How does a small business become a media company?

One of the first steps is by hiring a creative team to help you turn your life into digital content.

In 2019, @alwaysarob, the president and founder of @risingtidescreative l, was called upon by a crazy bbq restaurant owner to use his talented media production team to transform Cali BBQ into a digital content machine.

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Repost• @alwaysarob It's pretty crazy, but less than a year ago, I was about ready to give up on everything I had been doing creatively.

It was the last day of @catalystories and @charteredtv came up empty. I wasn't expecting to win any awards really, but, when you put outsized expectations on a whole week...the let down can be hard.

But, that night in the hotel room, debating between literally quitting everything I had been working for over the past 6+ years or continuing forward seemed like a real possibility for the first time in my life.

Luckily, my desperation and head -> wall banging sparked an idea. An idea that was a combination of our original idea in launching @bluevisionent 7 years ago, and a combination of all the things @calicomfortbbq had been preaching in our few months of working together.

The end result of that night in Duluth is what became @risingtidescreative

I've been doing a lot of thinking the last few weeks as our company has found some early success....thinking about how lucky I am now, being surrounded with a team of people who all buy in to everything I want #risingtides to accomplish. A team that is going to allow us to scale fast, and triple the output of what @brandonjworley and I were doing by ourselves.

Feeling lucky that I didn't quit.

Because if you quit, it's a guarantee you won't reach whatever you were aiming for. If you keep going, there's still a chance. So while going $30k+ into debt producing TV Pilots may be over for me, building a future 7 figure agency, finding funding for my feature film, diving headfirst into music and so many more things I want to do are possible because of what we are building at #RTC

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