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From Consulting and Coaching to IP: How to Create, Protect, and Monetize Your Unique Body of Work with Erin Austin

Consulting Matters

Erin shares her journey from a big corporate law firm to working in the film business in LA and how her experiences led her to focus on helping business owners understand and capitalize on their intellectual property. Ensure you're booked solid with clients you love.

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“A good study”

Seth Godin Blog

When it cost $5,000,000 to make a video or a film, there was a lot of pressure to improve watchability and get an audience. Today, YouTube is filled with videos with no views at all. Today, when anyone can write and publish an ebook, there are many that have fewer than ten sales. Which brings us to scientific studies.

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France Seeks Another Tax on Facebook, Google And YouTube, to Finance "French Culture" Cinema

MishTalk

The sites fall into the same category as video-on-demand services, the organization said; so they would be subject to French cultural protection laws that require distributors to hand over some of their revenues to help subsidize productions. Subsidies For Films No One Watches Forbes has some interesting comments as well. billion ($1.8

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How Netflix’s Content Strategy Is Reshaping Movie Culture

Harvard Business

” If you’ve seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, that one line probably conjures up memories of Oh yeah, chicka chicka, Ferraris, playing hooky, and dating in high school — all of which feature heavily in the hit coming-of-age film. This is how Blockbuster used to operate, at least when it came to mainstream domestic films.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. For one, instead of establishing their own online sales site, they partnered with Amazon, a formidable rival. This company was doing great as the leader in video rentals. billion in 1991.

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business

A famous example is YouTube, which began as a video dating site back in 2005. The site failed to gain traction so the founders, leveraging what they learned while building the original platform, launched another version of the website focusing on sharing videos online, with significantly more success. customers in order to boost sales.

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NFTs are a dangerous trap

Seth Godin Blog

Like a Pokemon card, or an original Picasso drawing or the actual frame of a Disney animated film from 1955, NFTs are designed to be the one and only, a shred of non-fungible reality in a world gone digital. They sell at garage sales for dollars, not millions, and original (and beautiful) works of art go unsold every day.

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