Good News For Transfer Businesses The company is closing Costco Photo Centers effective February 14, 2021. Costco had already closed some of them a couple years ago. But now they say " the need for printing photos has steeply declined, even though the number of...
But I am very careful. We are seeing the third wave of infections and it will be a hard winter. I do not allow any customers in my home as I once did. I tell customers to stay in their car and call me when they arrive. I tell them I will put on a mask and ask them to...
Update: Since writing this last year, the car/billboard continues to makes sales. People take pictures of it and call. Even when it's parked at home, I get a few calls. A good investment. After a lengthy delay due to the virus, the sign company finally finished my car...
Moving Billboard I have been thinking about using my car as a moving billboard. I've seen lots of car wraps, but while most of them are colorful and eye-catching, I have not seen any that are effective sales messages. And they are expensive. A full wrap of an SUV can...
I recently sent emails to my transfer customers with the subject "Doorstep Pickups For Digitizing Now Available". I offered to come to their home, and safely pick up their transfer media from their doorstep. This was to eliminate the person-to-person contact we have...
Transferring negatives and transparencies can be a challenge if they are not typical sizes. Those that are typical sizes like 35mm, 120 and 126 can be scanned using a good flatbed scanner. But other sizes require a different approach. One recent job was all negatives,...
This excerpt from the Occupational Outlook Handbook is compiled by the US Dept. of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. The following is a summary. What the report calls "commercials, and other performing arts productions" also covers corporate video, industrials, and...
I used to feel badly when a customer brought just one video to transfer. When I added the time I spent on the phone and two meetings with the customer, it was clear that I was not making very much per hour. Fortunately I did not let my feelings show. For as I later...
With the constant dizzying introduction of new and better cameras and video gear, owning gear can be a real challenge. The danger is that it can lose its value before you have made the final payments. Or that your income from this gear will not meet your projections....
Did you know the Wayback Machine has a searchable TV News Archive with 1.7 million TV shows? In case you didn't know, the Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the web. It was launched in 2001 by the Internet Archive. While exploring the TV News Archive I discovered...
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