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BlueFur: Web Hosting Review, Bad Conduct, Content Wiped Out: Part 1

29 January 2012

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BlueFur Web Hosting, BlueFur Dedicated Server, and BlueFur Personal Customer Service. Advertised and lauded on BlueFur.com home page, these were all things I unfortunately experienced from the Canadian web hosting company. This will  be a long, sad story and the post about it will be lengthy and melancholy as well (though it will not begin [...]

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Interview: Reel Talk’s Candice Frederick: Moving Beyond the Blog

21 January 2012

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Building a movie website or blog is not the end of a movie webmaster’s journey when it comes to expressing themselves about film and the film world. It can be only the first step if they want it to be. There are other avenues such as podcasts, newsletters, video reviews or film commentaries on YouTube, [...]

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The Importance of a Business Contract: ReelTime’s Rodney Brazeau

17 August 2011

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Movie websites are businesses (if you have a single Google AdSense ad unit on your website, that includes you) and like any other small or large company, when the company is managed in a way that garners acquisition attention, it is a very gratifying occasion. Movie websites constantly come into existence and then blow out like a [...]

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Saving A Business Deal: The New York Salvage Campaign

20 July 2011

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Rescuing a turbulent, tribulent business deal sometimes takes imagination and creativity. Sometimes even those elements can not save a business deal on a downward trajectory. Thus begins the near tragedy of The New York Salvage Campaign. Through the diverse articles we have published, our movie website has garnered attention. A percentage of this attention has been from potential advertisers.

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Interview: Trailer Addict’s Ryan Parsons: Filling a Need with Your Product

19 March 2011

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Having a business idea and bringing it to fruition is the hallmark of being an entrepreneur. A few years ago I began seeing movie trailer embeds from a website I had never heard of before. The embeds were snazzier than most and had high definition options. That website, as you probably have already guessed, was Trailer Addict. [...]

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Applying To IMDb’s NewsDesk: Tips, Qualifications, Lessons, and Insights

25 February 2011

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Applying to IMDb‘s NewsDesk can be an exercise in futility if the articles in your RSS Feed are not up to their requirements. Their requirements aren’t challenging but are rigorous and with good reason. IMDb is one of the top tier movie websites on the Internet. I spoke earlier of all the requirements here: Movie Website Traffic: IMDB NewsDesk.

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Applying to Film Critics Associations: Tips, Qualifications, Lessons, and Insights

30 January 2011

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Applying to a Film Critics Association can be a humbling and insightful experience. This happens to those without the qualifications, to those whose film reviews do not meet the prescribed criteria, and to those whose movie review quality is not ready to bare the banner of a local or national film critics association.

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Website Owners: Keep your Bank Accounts Separate

7 September 2010

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If you run a movie website and only have one bank account that houses all of your personal equity, your website profits, and its purchases, you should separate the accounts as soon as possible. Running a movie website is a business and should be treated as such. Advantages to splitting up your accounts Its easier [...]

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Google Voice: Contact Movie PR Firms, Teleconference and SMS Employees for Free, Save Minutes

29 August 2010

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Running a movie website is costly, especially when contacting movie PR firms and movie studios by phone. Lucky Google has just come out with a free service that helps the frugal movie website owner pinch a few more pennies and stretch that dollar a little further. It’s called Google Voice. You will need a Google [...]

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7 Reasons Why RedBox is a Good Movie Renting Alternative

10 June 2010

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Redbox is growing in prominence as an alternative to traditional DVD/Blu-ray renting avenues. As a movie website owner, you are probably looking for the lowest price for a renting a movie to write up a DVD or Blu-ray review to post on your website. If you are a cinephile, feeding your movie thirst while pinching [...]

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An Interest-ing Place to Keep your Website Profits

1 June 2010

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Whether you make huge amounts of revenue with your movie website or a small trickle, you need somewhere to house your earnings. Most would think just to bank them in their ordinary saving or checking account. This is an error on their part, one losing them profits for both the short and the long term.

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Heads-up: Entrepreneur Magazine Subscription Discount Coupon Code

27 May 2010

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Entrepreneur Magazine is a great magazine for anyone starting a movie website. Its editors and contributors write articles and give constant tips on what it takes to be an entrepreneur in any field, techs tips, ideas on branding, building a website, finding funding for your ideas, emerging trends, you name it.

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