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steven harp joined the group Business School 3 days, 4 hours ago · View
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John P. Hess posted on the discussion topic Know Your Ownership Rights in the group Business School: 5 days, 12 hours ago · View
Thanks Rich. It’s been really trying my confidence. I’ve been hacking away for 6 months now, dropping 3 long term clients. Two of them involving being cursed out. And, yes, I should have seen the warning signs. This last client was getting set to make a commercial that they thought was “going national” – but [...]
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Da_Cat posted on the discussion topic Know Your Ownership Rights in the group Business School: 5 days, 15 hours ago · View
I remembering feeling that way when I killed off a client that was way to much grief for the bucks involved. Remember the moment you gain a client is the moment you start losing them. Sometimes to move forward you got to whack off those low hanging branches of crap that we all seem to [...]
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John P. Hess started the discussion topic Know Your Ownership Rights in the group Business School: 5 days, 21 hours ago · View
Those of you that know me personally may know that I am going through a sort of personal hell with a long time client turned major a-hole. The whole relationship pretty much ended when the client called me up and yelled at me saying I had “lost my touch” and so forth. I knew he [...]
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Dave Clark joined the group Business School 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
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Ian Allen Lim joined the group Business School 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
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Simon Hosick posted on the discussion topic Warning Signs that a Client is Blowing Smoke Up Your Butt in the group Business School: 1 month, 4 weeks ago · View
I’d love to work with you in the future
I give out my card and never hear from them again.
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John P. Hess posted on the discussion topic Warning Signs that a Client is Blowing Smoke Up Your Butt in the group Business School: 1 month, 4 weeks ago · View
Well sometimes you can play a festival if you have a friend on the selection committee.
The other thing is, I’ve seen some seriously bad films at festival… so it really doesn’t mean anything…
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8thSamurai posted on the discussion topic Warning Signs that a Client is Blowing Smoke Up Your Butt in the group Business School: 1 month, 4 weeks ago · View
My usual response is ‘Exposure? You can die from that.’
Oh yeah – ‘Project x will play at festival y.’ You can’t make that promise, because there are no guarantees like that. Unless you have serious pull – which means you’ll also have a budget.
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8thSamurai posted on the discussion topic Warning Signs that a Client is Blowing Smoke Up Your Butt in the group Business School: 1 month, 4 weeks ago · View
That’s a fun one – favorite spelling errors/’this word does not mean what you think it means’” For aspiring: inspiring, aspirating (good, cause I like my crew breathing), inspring, etc. Reel: real (gotta hate those imaginary promos) I’ll have to dig a little, there are a ton of them. Oh yeah – misspelling/pronouncing my name. [...]
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John P. Hess posted on the discussion topic Warning Signs that a Client is Blowing Smoke Up Your Butt in the group Business School: 2 months ago · View
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Eric posted on the discussion topic Warning Signs that a Client is Blowing Smoke Up Your Butt in the group Business School: 2 months ago · View
1 This no budget film is going to be in Sundance 2 We have X budget for G&E. Fine it is below my day rate but I will discount the rate to meet your budget. (It works and pays my crew) This seems like a no brainer but in reality they are shopping around so [...]
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8thSamurai posted on the discussion topic Warning Signs that a Client is Blowing Smoke Up Your Butt in the group Business School: 2 months ago · View
@Thurman – I’ve had that happen too. It’s a kick in the teeth when you’ve taken pity on someone, brought your own gear for the day, and then they’re paying others.
Yep, I’ve been the sucker.
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Thurman Dalrymple, Jr. posted on the discussion topic Warning Signs that a Client is Blowing Smoke Up Your Butt in the group Business School: 2 months ago · View
I’m glad you wrote, “…someone you don’t know.”
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John P. Hess posted on the discussion topic Warning Signs that a Client is Blowing Smoke Up Your Butt in the group Business School: 2 months ago · View
@raindancepictureshow said:
Sends you the first draft of the script…You could have just stopped there. :)
Never send a first draft to someone you don’t know.
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Caleb Herring joined the group Business School 2 months ago · View
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Caleb Herring posted on the discussion topic Warning Signs that a Client is Blowing Smoke Up Your Butt in the group Business School: 2 months ago · View
Sends you the first draft of the script… when he’s never seen anything of yours… that sucks too…
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John P. Hess posted on the discussion topic Warning Signs that a Client is Blowing Smoke Up Your Butt in the group Business School: 2 months ago · View
We have no budget… Some one emailed me this the other day followed by about 2-3 paragraphs of stuff. I didn’t even read it. he followed up the next day and I was just blunt about it… I have enough clients I’m shaking down for money owned… When you say you have no money, I’m just [...]
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