Here’s a sneak peek at what you’ll hear:
- An insider’s advice to freelancers who want to become the go-to videographer for ad agencies. (Follow this advice and you can potentially be on speed dial for multiple agencies. – 1:30)
- An outreach marketing fallacy that keeps video freelancers from picking up new business. (Buying into this fallacy will castrate all your marketing efforts – 2:00)
- How NOT to do outreach marketing. (If your outreach marketing sounds like the example given at 4:20, then you’ll want to change that right quick. Here’s how…)
- A ridiculously simple way (yet overlooked by most people) to get on the radar of producers and directors of big agencies who hire video freelancers. – 5:00
- Why video freelancers should think more like sleazy car salesmen. – 6:00
- Key people to approach inside an ad agency if you’re a videographer looking for work. – 11:00
- Den’s “how NOT to turn up to a corporate gig” story. (Megadeth were a great ’80s metal band but rocking up to a corporate gig looking like one of the band members is probably not a great idea. – 13:00)
- A crackbrained thing many video freelancers do to their fees when working for big agencies. Doing this will always backfire. – 16:30
- The surprising power of being organized. (It ain’t sexy. It ain’t exciting, but by golly, this one attribute will get a videographer more work than just about anything else. – 18:00)
- The pros and cons of working for an ad agency as a hired videographer. – 22:00
- A classy way to deal with producers and directors who have the creativity of a house brick. – 24:00