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Internet Marketing for Filmmakers

 

I need your help!

I'm still designing this lens about Internet Marketing for Filmmakers because I would like to find out what filmmakers like yourself want to know about using Internet Marketing techniques for promoting yourself and your films.

Could you please participate in a quick survey?

By answering the four questions below, you will help me decide on the content of this Internet Marketing for Filmmakers website.

Also, if you want to find out more on how to use Internet Marketing for promoting yourself or your films, Click Here to get on my mailing list and to receive a free ebook called The Multi-Layered Mindset of Web 2.0 Marketing describing the evolution of Web 2.0.

If you are a Squidoo member, please take a moment to rate this site by leaving any comments at the end of this page.

Peter D. Marshall
Website - www.actioncutprint.com
Email -pdm@actioncutprint.com 

Poll #1 - Why Internet Marketing? 

These results will help me decide on the content of this lens.

When I get a visitor to this Film Marketing lens, I have no idea what you are actualy interested in or what information you are searching for. By participating in this quick survey, you will help me decide on the content for this Internet Marketing lens.

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Poll #2 - Websites and Blogs 

If you want to have any success in promoting yourself or your films on the Internet, you really need to have your own Website or Blog - preferably both.

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Poll #3 - Social Networking Sites 

In the "real" world, Networking with other filmmakers is one of the best ways to promote yourself or your films - and it's the same on the Internet.

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Poll #4 - Videos and Demo Reels 

Using video as part of your marketing plan is one of the best ways to promote yourself and your films

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Why listen to me about Internet Marketing? 

Good question!

As a filmmaker, I have been involved with Internet Marketing since 1996. I have attended a variety of workshops and bought thousands of dollars worth of marketing products from some of the biggest names in direct marketing and internet marketing: Dan Kennedy, John Reese, Yanik Silver and Corey Rudl.

Over the past 11 years, I became a serious student of direct marketing and how it applies to the film business, and I have used that marketing knowledge to successfully promote my services, workshops, ezines and websites.

For example: in 2006 I presented my first international "Art and Craft of the Director" 3 day workshop in Vancouver, Canada. 17 filmmakers registered for this event from as far away as South Africa and Mexico.

And my advertising budget? All I spent was $20.00 for some flyers! The rest of my promotion and advertising was done using the Internet - from email lists to free sites like Craiglist.

Here's another example: by understanding up-to-date internet marketing techniques, (SEO, keyword ranking, email marketing etc.) you can start to get your website or blog ranked high in the search engines. And by the way, if your website is not mentioned on the first three pages of any search engine, the chances of it being found by anyone is very small.

Try this. Type in "film directing" (in quotation marks) into Google. As of this date (August 7, 2007) a page on my website www.actioncutprint.com was ranked #5 out of 205,000 web pages for those two words. Click Here to see image capture of this Google page.

Type in "filmmaking workshops" (in quotation marks) and another website of mine www.filmmakingworkshops.com is ranked #4 out of 31,500 web pages for those words. Click Here to see image capture of this Google page.

The point I am making is this - by understanding the techniques of direct marketing and knowing how to apply them to your internet marketing promotions, you will have a better chance than 90% of the other filmmakers out there trying to promote their services and films on the Internet.

I hope these few examples of how I use Direct Marketing techniques to successfully promote myself on the Internet will engage your creative juices to find out more on how you can find work, market your services and promote your films using the Internet.

The Multi-Layered Mindset of Web 2.0 Marketing 

Get this Free Report describing the evolution of Web 2.0

The Multi-Layered Mindset of Web 2.0 Marketing is a free ebook by Tiffany Dow that describes how the concept of Web 2.0 evolved and why you need to understand it in order to do business on the web today.

"Web 2.0 is not a buzzword or mysterious new advertising tactic - it's about raising your strategic planning to a level that matches the evolution of the World Wide Web." Tiffany Dow

To get your Free Report, just Click Here. Just push "Send" and in moments you will receive "The Multi-Layered Mindset of Web 2.0 Marketing" in your email In-Box.

What is Web 2.0? 

It's basically about people, communities, consumer interaction and opinions

Web 2.0 was popularized by O'Reilly Media at the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Basically, Web 2.0 refers to the perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services - such as social-networking sites (My Space, Facebook, Squidoo) and wikis (Wikpedia) which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.

Web 2.0 is the term used for the next generation of online community building where visitors to a website interact with the webmasters of that sites. It allows these visitors to add content and interact with other users of the website.

In short, it's all about interactivity - about the involvement of the website visitor with the creator of the website.

What is Social Networking? 

Social Networking focuses on the building of online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others.

Most social network services are primarily web based and provide a collection of various ways for users to interact: such as chat, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging and discussion groups.

What is Squidoo? 

Squidoo is one of the most popular sites on the internet for people who want to build a page about their passions. It's part wikipedeia, part social site and part blog and it brings the best of Web 2.0 and Social Networking together in one place.

Squidoo is a network of user-generated "lenses" which are single pages that highlight one person's point of view, recommendations or expertise. Lenses can be about anything: ideas, people, places, business, hobbies, sports, products, services, philosophy or politics. With Squidoo, anyone can make a lens and have exposure on the Internet.

How to Squidoo - by "Squidoo's" 

featured lens Why Build a Lens?

Squidoo is a website hosting hundreds of thousands of handbuilt webpages (just to be difficult, we call them "lenses"). Each lens is one person's look at something online. Your take on football or business or the best thai food in town. Lenses are f...

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The Art and Craft of the Director Audio Seminar is a comprehensive, 10-day audio/email program that reveals the tips, techniques and secrets you need to know to become a successful, working film and television director.

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Posted June 29, 2008
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Posted January 12, 2008
Nela_Odarijew

I enjoyed reading the information on your site. I am very interested in using video to market my products. Your site has helped me understand where I can start. Thanks, I'll be checking back lots.

Posted October 13, 2007
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will be updated soon :)

Posted August 07, 2007

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About bcfilmmaker

I'm Peter D. Marshall - a  filmmaker in Vancouver, Canada.

I have worked (and survived!) in the Film and Television Industry for over 33 years - as a Film Director, Television Producer, First Assistant Director and TV Series Creative Consultant.

In 2000, I created my website, ActionCutPrint.com and began to publish the free monthly ezine, The Director's Chair which is presently read in over 100 countries around the world. I also have my own filmmaking blog called Film Directing Tips.

I have Directed over 30 episodes of Television Drama such as "John Woo's Once a
Thief", "Wiseguy", "21 Jumpstreet", "Neon Rider", "The Black Stallion", "Scene
of the Crime", "Big Wolf on Campus" and "Largo Winch."

As a First Assistant Director, I have worked on over 10 Features (including "Dawn of
the Dead", "The Butterfly Effect", "Happy Gilmore", "The Fly II"); 15 Television
Movies; 7 Television Series; and over 20 Commercials.

I have written, directed or produced over 50 hours of documentary and
educational programs and my documentaries and dramas have won, or been nominated
for, 14 International film awards.

I have worked for directors such as John Woo, Phillip Noyce, Ed Zwick, John
Badham, Roger Vadim, Dennis Dugan, Anne Wheeler and Zack Snyder.

I have worked with actors such as Peter O'Toole, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman,
John Travolta, Marcia Gaye Harden, Madeleine Stowe, Mel Gibson and Adam Sandler.

I have been a guest directing instructor at the Vancouver Film School, the Directors Guild of Canada, Victoria Motion Picture School and Capilano College.

I have also developed several filmmaking workshops and seminars that I have
presented over the past 15 years - from Canada to Singapore to Dubai.

I am 56 years old, have a graying beard, very little hair and my passion is filmmaking - and that's why I created this lens.

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