Greetings and Salutations Everyone!
It’s so nice to be able to call any place I travel to “my office.” Yes, I do have an actual office in Baraboo, Wisconsin, but as we serve all 50 states, I need to make myself as mobile as possible. Wherever I travel, that place becomes my temporary office until I get back to Wisconsin. I realize my last post stated that I would be talking about our new video podiums, and I will mention them in this post - but that won’t be the main focus. We’ve been doing some software tweaks and design modifications in our shop, and I wanted to wait until we had a final design all set to go before I featured them here.
This post’s content is a little more introspective. Since our last event, I’ve been working behind the scenes on two major projects for GSA. One project has absolutely nothing to do with producing game shows and is a more personal project for me. The other project has everything to do with game shows, and any free time I’ve had has been dedicated to working on it. This is why sometimes it is so nice to get away from my main office and be able to work in a completely different environment.
Today, I’m sitting outside at a little wooden table at The Coopers Tavern on the Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin. I just ordered a fabulous grilled cheese sandwich with chips and a Hobgoblin (an awesome dark English ale). I’ve answered about a dozen emails so far and am now able to sit back listening to the sounds of the city – which is what prompted me to write this blog in the first place. The best part is – I’m working, but I’m totally relaxed. I’m officially in my office, outside, eating lunch, and having a beer.
While I’m not advocating that you have a beer at lunch (depending on your job, you could get in trouble for that), I am advocating that you take some time to do your daily work away from your usual place of business. Just for a change of scenery, a change of pace, and to see things from a different perspective. Much of my job involves creating games and developing new technology that enables GSA to provide the best game show productions on the planet. In a setting like I am in today, my creativity has opened up, and in about an hour’s time, I’m putting the finishing touches on Game Show America’s next corporate game show. A little change of pace might just be the thing that helps you achieve that “something great” at work.
For the past few years, our Quest for the Best show has been one of our best selling productions. Because we have quite a few repeat clients every year, they are always asking, “What do you have that we haven’t seen before?” Most often, our clients start with something like our Q & A show, because it’s familiar to them. Then, they move to something like Corporate Feud, followed by Quest for the Best, and then top it off with GSA Squares. Once they’ve gone through these major game formats, we need to get creative and produce a show unlike anything they’ve ever seen before.
It’s with that, that I introduce you to “Out of the Question.” The original concept for this game was created by Terrance Martin – a game show veteran with many ties to the game show industry in Hollywood (and soon to be a contributing author on the GSA Blog). The concept for the game was originally created as a TV game show (and will be coming to TV this fall). When the concept was presented to me, it completely caught me off guard. It is one of the best game show concepts that has ever been pitched to GSA. I immediately started thinking of ways to fine-tune the show to be the next great game show for corporate events. That process has taken quite a bit of time, but it’s finally done, and we look forward to offering this exciting new game show to our corporate clients.
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The game can be played by an individual, a team of people, or multiple teams of people. The game also works as an all-inclusive show where the entire audience can play along with the game. The content of the game can be completely customized to include your company content, which makes it great for company training. Call GSA today for detailed information on “Out of the Question.”
Something else I wanted to mention in this post is the cost of our productions. I was talking with a client recently that stated the photos on our website gave them the impression that our productions were too expensive for their budget. That is definitely not the case. Yes, we do produce high-end game shows for clients, but we also have scaled down versions of our shows to fit almost every size audience and budget. If you’re interested in a game show production, call us. Let us know what type of budget you have to work with and you’ll be pleasantly surprised at what we can provide – without sacrificing quality.
That’s all for now. So until next time, keep on playing…
“Out of the Question” is a registered trademark of of Terramar Productions.
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