Looks wonderful! Definitely on my list of places to visit (maybe live?) next year.

Looks wonderful! Definitely on my list of places to visit (maybe live?) next year.

Originally shared by Philip Johnson
http://www.foodandwineportugal.com/2012/08/28/537/

"Semi-Retirement Sucked After My Last Exit, So I'm Back in a New Startup"

"Semi-Retirement Sucked After My Last Exit, So I'm Back in a New Startup"

Don’t let them fool you, semi-retirement isn’t all that it's cracked up to be. I was never fully able to relax knowing that I’d eventually have to either find a J-O-B or get cracking on another business startup sooner rather than later to ensure that I’d maintain an uninterrupted stream of income. My options within the private investigation profession are really very limited these days due to a non-compete clause in the agreement outlining the sale of my former education websites and online magazine for private investigators. My private investigation agency in Pensacola, FL is still running very well but out of necessity, and my day to day absence at the agency while on sabbatical, I find myself transitioning out of the investigations professions. You know what they say,

“In business you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.”

So, after a few false starts and a missed opportunity I’ve finally settled on a new direction. I am building a vertical market around video content because it is clear to me (and every other marketing professional out there) that video has become, and will remain, the absolute best way to promote a business online and by most accounts over 80% of the traffic flowing through the Internet will be video in just a couple of years. The problem for most businesses and content publishers is that there is a huge skills gap when it comes to the process of creating video content. To a lesser degree, there is also a disconnect when it comes to the effective distribution and marketing of that video once it has been created. My mission is to create a website in which people and businesses who need video content and other video related services can find talented entrepreneurial filmmakers, video editors, CGI effects artists and marketing professionals at price points from the micro job to full scale commercial video production.

The subject is a completely different tack for me, but the process is not.

So here is what is going on...

http://lscottharrell.com/back-startup-mode-time-new-direction/

#vtrep   #startup

Micro Jobs in Filmmaking and Video Editing Services

Micro Jobs in Filmmaking and Video Editing Services

Whether it’s offering customers a unique gift idea or a quick and easy promotional piece, here is an extensive list of micro job ideas especially for video entrepreneurs.

Originally shared by Video Entrepreneur Magazine

70 Micro Jobs for Vtreps and Filmmakers

Whether it’s offering customers a unique gift idea or a quick and easy promotional piece, here is an extensive list of micro job ideas especially for video entrepreneurs broken down into several categories. Get started making money by creating video content or offering your video related services through a micro job portal, video content marketplace or a freelance website today!

#vtrep   #jobs   #filmmaking   #microjobs  
http://vtrep.com/70-micro-job-ideas-video-entrepreneurs

Attention Video Entrepreneurs and Starving Filmmakers!

Originally shared by Video Entrepreneur Magazine

Attention Video Entrepreneurs and Starving Filmmakers!

The demand for small video projects is outpacing the need for large projects and this disparity will only continue to widen as the need for video content whose quality falls somewhere between “good enough” and “prosumer” continues to grow with each passing day. There are a ton of these small video-related tasks, or “micro jobs”, out there right now that are well suited for even those new to the idea of video entrepreneurism as well as micro job marketplaces with a built-in customer base through which to set up shop.

Check out the article to find out what micro jobs are and how vtreps are using them to find entrepreneurial success!

#vtrep   #filmmaking   #entrepreneur  
http://vtrep.com/starving-filmmakers-finding-success-micro-jobs

Understanding the cyclical, fruitless nature of government stimulus spending...

Understanding the cyclical, fruitless nature of government stimulus spending...

"No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town now thinks that they are out of debt and there is a false atmosphere of optimism and glee."

#government   #stimulus   #opinion  
http://elscottharrell.com/government-stimulus-spending-produces-nothing/

Smartphones with a great camera and the ability to record high definition video are everywhere.

Smartphones with a great camera and the ability to record high definition video are everywhere.

Professional video content creators are finding that using their mobile phones to shoot video has several major advantages and provide these 7 tips for getting professional quality video out of your phone.

#filmmakers   #smartphonephotography   #videography  

Originally shared by Video Entrepreneur Magazine

7 Ways to Get Professional Quality Video from Your Smartphone

Smartphones with a great camera and the ability to record high definition video are no longer difficult to find – in fact they're everywhere. Professional video content creators are finding that using their mobile phones to shoot video has several major advantages.

However, while it's good to have a smartphone with an awesome camera, using poor technique will probably result in a poor video product.  Your video does not have to be perfect but following these seven tips, shooting great video with your smartphone will be easy and the footage will look fantastic!

#video   #smartphone   #vtrep   #filmmaking  
http://vtrep.com/7-ways-get-professional-quality-video-smartphone

It was probably obvious to those paying attention that camera equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), most often...

It was probably obvious to those paying attention that camera equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), most often referred to as “drones”, would fundamentally change a number of industries and become the basis for what is being called “the next great land rush in tech.”

Not one to miss an easy cliché, I’d say that when it comes to the commercial use of UAV video, “The sky’s the limit!”

Here are twenty ways, ideas and applications that this drone-video combination can be used by video entrepreneurs (vtreps) to disrupt and dominate virtually untapped markets booming with potential.

#drone   #uav   #video   #vtrep  

Originally shared by Video Entrepreneur Magazine

20 Ways Entrepreneurs Are Making Money Using Drone Video

It was probably obvious to those paying attention that camera equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), most often referred to as “drones”, would fundamentally change a number of industries and become the basis for what is being called “the next great land rush in tech.”

Not one to miss an easy cliché, I’d say that when it comes to the commercial use of UAV video, “The sky’s the limit!”

Here are twenty ways, ideas and applications that this drone-video combination can be used by video entrepreneurs (vtreps) to disrupt and dominate virtually untapped markets booming with potential.

#vtrep   #dronevideo   #drone   #entrepreneur  
http://vtrep.com/20-ways-entrepreneurs-using-drone-video-making-money