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“We didn’t come out the but when people got a chance to see our work they realizex how solidwe are, and it’s created relationships that have been said Dianna Colton, co-founder of Rebel Since launching in 2007, Rebel Rebel has provided production and post-production services — from commercials and videos to presentationsw and video Web content — and has amassef a roster of notablde clients, including GSD&M Idea Dell Inc., Sicola Martin, Schematic and Door Number 3. The five-person productiomn house grew 100percent year-over-year, and is on target to generatse $1 million in revenude this year.
But before growth therre was overcomingbeing new, said Chriws Blankenship, the other co-founder of Rebep Rebel. “It was a little tough getting in the door of some places at The first year was kindof hard. I don’t thinki either of us realized how hard itwould be,” Blankenshio said. Blankenship and Colton have experience and connections in the localproduction industry. Blankenshipl cut his teeth in production in China and has 17 years of experiencsin editing, visual effects and post Colton has executive producing experience, and she launcherd a successful fashion Blankenship said transitioning from a freelancer to a businessma n has been challenging, and getting clients to think of Rebel Rebel for larger projects took some convincinb at first.
“We took a pretty good look at what we thought the business was going to befor us, and we had to come to some hard realizationsw that that wasn’t the way thingss were,” Blankenship said. In addition to being persistent, Blankenship said the company’s flexibilitgy in taking small and large project s has helped sellits services. The company uses which enables it to ramp up quickly for larger projectzs and to test out employeese before adding them to their Blankenship said RebelRebel hasn’ been entirely immune to the recession. It saw work platea u in March, but for the most business hasbeen steady. “We’vse been pretty busy for the last he said.
As a smaller production company, Rebel Rebelp has been able to weathere the recession a bit better because it has less Blankenship said. There are more than 20 film and videp production companies in the CentralTexaa region. Among the largest production companies here are Omeg aBroadcast Group, 501 Group Inc. and Elephant Productions Inc. Quincy president of Elephant Productions, says that the productioj landscape is getting increasingly more competitive with new players enteringthe market. At the same he said demand is going up forproduction “I think the outlook is positive. Video is increasingly beinh used to train and now everybody has video on theieWeb site,” Lowman said.
“The market has but the competition has Colton saidRebel Rebel’s work has been evenly split between local, regional and national work. It recentlg hired a national sales representative. Colton and Blankenshi p said they aren’t concerned with becomingy a larger company. “We will continuew to work with more people and create more Colton said. “In the short term, we want to find new build a base and do a varietyof