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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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And a Child will lead them all
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
AWARENESS: SAY IT LOUD
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Twelve-year-old Jordan Coleman is the voice of Tyrone on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. show, The Backyardigans. Challenged by his parents to give back to his community, Jordan used earnings from his voiceover career to create Say It Loud!, which he believes will inspire black boys to study hard and stay in school.
"When I heard the statistics about African-American boys and education I was shocked and sad. I knew the numbers were low, based on what I see at my own school…but I had no idea the situation was this bad," Jordan said.
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
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More Video
Category: Web, HTML, Tech
Send Videos Through Email, Get Fat Checks, Rinse, Repeat!
by: Kevin Browne
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That's an 8 followed by two very very powerful zeros up there.
When your prospects watch you and see your passion and feel as if you are handing your great content to them and to to them only, a massive human psychological button is pushed. You have taken a HUGE portion of the faceless nature away from what the intent is famous for!
Give yourself a rousing ovation.
As a former Madison Avenue Creative Director, you'd better believe that NOTHING can touch what you now have at your fingertips in terms of an astounding ROI!
Mind you, this is happening right as Social Networking has become less about finding friends and more about finding great business relationships. Again, it's all about the content and it will always be about the content.
And now that you have the ability to literally "sell" your content to the prospects that tell you that they want to know more, and they WILL now see your enthusiasm for your pool table company, or your construction business or your mortgage brokerage site, wow, you have, as we say around here every day...loaded the deck.
You've put a series of processes into a line and you're allowing them to prove themselves like they always do.
I continue to be both amazed and saddened by folks who come online with a business and try to reinvent those things that work.
When you assemble a line of things that do, and when you send videos through emails, videos absolutely loaded with reasons why your prospects should go with you and you only, well, that is a process that you're going to want to keep.
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Video
Category: Web, HTML, Tech
Powerful Video Emails: You're Not In Kansas Anymore, Dorothy!
by: Kevin Browne
Let's talk about powerful video emails for just a second.
Okay, we all saw what happened when Google fell in love with YouTube and bought them for about 1.6 Bil. So the question of whether video is attractive in the internet world has ALREADY been answered.
But the sheer potential of what video can now do for you and your business has become almost unimaginably simple. (But simple is scary...)
Let's say you have a website that clearly defines and outlines your mortgage business.
You realize (or do you) that virtual visitors are coming to your site through Content Search, through your business cards, through your blogs, whatever.
But put yourself into the shoes of someone who has just visited your site that ONE TIME. Do you honestly feel as if you were able to tell them EVERYTHING they need to know about what makes your company so special and so different from every other choice.
Of course not.
The average person spends about 20 seconds on your site and THEN THEY ARE GONE.
But what if there was a way to capture their information and then capture their imaginations? What if you had a way to "talk" to them and establish major credibility with them, until they were ready to buy?
What if you could CONVINCE them, over time, that you were tremendous?
And what would that do for your business?
We all have to ask ourselves VERY tough questions if we are going to maximize out returns.
Sending our powerful video emails in a cost effective manner will startle you when you see the results.
We're living proof of that.
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Thursday, July 03, 2008
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Thank you for using Griot’s Roll
Valid July 01, 2008 – December 31, 2008.. ..
Griot's Roll is running a special for any business owner or entrepreneur who wishes to video tape their networking, conferences, lectures, seminars, business or cultural events. Griot's Roll will give you a 10% discount on your next purchase of any of our media service package, and if you bring in a paying referral then we will raise the discount to 12% on your total project price. Ask about our quarterly video special we will be happy to give you a quote. ....
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Griot's Roll limits one coupon per company, nontransferable. Minimum hours required for both editing and production services. This discount does not include duplication services. This coupon may not be combined with any other coupon or specials. Coupon must be surrendered on day of purchase. No copies/facsimiles. No cash/credit back.....
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Derrick M. Guest, CEO
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Griot's Roll Film Production & Services Inc.
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Video Work for you
Category: Web, HTML, Tech
Tapping Into Youtube
Here are five ways to promote your wares
By Fiona Haley
July 27, 2007--In a world where marketing opportunities abound, savvy business owners are always looking for new ways to promote their companies. Choosing between television, newspaper, magazine, and online marketing can be a difficult and expensive decision. If the choice calls for an Internet option that's free, easy to use, and has the potential to reach 20 million customers each month, consider YouTube.com, one of the fastest growing online video communities.
YouTube.com is a popular platform where people upload original videos—from quirky hobbies and interests to commercial programming -- for viewing, sharing, and broadcasting worldwide. Acquired by Google last October for $1.6 billion, YouTube currently shows 100 million videos per day and more than 65,000 videos are uploaded daily. The site accounts for 60% of all videos viewed online. According to Nielsen/NetRatings, YouTube has nearly 20 million unique users each month.
Few businesses are using YouTube for marketing, but the numbers are expected to grow quickly. With more companies shifting their advertising budgets from traditional TV advertising to the online video market, YouTube is an attractive promotional stage. Internet advertising revenues in the United States totaled $7.9 billion for the first six months of 2006; this was an increase of nearly 37% from the same period in 2005 according to IAB/PricewaterhouseCoopers.
John Easton, president of Eastonsweb Multimedia in Charlotte, North Carolina, believes YouTube offers a perfect opportunity for small-business owners. "With Google paying as much as they did, they will have to make [YouTube] commercially viable," says Easton, who creates YouTube videos for clients as well as for his own business. "We will see a different audience; they will do marketing, build functionality, and get new users. It's the perfect time."
Once you sign up as a YouTube member, uploading and converting your videos is an easy process. All videos have a 10-minute time limit (unless you are a director). To produce high-quality videos, Easton recommends having them professionally done. Having a short-form video professionally done costs $800 to $3,000, Easton says. Although the cost of creating a professional video may seem steep, Easton considers it a bargain compared to making a video for broadcast TV, which can cost $300 per second just for the production.
For the potential YouTube user, Easton suggests five ways to promote your wares:
- Create educational videos. Using videos to educate someone on a topic is a good way to attract new customers. Instructional videos explaining how to do everything from planning your 401(k) to baking a cake will draw users in and create interest in your business.
- Partner with popular YouTube publishers. Contact popular YouTube video makers and ask them to integrate your video into theirs. If they have a product that fits the demographic of your target market, it will generate awareness for your business.
- Court the press. Business owners that use YouTube should inform their local newspaper or TV station about their videos as well as inform Web media and bloggers so that they can get extra coverage.
- Join or start a YouTube channel. YouTube channels are small communities sharing interests in specific topics. Joining a category that fits your business will make it easier for potential customers to find your videos.
- Convert your existing video library. It's possible that companies have already created educational or promotional videos that are otherwise unused. Consider putting condensed versions on YouTube.
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Monday, June 02, 2008
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Take care of you
Category: Life
Business owners you are the most valued resources to your business. As business people we need to take care of ourselves, because if we don't we won't be able to do business, pleased be blessed and be well
Derrick Guest, CEO Griot's Roll Film Production & Services.
Executive Health: Part II
Preventing a heart attack
By Denise Campbell
September 23, 2007--Internationally renowned cardiologist Christopher J.W.B. Leggett, director of cardiology for Medical Associates of North Georgia in Canton, Georgia suggests individuals concentrate on risk management and understanding how certain  conditions impact health. "For instance, 80% of diabetics die of heart attacks; and obesity is the No. 1 cause of type 2 diabetes in our country. "If you've got any of those risk factors, you need to be vigilant about controlling each of the problems independently," insists Leggett. "That's what will lower your risk."
Know the signs
The body sends a number of signals to let you know it's in trouble. One of the most common symptoms of heart disease is a transient ischemic attack, or mini-stroke. "This occurs when the blood vessels in the brain develop an ulcer caused by high cholesterol. Plaque forms around the crater, which eventually breaks off and makes its way through the bloodstream toward the brain," explains Donna Mendes, M.D., chief of vascular surgery at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City, clinical professor of surgery at the College of Physicians & Surgeons, and the first African American female to become board certified in the specialty of peripheral vascular surgery. "The impacted portion of the brain will suddenly experience decreased blood flow, resulting in a TIA." The part of the body controlled by that portion of the brain becomes impaired, lasting from a few minutes to 24 hours. Other indicators include loss of sensation on one side of the body; loss of vision or motor function; or intermittent pain in the calf after walking; the pain results from decreased oxygen and blood flow.
In the case of an impending heart attack, women present much milder and wider symptoms than men. These symptoms are often missed, misdiagnosed, or undertreated by both primary physicians and cardiologists. According to Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, M.D., head of the Cardiovascular Medicine Scientific Research Group at the Bethesda, Maryland-based National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, symptoms include fatigue; shortness of breath; feelings of indigestion and ill health; palpitations; neck, shoulder, and upper back pain; nausea; vomiting; sweating; and lightheadedness.
After weeks of persistent breathlessness and a vague sense of physical unease, Joan Connell, then 42, an accounting professional at Ziff Davis Publishing, went to the emergency room convinced she was having a heart attack. Despite being an overweight smoker who had been physically inactive for years, she was sent home. A week later she returned and was rushed into emergency bypass surgery that revealed four blocked arteries.
Symptoms in men include angina (chest pain), pressure or discomfort in the chest, or a tingling sensation in the arm or on one side of the body. Women, however, experience a broader constellation of symptoms over a prolonged period of time.
Executive Health: Part II
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Overall, it is becoming increasingly important for individuals to take full ownership of their health: learning, reading, and researching information that will preserve their health, urges Leggett, "so that you can identify somebody who is incompetent taking care of you. Because [many] don't know the parameters of their conditions," Leggett offers, "they don't know that when someone says 'Go home, you're fine' to say 'I've read that diabetics can feel like this,' or 'Why don't you have a cardiologist [look at me]?'"
He laments that many of us are so consumed with pursuing economic and career goals that we too often neglect our health in the process. "Our ability to generate [wealth] is largely dependent on the preservation of our physical existence," he stresses. "You have to have quality physical examinations, know your history, and you have to identify high-caliber physicians around the country. Your health is important enough for you to find out where these people are," Leggett asserts. "You've got men who will drive 100 miles to play golf, but they don't want to drive 10 miles to see a good doctor."
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Friday, February 01, 2008
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Seminar Video
Hello all,
Happy belated new year. I hope the year is going your way so far. We thank all of our cleints who supported us last year, and we hope to work with them more this year. We also hope to build new relationships for 2008, please take a look at one the videos that Griot's Roll Film Production & Services Inc. created for The Alternative Broad (TAB). It's apart of an on going business video series that we are doing for start-up and growth business. This information is great if you own your own business, enjoy.
Click on the link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8GN3BnWL3_8
Derrick Guest, CEO & Founder
Griot's Roll Film Production & Service Inc.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
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Press Release Small Trends Radio
Current mood:  blessed
Category: News and Politics
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE..:
January 2, 2008
CONTACT:
Eula M. Young
212-281-2286
eula@griotsrollproduction.com
www.griotsrollproduction.com
Good Day:
Take a moment to listen to Derrick's Taped on-line Radio Interview on the 15, after you listen to the interview please comment on the bottom of the page and rate. Thank you so much for all of your support. Link below.
Eula
http://www.smbtrendwire.com/2008/01/15/increase-sales-through-the-power-of-video/
Mr. Guest will give free advice via articles, panel discussions, speaking engagements, interviews, networking events, seminars and lectures. or booking and interviews, contact Eula M. Young at (212) 281-2286 or eula@griotsrollproduction.com.
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Monday, September 03, 2007
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Griot’s Roll Commercial
Current mood:  busy
Category: Art and Photography
Griot's Roll Commercial
Griot's Roll Film Production & Services Inc. Do you need a commercial? Let Griot's Roll shoot your next commercial. Contact us at (212) 281-2286 or e-mail: griots@griotsrollproduction.com
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Make It Funky - The Big Payback: 1971-1975
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James Brown
Release date: 23 July, 1996
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007
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Let Us See What you Do.
Category: Web, HTML, Tech
Video Emails: 
Best Use & Benefits Video Emails:
- Thank you for product purchase
- Announce company events and news
- In-house communication from management
- Announce real estate open house
- Announce sales and grand openings
- Send product discount information and coupons
- Promote entertainment events, movies and documentaries
- Community announcements and public affairs
- Promote sales and marketing events
- Manage syndicated news content with RSS folders
- Share calendars with support staff and management
Contact Griot's Roll Production for more info: email us at griots@griotsrollproduction.com or call 212-281-2286.
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