TurnHere Hustling the small business owner and hurting the video production industry at the same time. Emeryville, California

Turnhere does nothing but hurt the video production industry and gouge its clients by using the internet.

This company hires videographers local to their clients business and pays them $250 for shoot and edit these videos. Its a ripoff. The client gets a $250 quality video for $1000. Feel free to look into it here:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/21/smallbusiness/turnhere_ads.fsb/index.htm

I inquired into Turnhere to find some work (I run a production company) and the most they are willing to pay is $200 to $250 per video.  People shouldn't be so quick to turn over their money to these guys.  

There is a much better alternative:

Hire a local video production company and get your moneys worth. $1000 to a local production company ensures the client won't have the middleman to go through as they will deal directly with the producers.  Plus the quality will be much better (in theory by 400%) because instead of the video producers handing over $750 to Turnhere for doing nothing, they can spend it on a professional voiceover, better graphics, or give the client more time and energy into the shoot and pre-production.

Turnhere is essentially an agency, since they don't actually do any of the production work.  Everyone in the advertising or production industries know that the standard agency markup for production is 15%.  Turnhere is charging the client 400%.

Bottom line...run away from these people.