This past year my company had it’s highs and lows like most companies did. We celebrated victories, and suffered losses. Clients dropped out, had unrealistic demands, stretched the boundaries of our contracts, and took advantage of our size. They also bought more videos than ever. Highs, lows, highs, lows, excitement, despair, thrill, defeat, ups, downs,[…]
Author: Russell Fairley
Friday Fun! Tell us what you use on the road…
For today’s interactive feature on the Rampant Blog, we want to know what you use for equipment when you work on the road.
Rampant Extreme Drive
So one of the products I’ve been most excited about in the last few months is the Extreme Drive from Rampant Design Tools. They have a few drives, all with various products at various price points – reasonable price points at that – but the Extreme drive piqued my curiosity for a few reasons. Everybody[…]
Russ’ Top Ten Things to Do While on a Render Bender
No honey, I’m not squandering my day on Xbox! I’m rendering.
Guarding Your Gear
[social_share/] Protecting, indexing and ultimately safeguarding your equipment Insurance is great. Something gets stolen, and they cut you a check. Assuming the check covers replacing your gear, it’s all good, right? Sometimes, for sure. Maybe your old Nikon D300 was stolen and you can put the money towards a sexy new D800. Sometimes it’s not[…]
Marketing Yourself Organically
[social_share/] A wise and wealthy man once told me “Russ, always have substance.” As it happened, he said this after watching a wild-looking middle-aged man park his Lamborghini, then barge out of the car with an ankle length leather trench coat, spiked hair, Bono-sized sunglasses, hands full of rings and generally every other accessory he[…]
No Brainer Tools For Video Pros and Enthusiasts
I’ve been discussing Rampant Design Tools an awful lot lately, and with good reason. They create tools that allow small production companies like mine to not only make stuff look good – we have been able to ramp up our production of high quality videos by a massive factor, increasing our profits dramatically and making[…]