We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Alex O. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Alex below.

Alright, Alex thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Going back to the beginning – how did you come up with the idea in the first place?

Before starting Quick Digitals, I had some of my own tapes that I wanted converted. I checked with places like Walgreens, Walmart, and Costco, but they told me the tapes would be shipped out of state to a third-party company. That didn’t sit right with me. These were personal memories, and I didn’t want them mailed away or handled like just another order in a big-box system.

I wanted to hand my tapes directly to the person who would actually be doing the digitizing. With my background in video production and technology, I knew I could create a more personal, careful, and higher-quality service. That’s what led me to start Quick Digitals around 2014.

What started as a better way to handle my own memories slowly grew into a trusted local service. Since then, thousands of customers have trusted us with their precious family tapes, videos, and memories.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I’m the founder of Quick Digitals, a local media digitizing company that helps people preserve their old memories before they fade away. We specialize in converting older media formats like VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, Digital8, MiniDV, DVDs, CDs, audio cassettes, and photo slides into modern digital files that are easier to watch, share, and save.

I got into this business because I had old tapes of my own that I wanted digitized. When I looked into the big retail options, I found out that many of them ship tapes out of state to third-party companies. That didn’t feel right to me. These tapes are often one-of-a-kind family memories, and I wanted a service where people could hand their tapes directly to the person doing the work.

With my background in video production and technology, I knew I could build something better: a more personal, local, and careful service where the work is done in-house. Quick Digitals started around in 2014 with the goal of providing fast, high-quality video tape conversions handled by professionals who understand how important these memories are.

What we provide is more than just a file conversion. A lot of our customers bring us tapes that contain weddings, birthdays, graduations, vacations, childhood videos, family gatherings, and memories of loved ones who are no longer here. Many people haven’t seen what’s on those tapes in 20 or 30 years. We help bring those moments back to life and make them easy to watch again on a computer, phone, USB drive, cloud download, DVD, or whatever format works best for them.

The biggest problem we solve is trust. People are nervous about handing over their only copy of an important memory. They don’t want their tapes lost, damaged, shipped around, or mixed up with thousands of other orders. That is why we do the work in-house and treat every order carefully from start to finish.

What sets Quick Digitals apart is our attention to quality and the way we handle older tapes. Not every tape plays the same in every machine. Some tapes have tracking issues, audio problems, unstable playback, or damage from age and storage conditions. We use multiple professional decks and test tapes carefully to get the best possible playback before doing the final transfer. I call this our multi-cycle conversion process. Instead of just running a tape once and accepting whatever comes out, we check for the most stable picture and sound possible.

I’m most proud of the trust we’ve built with local customers. Over the years, thousands of people have trusted us with their family memories, and that means a lot to me. These are not just tapes to us. They are people’s personal histories.

The main thing I want potential customers to know is that Quick Digitals is built around care, quality, and trust. We understand how valuable these memories are, and we take that responsibility seriously. Our goal is to make the process simple, safe, and personal, while giving customers high-quality digital files they can keep and share for years to come.

Can you talk to us about how you funded your business?

I didn’t start Quick Digitals with outside funding or a big business plan. At the time, I had saved enough money to buy a few pieces of equipment because I simply wanted to digitize my own VHS tapes.

Once I transferred my own tapes and saw how well they came out, I realized there were probably other people who needed the same help. I wasn’t originally planning to turn it into a business, but I posted an announcement on social media offering to help people convert their old tapes, and people started reaching out.

From there, it grew naturally. As more customers came in, I reinvested back into better equipment, more decks, and a stronger workflow. The business was built step by step, starting with a small personal need and growing into a service that now helps many local families preserve their memories.

Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?

I never really focused on building a large social media following in the traditional sense. Quick Digitals grew more through trust, referrals, and customer reviews than through trying to become popular on social media.

The one platform that became very important for us was Yelp, if you can call that social media. One customer left a review, then another, and over time it started to build momentum. Those reviews became a huge part of how people discovered us and felt comfortable trusting us with their tapes.

Today, we have over 120 Yelp reviews, and that happened organically over the years. I think that says a lot about the business because people don’t usually write reviews unless they really feel something about the service. For us, the audience was built one happy customer at a time.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://quickdigitals.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quicktapetransfer/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/transfervhstodvd
• Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/quick-digitals-glendale