Primeau Productions Video Production in Mexico: A True Miracle

To keep up with our growth, Primeau Productions, LLC retained the services of Hannah Zachert, Kevin Cramer and Tim Meehan in 2011. Hannah is an excellent addition to the Primeau team with her expertise in graphic design and writing.  Kevin Cramer is a great addition with his video editing skills and organization.  Tim Meehan has a synergy that has kindled in Primeau Productions in so many ways.

When were stuck while trying to negotiate and complete our video production for the Napoleon Hill Foundation "The Master Key to Success" 13 part video series in Spanish, Tim Meehan led Primeau Productions in a direction.  Primeau Productions goal is to help get Napoleon Hill’s message out through these videos to one of the largest and fastest growing market sectors in the world.

Meehan helped convince Primeau Productions that the project of translating these videos was worth the time and financial investment during a trip to Chicago last June when I presented at Notre Dame University for the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce event in Chicago on Internet marketing.

Taking the lead, Meehan found a translator in Myra Mexico, Judith, who is a teacher and speaks fluent English and Spanish.  Judith did a wonderful job translating our summer intern Madeline Meehan’s transcripts of video 1-10 and Rachel Witucky’s transcripts 11-13 that were created from the English Master Key videos.

The DVD master has been authored and we are ready to go to press.  Notre Dame University has placed the first order of DVDs.  Don Green,  Chairman of the Board of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, has requested another 300-400 sets.

Primeau Productions does have a contract with the Napoleon Hill Foundation for licensing the video and distributing it in Spanish form globally.

Meehan suggested a trip to Mexico to record the voice of Napoleon Hill to assure all translations were perfect.  We decided to stay in Puerto Adventures at Blue Caribbean Resorts, who is a client and friend of Primeau Productions.  The gated community of Puerto Adventures is a beautiful destination about 45 minutes south of Can Cun Mexico.  Blue Caribbean Resorts provided a beautiful 4 bedroom 2 and a half bath condo on the Caribbean for us at no charge. Blue Caribbean is one of the most beautiful resorts I have ever been to and had the privilege to work with.

Puerto Adventures

Our trip to Mexico to record also has parallel karma. After serendipitously finding Judith and having all 13 video scripts translated to Spanish, Meehan posted an ad on Local Gringo (Mexico’s equivalent to Craig’s List) to find a Spanish voice talent.  We planned on having to fly in someone from Mexico City, Merida Mexico or Cancun Mexico.

We received one reply to Meehan’s ad from a woman who knew somebody who had done voice work in the past. She referred us  to David Nunez and introduced Meehan to David via email.

The really amazing part of the story is that David happened to live right in Puerto Adventures, a 5 minute walk down the beach from where Tim and I stayed at Blue Caribbean Resorts.  While finishing up the Napoleon Hill Spanish recordings during our weeklong visit, we got to know David Nunez. David has two master’s degrees, one from Harvard and the other from the University of Texas at Austin.  He is a marine biologist.

David chooses a life in Puerto Adventures, leaving the American fast track behind.  Today David is a Biology teacher at a Puerto Adventures private school. David Nunez also founded a nonprofit organization to help repopulate the bay in Puerto Adventured with bottom feeding sea creatures that have been absent for many years due to over fishing.  We accomplished our goal of recording a perfect Spanish voice of napoleon Hill and met one of the most interesting and resourceful people who has become a friend and ally of Primeau Productions.  Thank you to Blue Caribbean Resorts and David Nunez for helping Primeau productions deliver Napoleon Hill’s message to the Spanish speaking population.

Blue Caribbean Resorts

The Master Keys to Success-Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill Film Restoration

In 1994, my dear friend Mike Pallin gave me a set of Napoleon Hill cassette tapes titled "Your Right To Be Rich". The tapes changed my life slowly but surely. I learned how to turn adversity and defeat into great opportunity; think positively on a daily basis, think accurately and a bunch more excellent life and business skills.

I then discovered a great book that should be a part of every high school curriculum, "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill.

Fast forward a couple years and I am visiting another dear friend Terry Brock during a very difficult time in my life and noticed a book in his library "Law of Success" also by Napoleon Hill. I sat in his Orlando Florida penthouse and started to read. By the end of the week stay, I had made it through about one third of this huge book. The biggest book I had ever read. As I handed it back to him he told me to keep it!

My life continued to improve over the years because of the principles. Then a little over a year ago, I started exploring social media. I could not help sharing my lessons with my new friends.

I started social media posting and Napoleon Hill video clip uploading to the Primeau Productions YouTube channel. All of a sudden (after some visualization and a simple phone call to the Napoleon Hill Foundation), Primeau Productions LLC has been engaged by the Napoleon Hill Foundation to restore some real treasures. Eleven films of lectures by the man himself from 1963!

I am humble but was so excited I had to share the news with my friends and family of course using social media.

People have been emailing me about how the video clips I uploaded to YouTube changed their lives! People from countries like Brazil, China, Japan, Russia, Belgium, Australia, Canada and of course the United States.

Our friend Bob Bolya loaned me a set of audio cassettes and two VHS tapes titled "The Master Keys to Success" about a year before the postings. Of course I spent a year holding onto the package, viewed and listened almost daily, I was then asked to return them. But before I did, I had to save some key parts that I would listen to again and again. I choose to save them on YouTube and share them with our YouTube family.

That's when everything in my life and business began to switch into hyper drive. For no apparent reason, our production company business was reinvented, growing to accommodate existing customers with additional marketing skills; my forensic business tripled and my new executive assistant Patty came into my life. Coincidence, I don't think so.

Now, Primeau Productions is applying our video and forensic skills by restoring these amazing films to digital high definition quality. It is our hope to be involved in creating DVD product with the guidance of the foundation that will help Mr. Hill's message continue to touch lives. This is the mission of the Napoleon Hill Foundation. "A nonprofit educational institution dedicated to making the world a better place in which to live".

What an honor it is to have a role in the continued effort to help spread timeless motivational messages!

Primeau Productions LLC now carries a line of Napoleon Hill Products which includes free shipping!

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