Crowd Spring

Using Crowdspring, a "crowd casting" site.  I threw down a $220 award for the best logo design for my new company, Tree Ring Films.  The competition runs till Friday but I already have  30 designs entered from finland UK, US, Indoneasia and India.  Nice bunch of creative.  Check the site out.
Catch up on how this old world is changing.

CCD vs CMOS

Picking a camera.  Physics is tough.  Looks like CCD technology wins over CMOS for what I will be doing.  Cost is a killer.  Look for a used camera.

CPA

Capital and structure is complete.  Using the worst scenario as my business plan for 2012.  Better to be radically conservative.

Thinking BIG

Blue Ocean is a great book about the concept of making your offering different than the rest of your peers.  After way too much coffee it came to me that one way to change the product up would be to view the shoot and edit sessions as only two parts of a total experience.  How about the pre shoot organization event where everyone brings and contributes photo and film.  Then the actual shoot day then the client engagement in the editing suite.  Finished up with the Premier Night and after party complete with schwag bags.  The capturing of memories becomes a memory in itself.

Number Crunching

3 scenarios for cash flow.  Plan C is if Greece than Italy then France then Germany banks all fail.  Prospects might be a little freaked.  Note to self...save a little for guns, gold and freeze dried grub.  Oh and some water purification things.

Web development

GotoMeeting conference on the website.  They are pushing me.  My WSI account mgr sounds like Ann Heche.  She is a buzz saw driving the Indian web designers.

Board and Trustee

The boys will get some experience as members of my board.  Two of them I dragged to Albany for the editing sessions with the first film I did in 1986.  The youngest led the shooting and editing of the film of their Grandpa Clark.  Priceless.  Mary will stand guard as a trustee over profit sharing plan and Charities.  May God bless our endeavor.