Livalittle’s JD Gonzalez on experience-based hiring, free filmmaking workshops as a networking engine, breaking into the New York market, the realities of filming in NYC, and building his own production apps and CRM with Claude Code.
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Tone Films’ Andrei Tone on scaling from a solo shoot to a multi-city videography company: building a reliable team, using SEO as the growth engine, systemizing delivery, and weighing a career change.
#112 Expanding to Multiple Cities & Potential Career Change (ft. Tone Films) Read More »
Episode 108 of Creatives Grab Coffee explores building a video production company in Dubai, covering corporate work, pricing pressure, systems, and scale.
#108 Building a Production Company in Dubai’s Hyper-Competitive Market (ft. AK Films) Read More »
Learn how 6 STRONG MEDIA scaled a 280-crew national production network with systems and strong margins: insights for video agencies on growth, pricing, and operations.
#105 Systems, Margins & Mindset (ft. 6 STRONG MEDIA) Read More »
IND Films founder Israel Bonequi on niching into medical and industrial video in Montreal: the jack-of-all-trades trap, pricing and client education, and building a virtual production studio.
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Episode 100. Dario Nouri and Kyrill Lazarov reflect on 5 years of Creatives Grab Coffee: partnership agreements, AI, business valuations, LinkedIn, and the next 100 episodes.
#100 Looking Back & Moving Forward (ft. LAPSE Productions) Read More »
Innovate Media’s Ben Amos on leading with video strategy instead of production: his seven-element framework, paid strategy workshops, B2B vs B2C, and making a retainer model actually work.
#99 – Video Strategy & Retainers (ft. Innovate Media) Read More »
Heehaw’s Toby Trueman on scaling a video studio to 47 people and back: the financial foundations he skipped, the hybrid live action and animation USP, and why measured growth wins.
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Dream Engine’s Ryan Spanger on the long game of running a video business: building a real marketing system, authentic networking, chasing high-intent leads, consistent content, and beating comparison and regret.
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