09-01-2019, 08:37 AM
(08-31-2019 08:18 PM)plokij3 Wrote: [ -> ]Looks interesting! Let me know more...
There's not a lot more to tell, but I'll give it a shot.
I grew up writing, my mom and dad were in the mail-order business, so I helped them create content and sell it via small classified ads in papers like, "The National Enquirer" and others.
As an adult I worked in the music
video business in Nashville, TN, working with a slew of Country Stars a few you might recognize are Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Emmy Lou Harris, and Loretta Lynn. Every single one was fun to work with and treated everyone with courtesy and respect; nary a one was a diva.
That led to gathering with a group of friends to produce and a movie, with dreams of Hollywood calling. We made the movie, though Hollywood apparently didn't have our number, oh well, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
I'm not going to give the IMDB link here, but if anyone is interested, drop a PM. I was the writer/producer of the film.
From there, I made commercials, industrial videos, basically anything I could to turn a buck. In most cases, I worked as either a writer or a DP (Director of Photography).
Fast forward a bit, and I was hired to write content, do SEO, and work with Adwords for a penny stock site. It's no longer online, but when it was hot, we were on Google page 1, the owner was raking in cash but the penny stock industry changed and he did a pivot, sadly without me.
Recently I've had some life issues I'm having to deal with, and thus this thread. I've been told that my price is too high, that content can be bought for $10 for 500 words and I'll never get any work. Not sure I agree, but we'll see based on this BSO.
That's a pretty good summary, of course, there's more to tell, but a BSO isn't the place.
Questions, leave them in the thread.
Ready to order, drop a PM
SBV