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Video or Photo Documentary
We provide time lapse video, documentary and photography for Creative and Construction Projects.
There are many benefits to having a dedicated camera operator/photographer for your project:
1. You don’t lose time while stopping to document your work or project
2. You can move on to the next paid project (we can go back to get those all important “after” images)
3. Your photos and video look much more professional and steady
4. You will have documented evidence of your work for marketing, training, sales and use on your website
5. Few things are as dramatic for presenting job progress as a “time lapse” video
As executive producer and producer we have worked with many trades and business owners to document their work, edit it, and present it in ways that help them draw more attention to their talents (and the work they have ALREADY done).
Our services are affordable. We can handle heights, lighting and getting the right professional shot (under any circumstances).
We are even equipped to deliver broadcast quality production in the event you would like to have your own web-cast or broadcast television show (self-help, docu-drama or just for fun). We have narrators, hosts and animation capabilities as well (for that professional touch in communicating with a viewer, whether it is images, a great script or a smiling face).
MY OPINION: The best and easiest way to gain credibility as an authority in your field is to be depicted as one…in a video.
Mark Mahar
Give us a call and we can discuss your next project.
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Career Clock (wage earners)
Understanding where you are in the arc of your career or project is important to determining your aptitude for risk or earnings (two different things):
1. Your value as an employee
2. Your preparedness for risk as a business owner
I developed this illustration as an answer to frequent clients that are starting their first business.
I work with many career employees who are making their first risk in business (inventors, artists, startups, technology, etc…). After years of working for someone else they are ready to strike out on their own. Many, however, don’t truly appreciate how insulated their life has been as an employee. Employee positions do not involve any personal risk (one is simply trading time, talent and responsibility for a given wage). It may be worth discussion, but if you are considering self-employment or business ownership it is a good place to start.
If you are already an owner (or self-employed…and there is a difference), this illustration may turn your wheels a little about where your value is in a business (and what other talent you may need to surround yourself with, in order to be most profitable). This is titled “Wage Earner’s Career Clock” for a reason (owners don’t typically derive their income from a wage; earnings and wages being two distinct things).
In this illustration, MONEY exists outside the circle. Getting to the money requires four things:
- Time
- Talent
- Responsibility
- Risk
MEINC_CareerClock1 (printable PDF)
“Wing Theory” for Business
…so I was sitting around the other night, thinking about how business navigates the marketplace…and how the market may or may not actually respond as much like a fluid as many market professionals would like to believe. If it were a fluid…[insert idea].
It occurred to me that Bernoulli’s principle is simply a scientific statement of how fluid reacts (pressure, speed, distance)…and that science is applied with great success for many innovations (not the least of which is an airplane wing). There you have it:
WING THEORY for Business (TM) – utilizing Bernoulli’s principle as a creative basis to determine strategic modeling for business, where the market is a fluid. Designing to gain altitude/distance or less pressure in business as a result of an efficient design.
I decided to diagram my thoughts as it relates to “altitude” in business. A wing is for flight, right? Let’s give your business wings.
I’ve attached a PDF for the curious and included preview images.
Bernoulli For Business (“Wing Theory” pdf)
In short – the innovative element of modeling a business in this manner is that it places a hierachy on management, while also labeling (and illustrating) the most important component of a busines (the “high spot”). That “most important thing” is different in EVERY company (something that conventional business modeling doesn’t allow for as efficiently in visual depictions).
The tallest column in the structure of a wing determines both the radius of the wing and the potential for “lift”. It illustrates a requirement for all the supporting/surrounding elements – what relevance they play in giving a business the shape necessary for strategic “lift”. Weaknesses in a business model are more visually identifiable as well.
There is way more to it than that, but this 4 page illustration very clearly communicates the broad strokes of adapting conventional business designs, while treating the 21st century marketplace as it should be interpreted (a fluid that can be navigated with the right design).
It isn’t science as much as it is a really just a clever/visual analogy. In any case, this depiction allows for the most simplistic illustration of three simultaneous components (all of which are sometimes difficult to communicate on their own, let alone together):
- linear hierarchy (business processes)
- business philosophy (brand & market focus)
- management strategy (strengths are strengths)
Enjoy,
Mark
Support Forum Up & Running
It is official – the new Online Support Forum is up and running.
I realize that actually GETTING clients and associates to migrate their topics and our working relationship onto “yet another internet interface” may not be the most convenient thing (let’s face it – we all have enough login screens to navigate in our lives). Why then would I create a “Forum”?
It has benefits for everyone (existing clients, visitors, consultants and me).
* CHEAPER access to my services (and the services of my professional associates)
* EASIER FOR ME – I aim to somewhat centralize my customer service and support (while documenting it for others who have similar questions). Some days I get 150 emails and “some” (cough) emailers still insist on excluding the content of the original message. Want free advice? Post it publicly and get free advice (where I don’t have to rely on my memory to know what I told you last).
* Access to information and services that you may not even know are available through Mahar Enterprises, Inc.
* CONSULTANT AWARENESS - a place for the many faces who have stayed behind the scenes for far too long (and some new faces who hope to be part of your “answer bank”).
* SEARCH ENGINE RELEVANCE – I’m not going to publish 500 pages of web content for all the crap I know how to do, just so a search engine can find me. It’s gratuitous and confusing. The more conversations that take place on the forum, the more “words” are associated with everyone – use it accordingly (as a client or a contributor – registration is free).
I hope you find it useful.
Everything starts somewhere. However humble the beginnings, the Support Forum is officially “open”.
(a permanent web link lives in the black footer on every page of our site – “SUPPORT FORUMS” – look down)
Cheers & Thanks,
Mark
Free Online Education
Free online educational resources:
We’re not affiliated with their site in any way, but Marc & Angel courteously compiled a list of places for you and it is worth checking out.
“12 Dozen Places to Educate Yourself Online”
http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/11/15/12-dozen-places-to-self-educate-yourself-online/
…happy clicking.