Life of Kyle Prohaska

Standing Firm at Lifeway in Cary, NC

September is going to be a very busy month for me.  September 7th is when Vintage begins, which is a local college ministry I’ll be serving in.  Those will be every tuesday, and it’ll be my first opportunity to lead an e-group which is basically a small group for guys/girls.  I’ve never done anything like that, so it’s going to be new ground for me and I’ll have much to learn.  Also I move in a month, so anything I need to get done to be ready to move will need to be done, and I have to go figure out what furniture I’m going to get very soon.  Although I have already picked them out pretty much I need to buy in advance to make sure they can be delivered properly.  I can’t buy much at first, but I can get something.  I’ll be traveling to Ohio for a screening of STANDING FIRM at the end of the month, then rushing home for another locally.  On top of that is any new work that comes along, and the day to day stuff I normally do.  Doesn’t sound like much to some I’m sure but for me it’s a lot.  August was busy too, but September will be busy in it’s own way.

I’ll be ending out August and starting September by creating and finished a new site for a Christian film in about 3 days.  It’s going to be a very quick job, and I’ll be working extremely hard a few days straight to get it completed.  I’ll share more about it when it launches in the beginning of September.  Tomorrow I’ll need to go in the morning to get new tires put on my car (joy…that hurts the checkbook), then off to Darien Lake for the rest of the day but I won’t be staying too late.  Darien Lake is a theme park in case you didn’t know  I promised I would go spend some time with my cousins there that I haven’t done anything with in ages.  It’s a bad day for it with my car needing what it does, and that website job needing to be started.  I’ll be working on it into the night if I hope to meet my friday deadline.

Sales for STANDING FIRM remain solid, and continue to go up from what I can see.  I’m actually floored by the response.  We’re #52 at ChristianBook.com under DVD – Movies which is up from #60 two days ago.  Amazon.com just ordered some more, and I know that ChristianCinema.com only has 8 left already.  They just switched from Backordered to 8 left sometime today, which means they had so many on Backorder that whatever stock they just got in was almost eaten up completely by previous orders, so they’re out again almost.  I can’t believe it’s been #1 on that site for a straight week now, that’s insanity.  I’ve never seen a film like this (budget, first film, etc.) do that.  God is amazing…He really is.  Whatever projections or guesses I made for sales, I was WAY off.  That’s always a good problem to have.  Finally if you search for the film on Amazon.com we’re at the top of the search pool.  This was good to see since we were buried by some old work-out videos for a while there, and it probably hurt us a little.  Some people likely searched for it and didn’t see it right away and therefore went somewhere else.  You’ll notice that photo up top.  That was sent to me by a friend on Facebook who snapped it at his local Lifeway store in Cary, NC.  I couldn’t believe that they had put it on two racks, that’s unexpected.  They also put it next to what is most likely selling the best there (To Save A Life) so that’s great placement!  Supposedly they just put it out, so that means there’s a lot of stores out there that aren’t carrying it yet, but will likely do so soon.  I know some were disappointed they went in and they didn’t have or they had to order it, but that’s the nature of things when you’re a small movie like this.  I made the thing in my bedroom for pete’s sake, it’s no FIREPROOF lol.  We’re beyond Blessed that the stores even have the ability to carry it and have it in their system to order let alone put it on a shelf.  The DVD will slowly roll out, I have no doubts of that, and more and more people will catch wind of this little film from NY.

I’ve continued the online social-marketing for the film as strong as ever.  This isn’t something you stop doing, and I’ll continue to do so until I don’t have time anymore.  The film just passed 13,000 Followers on Twitter and is building towards 14,000 already.  If I have anything to say about it we’ll hit 50,000 by the end of the year.  Ambitious?  Maybe…but I’m an ambitious guy  The fan page on Facebook just broke the 16,000 mark too, so that’s exciting.  By the way, if anyone has a film they want some social media marketing for (or a business or whatever…even their personal Twitter) I have proposals and quotes available for such a thing.  I’ve grown the Glowing Nose Twitter account from 25 Followers to 3100 in just 10 days or so.  The Ace Wonder Twitter account has doubled in less than a week, and on and on it goes.  You won’t find numbers like that for anything in the Christian market (Movie wise), not even really big movies.  Someone will take notice sooner or later, that’s the goal.  Hopefully this can farther become a source of income for me as time goes on.  I would love to continue doing websites, graphics, and social marketing for this market (Christian), because the more I learn from doing it for others and becoming successful, the greater effectiveness I’ll have when another film of mine comes around!  If you know any filmmakers that might like my services, even if it’s just a website, or DVD menus or anything…let me know!

It’s crazy knowing what could come about this year from the film, especially the testimonies.  I think my life is about to change.  Actually it already has.  Changed how?  I’m not so sure, but 2011 is going to be a very…very interesting year.  Eph 3:20-21 …amen.