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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

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If you look at the industry, it's a roughly $100 billion industry, with about 80 percent of the revenue coming from the big six studios, Warner, Paramount, Disney, 20th Century Fox, and so on. Darren Marble: I spent the last ten years in enterprise sales, selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies.

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13 Red Flags To Avoid In Your Investor Funding Pitch

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Sales projections are less than one percent market penetration. I highly recommend that you screen your business plan and your executive presentation carefully for variations on any of these themes, and remove them. Your credibility is paramount, so don’t jeopardize it with hype and too much passion. Your future depends on it.

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Learning The Ropes Of Internet Video With Michael Tringe and CreatorUp

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YouTube has a player which works in Google hangouts, so they can instantly screen your work or your pitch, and you can get instant feedback that way. I started writing, doing production, and wrote a winning student short, and also worked at Creative Artist in film distribution and sales. Those teachers are what set us apart.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. . Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Remember again that the three major steps to a sale are: Why buy anything?

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