Response to Making money with video

Hello Matt, I started my own business when I was 20 and met with similar attitudes. But I prevailed, somewhat. Anyway, I started with an old SVHS panasonic AG-450 10 years ago and began shooting a local TV show, Volume: Rock Revue, on the local cable station, then I went around looking for sponcers for the show, next thing I know I am shooting car infomercials, like the ones you see late at night "The Cable Car Show". The next thing I did was started an "electronic Billboard" on TV with Powerpoint. I sold space on it for $25 for 30 second and their ad to be shown 3 times in half hour. Really the best thing to do is get a partner, someone who is a natural salesman, an older friend maybe who is interested in making it on there own. That is also one tip I'll give you, to make money in this business you have to continualy be working, that means someone has to be continualy selling. It's hard to do it by yourself, I know. Keep looking for new ideas, or a twist on a old idea and in other markets around the country, you might run across something that you can bring to your area. The key to TV is Ad revenue. Here's what you do. Call your local cable TV station and get the rates for their leased access channel. Make sure you can resell the ad time, that is take there 1/2hour and resell 5 min blocks with in it. Find out if anyone else has a car show, then under cut their rates. Make up a brouchure with your Great Rates! Then contact a local small dealer and ask him to shoot his lot as a demo. Get him to walk along the cars and pitch them, do 3 or 4 cars at a time to fill up 5 min. Then cut it together, make it look sharp! Then hit every dealer in the local coverage. Once you success at that, go to the local affiliate and get there rates, and sell to the whole region. Good Luck!

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