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Introduction
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Become a
Digital
Scrapbook Video Producer
Are you a Memory Maker?
Do you have a passion for moving images
and creating a product that invokes emotion in a customer?
Transforming a box (or boxes) of old photographs, genealogy
materials or memorabilia to a video or DVD takes talent and
organizational skills. After all, once accepting a customer’s
project, you hold their past and their treasures in your hands.
A business in Video – Photo Production may include many different
categories. Have you thought of all the things that you can do with
a camera, a computer, and a scanner? Recording events, and family
history and producing a video DVD could only be the beginning of
your new career.
Starting a home-based producing service for digital scrapbook or
family history scrapbooking of genealogy materials and photographs
can be fun! Convert videos and old photos to DVD and stay at home
doing it! Opening up a video service also opens up a world of those
needing their wedding photos and videos, family heritage and
ancestry history produced in an entertaining way. Add music and
voice to a background of memorabilia pictures, slideshow
presentations and graphics. Weave all this together into a beautiful
digital video document and work at home. Create memories for your
customers with video biographies with their family or personal
historian. Learn how to operate these functions at a level that
commands business and brings in profit for you. This business plan
opens your door to that which is beyond a hobby........weddings,
baptisms, school reunions, sporting events and more..........turn
this into an income producing venture!
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The work isn't the same
thing day in and day out as every project and every customer is
different. You'll enjoy hearing the stories people tell you when you
are interviewing them. You'll enjoy see the photographs and how they
work together on the storyboard. The production will take shape
before your eyes, giving you a tremendous feeling of satisfaction
from creating something out of "everything in a box."
Perhaps you have always enjoyed taking photographs (35mm or
digital) and using your video-recorder. You may already have an
editing program. Creating a finished product gives you a great sense
of accomplishment and satisfaction. Perchance you've produced your
own family DVD movie. Wasn’t it exciting to share this moving
experience with others? Such an heirloom becomes a long-lasting
keepsake.
Working with customers and planning their keepsake can be a fun
business to do at home or in a small studio. You’ll quickly become
the “town’s Videographer and DVD maker” for genealogy, weddings,
baptisms and other special events in their lives. Everyone will want
to take their memories to you as the demand for this service is
increasing steadily. Growing fast are the video biographies,
personal histories, sports biographies, pet biographies, video
tributes, video montages, business and corporate biographies, and,
of course, genealogy and family heritage scrapbooking.
...the main goal is:
to run it more like a business and less like a hobby
You like creating magic in your work and feel that you have the
talent and the gift for this career.
Your Service
Does your product or service satisfy an unfilled need in the
market? Could your community do well with the products that you
offer? Your strategy must include a written business plan and a
guide on how to set your business up. A Business Plan is the first
thing to consider as it sets the stage to transforming your hobby
into a business. Organize your business and arrange how you want to
set it up.
IDEA: Consider diversifying into these and other areas:
Videotape to DVD Conversion
Photographs and digital still photographs transformed into a video
on DVD
Regular 8mm, Super 8mm and 16mm film to video or DVD
Graduation Videos
Wedding Videos
Baptism Videos
Remembrance Videos-honoring the memory of a friend or family member
that has passed (perfect for showing at wakes and viewings and are
great mementos for the family)
Be happily self-employed! With any job, you must ask some pertinent
questions. How would a home-based business (or small business) fit
around your family and home? The benefits might include more freedom
to spend time with your family or care for your children or elderly
family member. You may currently be in an unsatisfactory job and
desire a diversion or change. Perhaps you are retired and have
always wanted to do something like this. The flexible hours just
seem to be important to you.
Either way, this may enable you to make and save money on the side.
If you're searching for a new avenue of income and want the freedom
of working at home, perhaps its time. Assisting people in a
"positive work environment" is found.
In the unsure times of today, more people are turning homeward to
make a living. Perhaps your neighbor or co-worker is working a
home-based business. And, you'll always have something to fall back
on. Having a business provides a little insurance for you.
......more people are turning homeward to
make a living
Are you interested in just supplementing your income? Just two small
clients that you work on weekends or evenings could bring you an
extra $300.00 to $500.00 per month depending on the project budget.
That could help your finances ketch up on overextended credit cards.
You would be surprised, just by supplementing your income and
providing a quality service to your clients, you'll love the freedom
so much that you will set goals to "quit your day job". You may even
end up earning so much more than your day job could ever pay you as
an employee! You need to get yourself out of the "employee" title to
earn the respect and money that you are worth. Either way, do
something you enjoy!
As for education, most production artists do not have degrees...just
years of experience, the talent and the desire to be an
entrepreneur. Some join associations where training workshops or
conferences offer supplemental information. You may already hold
several magazine subscriptions. There's much to learn and lots of
research to be done.....always scoop up as much information and
perspectives as possible--your clients are all different!
We have all been in fear of the unknown.....where your next check is
going to come from, how are you going to survive.....join the
millions of successful business owners who have gone through that
day in and day out, yet are successful and WON'T EVER go back to
working full-time for someone else. But, you have to start your plan
of action now!
The business plan proposal that you complete can be the required
documentation that enables a small business loan or funding. Your
imagination and talent lends its hand to the management style that
you create and the Video Memories Business Start - Up plan assists
in taking command of your business. The business planning format is
self-directed home study for completion at your own pace.
If your life continues in the same direction it is now...
ˇ Will you honestly be where you really want to be one year from
today?
ˇ Will you honestly be any closer to your financial goal?
ˇ Will you have reality toward your dreams?
You can go ahead and punch the time clock,
and keep putting in those long hours at work.
Or, you can start a plan of action that builds your reputation and
builds your business.
Do this for YOU and visualize what you will be doing one year from
today!
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In
these materials, the path to working at home is
discussed. Your Guidebook includes a self-directed
workbook on market analysis, products and services,
production fee ideas, equipment needed, software
programs available, working with customers on organizing
the project, collection procedure for customer's old
photographs, slides and memorabilia, storyboard ideas,
deadline scheduling and budgeting, production length and
profit, and the logistics of setting up. It also
includes checklists, forms, worksheets, business ideas
and the nuts and bolts of getting started.
Kit Files
1-Work at Home Business Plan
2-Retail Web Biz Kit (BONUS file)
3-Sample Business Plan
4-Event Planning Designs (PPS)
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NOTE: There
are several business start-up programs on-line, yet this
package is for those desiring to initiate the stages of
setting up their business and who already has some
talents and skills in the area of cameras, and computers
and software...........
Files are formatted in Microsoft WORD for printability.
Unlike PDF formats, this allows you to modify &
personalize the forms in a Word document for your
business needs......and, unlike a book, you can re-print
the planner worksheets as many times as needed! If you
need Macintosh/RTF (rich text format), please let us
know.
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