Professional quality video on the Portnov Computer School

Here is what we ordered for the Portnov Computer School web site.



I really enjoyed the video - it is done professionally in technical as well as in artistic sense. I hope you will like it too.

Portnov Computer School on iEXPO

It was lots of fun. We met lots of people from all over the world - Brazil, Colombia, France, Japan, Greece to name a few. Slowly but surely we are starting to get requests for interns from the companies we meet at Plug & Play Center.

We have just received a high quality video file from Chinese TV station where I was doing an interview. So, I am replacing the video link with a new one.

We will move to the new location on November 4, 2010. Here is the new address:

4970 El Camino Real, #110, Los Altos, CA

Portnov Computer School review - socks off

Here is what I found on telonu.com web site, which allows visitors to talk about businesses, people, events, etc. The web site itself is not positioned in Google very high overall. But, if you search for Portnov Computer School it comes right after the school web site. As a result tens of visitors read the reviews about our school posted there.

I was told many times by sophisticated Internet Marketers, that I intentionally post idiotic negative comments on the school using that technique as a hidden advertisement. I swear - I never did that in my life. But, from outside it looks like a real advertisement when inadequate folks complain about their life blaming on everybody but themselves.

Here is the exact copy of the complain. Enjoy:

i hv lost my job bcz of portnov school. this guy michael portnov promotes cheap labor & sends un-paid internship students to my company, because of that i hv lost my job, from the un-paid internship students i learned that this school asks for $2000 to $3000 from each student and send them for un-paid jobs within bay area for many companies, because of that many paid employees are losing their job. bur this guy michael become a millionaire from students fees.

Mikhail Portnov live on Chinese TV

Here is the video (part one out of 3), which is a live TV show done by one of the local Chinese TV channels. So far the copy I have is not of a real high quality. I am trying to get better copy, so I ll be able to make better video.

Going live on TV was new to me. Honestly, with many years of experience in public speaking I was still a bit nervous. Another effect I noticed - the time runs real fast in front of the cameras. Subjectively, the actual 30 minutes there was just about 5-6 minutes to me.

I am not sure either there will be any immediate commercial (enrollment) effect, but I think as a long term the videos will be viewed by thousands of individuals over the years.

Plug & Play Center EXPO

The School participated in one of the major events organized by Plug & Play Center last week. First day 40 startups pitched (2 minutes only) in front of the audience - venture capital firms, other startups, and visitors.

We met people from many countries attending the event and pitching as well - Germany, France, Malaysia, Russia, Japan, Singapore.

Second day was allocated to universities - the list of startups was shorter but geography remained very diverse.

Our major focus was on companies, which might be interested in looking at our graduates as Software QA Interns. There was a pretty good response. We have now many contacts to develop.