Starting a Successful Lawn Mowing Business

I make between $20 and $40 an hour from mowing lawns. It's hard to get the ball rolling in the beginning, but once you have your customers it's all downhill. Here are some tips for starting a successful summer lawn mowing business.

Okay so the first thing you have to do is get your customers. You'll want to cut a lot cheaper than the professional mowers around you. For me $20 dollars for a normal residential lawn is a good price to ask. Make sure that you know how to mow, and if you can offer to trim or blow for the same price you'll get rid of some of your competition. 

The next thing you have to do, after getting your customer, is satisfying them through the entire summer. This can be hard sometimes, depending on the customer. Make sure that you do a good job every time. Not just when you think they're watching, because they see the lawn everyday. Make sure you talk to your customer. Ask them if your doing everything they want done.

This is the painful topic. Paying for gas and equipment. Paying for equipment counts new machinery and repairing the old stuff. I paid for all that stuff by mowing my parents lawn for free. This is a sweet way to go about it. Another way to do it would be to split it half and half with your parents.

Now after the season has ended make sure that you let your customers know to keep you in mind for next year, if you plan on mowing next year. 

I hope this helped! Please share this with anybody you think this will benefit. Leave a comment(s) with any questions. 

Seth 
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Losing Weight and Setting your Goals

To lose a large amount of weight you have to set two types of goals. Long term and short term. The

long term goal is the main goal. For weight loss it's that final weight you want to be at. The short term goals are the important goals. The short term goals are what will keep you on track during the long haul.

Short term goals are like stepping stones. I am on a low carb diet, so I shoot to have my keytones at a certain level every three days. You don't want to spread your short term goals to far apart, because then you might cheat and think that you can get away with it, because you'll still meet your goal. This can be prevented by setting competitive goals. You also don't want to put the goals to close, because then you will stop thinking of it as a goal and start thinking about it as just a normal daily pattern. This to can be prevented by setting challenging short term goals.

It also helps to come up with some sort of accountability system. It doesn't matter if it's you doing something, or maybe a family member or friend doing something, it just needs be getting done.

Now for the question of cheating. You basically have  four options. the first is that you get one cheat every week. But it's extremely important that it's something really small like a candy bar. The second option is to cheat once every two weeks. This gives you the option of a little bigger cheat. The third option is to cheat once a month. This gives you a big cheat, but not necessarily a splurge. The last option, or fourth option is simply no cheats.

I hope this helped! Please share this with anybody you think this will benefit. Leave a comment(s) with any questions. 

Seth 
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The 69th Hunger Games

This is just going to be a quick overview of the Hunger Games short film that my friends and I are

shooting. It will be a short film for the 69th Hunger games. This is the hunger game that Annie of district 4.

What it means for you!

I am learning a lot about sound design, and managing larger groups of actors. I'm used to it being just me and 2 or 3 actors. I really want to share all of this information with you guys, and I'm going to. It will be posted on my second youtube channel behindthecreative. I'll be posting the actual short film on my main channel creativevideo12. The short film will be coming out end of summer/ beginning of fall. 

In the time coming before the release of the short film, I will be posting updates here and on my twitter @creativevideo12. I'll also be posting tips here as well.

Guide to installing OSX on a Hackintosh

Installing the Mac OS

Alright there are a few steps to doing this. You'll want to pay attention and follow each step exactly in order. Don't skip around. You should probably read through this guide before you start working.

Bios

The first thing your going to want to do is configure the bios.

1. Change the boot device order - (1) flash drive booting from (2) hard drive installing Mac OS on (3) Doesn't really matter now.

2. Make sure SATA is AHCI

3. Disable QuickBoot

Creating a bootable USB drive

You will need,

A USB drive at least 8gbs

A copy of Mac Mountain Lion from the app store 

An account to the tonymacx86 forum

Unibeast from tonymacx86

Access to a working mac computer

Okay now that you have all of that stuff we can get to work on creating your bootable USB drive. 

1.  Plug your thumb drive (USB drive) into the mac

2. go to Applications<Utilities<disk utilities

3. click on thumb drive

4. Partitioning the thumb drive (1) Click current and change to "1 partition"(2) Name the thumb drive "USB" without the quotes (3) select format as "Mac OS X extended Journaled" (4) Select "Master Boot" type (5) Click "apply" (6) Click partition 

5. Make sure that Mountain Lion installer is in your applications folder

6. Running UniBeast (1) Open UniBeast (2) click "continue" "continue" "continue" "agree" (3) Now select Laptop support or legacy usb support. Laptop support is for laptops and legacy usb support is for 1156 chipsets. If your not sure whether or not you'll need the legacy usb support click on it. It will not break anything if you don't need it. (4) Click "continue" (5) enter Password (6) wait...... (about 30 min, but up to an hour)

7. You now have a Bootable USB drive

Installing OSX

Alright now go to your hackintosh. If you have integrated graphics of any type then do yourself a favor and remove your graphics card. Now plug in your bootable usb drive.

1. Turn on your computer

2. go to your boot selection page (normally you can get there by f11 f12 or esc)

3. Select your thumb drive

4. Choose language and agree

5. Once your through the basic setup you'll need to partition your hard drive. If the partitioner doesn't pop up (1) disk utilities on the top bar (2) Partition Tab

(NOTE)  The following is how to partition for an Ubuntu/ MAC OSX dual boot with separate

 root and home folders for each. Root will be on an ssd and home on a 1tb hard drive. 

6. Select 2 partitions for your ssd

7. Set the first partition as your Ubuntu partition give it the proper amount of space

8. Move to the bottom partition Give it the proper amount of space. 

9. Set the bottom partition to Mac OS extended Journaled 

10. Set the partition scheme to GUID for the bottom partition

11. Click "apply" then partition

12. Now select that partition as the one for the installer.

13. Run installer like normal.

14. Congratulations Mac OSX is now installed

Running MultiBeast

Alright what you select while running MultiBeast varies computer to computer depending on your parts. Here is what everyone should know. 

1. You can find your motherboard setting by a google search normally.

2. You can run MultiBeast multiple times. Just make sure you restart your computer between each one.

3. You can't select everything. It will not work.

Finishing Up

Once you've finished running MultiBeast eject the usb drive and restart. 

Tips and Tricks

If you can't get into the OS don't worry. Just reinsert the usb drive and get in through there. select it in the boot menu. Continue trying to tweak MultiBeast until it works. Good luck!

Conclusion

If you have any questions leave a comment. If I missed something leave a comment and I'll update the guide. I made a lot a mistakes installing OSX on my hackintosh. Hopefully this helps you out.

Don't be a copycat. Don't make the same mistakes I do!!

Dual booting Ubuntu and Mac osx on a hackintosh part 1

Quick Tip

Okay so first things first. You'll want to be patient and download the Mac OS first, not second. I got

impatient and I downloaded Ubuntu first. I had to reparation the ssd I had Ubuntu on, and after re-installing it I couldn't get the home folder to work.  Installing mac OSX can be pretty simple as long as you follow the exact steps. I will be explaining how to install the mac OS while also preparing for an Ubuntu install. Stay tuned!

Partitioning your hard drive and ssd for Ubuntu and Mac / Hackintosh dual boot

How?

Partitioning a hard drive and a ssd can be a little scary sometimes. It gets even scarier when your trying to partition on a Hackintosh for Ubuntu and a Mac, because it's hard to find information, and they both use completely different formats. Here is how I did it after researching the matter.

So at first I got hung up with how I should format the part's of the drives for the mac running system. Don't worry about that at all. You just need to partition and format the drives you'll be using for Ubuntu. 

I partitioned my 1tb drive into two parts. The first part is 250gb and it's for Ubuntu. The second part is 750gb, this is for the mac OS, because I'll be doing all my videos in it. 

For the 120gb ssd I also partitioned it into two parts. The first part is 20gb and it is for Ubuntu. The second part is 100gb and it's for Mac and all of the adobe products that I'll be using.

You might be wondering how I partitioned for the swap....... I didn't. I instead created a swap file. More on how to do that later.

I hope this helped. If I missed something please leave a comment. If you want more subscribe via email google reader or myy.

Low Budget Video Editing Hackintosh Build Guide Part 1

What is a Hackintosh?

OSx86 (from Mac OS X and x86) is a collaborative hacking project to run the Mac OS X computer operating systemon non-Apple personal computers with x86 architecture and x86-64 compatible processors.

Parts

Here are the parts that I'm going to use in my build. You can watch unboxings and overviews of all BehindTheCreative.
of the parts on my channel

CPU- i7-3770K

MOBO - Z77x Ud5h

CPU Cooler- Hyper 212 evo plus

GPU- GTX770

PSU- cx600

RAM- Corsair Vengeance 16gb

HD- WD Blue 1tb

SSD- SanDisk Extreme SSD 120gb

Case- NZXT M59 Classic

Keyboard and Mouse- Gigabyte GK-KM6150

Build Guide 

Conclusion 

For part 2 I while dive into building the hackintosh, stay tuned! 

The Best Technique/ Tool for Organizing your Time 4 Quadrant Method

Time Management?

Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity. Time management may be aided by a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific tasks, projects and goals complying with a due date.

The Best Technique

The best technique for time management is the 4 quadrant technique  It's pictured right here. But before we can get to this, you'll want a system for uncluttering your mind. Read this for a great easy way to do that. 

Now that You've finished that we can start on this. The 4 quadrant time management technique is extremely simple, but also extremely effective. 

How it Works

As you see in the picture there are four quadrants. You'll want to spend most of your time in quadrant two, if you want to be the most effective. Quadrant two is for important, but not urgent tasks. Such as, planning, preparing, prevention, relationship building, and personal development.

You want to minimize the amount of time you spend in quadrants one and two. You can minimize the amount of items in your quadrant one by spending time in quadrant two, planning for those deadlines, and other issues. The only thing you can't really plan for in quadrant one is emergencies. 

To minimize the time spent in quadrant three resist the urge to pick up the phone while your in the middle of something. Don't read all of the forwarded email's you get. Quadrant three is difficult, because we think that the items are urgent, when they're really not.

If you want to be the most effective person you can be, then you defiantly don't want to be spending time in quadrant four. Quadrant four is not urgent, not important stuff. Such as, watching TV, playing games, some texting and phone calls, and other time wasters. 

Conclusion

Good luck with your endeavors for better time management  If you have anything to add please share it in the comments below. If you enjoyed it you can subscribe by email for more.

Great Free Classes for any Beginning Filmmaker

Online Classes 

Alright, online classes are really starting to take off. Many more families are able to homeschool because of this. Many college students are able to hold a full time job close to home, and also study as full time students. Now there is a place to take free online classes for filmmaking.

Filmmaking site

The name of the site is called coursera. Here is a list of their free classes.

Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics

The Camera Never Lies

Introduction to Music Production

The Language of Hollywood: Storytelling, Sound, and Color

Introduction to Digital Sound Design

Introduction to Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists

This is the full list of every class they offer.

Conclusion

If you think this will help others you can share it with them. If you have another site for free filmmaking classes, please share in the comments.

The Best and Only Real way to Break Habits

What is a Habit?

hab·it  

Noun

A settled or regular tendency or practice, esp. one that is hard to give up.

Habits have three parts. The first part is a queue. This is like a trigger that initiates the habit. The second part is routine. This is the actual habit. The third part is the reward. This is whatever you gain from participating in the habit. To break these habits you must focus on the main components. The main components are steps 1 and 3. These steps shape what the routine is.

How to break it

There are two steps to breaking a habit. The first step is to place something in front of you that gives initiative. For instance, if I was trying to stop smoking, I would replace my cigarette packs with gum. The second step is to then chew that gum instead of smoking.The third step is rewarding yourself for following through. This can something as simple as a piece of chocolate. 

Key

The key to following this plan and breaking your habit is to divide up your habit into it's three parts. Then replace the first part with something that will initiate you do what you want. Then replace the second step with what you want to be doing instead. And finally give yourself a small reward for completing the first two steps.

Starting a New Habit

The same thing applies if you just want to start a new habit. Divide it into it's three parts. Then make sure you put in what you need to be doing for the first two steps. If you follow through on the first two steps give yourself a small reward.

Conclusion

After you break you habit please share the experience with others in the comments. Good luck!

Organizing your Life's Schedule. The Best and most effective way!

Key and First Step

The key and first step to getting your life's schedule in order is to dump everything you think of into
your inbox. Your inbox is a sheet of paper where you write down everything that you need to do. This is good because you can clear your mind of trying to remember everything that needs to get done.

Second Step

The second step is organizing your inbox. There are three places you can put the items. The first place you can put your items is on a calender. Use this for when you need to be somewhere, or doing something at a specific time. The second place you put these items is on a task list. You can have more than one task list. A good task list would be something like a shopping list. The third category for these items is a project list. A project list is any task that involves more than one step, such as building up a YouTube channel, or building a blog. To properly add a project you must write down all of the steps to complete it. For instance, if you were adding "building a YouTube channel" then it would look like this.

Project- Build Successful YouTube Channel

1. Get YouTube Channel

2. Make good Content

3. Share your YouTube channel with your friends

4. Share on Social Media sites like Twitter, Google+, and Facebook

Third Step

Once you've placed all of the items from your inbox into their proper categories you'll feel a sigh of relief. The third step is to follow through with it. Keep dumping your ideas into your inbox and then sorting them. Also, make sure that you are completing the tasks and not letting them build up.

How to Jump Out of a Building without a Green Screen Video Effects

Hey everybody,

How To

This effect is really easy. What we did is get a bunch of different angles of me preparing to jump out of the window. Then we got two angles of me actually jumping out of the window. (It was onto a trampoline) 

After we got those shots we pulled the trampoline just out of view. We put the camera in the window that I had jumped from, and started recording. I got up onto the trampoline and jumped of as high as I could, towards the spot where I would have landed if I had jumped out of the window. If you look closely at the footage you'll see that I'm traveling sideways.

We then mashed up all of the angles created the final product.

Other Ways

You can do this effect other ways. You could film someone in a second story window. Make sure that you show that their in a second story window. Then go to a different 1 story window that looks similar. Get really low, right underneath them. Record them jumping. Now go back to where you were originally and get low to the ground. Have them jump into frame and act like they hit the ground really hard.

Conclusion

If you haven't seen the video, you can watch it right below this text. If you attempt this effect I would love to see it. Leave a link in the comments.

The Best way to use Reddit for Advertising

What is Reddit?

Reddit is a social news and entertainment website. It was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in June of 2005. It is owned by a private company, Advance Publications, and they currently employ 20 people. There slogan is "The front page of the internet"

How to use it?

When your posting to reddit for advertising purposes you must tread carefully. Most redditers do not like others posting for personal gain. When your posting something don't say, "hey check out this video that I made." or anything like that. In the title just let people know what the video, or post is about. 

Once you've posted it, try and get your friends to upvote it. It helps if your in a smaller subreddit. For instance, instead of posting your video in the video subreddit, post it in the filmmaker subreddit.

The best time to post your link is in the morning between 6 and 8. The faster you get your friends and family to upvote it the higher it will rise. This way when people are checking their reddit feeds in the morning, they'll see your post.

Conclusion/ Summary 

The first thing you need to do is come up with an interesting title describing your link. Second, you need to find a subreddit that's small, but not to small. Third you need to wait until between 6 and 8 in the morning. Fourth, you need to tell are your friends and family to upvote it. 

Good luck! Hopefully I'll see one of your posts. If you have anymore suggestions leave them in the comments.

Enhance Your Views: A way to get free Youtube views, twitter followers, facebook likes, and reddit upvotes

What is it?

Enhance your views is a website that allows you to earn credits to use on their site. I would only advise using it when your first starting out, and trying to get traffic to whichever medium your interested in. 

How?

You can make credits by just simply letting it run in your browser. If your planning on using it for a YouTube video. Don't have the video monetized. You might get banned. Like I said earlier, I wouldn't use this all the time, just in the very beginning to gain traction.

Conclusion

Enhance your views is a great site for gaining traction in your area, or areas. If you have a better site please share.

A Site for easy Unfollowing and Following

How?

The site is called Twitter Auto Follow Back. It is a great free site. All you have to do is sign in, and then you can go to work. 

With this site you can automatically follow back all of your twitter followers. You can also easily unfollow the people who aren't following you back. 

Here is a list of everything that you can do. Unfollow people who aren't following you back. Check recent unfollowers. Check inactive followers. Whitelist people. Check for fake followers. Follow back followers with one click of a button.

Conclusion

This site is awesome, but if you have a better site please share. I would love to hear about it. Once again here is the link. Click any word in this sentence.

Looking for Royalty Free Music for you Videos?

Great Site

The site is called beatpick. It has a ton of different songs. You can narrow down your results, and get a list of songs that will fit to your video perfectly.

Tricks

Now to downloads the songs for free there is a trick. First you have to find the song you want. Then add it to your beatlist. 

After you have all of the songs your going to want, click the "license" icon in your beatlist. Once you've gotten to the licensing page click on "try before you license." Now fill out the form. You only have to give a real email. The rest of the information is irrelevant.

Other Way

The other way to get free music is to click on "Show only songs for free non commercial use" It's above the songs titles to the right. Then when you have all the songs you want click license. Once your to the licensing page click on "non commercial projects" Do what it asks, and there are your songs.

Conclusion

I hope this site helps you as much as it's helped me. If you have a better site to get music from please share.

Do you Want to use a Blog to Advertise your YouTube Channel?

Hey everybody,

Getting a Blog

So you want to know how to use your blog to advertise your YouTube Channel. Well here it is. First your going to need to make a blog. Some great free sites are,

Blogger

Tumblr

SquareSpace

Content

After you've gotten your blog setup you can start writing. When people are looking for a blog to read they are trying to find interesting content.

Title

Once you have a blog with good content you might still not be getting very many clicks. The reason for  this is because people will only click on the blog if the title looks interesting. A great way to get clicks is by asking a question in the title. People want to know things, it's in our nature. So when titling your blog try and exploit that.

Promoting your YouTube Channel

Now just having people view your blog isn't going to advertise your channel. You need to embed your videos into your blog post. Try and get people interested in your video while they're reading your blog so they click on it next. 

Conclusion

So in conclusion we see that to advertise a YouTube channel with a blog you need, a good title to get people to click, then you need good content that gets people interested in your videos. If you do these things you'll be sure to start building a large YouTube channel. 

If you want to read about a way to share your videos to thousands of interested people read this post.

Video Challenge

Try and guess how we did this effect. Give your answer in the comments.

The Five Tenets of TaeKwonDo and Filmmaking

What are the Five Tenets of TaeKwonDo?

They are,

Courtesy 

Integrity

Perseverance

Indomitable Spirit

Self-Control 

Some of the greatest ancient warriors based their lives on these 5 principles. You as a filmmaker, or marketer can and should do the same. In the book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" the author writes that you should base your life off of principles. These are the principle that you should use.

Courtesy - The showing of politeness in one's attitude and behavior towards others.

You should be kind and polite to the people you work for, or the people who work for you.

Integrity - Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code

Don't do something that you don't believe in. Don't make a marketing plan for a company who's morals you strongly disagree with. Filmmakers, don't make movies, or videos for things you don't believe in.

Perseverance - Steady persistence in adhering to a course of action, a belief, or purpose

Don't give up! If something isn't working keep working on it. If it still doesn't happen, find a different way to meet your goal.

Indomitable Spirit - Cannot be subdued or overcome, will never give up and keeps trying.

Again, never give up! Always keep trying to get where you want to be, then keep going.

Self-Control - The ability to control one's emotions, behavior, and desires

Keep your emotions in check when somethings goes wrong. Don't get mad, yell, scream, and throw things. That will never accomplish anything, other than destroying things.

The 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Person

Here are the 7 Habits of the most effective people. I will give more information on each of them in the days to come.

The 7 Habits

The first habit is: Be Proactive

The second Habit is: Begin with the End in Mind

The third habit is: Put First Things First 

The fourth habit is:  Think Win-Win 

The fifth habit is: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood

The sixth habit is: Synergize

The seventh habit is: Sharpen the Saw

Additional Information

This is a great chart to use. It will help you tremendously

Marketing 101

This post is just supposed to give you an idea of what marketing is. Check out some of my other posts for more information. 

What is Marketing?

Marketing = Spreading ideas

How Marketing Works?

1. The consumers worldviews and frames were there before you were.

2. People only notice things that change and new things. 

3. First impressions start the story.

4. Great marketers tell stories that people can believe.

5. Marketers with authenticity thrive.

Common Misconceptions

1. If your not in charge then you can't get people to listen to you. (You can.)

2. If your not in charge then you can't control the conversation. (You can.)

3. If your not in charge then you can't keep your business stable.