Meet with the newest company to open in The Press Building in Downtown Port Arthur
Published 12:38 am Thursday, September 29, 2022
The newest company in The Press Building is basically in place to create much more.
“My purpose in doing enterprise right here in Southeast Texas is to create jobs,” mentioned Niq Hunter, president and CEO of Nerd Family Productions. “I work with plenty of totally different nonprofit organizations, and for extra it’s a no brainer that the greatest driver of crime and isolation is the lack of alternative. And…round right here, there isn’t that a lot of a scarcity of alternative. It’s a wide range of alternatives.”
But the mission behind the company that started in 2019 can be rooted in schooling.
“I need to create an economic system for teenagers like me that didn’t know they even had any form of curiosity in video,” Hunter mentioned. “The first time they choose (a digicam up), they’re prepared to say, ‘okay, now I do know I can go and try this job.’”
From left are NFC workers Lupita Salas, Topher McKeon, Niq Hunter and Emmanuel Vasquez. (Monique Batson/The News)
Prior to opening his enterprise rooted in visible storytelling, Hunter spent his life working in gross sales. While working for an car dealership, he started to create movies of the merchandise to push on-line for extra publicity. And it labored.
While he didn’t stay in car gross sales, the data he’d realized from video advertising and marketing made an impression, and he knew with the proper imaginative and prescient he may create a method to develop different companies by way of distinctive visions.
“I began with only a mobile phone,” he mentioned. “And then I obtained a $500 digicam and constructed me a $500 pc. And then I began focusing extra time on the craft of videography, how to gentle topics and the actual particulars in what makes one thing go from a interest into an expert manufacturing.”
Now, the enterprise that initially rooted in Beaumont has seven workers with plans to rent as many as 15 extra in the following 12 months.
In August, Nerd Family Productions realized the lease on their current constructing wouldn’t be renewed. And in addition, the company had grown and wanted extra room. By Aug. 8, they’d signed a lease to be part of the continued addition of corporations housed inside the newly renovated constructing on 4th Street in Downtown Port Arthur.
The mission, Hunter mentioned, is to create on-line content material for purchasers that “elicits feelings” and likewise faucets into features of social media algorithms that the common enterprise proprietor won’t concentrate on.
“All the psychology behind the gross sales/crafts; all the productions that we do for social media — while you do it that method, when you may go and discover that stress level that creates the movement that you really want for the consumer, effectively it’s only a matter of placing it in entrance of the proper folks. So we specialize in attempting to guarantee that we are able to put corporations in entrance of the proper prospects to allow them to put their finest foot ahead.”
Recently Councilwoman Charlotte Moses requested Hunter to attend a metropolis council assembly to converse, which he did this week.
“I used to be touring The Press Building and noticed their workplace and their manufacturing, and I mentioned, ‘simply come introduce your self to the metropolis,” Moses mentioned. “What higher method for you to introduce us than to tell us what you do. Thank you for coming to Port Arthur.”
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