Overwhelmingly, media coverage of team building, hiring, training, etc. is often geared towards the issues faced by HR at Fortune 500 sized companies. Even when it’s positioned as advice for small business owners it is often coming from an executive or consultant working primarily with giant corporations. We think it’s far more relevant to hear from small and medium business owners who have successfully grown their businesses – and so we asked some very talented folks to tell us the stories of their initial hires and the struggles and lessons they can share.
Niko Galvez
Niko & Stephanie Galvez from Day 1 – to now! NEG MEDIA PRO officially launced 2020! Our first exclusive interview was with the amazing Anna Lee – one of the pioneers in VR and fantastic Director in the adult entertainment industry. We got a airbnb in Los Angeles with a creative vibe inside for content creation. We did a 3 camera set up with a shotgun microphone pointed at a dinner table for our 1st official podcast recording. We even had a special guest our good friend Lawerence Breaux. You can find the episode on Youtube, just search for THE LOCAL TALENT PODCAST WITH ANNA LEE. Since then we have evolved into a full media & production company. We have had teams upwards of 100+ that we have managed and been apart of. From filiming Super Bowl commercials, celebrities and influencers or even businesses that want creative direction, we turn the vision into reality. As always #WhatsNext Read more>>
James Luyben
When I first started the Vital Pack Label Lab back in 2022, it was both exciting and challenging. Being a packaging distributor for 20+ years I always relied on our vendor partners to manufacture the product that we were providing. By making the leap into manufacturing, we would be soley responsible for the product that landed in our customers hands. Read more>>
Erica Rowe
SHRUG Productions is a production company, so for us it works a bit differently than your usual run-of-the-mill hiring process. When we first decided to pursue making short films together, it was a core group of about 5 of us. As time has gone on, our core group has gone down to 3, but in the process we’ve accrued over a dozen crew members that we consider to be vital to every production. Read more>>