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The most convincing person in your pitch doesn’t work for you.
Customer testimonial video production means going to your customer, on their site, and getting them to say in their own words why your work was worth buying. CDS Visuals shoots jobsite testimonials for construction and manufacturing companies from our base in Fort Mill, SC and travels nationwide to wherever your customers are — no studio booking and no travel ask for them. For ULMA Construction we shot more than twenty jobsite testimonials across the Carolinas, Atlanta, Florida, New York City, and New Jersey, each one delivered within three business days. Every interview comes back as a full-length cut, short pull-quote clips for social and sales, stills, and the raw footage, filed in a library you keep.
Six steps. One crew. Zero guesswork.
From the first call to content that's working for you, you'll always know exactly what happens next.
Proof your prospects believe.
Not a final cut. Everything.
Most agencies hand you one video and keep the rest. You leave every engagement with a full library — tagged, searchable, and yours to keep.
Fast, organized, and ready to post.
Straight from the jobsite.
Twenty interviews, five states, three-day turnarounds.
20+ jobsite testimonials across 5 states, each delivered in 3 business days.
ULMA Construction is a global manufacturer of concrete formwork and scaffolding systems. They needed a U.S. video partner who could keep pace with job sites scattered across the country.
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Yancey Bros. Co.
Common questions about testimonial video
How much of our customer's time does a testimonial take?
Plan on twenty to thirty minutes on their site. We come to them, set up around whatever they have running that day, ask the questions, and get out. No studio, no travel ask, no half-day commitment. That small ask is a big part of why customers say yes in the first place.
How fast can you turn around a batch of testimonials?
Fast. For ULMA Construction we shot more than twenty jobsite testimonials across five states and delivered each one within three business days. A single interview normally comes back three to five days after the shoot, edited, captioned, and cut down for social.
What if our customer freezes up on camera?
That is the job. We do not hand people a script and start rolling — we talk first, run it as a conversation, and cut around the false starts. Laura Hickman at BrandSafway said it is never easy with a camera in your face, but the crew made people relaxed and ready to talk.
What do we actually get from each interview?
A full-length edited testimonial, two to four short pull-quote clips sized for social, captions, a custom thumbnail, stills from the visit, and the raw footage. Everything lands in your searchable library, so a salesperson can pull one quote a year later without calling us.
Do you handle releases and customer approvals?
We plan them with you before the shoot day. Some customers require their own appearance release, and some route the final cut through their marketing team before it posts. Tell us which on the strategy call and we build that approval step into the schedule instead of discovering it on site.
Can you shoot testimonials at a trade show instead of a jobsite?
Yes, and shows are efficient — your customers are already in one building. We shoot between their meetings, usually in or near your booth, and post the cuts the same day. Jobsite interviews carry more proof because the work is in the frame, so most clients end up doing both.
How far will you travel for customer interviews?
As far as your customers are. CDS Visuals works out of Fort Mill, SC, covers the Charlotte metro daily, and travels coast to coast — twenty states and counting. The ULMA testimonial run alone covered five, from the Carolinas to New York City.
Fort Mill, SC 29708