helping you transition into a successful video production, editing, and video transfer business. During our upcoming Zoom 'N Tell Saturday, we'll discuss various aspects of starting a video business, including:

• Creating a customized plan to help you transition from your current career
• Deciding whether to quit your job or work part-time until you're ready to go full-time
• Converting a 401k to fund your new business venture
• Securing insurance and estimating startup costs for your video business

Our seminar is packed with valuable insights and ideas to help you establish a thriving Home Video Studio Business. We understand the importance of making a smooth and successful transition, and we're here to support you every step of the way.

Take Control of Your Future with a Fun & Creative Business

Don't miss this chance to transform your life and take control of your future with a fun and creative business that truly reflects your passion for video. Join us at Zoom 'N Tell Saturday to start designing your personalized plan and embark on the exciting journey of building your own Home Video Studio Business.

Are you ready to take the leap and change your life for the better? Register for Zoom 'N Tell Saturday and discover how Home Video Studio can help you achieve your dreams and guide you through this life-changing transition. Your journey to a fulfilling and successful video business starts now!

May the Force be with You.

Robert Hanley

Producer/Director/Editor

President & Founder,

Home Video Studio

317-358-5932

Video Production Studios Need Marketing That Works. Home Video Studio Announces Daniel Ramos As A Trainer at Getaway 22 in Reno, Nevada

 

We are happy to announce Daniel Ramos as a Trainer at Getaway 22 in Reno, Nevada. Daniel Ramos of BeFound Next will be training Thursday, Friday and Saturday on social media, Google Ads, marketing and marketing management and step by step guidance on the various modules his company BeFound Next provides.  Hope to see you in Reno. We will be announcing more trainers soon.

If you would like to lear more about Home Video Studio go to www.myhomevideostudio.com

Do You Want to Play a Game?

Did you ever play a game of Monopoly that seemed to go on forever? Remember those days? I do. I remember Monopoly games that went on for days and days. Us kids would play as long as we could stay awake and then some. It was just so fun! Maybe Monopoly was not your game. Maybe your game was Scrabble, Risk or Life or almost any card game. Playing games is important of growing up. They teach us life skills, strategy and competition in a safe environment. 

Running a business is pretty much like playing a game. There’s strategy, skills and competition. The business game, just like Monopoly, goes on and on. It’s really fun and sometimes it’s a real challenge. It’s exciting. I can’t wait each day to get up and play the Home Video Studio game. Plus I get paid to play! 

The Home Video Studio game starts again this coming Saturday and you are invited to play. 

On Saturday, October 20^thI will be holding a seminar on how to play the HVS game: getting started, equipment you will need, how and where you can play, and of course… the rules of the game (by the way… also the name of an awesome 1939 French film directed by Jean Renoir – check it out).

Join us for our Show ‘N Tell Saturday seminar on Saturday, October 20, 2018. The game will be played in our flagship studio in Indianapolis, Indiana. Veteran Home Video Studio Owners – game players - Tony and Lori Melendez will be attending. They’re part of our new studio development team. 

You can bring your team member too. Bring your spouse, partner, friend, advisor, son, daughter, etc. Don’t miss this game. 

Game play for this Saturday will include:

The Home Video Studio game board – the HVS Experience

Working from home or a retail storefront – Play the game from anywhere!

Training and support – strategy and skills 

Equipment packages – choose your game pieces

Marketing & advertising – essential rules of the game

Getting started and ramp up times – How much it costs to play

Playing the game & making money – How much you can make!

Oh and a bonus for you… come and play with us on Saturday. If you want to keep playing after Saturday, we take care of your travel costs to Show ‘N Tell Saturday! Book your hotel and flights today. Call for details. 

Call 1-317-358-5932 or 1-866-714-1956 now to set up your reservation and start playing the game. Or you can simply reply to this email. Space for this game is limited so call now.

Remember you are never too old to start playing the game. The important thing is to get in the game! 

Oh… and one more thing… once you start playing the game, you won’t want to stop - ever!  I am playing it right now. So fun! 

May the Force be with You!

Robert Hanley

Producer/Director/Editor

President & Founder - Home Video Studio.

How to Price and Quote Video Productions Part 1

I am not sure if anyone reading this remembers the Videomaker Expos. Videomaker Magazine did these for many years usually on the east and west coasts. It was approximately a three-day event with classes on videography, lectures, roundtables, video contests, vendor fairs, guest speakers and tons of other fun stuff. I used to love attending these events. Home Video Studio would attend the Expo and I was a guest speaker. 

Most of the guest speakers were covering topics like editing, cameras, mikes, etc. I spoke on something much more important… making money with video!

Picture this. There would be several hundred people in the audience – most of them pro and amateur videographers and video company owners. Always… always when I was introduced the people in the audience would not know what to think at first. Who is this guy? He’s not talking about equipment, computers, cameras or lenses, etc. What??? What’s Home Video Studio?

I would quickly start off by asking one simple but direct question. I would shout out “raise your hand if you have ever made a video for free.” Every hand would go up. That’s because this is the way that almost everyone starts out (yours truly is an exception – my first film was a $23,000.00 documentary) by making a freebie for someone – your kid’s dance team, swim team or the marching band. Maybe you shot your friend’s wedding for free. So almost everyone’s hands would go up when I asked this question. 

I would shout out “raise your hand if you have ever made a video for free.” Every hand would go up... 

Producer/Director/Editor Robert Hanley

Then I would ask them to raise their hands if they had ever sold a video job but had not received as much as they wanted to receive in payment. This time virtually every hand would go up. What do we call this… undercharging and it is rampant in our industry. 

Ask yourself. Have you ever made a video for free? Have you ever worked for hours and hours on a video project for which you weren’t paid enough? If you have made some videos or if you are a pro already the answer is probably yes. There are a lot of reasons for this. For one thing our business is a creative business and in any creative business there is a huge tendency to give a way the store. The other consideration is all of the great software we use. It’s so easy to make a video and to add Hollywood effects. So of you are afraid or hesitant to charge appropriately. Furthermore, most people starting out have little or no frame of reference for pricing a video project. So they just pull numbers out of thin air. Usually that number is way too low. 

Once you start out by doing free and cheap jobs, it’s easy to get into the rut of giving video away for next to nothing. It’s habit forming! This is a really bad problem to have. 

At Home Video Studio we solve this problem. We call it “respecting the price.” When you come onboard with us one of the major things I do (personally) is to teach you how to price custom video productions. What’s the difference between a $500.00 video and a $1500.00 video? How about a $5000.00 video? $15,000? $20,000.00? How do you know what to consider in making up the price? How do you quote? How and why do you mark things up? How do you attach value? What are you worth? How do you present the price? And how do you get people to say yes and then pay you in advance. It’s easy, once you know what I know but first you have to believe 100% in your price, you’ve got to be able to back it up, and you have to be willing to walk away from any potential job. Here’s the most important point: you have to attach tons of value to your price. 

Value is the most important word here. The key to success in the video business is to understand how to price and how to provide value to go with your price. One of our secrets that I will share with you is this. We will teach you how to be so profitable that when you do quote a video production or editing job, it won’t bother you if you don’t get the job. That’s because you’ll be making so much money from all of our other profit centers that losing one or two jobs won’t make any difference. In fact, I will go one step further. I’ll teach you how to pick and choose only the most interesting (interesting to you) and the most profitable productions to quote. Your position grows stronger as you learn about the power of saying ‘no.”

One of my rules is to only price out jobs that you really want to be involved in – especially on the video production side. On the editing jobs… well let me put it this way: once you learn how to price video productions, pricing video editing is easy. 

So rule #1 on pricing and quoting out video jobs is this. First, get yourself and your company into a strong financial position. That will allow you to price and quote video jobs from a position of strength. You’ll get more jobs. You’ll be paid more and you will be much happier! The other part of rule #1 is to only get involved in the jobs you really like. 

...I’ll be taking about this and much more at my next HVS Show ‘N Tell Saturday in Houston on November 18. Contact me if you would like to attend. You can also call or email if you have questions on pricing and quoting video productions. 

Making great money and putting your company into a position of financial power is tops. I’ll be taking about this and much more at my next HVS Show ‘N Tell Saturday in Houston on November 18. Contact me if you would like to attend. You can also call or email if you have questions on pricing and quoting video productions. Want to schedule your own Show ‘N Tell and/or a trip to our Indianapolis headquarters? Call me at 1-317-358-5932. 

May the Force be with You!

Robert Hanley

Producer/Director/Editor

President & Founder

Home Video Studio 

317-358-5932

Robert@Homevideostudio.com

www.Myhomevideostudio.com

www.Homevideostudio.com/cas