OT: Creating Family History Video's as a Busi

will-3 wrote on 6/14/2006, 8:23 AM
Does anyone have any experience offering the service of interviewing family members like parents and/or grand parents to create a video history for the other family members?
We have a staffer that would be good at this and are considering offering this as a product if we think we can generate enough business to keep them busy.
Questions...
- What are these services called ?
- How do you advertise and solicit business?
- What standard packages do you offer?
- How do you charge?
- How many projects do you get per month and what size is your market?

I would really like to find the web sites for some of these services so we can see how they present themselves and their various options for such a product.
Thanks for any tips or info.

Comments

rs170a wrote on 6/14/2006, 2:30 PM
Google "Family History Videos" and you'll get several production company hits as well as a franchise that you can buy for a mere $67,500 :-)

Mike
randy-stewart wrote on 6/14/2006, 7:01 PM
Try this link: http://www.myvideostory.com. It's a site on how to set up a Video Biography Business. It has some excellent info and a good start up CD with actual agreements, questionaires, etc. to get you started. There is also a subscription reference service. I've been trying to capture my father-in-law to do one as a demo. Should be successful soon. I'll use a little different format than what is suggested on this site. By the way, the site author sells his for $299 plus $10 per copy extra. Hope this helps.
Randy
JackW wrote on 6/14/2006, 8:45 PM
Coincidence is really weird! We had a customer come in about 5:30 this afternoon who does exactly what you're describing. You can check out his services
here. He is new to our area and I don't know anything about his work.

There is also a company doing this in our videographers business association whose site you can find here. He has been in business several years, and does quite well for himself. From what I know of his business he spends a great deal of time chatting up retirement homes and senior centers, looking for clients. He also gets a lot of work through the service he provides transfering film to tape and DVD.

Good luck; it's probably a business that can be both socially and monitarily rewarding if you have the temprement to pursue it.

Jack