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How to Start a Wedding Video Service

Wedding videography is a very lucrative marketplace for videographers. Many producers, big and small, have started their video production business by working the wedding scene.
There is a great deal of money that can be made producing wedding videos. The trick to breaking into this market is understanding the customer and separating your video production business from the rest of the pack.

Market Research: Who is the Customer?
Before you sign your first wedding video contract agreement, you should first consider whether or not you want to work for the typical wedding video customer. The customer is always the couple getting married, and it also can often include some common players, such as the mother of the bride, the person who will be writing your check, the uncle who's a professional photographer and knows everything about your job, the maid of honor, etcetera, etcetera. Can you handle one customer, two customers, three or maybe more? Can you handle input from multiple sources? ...More

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