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Howcast Emerging Filmmakers Program

I was introduced to an interesting new website recently called Howcast. The website is similar to YouTube and other online video sites in that the content is uploaded by a community of users, however the twist is that Howcast specializes in “How-To” videos. They want people to upload all sorts of videos instructing people how [...]

Networking is the Key

The success of any business is heavily dependant on networking. It is important to get your name out there to a lot of potential customers, but also to other businesses. The Bridal Fantasy seems to have been pretty successful for us, but it is hard to know how many of the people who came to [...]

Back to Wedding Videography

This weekend we are going to Bridal Fantasy here in Edmonton, which is a wedding vendor’s expo where companies can go to showcase their services to thousands of couples looking for vendors to put their weddings together. We have decided to do wedding videography again to help raise some more cash, so that we can [...]

Vigor Media Moves Into Their New Office

We finally moved into an office. After more than 2 years of operating out of my parents basement, and my business partner’s apartment, we have moved into an actual office. The office was used as a yoga studio before we took it over, so it’s basically just a big open space.  We have 5 computers [...]

Travelling To Denmark

With my production company Vigor Media I help to manage the content for the Badminton Players Federation website. While this isn’t the most lucrative deal for us it does have it’s perks, including some serious globe trotting. We recently started putting up videos onto the website, which is a really cool new feature for a [...]

Back Home in Edmonton, Canada

Well I’m back home in Edmonton now.  I miss NYC.  The city had so much energy, and I’m going to miss that a lot.  Edmonton is great, but it is so quiet.  There just isn’t that much going on here.  But I’m glad to get back to my businesses, and I am happy to be [...]