Today we welcome Spencer Stanley from Vanguard Creative, a video production and photography company based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Timestamps
- 00:00 – Intro
- 03:42 – Working In your business vs on your business
- 5:07 – Cost of hiring full time employees
- 5:39 – BE TRANSPARENT. Be careful with companies that say they have large teams.
- 6:50 – Hire people with purpose
- 8:16 – Advantages of Slow Growth
- 9:26 – Be Careful when hiring based on the job
- 10:30 – The Video Production Industry in Winnipeg
- 13:58 – The Video Production Industry in Toronto
- 15:40 – A Youtube Channel as a Business
- 19:47 – 2022 Business Challenges
- 20:53 – Why the retainer model does not work for video companies
- 24:00 – Offering other services can make your clients love you more
- 26:33 – Sometimes you need to do photo and video at the same time
- 26:58 – The Retainer Model is works better for B2C VS B2B
- 28:14 – When you grow your business, you outgrow clients
- 31:24 – Small Successes can lead to big success down the road
- 34:18 – One off clients may not see video as a high value item but be open to them
- 37:09 – Know where to find your leads. B2B uses google & LinkedIn
- 38:33 – Learn to engage on LinkedIn
- 41:44 – Other Business Challenges
- 44:16 – Know when to say no
- 48:01 – Outro
