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Business & Marketing | Want to get paid? Make sure your client can see your work!
With a nearly infinite variety of possibilities to deliver your final project to your client, there are an almost infinite numger of ways to mess it up. Get it right, and the client is happy. Get it wrong, and nobody's happy: the job's not done, and you're not getting paid. No matter what kind of work you do, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz tells you everything you need to know about output and media formats before you get to work...and before you can get paid.
Feature, Business
Aharon Rabinowitz |
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Business & Marketing | Your Own Business, Part 2: Setting Up Shop
In Part 1 of this series, Creative COW leader and contributing editor Walter Biscardi laid out the issues you need to address before you can answer the question, Are you ready to start your own business? If you have thought long and hard and your answer is Yes, then join Walter to explore setting up your company and getting ready to open those doors!
Feature, Business
Walter Biscardi |
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Business & Marketing | 12 Things I Know About Business at 55 That I Wish I'd Known at 25
12 Things I Know About Business at 55 That I Wish Id Known at 25 is one of Creative COW Magazines most popular articles. In this magazine reprint, COW leader, contributing editor, and Senior Business Adviser to Creative COW Nick Griffin shares wisdom hes learned the hard way in over 26 years in business. His experience will help you to avoid mistakes, manage clients, and prepare yourself to achieve your greatest success.
Editorial, Feature, Business
Nick Griffin |
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Business & Marketing | Clients or Grinders: The Choice Is Yours -- Understanding the Three Market Types
In this article, Creative COW co-founder Ronald Lindeboom explores a concept that will empower your negotiations, streamline your client acceptance policy and give you a near-failsafe system for spotting winning clients and quickly avoiding time-consuming grinders. This simple formula is so basic and easy to understand that once you see the concept, you will probably say: "I know this!" -- and you do, you see it working everyday in your business and in your life.
Tutorial, Feature, Business
Ron Lindeboom |
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Business & Marketing | Blu-ray and HD DVD: The Big Dog Gets Off The Porch
Creative Cow Associate Publisher Tim Wilson wrote nearly a year ago that Wal-Mart would make the deciding vote in the DVD format wars. It turned out to be true, but its only the beginning of the story. Where will Blu-ray fit into the fast-changing landscape of home entertainment? Nothings over yet. Were just getting started.
Editorial, Feature
Tim Wilson |
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Business & Marketing | Free video and demo reel hosting comes to Creative COW
CreativeCOW.net has added free hosting for demo reels, music videos, commercials, short films, trailers and other media files that our members want to use to promote their businesses or just show their work. We support up to 900 pixels wide, up to 100MB in size, with AAC audio encoding.
Review, Editorial, Feature, Business
Ron Lindeboom |
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Business & Marketing | To Be or Not To Be Self-Employed
Self-employment may be your personal path to riches and enlightenment, or it may be one of the worst choices you'll ever make. In this article, Creative COW's Nick Griffin discusses the pros, cons and realities of starting your own business and gets into some of the things that should be considered before making the leap.
Editorial
Nick Griffin |
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Business & Marketing | No-Cost Ways to Increase Business
In this article, Creative COW's Ron Lindeboom outlines time-tested and near no-cost ways in which even the smallest businesses -- or large successful ones -- can expand marketshare and increase their client base. The old saying is that ''Successful people do what unsuccessful people will not do.'' Here are some of the things that successful people do...
Editorial, Tutorial, Business
Ron Lindeboom |
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Business & Marketing | Heavy Iron
How can a creative business survive, much less prosper, these days? DigitalFilm Tree's Zed Saeed offers a possible solution that combines embracing new, disruptive, low-cost technologies, and investing wisely to add value.
Editorial, Business
Zed Saeed |
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Business & Marketing | Out of the Box Solutions?
"If only problems stayed in boxes," Tim Wilson muses over the "Making It Up Issue" of Creative COW Magazine. He's also okay with a bunch of new problems. Making things up as you go along means that what looks like the end of the road doesn't have to be the end of the story.
Editorial
Tim Wilson |
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Business & Marketing | The Heroism of Joyful Creativity
I'm constantly inspired by the pleasure and the pride that the people in Creative COW Magazine take in doing the right things the right way, in always trying to improve, and always keeping their eyes peeled for new possibilities. I aspire to do my own work as creatively and joyfully as they do.
Editorial
Tim Wilson |
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Business & Marketing | Dealing with Control Freaks
In this article, Creative Cow's Ron Lindeboom looks at dealing successfully with clients who will not let you get a word in edgewise, don't listen to you when you do speak and interrupt you in mid-sentence and refuse to compromise on any point. They also do not remember a word you said and would sometimes even rather spend a bunch of money in court than pay you what is honestly due you. If you recognize any of these traits, chances are you have a ''control freak'' on the line. Here are some tips on dealing with them...
Editorial, Tutorial, Business
Ron Lindeboom |
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Business & Marketing | Understanding Copyrights: Part 2 - Fair Use
In this article, Creative COW's Ron Lindeboom examines the legal mine-field that make up the Fair Use provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976. People regularly make ''blanket statements'' regarding the Fair Use provisions and how they guarantee specific rights for educators, individuals, independent filmmakers, documentarians, event and corporate video producers, other content creators and individuals. But this article shows that the law is fair from clear and commercial use of copyrighted work is a trap in all but the most limited of applications...
Editorial, Tutorial, Business
Ron Lindeboom |
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Business & Marketing | Your Own Business, Part 1: Are you ready?
Creative Cow leader Walter Biscardi is a 17 year veteran of broadcast and corporate video production who owns Biscardi Creative Media in the Atlanta, Georgia area.. Along the way, he's learned a few things to do, and not do, in order to be successful. But before you can succeed building your business in the creative industry, you have to know: are you ready?
Feature, Business
Walter Biscardi |
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Business & Marketing | Finding the Way to Real Money - Full Time
Industry pros reveal how they got ahead and ways to stay there... Tim Wilson reveals some professional business secrets video and effects artists have shared with him over the years of how they have come to make money doing the work they love to do.
People / Interview, Business
Tim Wilson |
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Business & Marketing | Business Advice for Tough Times
Sound business advice is more precious than ever, and you can find TONS of it from the businesspeople at Creative COW. Our very own Cowdog has gathered some of the best tips for building your business from around the COW, including getting deadbeat clients to pay you, creating strong contracts, protecting your onscreen talent from accidental explosions...and a reminder that, as far as the client is concerned, everything is YOUR fault.
Feature, Business
Cowdog |
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Business & Marketing | The Secret to Success in Hard Times - Tenacity
Grinner Hester will never tell you success comes easy...or fast. After 25 years in the game, he's learned success never comes at all, unless you keep going. In this Creative COW Magazine article, Grinner discusses tenacity and how it is the secret to success in hard times.
Feature, Business
Grinner Hester |
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Business & Marketing | Taking Control of Your Billings
5 rules for getting paid for your creativity. The relationship between client and professional is wrought with pitfalls, frustrations and miscommunications. Save yourself from many common business problems by taking these five rules and putting them in your arsenal of business wisdom from Bessie and Mark Suszko.
Business
Mark Suszko |
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Business & Marketing | The Power of Passion
Making the most of your opportunities sometimes means knowing when not to take no for an answer. Many a project has fallen to the wayside because commonsense prevailed and the reasons to quit became greater than the will fueling the attempt. In the creative process, few things are as important as the passion and drive of the artist.
Editorial
Ron & Kathlyn Lindeboom |
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Business & Marketing | Business: Competing With Your Ears Wide Open
There is a secret to the kind of success that Creative COW has been experiencing over the years and in this article, COW CEO and lead architect of the COW's phenomenal growth, Ron Lindeboom, lays out the simple formula. It is a proven formula, one that is simple to follow. Use it. It works.
Editorial
Ron Lindeboom |
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