Old family photos may be some of the most valuable possessions you have. They are the first thing many people grab when their house is threatened by water or fire. Old photos are one thing that cannot be replaced. Natural disasters are not the only threat to old...
Transfers
How to Convert Films Reels to Digital
In the era before consumer video formats like VHS, film on reels was the only medium for making home movies. If you're fortunate enough to have a collection of these vintage films, you may have footage of yourself and your family as young children, and of loved ones...
4 Good Reasons To Transfer Your Videotapes
If you have a collection of old videotapes gathering dust in a closet or basement, transferring them to disk or a digital format may be a wise decision. Here are four good reasons why: 1. One of the best reasons to transfer your videotapes is to preserve precious...
Egyptian Boat Slide
This great slide is from a collection from a transfer client who gave me permission to use it. This boat is a felucca, a traditional wooden sailing boat used in the eastern Mediterranean, around Malta and Tunisia, and in Egypt and Sudan along the. Its rig consists of...
How Many Ads Does It Take
If you've been reading this newsletter for a while, you know I have experimented with many marketing and advertising tactics for my video transfer business. I have used yard signs, newspaper ads, direct mail, moving billboards, Local Search Engine Optimization, Google...
Client Sails to Tonga
One of my favorite aspects of the transfer business I run is the people I meet. A very interesting woman came in to transfer some videos. As we talked she said they had just arrived in Rhode Island from a round-the-world sail. I asked if I could correspond with them...
ISOBuster Recovery Works
ISOBuster is data recovery software for Windows that has been around for a long time, but it is regularly updated and users love it. I was recently transferring some client-made DVDs to MPG4 when I discovered a number of the disks could not be read by any machine. I...
Closing Costco Photo Centers
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...
Converting Videos to MP4
I am often asked about transferring VHS or another format to MP4. Since my typical transfer job for a customer is usually to convert a lot of videos to either DVD or USB, I need to carefully consider the most efficient way to do this. One approach is to use a simple...
Which Marketing Campaign Works Best?
A new customer called yesterday to inquire about transferring her videos. And when the conversation turned to how she found me, she said she saw my newspaper ad. I had not advertised in the paper in about three months. Then she said she also found me online. This kind...
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