Experience is More Important than Money… At First

As a beginner editor starting to learn the game of editing, many people want to make their first dollar and cash out WAY quicker than they should 🫵

When you’re just starting out… you don’t have enough experience under your belt to be able to charge the high prices that the top 1% percent of editors can charge.

It’s harder to definitively say “you can edit somebody’s video better and get them better results” if you don’t have the experience of editing videos better.

So when starting out, it’s more important to get EXPERIENCE editing for actual clients rather than only focusing on the MONEY 💰

So while you may be doing a lot of work for very little amount of money or no money at all 🤏 …

The experience you are gaining is much more worth it than the money you are earning.

⏰ When I started shooting music videos back in 2020, my first 3 music videos I shot were all for free…

Shot, directed, and edited by me for FREE.

But after that… someone who was a friend of the artist I was shooting for saw me working and asked:

“Yo bro how much you charge?”

I didn’t know what to say at the time because I had never been paid for what I was doing before…

And so my first thought was “Does $100 work?”

Not even a split second went by before he reached out his hand, shook my hand firmly and said “let’s do it”

From that moment on my self-confidence and self belief SKYROCKETED 🚀 because it was tangible proof that my skill set was something that people are willing to pay for…

And even though it’s just $100… I knew that if I can make $100, I can make $1000.

And if I can make $1000, I can make $5000, and so on.

So in the beginning, those first three free videos that I shot were all for experience 📈 and even the one I got paid $100 for was mainly for experience but I got a lil buck for it too 💰

With these free videos, you figure out all the little hurdles that you didn’t expect going into it…

And since they’re free videos, or for very cheap, the expectations of producing an amazing video are a lot lower than if you were getting paid a higher amount immediately.

And when you deliver a fire video for dirt cheap, you get a TON of love from the client, and then you can ask for referrals or a testimonial 🔥

So for all the beginner editors… don’t be afraid if it’s your first client to take on a video for free or for very cheap.

You are doing it for the EXPERIENCE, and the money at this point does not matter 💰❌

The money will come so long as you continue to put your head down, continue to learn, continue to improve your skill set, and you put yourself and your skills out there for people to see 📈💯

A plan without implemented action doesn’t bring you anywhere closer to your goals so keep taking action everyone! 🙏

Love y’all!

- Norman

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