SMS Text Marketing, Tim Beachum and Indie Produced Entertainment
SMS Text Marketing, Tim Beachum and Indie Produced Entertainment
As an indie producer I’m always looking out for ways to market the entertainment Slice of Americana Films is involved by spending little or no money.
I operate in the world of indie produced entertainment where production budgets are always stretched to the limit.
There’s never an extra cushion of production money to hire marketing gurus to create a buzz online.
It’s pretty much just me blogging like countless other filmmakers out there trying to hopefully connect with potential viewers.
Marketing indie produced entertainment takes lots of energy and constant work. If you’re a screenwriter, director, editor or producer then marketing movies will take serious time.
All the time spent marketing entertainment online will eat time you could be spending working on new screenplays and movies.
So, I’m talking to my good friend Tim Beachum aka The SEO Bully the other day on Skype and he’s telling me about his new SMS Text Marketing business.
We’re producing partners under the banner of Slice of Americana Films, but he also has a thriving and diverse online marketing business that’s really been taking off financially.
He’s offered many times to handle all of our Internet marketing needs for entertainment we produce. I know he wouldn’t mind the extra work, but I didn’t want to slow his progress with his marketing business.
Besides I figured it was time I learn some of the marketing stuff. It’s been painfully slow for me to get what Tim’s talking about sometimes.
Now he’s talking about SMS Text Marketing.
Honestly, it’s probably because I don’t have a desire to really learn online marketing. I’m not on fire for it at all, but realize it’s badly needed for indie produced entertainment made on smaller budgets to survive and be seen.
Even though I realize online marketing is essential, I also realize I’m a bad student. Tim Beachum aka The SEO Bully has shared a wealth of great information on marketing online, building a fan base and countless other tips.
Hell, I’m such a bad student that I still haven’t taken the first bit of advice he gave me for my blog a few years ago. He told me to add a subscriber box or something like that. I still haven’t.
Like I said, online marketing doesn’t excite me, but by not getting excited about it I’m only hurting Slice of Americana Films ability to connect with viewers.
I’m starting to come around to it more lately. Anyway, I’m talking to Tim and he’s telling me about SMS Text Marketing. To borrow a line from Tim, “he’s killing SMS Text Marketing.”
His SMS Text Marketing clients love what it’s doing for their businesses. The SEO Bully is feeling pumped and tells me, “Amigo, I put some money in your personal bank account.”
We’re friends first and foremost and business partners in entertainment second. If he makes money outside of the entertainment business I get a taste and vice versa.
It’s been that way for over 7 or 8 years now. All this SMS Text Marketing stuff he’s telling is going over my head. I use an old Pantech on a 3G AT&T network as my mobile device.
I don’t use it to go online. I was out the other night and saw someone pointing their phone at a thumbprint bar code. I’ve seen the thumbprint things more and more, but never scanned one.
I’m not even sure my phone can. I finally ask Tim What Is SMS Text Marketing?
Tim breaks it down for me and I kind of get what it’s all about. There are some cool features to it all.
Now my next move is to see if SMS Text Marketing can be helpful with marketing, promoting and selling indie produced entertainment. This is indie filmmaker Sid Kali typing FADE OUT