For this customer story, I caught up with Chris Johnson and Jason Moore, the team behind Simplifilm. They take a unique approach to making product videos, and their results speak for themselves.
What does Simplifilm do?
We create narrative, motion graphic videos that artfully tell product stories.
How did you get started?
Jason: When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much… (kidding). I’ve been doing motion graphics video for about 13 years, and graphic design for even longer than that. Chris and I began doing odd jobs here and there in 2008, and one particular job called for an animated video. Simple by our present standards, it opened the door to a couple of other video opportunities. Our partnership went to the next level when Chris saw a bad demo for a product he loved, and when he called them on it, they hired us to make something great. We’ve been booked solid from that time on.
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Batchbook is a highly adaptable product by design. Our goal is to provide an easy to use CRM for small businesses of every stripe. From time to time, it is interesting to talk to a customer about how they use Batchbook specifically for their type of business.
Recently, we got a chance to grill Dan Smolensky of The Modal Group on how he employs Batchbook to help manage his commercial real estate business. The Modal Group is based in Chicago, and focuses on helping clients find the right locations throughout the United States.
Dan is a typical Batchbook customer. He started his own small business because he saw a need to provide more transparency in the commercial real estate market. The Modal Group makes a point of only representing the buyers, so that they can provide the best options to their clients.
While not every Batchbook customer is in commercial real estate, Dan has some great ideas and practices for using Batchbook that apply to many types of small businesses.
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Learning a new language is often challenging and frustrating. Batchbook customer Spark Languages doesn’t think that should be the status quo. They want learning another language to be fun, engaging, and effective. Through their program in Spain, students can learn Spanish in an immersive setting as they connect with teachers and native speakers.
What do you do?
We run Spanish language courses for adult learners and school groups. We offer accommodation in our own cultural residence, in hotels and also in staying with Spanish families. We also run an English Academy for Spanish children and a small translation service. (more…)
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Searching for a job in today’s market is tough. You want to use every tool available, and as far as those tools go, social media is a pretty powerful one. Batchbook customer and social media strategist Joshua Waldman sets out to show you just how to harness the power of social media to find your next job in his new book, Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies.
Joshua’s passion is helping job seekers and employers use social tools to connect and to find and fill jobs. He blogs on the topic regularly at his website, careerenlightenment.com. He discovered this passion after being laid off twice within 6 months in 2008. After the second lay off, he started to spend more time in social media, partly as a way to immerse himself into something positive after being dealt a couple of hard blows.
Before long, Joshua found that he was able to connect with people who were hiring, and he lined up a bunch of interviews. There was only one problem, he wasn’t ready to take another job. Instead, he had a light-bulb moment. If he could get interviews and job offers using social media, maybe he could teach others to use these tools as well. This is how he started his career as a social media strategist, focusing on the job market niche.
Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies is a resource heavy book, sort of a manual for job seekers who hope to capitalize on the power of tools like Twitter and LinkedIn to help them find a great job.
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What does a writer who has a passion to play music do when he’s had enough of his journalism job? Quit the job and start his own business on April Fool’s Day, of course. But Benjie Hughes wasn’t joking when he did just that. Eight years later, Backthird Audio, the company he started so he could pursue his passion for music, is still running strong.
This is a story about how bringing innovative business ideas to the table can help someone turn their passion into a reality.
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