"We met Thomas when we contracted him to do a Fraser Island video
which was initially for the Responsible Travel site in the UK. However
once Thomas had completed the Fraser video we then asked him to do Kingfisher Bay Resort, Eurong Beach Resort and Fraser Explorer Tours and Cool Dingo Tours, as well as flash files up to a couple of minutes each for use on the website. His rates are extremely reasonable and he does a great job. Check
out the new Kingfisher site for some examples of his work - all the
video footage and flash files on the site are Thomas' - the videos, accommodation, junior rangers, interactive map etc."
"We have just received a completed promo video that we had commissioned Thomas to complete for us. We have found it to be absolutely fabulous, the colours were as they should be, the sharpness of the filming was faultless, this video was so completely what we were after we were satisfied with the first cut. We found Thomas to be very professional and he could not help us enough, his advice was excellent. We would not hesitate to recommend Thomas's services and we are hoping the Lightning Ridge Tourism Association will commission Thomas to do a full town DVD in the near future. Since we have been showing our DVD in our town shop we consider at this stage at least a 10 to 15% increase in our customers, even though it is in the early stages."
"We
are having our best season yet, I'm sure that a lot of that is due to the weather but I know your video has a significant influence as well. I know definitely that whenever we have
referred inquiries to the Video on the site it has had a positive
result."
"We are very happy to recommend Thomas Reissmann (Tom) of Authentic Holiday Films. Please visit our website www.portside.com.auto see the video that we have embedded on our homepage. You will see from this that Tom’s cinematography skills are very good. What you will not see is how Tom spent time with us understanding our communication needs, and how he produced scenes and edited video and audio in line with our brief. The final result was exactly what we wanted and we thank Tom for his responsiveness and skill in making the final edits."
“I have worked with Thomas on several projects and he
always delivers the goods. But one thing I didn't expect from working with Thomas was
an increase in web traffic. Video is the ultimate viral marketing tool. We got 15 pages
of listings in Google for www.bigozmusic.com.au even before the site was
launched! These listings were all from videos posted on sites such as youTube."
"Working
with Thomas has been very productive. During the shoot he was ensuring
we had sufficient creative footage to be flexible in later editing, and
the finished product is very impressive. The whole process has been a
pleasure, and a cost effective way for us to show our clients aspects
of our products that are difficult to describe in words alone. Thanks
Thomas!"
"My conversion rate went over 20% today, I am so pleased!! Things are going well we are pretty booked up now for the summer. Thank you for your contribution to our little project up here
on our mountain (06/02/07)... Having a short video on our website has
enabled us to get a message to our audience that sound and pictures can
do better than text on a page. ...We all thoroughly enjoyed working
with Thomas and have a fabulous DVD and video to show potential clients
as well as friends, family and existing clients. We look forward to
working together again." (13/06/06)
"I
certainly think that adding your video to our website has been a very
powerful marketing tool. It is difficult for me to quantify this but
certainly my conversion rate with Responsible Travel has hit almost 20%
and that’s good!"
"During
the last 6 weeks we've had many more leads and conversion rates better
than usual, via our own web page. As we've not changed our web page in
any other way, I can only assume that people are finding the video. I
always ask how they search and many have found us via such general
google searches as 'family holidays', 'greek villas', 'independent
family holidays'. This is entirely new and so it HAS to be the video
doing it!!! (07/02/07)...It’s been very easy working with Thomas and
what a marvellous product we have at the end of it, far exceeding
anything I had anticipated. A big thank you." (05/06)
“The footage looks great. I’m really pleased with the turn-out.
One of the most exciting adventures of a lifetime is to trek to the
summit of Kilimanjaro! Second to actually undertaking this spectacular
trek yourself, is being able to appreciate the moment with moving image
and this is exactly what Authentic Holiday Films have so superbly
captured in our video of the Rongai Route . I highly recommend their
friendly service”
“Thanks
for the superb job you did on videoing our Porini Camp experience.
And editing them so quickly and providing us with a professional
finished product within days of leaving the Camps. We've added the
video's to our website and on our company CD and see it as a valuable
tool to increase our business both with direct clients and agents! Thanks again for your extra work on this.”
"It’s been very easy working with
Thomas and what a marvelous product we have at the end of it, far exceeding
anything I had anticipated. A big thank you. … I anticipate that it is going to
be easier to sell the holiday, because suddenly it is alive to people. Rather
than just photographs - and we have loads of photographs on our webpage and
some really good ones on the responsible travel webpage, but with a video it
actually comes alive for people, they actually see other people being here and
having a holiday. I won’t have to convince people that it is ok to bring
18-month old babies because they have seen an 18-month old
baby having a marvellous time. So it is going to make my job a lot easier. And
that will be a big thank you."
"Having a short video on our website has enabled us to
get a message to our audience that sound and pictures can do better than text
on a page. Choosing the music and the locations made us think hard about
what message we wanted to get across in the video and also made us all
appreciate what we have here. Taking Thomas around our special places and
speaking to the local people about our video project was an experience for the
family, our guests and the trades people of our town. We all thoroughly enjoyed
working with Thomas and have a fabulous DVD and video to show potential clients
as well as friends, family and existing clients. We look forward to
working together again."
"Most
of our business comes via the internet as is seems to be the most cost
effective of securing business and communicating what we have to offer to
prospective clients. In a very competitive market place, trying to explain to
our product offering to our audience is an on-going battle, and although we had
seen video downloads on other websites it did not look feasible to organise
someone to come to visit us in Spain with the right skills to help us with a
video project due to the costs involved.
When Thomas
approached us we were delighted, first because of his genuine interest in what
we were doing and second because the way he was working was affordable and I
expect many other small businesses like us also. I was only too keen to be
first in the queue as I felt there would be many others wanting to leap at this
opportunity at such a good price.
Thomas stayed
with us for 4 days and was keen to get through as much material as possible
during his stay. He had lots of ideas and his experience as to how we could
present our property in an interesting and compelling way was invaluable. The
weather was not perfect during his visit but he was able to edit into the video
the blue skies that we wanted. We had some good fun and it was interesting to
learn how passionate Thomas is about his work and something of his various
adventures.
We have
receive some unexpected feedback from the video including local people who are
now much better acquainted with our business and what we do. If a picture
speaks a thousand words, then a video takes this one step further. I am keen to
work with Thomas again next year as I would like to keep the video fresh and
interesting, and there is always room for improvement. We learnt a lot this
time about what we can get across in a video and I hope that Thomas will
continue to help us in the future."
