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“Look around and see what opportunities there are, and then learn about it; educate yourself. The only risk in life is for the uneducated.” - Tim Thompson In this episode of the RevThinking podcast, we listen in on a talk Tim Thompson delivered at PromaxBDA in New York on the Four Stages of a Creative Career. In this talk Tim opens your mind to what’s possible when you start looking at the totalit...

“That was one of those moments when I was thought okay, there might be more to pitching than just coming up with a great idea, having a great pitch deck, and doing a stunning presentation in front of the clients.” - Marko Pfann In this episode of the RevThinking podcast, Marko Pfann - RevThink's new European based consultant out of Munich Germany, discusses a variety of topics including Marko's jo...

"Data can't be everything and it's not predictive of future habits; it shows you where people have been but it doesn't show you where people are going." – Steve Viola, FX Networks In our second annual PromaxBDA Roundtable Podcast, RevThinkers have a conversation with four amazing guests: Chuck Carey, Marcel Ziul, Meghan Kirsch, and Steve Viola. First off we would like to give a big shout out to Kr...

“By paying some attention to your pricing strategy, it’s actually the easiest way to dramatically increase your profits. There’s really nothing else you can do that is so simple to drive bottom-line performance.” - Blair Enns In episode 47 of the RevThinking podcast, Blair Enns of Win Without Pitching discusses a variety of topics including "The S Word," why weak sales is often not a sales problem...

“I predict there is something coming. There is going to be a movement happening within our industry.” - Tim Thompson In this 45th episode of the RevThinking podcast, we talk with RevThink Owner Tim Thompson on the need to make our industry stronger. Today’s episode is a departure from the norm. Today we will explore some news and events that are changing in the industry and even coming to a tippin...

"There's so little connection between how creative a firm is and how successful they are as a business. If anything, there might be an inverse relationship." – David C. Baker In this 43rd episode of the RevThinking podcast, well-known author and speaker David C. Baker on "The Business of Expertise" and more. As David says, "Entrepreneurial expert firms don’t often fail because their work isn’t goo...

If you were to imagine your creative firm like driving a car, you as a business owner need to be able to see what’s coming at you in real-time. You also want to know how quickly you’re burning gas, when you should accelerate, when you should change lanes, and when it’s time to hit the brakes. Fortunately, every modern car has a dashboard so the information you need is always at your fingertips. Si...

Jim Read is a creative director with deep experience on the TV network side as a client, as well as on the agency side as a creative leader. Jim's experience includes stints at CMT, AMC, and his current position at truTV. His agency experience includes Pearl Media, Definition 6, Eyeball, and Trailer Park. Today’s episode is an insightful peek behind the curtain to where Joel Pilger asks Jim about...

In this episode of the RevThinking podcast, Michael Waldron – senior VP and creative director of art and design at Nickelodeon. Get ready to walk a mile in the shoes of a busy TV exec.  You might think that someone like this just works with vendors, and the vendors do all the hard work.  Michael will give you a perspective you don’t normally hear – your clients don’t normally sit down and really t...

In this next episode in our Profiles of the Creative Entrepreneur series, Josh Norton, owner and ECD at the NYC-based motion design studio Bigstar. In this series we are interviewing inspiring creative entrepreneurs to learn about their journey navigating the intersection of creativity and business.

To kick off off our new “Profiles of the Creative Entrepreneur” series, Tim Thompson sits down for a conversation with Ace Comic Con CEO, investor, and fine artist Gareb Shamus. Gareb shares with us his journey, his passions, and his varied interests spanning business and the arts. 

This podcast is part one of a conversation with David Meltzer, Co-Founder and CEO at Sports1Marketing. David is an executive, author, and humanitarian best known for his work in the field of sports marketing. He is a featured speaker at conferences, corporate meetings, seminars, and other events along with being featured in The New York Times, Sporting News, Fox Business, and Bloomberg. At Terrane...

his podcast is part one of a conversation with David Meltzer, Co-Founder and CEO at Sports1Marketing. David is an executive, author, and humanitarian best known for his work in the field of sports marketing. He is a featured speaker at conferences, corporate meetings, seminars, and other events along with being featured in The New York Times, Sporting News, Fox Business, and Bloomberg. At Terranea...

RevThink consultant debriefs the COLLIDER Conference in Chișinău, Moldova in addition to sharing his thoughts on THE 5 SHIFTS that evolving creative firms must make to reach the next level. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/support

This episode of the RevThinking podcast is a departure from the norm. Paige Albiniak from the PromaxBDA DailyBrief podcast interviews Revthink on the topic of Creative Entrepreneurs and their upcoming conference “Bulletproofing Profits” on October 27th at Terranea resort in Los Angeles.

In this episode of the RevThinking podcast, we talks with Lorey Zlotnick, consultant at Zequity Marketing, about what separates good agencies from great agencies: their ability to get inside their clients’ minds… and their brands. Having spent her career on the client side working for companies such as NFL Media, FOX Sports, Bravo, and Disney, Lorey now consults with agencies on how to better mana...

In our first annual PromaxBDA Roundtable Podcast, Tim Thompson has a conversation with five amazing guests: Alberto Scirocco, Josh Norton, PJ Richardson, Lorey Zlotnick and Patalia Tate. 

Patrick Jager is a content consultant at RevThink. In this episode, Patrick talks about getting into Content development. Patrick has been in the content game for decades and shares his thoughts on how the marketplace is shifting and what that means for small studios looking at getting into content development. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revthinking/messag...

Steve Kazanjian is President & CEO at PromaxBDA, the global community of marketers and creatives in the media & entertainment industry. Steve has a heart for the creative agencies. On the RevThinking podcast, we interview Steve to hear how Creative Entrepreneurs is fulfilling his vision to more fully meet the needs of agency leaders and their businesses.

When it comes to success, many want to know the formula. RevThink Founder and Owner, Tim Thompson discusses the origins and importance Entrepreneurial Formula: Needs + Resources = Solutions.  What are the origins of the formula and what does it mean to creative firms and the creative entrepreneurs who run them?

Creative Entrepreneurs, the regular gathering of agency/studio owners, consultants and guest experts to help you discover a path to actualize the future of your business. HOW IT STARTED We first lit the fire at PromaxBDA: The Conference in NYC last June with the first-ever gathering of principals to address the unique challenges that agencies face in our industry. Tim Thompson led the conversation...

RevThink owner Tim Thompson continues our series "The Six Reports Every Studio Should Be Running." In this episode, Tim Thompson discusses The Production Rollup. What does a weekly production report – and corresponding meeting – look like at a motion design and/or production studio? The conversation also gets into the critical role that Production – and Producers – play inside every one of our cre...

Maria Rapetskaya is Creative Director and Founder at Undefined Creative in NYC. After writing a popular article entitled "Why Small Studios Struggle," We interview Maria in this episode on the contrarian topic of “Why Small Studios Rule.” If you run a motion design or production studio, do you live to work? Or do you work to live? Put another way, does your business run your life, or does your bus...

Robert Blatchford is a brand strategist and management consultant at Makebrave. In this episode, we interview Robert to get a peek inside the mind of this business development innovator. Having led business development at notable creative agencies Troika and LoyalKaspar, Robert offers us a rare and valuable perspective.

Tim Thompson is the founder and Chief Revolution Thinker at RevThink. In this episode, Tim to shares the 6 Reports help studios large and small solve issues proactively. Listen in to discover how to create tools that are so easy, that you always have accurate information thereby providing you with time to implement solutions before problems get out of control.