Win A FREE Seat at POSH 2012 from DP Slider
Who doesn’t want to win a FREE seat to POSH 2012 in Scottsdale, Arizona? We are so proud to announce one of the POSH Retreat’s biggest supporters and sponsor DP Slider is giving away one FREE seat to this years event ($725. value, hotel accommodations and airfare not included). Here is the low down on how to win.
You must submit a video no longer than 3 mins telling us, What the POSH Retreat means to you, why you need the POSH Retreat, and why you need to attend the POSH Reteat 2012.
The Rules
You must have the DP Slider logo at the beginning of the video for at least 3 seconds. Download the DP Slider logo HERE.
The video cannot be longer than 3 mins.
You MUST use licensed music. SongFreedom is sponsoring the music. Please contact SongFreedom at info@songfreedom.com to get your free song. The slide for song credit must be at the end.
Here’s how it works
Email us the link to your video at info@theposhretreat.com to submit your entry. There will be a popular vote and a judging portion to this contest. All videos must be submitted to us by Friday, April 6th. The populuar vote and judging will start on Monday, April 9th and end on Friday, April 20th. The winner will be announced on Monday, April 23th.
Vote for your fav in The sm film contest 'POSH'
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We have several ladies who have entered the sm film contest theme ‘posh’ for their chance to win a $500 sm gift certificate towards anything sm or 2 With Etiquette song licenses and $350 certificate towards the POSH 2010 retreat and workshop for women event filmmakers and photographers. Voting ends July 20. Click here to vote for your favorite film. We want to thank stillmotion for putting together this contest for women filmmakers. Check out stillmotion education to find out details about their education experiences.
Win a Glidecam 2000 Pro at POSH 2010!
We are thrilled to announce that Glidecam has also joined as a sponsor of POSH 2010! One lucky POSH attendee will win a Glidecam 2000 Pro!
About the Glidecam Pro:
The Glidecam 2000 Pro is a lightweight, hand-held camcorder stabilizing system designed for compact cameras weighing up to 6 pounds.
Imagine a world in balance. Imagine smoothness, freedom and grace. With the Glidecam 2000 Pro your camcorder seems to float, always balanced, isolated from your hands undesirable motions. Now you are free to move with your camera-panning, tilting, booming or running without any camera instability or shake.
The Glidecam 2000 Pro is a lightweight, hand-held, camcorder stabilizing system which works so well that it allows you to shoot incredibly smooth and graceful shots even while going to extremes like running up and down stairs or traveling over rugged terrain. And when it comes to normal shooting, like walking or moving the camera slowly around someone, the results are equally magical.
Shot after shot, move after move, the Glidecam 2000 Pro delivers beautifully smooth and professional results. So good in fact are the pictures it produces that is by far the best and most versatile camcorder stabilizer available on the market today.
With the Glidecam 2000 Pro you no longer need a tripod or a dolly. All you need is your Imagination!
The Glidecam 2000 Pro’s offset handle grip is attached to a free floating, precision Gimbal, which allows your hand to move up and down, and side to side, thereby isolating your hands unwanted motions from the camera. The up and down movement alleviates the bouncing, pogo type action so often associated with our competitors system, because their handle cannot move up and down.
The camera platform moves back and forth, and side to side, to quickly allow you to adjust the cameras horizontal balance. By varying the amount of counterweight disks on the base platform you adjust the camera’s vertical balance. When balanced properly the camera floats, ready for you to move into action.
The Glidecam 2000 Pro will support any camcorder or movie camera weighing up to 6 pounds. It is quick and easy to set up and balance. Allows unrestricted Booming and unrestricted 360 degree Panning. Only 14.5″ tall. Made of precision Aluminum. Can also be used as a Monopod, no-tools telescoping base, with positionable weight discs that allow you to achieve dynamic balance. You can easily attach a small LCD monitor to the base monitor mount hole if needed. Weighs 2.1 pounds without counterbalance disks.
Promote our POSH facebook page and win a business coaching session!
Spread the word about POSH and win! Promote our POSH facebook page to your facebook friends and ask them to “like” our page then write on our fan page wall that you promoted us to be entered to win a one hour business coaching session with Ron Dawson via phone. You only need to promote our page one time to your facebook friends to be entered into the contest. One entry per person. Deadline is Friday, May 14. One winner will be randomly drawn for all eligible fans on May 15, 2010. This is amazing prize that can help take your business to the next level.
Ron Dawson is an accomplished video producer and entrepreneur. His experience in small business marketing and management spans two decades including:
- Running his own venture consulting company while a business major at U.C. Berkely
- Becoming VP of Operations for a film and video software company in Burbank, CA;
- 2.5 years as a business marking manager for Quicken Small Business at Intuit
- And now President of Dare Dreamer Media
Coaching for Professional Video Producers and Photographers
Ron has gained notoriety as an award-winning videographer, a speaker at international conventions like WEVA and WPPI, a regular columnist for EventDV magazine (writing on business and marketing topics), podcast producer, and member of the EventDV 25 (one of the top 25 most influential event video producers as voted by peers), and a co-author (with his wife Tasra) on a new book by Peachpit Press: ReFocus: Cutting Edge Strategies to Evolve Your Video Business. Ron brings his 20+ years of business experience, plus his 8 years as a professional video producer (including five years specifically in the event video world), to help you grow your business.
Here are some topics you can cover with won if you win:
- Effective pricing and getting paid what you’re worth
- Sales and marketing
- Building a brand (and why that’s important)
- New media production (podcasting, etc.)
- Using social networking (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) in your marketing mix
- Build a blog if you don’t already have one
- Video blogging
- Hiring employees vs. contractors
- Contract creation and negotiations
- Targeting your audience
- Pros and cons of building a high volume business
- Pros and cons of building low volume (high fee) business
- The importance of outsourcing
Click here for more information about Ron’s coaching sessions.
Win a DP Slider at POSH 2010!
- At April 30, 2010
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We are thrilled that DP Slider is also sponsoring POSH! DP Slider offers a camera dolly system that is smooth to operate and simple to setup. Designed with roller bearings, the linear motion of DP Slider is ultra smooth. In addition, the carriage guide is made of aluminum channel to provide a light weight yet sturdy system. DP Slider can be used on table tops or directly on the ground. It can be mounted on a single tripod or light stands. It can be orientated on an angle, upside down or even sideways and it will always slide smoothly. In addition, a unique feature of DP Slider “V” Series is its ability to provide VERTICAL slide to emulate crane motion.
One POSH 2010 attendee will win a DP Slider Standard Series S-480! Ladies, we also will get to have fun using the slider on our hands on shoot in the Bahamas!
Check out a clip on the DP Slider
Register early for a chance to win!
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Register for POSH 2010 by April 30th and have a chance to win a $100 onboard cruise credit that can be used for anything onboard such as drinks, spa services, entertainment. One winner will randomly be drawn from all registered attendees on May 1 and announced via our twitter and facebook fan page.
To register click on the link. Investment includes the one day educational workshop, 4 day Bahamas cruise, all meals on the cruise ship, port charges and cruise ship gratuities. $695 for a shared double occupancy cabin and $995 for a single occupancy cabin.
Space is limited for POSH 2010 so register soon before we sell out!
Our first POSH giveaway!
- At March 24, 2010
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It’s simple, follow us or promote this giveaway on Twitter for your chance to win! When we reach 200 followers we are giving away an amazing book, “Refocus: Cutting-Edge Strategies to Evolve Your Video Business” by authors Ron & Tasra Dawson of Dare Dreamer Media to one randomly drawn follower.
About the book:
Do you want to stand out in today’s competitive wedding, corporate, and event video markets? To be paid what you’re worth for the creative work you produce? To find an extra two hours a day to pursue your passion? To get out from under the backlog of unfinished projects? If the answer is “yes,” then this book was written for you. Read a few pages and you’ll find the authors’ unique approach to the business of video production is unlike what you’ve heard or read before. With good humor, practical advice, and a healthy dose of reality, Ron and Tasra Dawson show you how to get your business on track and transform it into the one of your dreams. The result is increased creativity, financial gain, less stress, and more time and energy to pursue the projects you are truly passionate about. You’ll learn to:
- Reclaim 525 work hours per year with one simple strategy
- Implement action items you can use today to start getting paid what you’re worth
- Assess and transform your current sales and marketing
- Design a powerful brand experience to amaze your clients and turn them into company evangelists
- Supercharge your marketing with social media like Twitter, Facebook, and blogs
- Break into commercial video production for year-round profits
What other companies are saying:
”Ron and Tasra will help you move mountains in your business.”
—Lance Gray, CEO, PixelPops Design, LLC
”I know how busy we all can get, but if you read this book and apply the information, it will turn your world around.”
—David Robin, David Robin Films
“Cover to cover this book is not only gorgeous – but super helpful… it is hands-down – the best book out currently for wedding/event filmmakers… the only bummer about this book is that it came out 5 years after i started my business 
if you’re new to the industry – this book has some extremely helpful suggestions… and if you’re a seasoned veteran, there are still some very challenging thoughts and ways to improve your business.”
- Ryan Koral, Epic Motion
Stayed tuned for more awesome POSH giveaways!