However, all authors have access to alternative video outlets like YouTube, Vimeo, and BlipTV. Some gain a level of success posting videos about their books, but an author’s monologue is not the ideal. Interviews with questions and answers, insights, laughter, and personalities interacting are much more effective and engaging for the audience.

Hudnall and Associates, partnering with Captain’s Desk Entertainment, has developed a low cost alternative for authors or other creative folks to use a worldwide television outlet to promote their work. Experienced television producers, interviewers, video and sound editors, and title artists are employed to give the production a professional look and friendly feel. Once approved by the client, the final video production is uploaded to all the major video sharing sites and to any other outlet arranged for that client, which may include hometown broadcast TV, audio versions for any radio outlet, and a DVD/CD copy to the client for any use they wish to arrange. Some clients may even wish to include a copy with the sale of a book, print, etc.

This concept can be achieved either in-studio of via broadband internet using a webcam, thus saving travel expense. Either way, the producers and interviewers are experienced and adept in helping clients become comfortable and confident with the process and the technology.

We can currently accommodate interviews (and titles/credits) in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Norwegian, German, and Dutch. Other languages on special arrangement and at slightly higher cost.

If you wish to explore the concept further, please call 866 229 2155

or email info@hudnallandassociates.com

We’ve seen trivia contests on Facebook Fan pages that centered on company history, a neat trick to get people to the website. Printable coupons on Facebook was another neat trick, but now Facebook has changed their user agreement and you can’t remove the coupon once the promotion is over.

What many folks lose sight of is that these are social media. Rather than a physical place where friends gather to socialize, it’s a virtual ice cream social.

Let’s look at that a moment. Is there some way to use social media to entice a group of friends to meet for a meal at your pizza place? Yes, and pizza places, among others, are learning to do just that. Once upon a time, a restaurant would assign a banquet or meeting room for groups like the Kiwanis or Rotary or Friars Club. But that room remained empty when those organizations were not meeting. Now the restauranteurs fill them full time using Facebook events and other social media. Good social networking is good for business.

We’re using a similar track to draw people out to book signings and other promotional events in support of our clients. Bookstores have signings to build traffic. We build it further for the author. Everybody benefits.

But there has to be a plan. Simple, repeated blitzing of the social media sites with the same information over and over inures the audience to the message. In other words, they get sick of hearing about it before the event and don’t attend. Too much, too often backfires. Using a little group psychology to plan the social media campaign can build enthusiasm. Overdoing it has the opposite effect.

There is, however, a built in saving grace for Facebook and a few other media: Geo-specific targeting. This lets the message go to specified zip codes. So, we can set up a main event, in our case, a book tour, announce the tour and maybe at the same time post a complete schedule. Then, for each city or individual book store appearance, do a geo-specific event that will only be seen by folks in those zip codes.

At Hudnall and Associates, we use social media to promote our clients. We try to be smart about it.

Grave Distractions’ concept is to bring those in the freelance world together with those who are in need of specific services.  We recognize the fact that in today’s digital on-demand printing age, the needs of authors are evolving quickly.  Many of those wishing to self publish are sometimes missing one or two key pieces of the puzzle that bars their vision from coming to fruition.  Grave Distractions’ goal is to custom fit your needs with the right agent.  We take your project’s needs and your desired compensation to our agents and create a resource package tailor made for you.  Are you hesitant to do marketing?  Do  you just need a book cover?  Maybe getting your book into a Kindle format is not your cup of tea.  Contact Grave Distractions with your needs and we can find a solution.  If you are a talented freelance graphic artist, ghost writer, or HTML guru and want to be considered to be an authorized agent, visit our “Become an Agent” page.

Captain’s Desk Entertainment specializes in digital distribution of high quality audio, video, and flash.

Whether you need to distribute to theaters or home theaters, video sharing sites or syndicated radio, Captain’s Desk Entertainment can help and usually accomplish it at a cost less than if you do it yourself.

Using state of the art equipment and a proprietary suite of custom software, we can assure product security while ensuring complete file fidelity and receipt. Keeping your business secure is important to us. Getting your digital product where it needs to be on time and on budget is our hallmark.

Captain’s Desk Entertainment not only manages digital distribution, they’ve mastered it.

Don’t let the quaint name fool you, Possum Holler Studios is a state of the art audio and video recording and editing studio with more than 7,000 square feet of space. Employing acoustical shaping technologies learned in radar testing, using digital masking techniques, and computerized 32 track mixing, any desired ambiance can be duplicated.

PHS has in-house capabilities well beyond the initial capture, including stop-motion, CGI, 3D editing and rendering, green screen sets, Blender animations, and more than 2,700 customizable video effects and 11,000 sound effects on tap.

No matter the scope of your project, Possum Holler has the facilities, equipment, knowledge, skills, and abilities to accommodate it. Our business is making your production the best it can be. Whether you’re planning a promotional campaign, television series, documentary, album, audio book, or a feature film Possum Holler is here for you.

Nothing is more important to a good production than patience and perseverance. Which is good, since Possum Holler is a really laid back bunch of folks. But if you come here, don’t expect us to pass you a jug, you got to bring your own. We might find you a plate of possum stew, though.

MonkeyGrinder Productions and MonkeyGrinder Films are video and film production houses that work out of separate but co-located facilities in southwestern Indiana. MGP specializes in shorts, commercials, mixed media, and made for web videos. MGF is the feature film arm of the company.

Both MG houses use permanent access to a 67+ acre outdoor, mixed wood, water, and farm location, a 5,500 square foot sound stage with attached sound booth, and small commissary.

Easy ground transportation access from I-69, I-64, and I-70 as well as a very well designed county airport with a 4,621 foot runway.

Several dozen internet and terrestrial radio interviews are already scheduled and a handful of TV interviews. An array of 10 different 30 second audio spots and a trio of 15 second TV commercials are in production. A fifteen minute interview will also be placed on YouTube, Vimeo, BlipTV, and pSoup Network TV.

This promotion project also includes several innovative uses of social media designed to attract readers / buyers to local book signings with geo-specific targeted event announcements.

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• In 1996 Hudnall and Associates was the primary marketing representative of the National Center for Employment of the Disabled (NCED) in obtaining a contract for the manufacture of Chemical Protective Overgarments for the U.S. Military which resulted in purchase orders that have, thus far, been worth over a billion dollars.
• In 1998 Hudnall and Associates was the primary representative of the National Center for Employment of the Disabled (NCED) in obtaining a contract for the manufacture of postal trays for the U.S. Postal Service.
• In 1998, Hudnall and Associates handled the public relations task of organizing a fund raising program which resulted in raising over $500,000.00 dollars for the purchase of a facility located on Miracle Way in El Paso, Texas.
• In 2000, Hudnall and Associates conducted a PR campaign which resulted in the award of a training contract to NCED which in turn resulted in the creation of over 500 jobs and the training of several thousand unemployed garment workers.
• In 2001, Hudnall and Associates designed and undertook a public relations program announcing the return of the Ken Hudnall Show on Blog Talk Radio.
• In 2002, Hudnall and Associates undertook a successful public relations campaign to have Fernando Rodriguez elected as outstanding employee for the National Industries for the Severly Handicapped (NISH).
• In 2002, Hudnall and Associated designed and conducted a marketing program for Omega Press regarding a series of books highlighting unsolved mysteries, lost treasures and hauntings in the Southwest United States.
• In 2004, Hudnall and Associates designed and conducted a public relations campaign to increase both listener audience as well as book sales for the Ken Hudnall Show. Listeners and sales increased over 38% during the campaign.