I run a tight ship. You should see my home, office, the way i run a classroom, the way i micromanage people etc. When i was a manager for OffLeaseComputers.com (it eventually went out of business6 months after i left), i learned that the greatest successes come from properly planning and executing according to your strategy. Even in the planning, we had to make plan “B’s” and “C’s” in case something went off. But we anticipated something to go wrong. if all worked out fine, we ended up being ahead of the game and then could double our efforts to get really ahead for the next set of challenges.
in this production, i made plans and strategies for things to be executed a certain way. But even with all my efforts and over planning – it seems that somethings can spring up that are above what anyone can plan. i guess thats why they’re called surprises and that’s why people repeat “it’s only in the hands of Hashem” .
the only thing which really bothers me about this is that these surprises cost money. the budget was so carefully planned to the last dollar. my heart palipitates when i see that the video editing isn’t as tight as i want it to be and that all the footage we shot and want on the DVD is double the size of standard capacity. that means people will be buying this product and it’s going to be LOADED with tons of stuff and extras and bloopers. but it’ll be at a slightly higher price than what the customer should be paying for.
someone told me tonight that unless you are very liberal with budgeting, you will ALWAYS go over budget. for a tighwad like me, that’s NOT GESHMAK!
Budgeting in business is always good and very important.
There is a huge difference in being a tightwad and being frugal, which is bred out of poverty and is good as financial excesses are really bad for the soul. However, remember that sometimes, to make money you have to spend money…to have a top production, to have the final product look sleek and professional, you have to open your hands..what you give out now will return to you, BE ESRAT HASHEM a million time fold, and if now, then HASHEM will have given you the tools to try and try again.
There’s the old saying “you get what you pay for”. So if the video will look better than the extra funds are worth it! Don’t sweat it – you’ll earn that money back when people buy the DVD. (i hope you budgeted advertising?)
I made a spelling error – the sentence should read: So if the video will look better, THEN the extra funds are worth it.
Sorry.