As our team looked back on 2018, we felt gratitude. As we look forward to 2019, we see opportunity. What about you? Early in my career, I remember once entering a new year not feeling gratitude nor seeing opportunity, but just feeling stuck. The opportunities were few and the obstacles were many. I felt like a…
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Save the Date: QOHORT Q1 2019 The next round of QOHORT events have been announced. In addition to New York and Los Angeles masterminds, RevThink is delighted to announce a kickoff event for our new chapter in London: London January 17 Featured guest Blair Enns, CEO at Win Without Pitching and author of Pricing Creativity....
"If you get this wrong, you will push yourselves to try and produce great work… but never produce truly great work." – Joel Pilger Through next week, RevThink consultant Joel Pilger is leading a webinar entitled Why Up-and-Coming Studios Get Stuck. Exclusively for business owners running studios, agencies, and production companies, Joel is answering questions like:...
Announcing Confab: The Live Weekly Forum RevThink is pleased to announce Confab, the next step for graduates of the Jumpstart accelerator. Structured as a private, live weekly forum hosted by consultant Joel Pilger and his guest experts, Confab is a safe space where members make rapid – and consistent – progress to strengthen their creative businesses. Let’s keep...
"What we want to do is take all of our expertise, professionalism, and technology... and put our 15 year-old passion into it." – Justin Kanner In this episode in our Profile of the Creative Entrepreneur series, Joel Pilger speaks with Justin Kanner and Heather Roymans, partners at creative studio Alter Ego. If the name Alter...
"I look at the digital video marketplace through the supply chain and the thing that I think is missing – in all digital media publications – is writing from the perspective of, 'Okay something happened. Why is it worth my time?'" – Andrew Rosen In episode 59 of the RevThinking podcast, Tim Thompson sits down...
Last week I heard a production company principal espousing the importance of relationships in business. I totally agreed with his point, right up until he said: “We partner with our clients.” Later over drinks in SoHo, I asked him if he was open to some constructive criticism and to his credit, he said yes. Here…
Yesterday in NYC, Tim Thompson and I spoke to a room packed with two dozen creative entrepreneurs to share concepts addressing their #1 hot button Ingredient: SALES. It turns out, every owner in that room was convinced their biggest issue is sales. And you probably think so, too. That’s common. Because everyone thinks they have a sales…
"There's no cause without capital. And capital is what fuels it." – Chris Do In this episode in our Profile of the Creative Entrepreneur series, Joel Pilger speaks with Chris Do at Blind and The Futur in our series focused on inspired creative entrepreneurs and their journey navigating the intersection of creativity and commerce. Listen to...
Make the most of NATPE. After concluding the ShowLauncher Masterclass 2018 series in Los Angeles, Tim Thompson and Patrick Jager pick up the conversation in January at the NATPE Conference in Miami: Masterclass Session: Stop Faking It Tuesday Jan 22 @ 2:30 EST Simply put, your content is not what’s wrong, it’s how you’re developing...