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Marty Shindler provides his perspective in a wide range of articles on topics ranging from a multitude of business and management subjects to those related to entertainment and entertainment technology.

The many articles have also appeared in a wide range of print and online publications.

From its inception in 1997 to 2003 Marty wrote a monthly column for the LFExaminer, the Independent Journal of the Large Format Motion Picture Industry.

In the past few years, our periodic consulting newsletters and the opening essay have supplanted the monthly columns of the past, enabling our ideas and perspectives to reach our audience, although we do write occasionally on select topics for various news and information sources.

Furthermore, over the past several years, regular postings of articles and related commentary, including Trends in the Marketplace, on Facebook, LinkedIN and Twitter have made for more regular communication with those followers.

 

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Marty Shindler wrote about the Christie Digital Laser Projection demo for the April 2013 issue.

In Park Magazine, the renown publisher of the business of theme parks, waterparks, museums & visitor attractions has published Monitoring the Maturation updated for December 2012. 

 

Read the article and visit their site for the information you need to have on the overall attraction business. 

 

 

Marty Shindler wrote the guest editorial for Digital Media Wire on January 20, 2012.  The article is entitled 3D Hype Dies, 3D Business Grows.  It is about the CES 2012 Super Session panel entitled Spotlight on 3D Content that he moderated. 

 

 

 

Indiefilm3D published Stereoscopic 3D Glasses Can and Should be Eco-Friendly. 

 

 

Passing the Stress Test first appeared in Studio Daily March 16, 2009

Passing the Stress Test 

 

We have seen it so many times. So have you. 

 

We have seen a significant number of facilities in production, post, visual effects and the related areas, close over the years, even in good times.  The overarching reason for this — in our opinion — is that these companies fail to support their creative and technology teams with a strong business team. 

 

This is the main reason for failure.  All of the others are secondary.

 

The recent announcement about the closing of The Orphanage has sent a shiver down the spine of many visual effects companies, movie studios, post houses and others that are watching and even awaiting the fallout.  MORE>>

 

Indeed, these are challenging times as we wrote in our most recent newsletter, and that was before a recession was officially declared.  But with challenging times comes opportunity.  In many respects, this may be the right time to start a company.

 

Daily, it seems, there are stories in the online and print press as well as broadcast that talk about people who have either been laid off or about people whose companies have gone bankrupt that are looking on the bright side and saying it is time to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit and start a new business or take their lives in a new direction, unbound by the ties that were present before circumstances changed.

 

And it is not just limited to those who are no longer with their former employers involuntarily.  There is a growing number of people who are taking a leap of faith and not waiting to be told their number just came up in the pink slip lottery  MORE>>>

  • Challenging Times: Time to Reassess the Plan -

     

    These are challenging times indeed.  The contracting economy requires new tactics and strategies.  The events that took place when the tech bubble burst early in this decade and the conditions in the marketplace after 9/11 are all too familiar.  Some of the same fear from a business point of view is present today, many times over, it seems. 

     

    It is a time for calm, clear thinking, not for panic.  But that does not come easy.  We are going to lose some companies along the way.  Some have been hanging on for a while and now are going over the edge.  Some of that may be attributable to the inevitable, companies without a clear business model, inferior products or services, or inexperienced or incompetent management.

     

    Others are simply at the wrong place at the wrong time.  More>>>

     

  • Curse of the Legacy - What is the curse of the legacy?
    • Legacy equipment is equipment that the company has had for some time, but for a variety of reasons does not want to replace, even though replacement is overdue. "It runs, right?" is the frequent response to the request. 
    • It is the recurring challenge faced by companies large and small as they attempt to replace and upgrade equipment. It happens in a lot of companies, but most often in companies in relatively low margin businesses. 
    • So, what is the solution?  Click here to read the whole story, The Curse of the Legacy.

 

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  • Passing the Stress Test - This is an important article, published in response to another article that asked readers of Studio Daily what they are doing in response to the tough economy. Also, read the PDF

 

  • Entrepreneurial Spirits - is an important business & management article for these times.   It was featured in the January 2009 newsletter.  Read it here.

 

  • Challenging Times: Time to Reassess the Plan -

     

    These are challenging times indeed.  The contracting economy requires new tactics and strategies.  The events that took place when the tech bubble burst early in this decade and the conditions in the marketplace after 9/11 are all too familiar.  Some of the same fear from a business point of view is present today, many times over, it seems. 

     

    It is a time for calm, clear thinking, not for panic.  But that does not come easy.  We are going to lose some companies along the way.  Some have been hanging on for a while and now are going over the edge.  Some of that may be attributable to the inevitable, companies without a clear business model, inferior products or services, or inexperienced or incompetent management.

     

    Others are simply at the wrong place at the wrong time.  More>>>

     

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    • There are many business and management topics that are timeless in nature, topics that are every bit as important today as they were in years gone by. This section presents those articles that never go out of date.

LFExaminer

From its inception in 1997 to 2003 Marty wrote a monthly column for the LFExaminer, the Independent Journal of the Large Format Motion Picture Industry. The articles on large format specific topics represent a business case as to what worked well within the industry and perhaps most importantly why the industry has suffered economically in recent years.

Many articles appearing in the publication are large format industry specific.  Others are on various management, marketing and other general business topics, all of which are in this section and also on the Business & Management page. 

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