http://pmdforhire.com Shot a film? Great! But now you need an audience. PMDs -- or Producers of Marketing and Distribution -- can help you achieve your goals. Hiring a dedicated crew person gets this job done properly. Thu, 17 May 2012 18:55:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://pmdforhire.com http://pmdforhire.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Film-Favicon.gif http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/17/heres-what-you-risk-when-you-delay-audience-engagement/ http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/17/heres-what-you-risk-when-you-delay-audience-engagement/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 18:53:55 +0000 ADM http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/17/heres-what-you-risk-when-you-delay-audience-engagement/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I’m fond of telling clients and prospects how audience engagement isn’t a “today to tomorrow” phenomenon. So much so, in fact, that I think it should become its own PMD Proverb, but that’s a subject for another post. PMDs and … Continue reading →]]> http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/17/heres-what-you-risk-when-you-delay-audience-engagement/feed/ 0 http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/16/how-to-bounce-back-from-a-failed-kickstarter-campaign/ http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/16/how-to-bounce-back-from-a-failed-kickstarter-campaign/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 22:49:42 +0000 ADM http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/16/how-to-bounce-back-from-a-failed-kickstarter-campaign/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Okay, so how many of you don’t know Loren Feldman? Shame on you if you don’t. Means you’re not spending enough time online and that’s just not on, is it? Once tagged as “l’enfant terrible of Web 2.0,” the 1938 … Continue reading →]]> http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/16/how-to-bounce-back-from-a-failed-kickstarter-campaign/feed/ 0 http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/15/pmd-proverbs-do-not-crowdfund-for-your-entire-budget/ http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/15/pmd-proverbs-do-not-crowdfund-for-your-entire-budget/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 09:05:58 +0000 ADM http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/15/pmd-proverbs-do-not-crowdfund-for-your-entire-budget/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I had the recent good fortune to give a small talk about “Crowdfunding Your Film” at Raindance Canada’s inaugural indie filmmaker guerrilla workshop on May 10th, 2012 (for “rawest of the raw” footage from the event | click here). Crowdfunding … Continue reading →]]> http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/15/pmd-proverbs-do-not-crowdfund-for-your-entire-budget/feed/ 1 http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/14/social-media-is-the-equivalent-of-am-radio/ http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/14/social-media-is-the-equivalent-of-am-radio/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 20:33:55 +0000 ADM http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/14/social-media-is-the-equivalent-of-am-radio/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Who still listens to AM radio? ::: raises hand ::: Who even knows what AM radio sounds like, what with all these 24/96 quality audio streams around? Who recalls that scratchy, muffled, grainy, drone of your trusty radio, blaring out … Continue reading →]]> http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/14/social-media-is-the-equivalent-of-am-radio/feed/ 0 http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/13/go-analogmainly-because-its-better-than-digital/ http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/13/go-analogmainly-because-its-better-than-digital/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 00:48:13 +0000 ADM http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/13/go-analogmainly-because-its-better-than-digital/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Whatever happened to analog?! It used to be so popular… I often find myself confronted by indie filmmakers who query me in the midst of their nascent crowdfunding campaigns who are totally stumped for ideas on what sort of pledge … Continue reading →]]> http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/13/go-analogmainly-because-its-better-than-digital/feed/ 1 http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/11/what-do-you-look-for-in-a-workshop/ http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/11/what-do-you-look-for-in-a-workshop/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 18:20:55 +0000 ADM http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/11/what-do-you-look-for-in-a-workshop/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; }   I had the good fortune of helming last night’s Raindance Canada-sponsored inaugural crowdfunding workshop at Toronto’s Centre for Social Innovation (May 10, 2012), a spirited session of theory coupled with proven crowdfunding practice. For two-and-a-half hours I’d proceeded to … Continue reading →]]> http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/11/what-do-you-look-for-in-a-workshop/feed/ 0 http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/10/things-you-need-to-be-doing-every-day-as-an-independent-filmmaker/ http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/10/things-you-need-to-be-doing-every-day-as-an-independent-filmmaker/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 17:16:46 +0000 ADM http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/10/things-you-need-to-be-doing-every-day-as-an-independent-filmmaker/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Here are several tasks you need to be doing every day as an independent filmmaker. These are things you simply can’t avoid, things you must do in order to endear yourself to your audience and place your film on the … Continue reading →]]> http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/10/things-you-need-to-be-doing-every-day-as-an-independent-filmmaker/feed/ 0 http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/09/the-curse-of-too-much-free-time/ http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/09/the-curse-of-too-much-free-time/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 17:54:52 +0000 ADM http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/09/the-curse-of-too-much-free-time/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Another fun chat yesterday afternoon (May 08, 2012) with Film Specific’s striving Stacey Parks, author of The Insider’s Guide to Independent Film Distribution. I always enjoy speaking with Stacey’s following since they usually pose the best questions and almost all … Continue reading →]]> http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/09/the-curse-of-too-much-free-time/feed/ 0 http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/08/increasing-the-threshold-for-facebook-likes/ http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/08/increasing-the-threshold-for-facebook-likes/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 16:10:26 +0000 ADM http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/08/increasing-the-threshold-for-facebook-likes/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Like me, like me, like me! Requests for knee-jerk Facebook likes…they’ve become so ubiquitous. As a tethered, always-on, society we’ve become completely inured to them and the act of liking brands’ and films’ Fan Pages has become all but moot. … Continue reading →]]> http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/08/increasing-the-threshold-for-facebook-likes/feed/ 0 http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/07/its-all-about-the-story-and-the-dialogues-timeless-elements-which-dont-change/ http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/07/its-all-about-the-story-and-the-dialogues-timeless-elements-which-dont-change/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 16:52:16 +0000 ADM http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/07/its-all-about-the-story-and-the-dialogues-timeless-elements-which-dont-change/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } There are timeless elements about the cinematic craft which never change, no matter the season, no matter the hippest trend. When it comes to the movie business, everything almost always tracks back to the twin fundamentals of story and dialogue. … Continue reading →]]> http://pmdforhire.com/2012/05/07/its-all-about-the-story-and-the-dialogues-timeless-elements-which-dont-change/feed/ 0