Posted by Steve Guidry on 08/11/06 03:24

Why in the world should I do all the work on your promise to try to sell it
?

Do you have any real experience at this ? Or are you just the
"flavor-of-the-month" wonderkid just out of film school who hasn't landed a
real job yet ?

Answer these things well, and maybe I'll quit laughing :

What's your track record ?
Have you actually sold ANYTHING ?
Who have you rep'ed for before ?
Who do you have signed up on the buyer end ?
Anyone ?


Steve Guidry
Video Works, Inc.



<ramzi@rcomp.com> wrote in message
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> Larry in AZ wrote:
>>
>> That may be true, but you are looking for generic videos to be submitted
>> BEFORE the ad copy is written.
>>
>> How is that supposed to work..?
>>
>
> OK, let's go with an example. A used cars website makes a request for
> a video ad. ByteCaster posts the request as a competition. When the
> competition ends, and there are 10 submissions, we show the client the
> videos, he picks one and pays for it, and we pay the winner. The
> winner gives us the rights to the video, we customize it for the client
> (adding their logo and URL), and hand it over to the client.
>
> Now there are 9 videos left. With the permission of the owners of
> those videos, we will go around to other used cars websites, and try to
> sell them those videos. Each video that is bought will be customized
> similar to the above video.
>
> In the meantime, the video makers may have other videos they think are
> good business videos that are worthwhile. For example, you may have a
> video shoot of a couple having a romantic dinner on the beach. So you
> submit it to ByteCaster as part of your video profile. Someone at
> ByteCaster will review your video and decide that it may be a good
> advertisement for a romantic vacation package, or maybe for a dating
> website. So he/she will try to sell the video to travel or dating
> websites. If a website thinks it is interesting and wants to purchase
> it, then it is customized and sold, and you get paid the price you
> asked for it. The price at which the video is sold to the client will
> be higher than your asking price to cover the cost of customization and
> guarantee us a profit.
>
> I hope that explains it a bit.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ramzi Baroody
>

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