HVS Announces 12th Annual Advanced Training Schedule

Twelve years ago, Home Video Studio announced its first Advanced Training. The year was 1999 and we were excited! Now we are even more excited. 2011 marks more than one milestone with HVS. Twenty years ago this coming June 14, 1991 is the day I made a decision to stop being a starving artist and to stop, take a look and make a change in my life. I chose to focus on simply making money to support my family. Luck, synchronicity and the grace of God helped me find the way. Today, the company I founded that day in 1991 is the top franchise in the world for video and photography and video services.

Today, we are releasing our schedule for our 12th Annual Advanced Training for all HVS franchisees. We call them simply Studio Owners. Many of them have become my close friends. Others are treasured and valued studio owners whom I look forward to seeing each year. All are simply and truly members of the HVS Family. All of the HVS staff and HVS Family will get together in Indianapolis, Indiana on February 27 through March 5 at the 12th Annual Advanced Training. I suggest you join us!

Much happens that week. For many Studio Owners, it is their first major HVS training. I always acquaint it to... like going back to college (assuming that you loved college and had an absolute ball!). Advanced Training is seven days of training, camaraderie, fun, tech, sales, marketing, games, food, dinners, jokes, family time, learning and most of all: serious franchisees building their businesses. I call it our Mini-College of HVS.

What's happening this year? Same as always plus more! Some or our traditions go back to our first Advanced Training, i.e. Pizza and a Movie Night and our Celebration Dinner. Other traditions go back only a few years (the unofficial game night). What always moves studio owners forward is our strong focus on both sales & marketing and technical training. This year we have over fifty classes and events for studio owners to choose from: Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Video Production, Green Screen, Networking, Sales, Marketing, Photoshop For Video, Soundtrack, Motion, Sports Video, Corporate Videos, Weddings, HDSLR Production, Photo Books, Social Media, Facebook, and tons more! Over twenty presenters and over fifty studios from three countries will train and teach together. And not one studio owner will pay one thin dime for this training. It's the Giver's Gain philosophy.

In the end, it is all about moving each studio forward. After all, Home Video Studio may seem like a super fun game but it is a business. The top business in it's field

Come join us. Call me today and let's discuss YOU opening up your own HOME VIDEO STUDIO. It could be out of your home like Pete Gallo of Hasbrouck Heights, NJ or you could open up a new studio store like Alan and Kim Fon of Corpus Christi, TX. They opened this week.

If you have dabbled on your PC or MAC with with photos, video, sound, music, etc. then you have probably wondered if you can make a living at this. You can.

If you have sat in your office or taken work home on the weekend and wished there was another way, there is.

If you have wondered why you are building someone else's dream instead of your own, well there is a way to start now and build something in your city (if a territory is open).

Call me. Robert Hanley - 866-714-1956. Let's talk.

May The Force Be With You!

Home Video Studio At CES in Las Vegas!

Wow! There has never been a better time to open a Home Video Studio! Denise and I are attending CES this week and there are a zillion screens out here! Content is the name of the game right now. Home Video Studios change content, modify it, convert it and create it! We have a passion for everything tech and enjoy working with our customers on a daily basis. Denise took this picture at the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday. We'll be out here for three more days looking at new trends in video. No doubt we'll find a few new ways to make money with video and digital images!

Call me. Let's talk about a Home Video Studio in your community - 866-714-1956.

May the Force be with you!

Entrepreneur Magazine Chooses Home Video Studio #1 Photography & Video Franchise!

Home Video Studio is proud to announce that Entrepreneur Magazine has chosen us the Number One Franchise for Photography and Video Services. We are also rated #273 in the Entrepreneur Franchise 500. Thanks Entrepreneur!

Call me today if you want to know more about starting your own Home Video Studio.

May the Force be with you!

Robert Hanley - 866-714-1956

Who Starts A Home Video Studio?

Should I own a Home Video Studio Franchise?

You just might be interested in the answer to that question. I know I am now and I was many, many years ago when we started selling studios. Who are these people? What are our Studio Owners like? Are they single? Married? Divorced? Do they have families, kids, or pets? Did they mortgage the house to get started or convert a 401k? What's their story?

What were their former careers? Are they just video geeks? Are they like you?

Mary & Richard Lopez

I don’t know only because I don’t know you (yet). Let’s take a look at who buys a Home Video Studio.

They come from all backgrounds: doctors, nurses, accountants, IT people, engineers, computer people, software designers, sales and marketing, insurance, telecommunications, video producers, screenwriters, graphic artists, animators, consultants, etc. The list goes on and on.

Some are married. Some are not. Some do the business on their own. Some have a spouse as a partner in the business. Some are men. Some are women.

We have sold to those in their 20’s and those in their 70’s. Age is a state of mind.

Speaking of a “state of mind”. That is something that all studio owners have in common – a new direction – an ability to “see” themselves doing something different. Becoming more than they were.

How do you learn to “see”? Well some would say that you either have that ability or you don’t. I think you do or you would not have read this far.

Of course, some people don't have it. Those are the ones who never call or request information. They may not like their present situation but the idea of “change” is just too much for them.

Another group of people can grasp the idea of HVS and can “see” the lifestyle that it affords, but they value their present state of being, more. In other words, they aren’t going to risk what they have to get something they want. And yes, you can really, really want something but be paralyzed with inaction. There are many people that could buy their own business but they stop themselves just one step short. I say just do it. Make it happen.

So who buys? Who starts a Home Video Studio? For sure, the people you see on our website. Great people. They are the “seers.”

The plain truth is that you have to be able to see yourself sitting in that studio chair before you sit there. Become a part of Home Video Studio today. Leave where you are and travel with us to where you want to be -- running your own Home Video Studio. Take control of your life.

The joy is in the journey, right? We are all on a journey. Some seem to move quicker than others. Some of us seem to get stuck from time to time. Some of us get stuck for 20 or 30 years or more and then one day, out of the blue we (they) decide to get unstuck. They decide to move on.

Some move on with us. Their next stop? Running their own successful Home Video Studio. How do they do it? How do they break those chains that seem to hold others firmly to their cubicle chairs? Truth is, sometimes they are just laid off and the choice is made for them. Other times they make the choice. Call me and we’ll discuss your journey to HVS – how you go from where you are now to where you want to be. And yes, you can turn your 401k into an HVS studio. I can help you with that.

You can call me directly on my cell phone at 866-714-1956 or 317-577-8220. Test me. I am here now, waiting for your call. You can email me at robert@homevideostudio.com. Call me today! Let’s talk.

May the Force be with you.