How I become a Video Editor in 60 days

When I say it took me 2 months to become a video editor. It doesn't mean that I started and everything skyrocketed in 2 months.

Nope, I struggled as a Graphic designer for 2 years before becoming a successful Video editor.

But it taught me the necessary lesson of freelancing and growing.

Today I am gonna share the 3 lessons that helped me to grow faster.

1. People are here to Help you

2 years ago, I was a big believer that people just care about themselves.

I tried to figure out everything myself, Never asked for someone’s help. Neither friends, family, nor mentors.

I thought. If I ask for help, it will lower my value.

But that was the stupidest thing I had done.

This time I put my pride down.

I said to myself that I am gonna ask every question that I will struggle with.

What the worst can happen?

No one will help me.

But that’s where I am already, all I can see from here is good things.

The first person I ever asked was Nill.

At that time I started my Twitter journey and I am struggling to come up with tweet ideas. But I see that Nill was tweeting regularly.

I asked him, how he do it. how did he come up with new ideas?

And guess what? I got a reply.

He said he learns something every day and observes things.

Whatever comes to his mind he just put it on Twitter.

Now I took a big jump.

The second person I asked was Oleksii.

I got a client and I have no idea what to charge him.

So I asked Oleksii, what should I charge?

He told me his rates and He also told me that he is new so he is figuring it out too.

But guess what, now I have an approximate idea of what I can charge.

The third person I asked was Sayujya.

I was struggling with practicing video editing.

And at that time Sayujya is the biggest guy I know on Twitter.

I was at 6 followers, yup the date was 30th March.

I had zero belief that he was going to reply back to me.

But Sayujya was too kind and he responded back just the next day.

His reply gave me a few ideas to try and eventually, it worked out.

All three and everyone who helped me in different parts of my journey has contributed to my success.

But it all can be stopped if I just continue my ego and never asked.

Ask for help, you don't know who may be changing your trajectory.

2. The more you try, the Easier it gets.

Landing my first client was the hardest, but the second time it got easier.

Making my first $1000 was the hardest, but the second time it got easier.

It took me 3 years to earn a good income from Graphic Designing.

But still, after all those struggles I used to think that I got lucky that's why I am making good money through graphic designing.

where at the same time, I have friends who are struggling to make $100 per month.

Life was going great, I was enjoying it with fear in mind.

But then suddenly everything started falling out.

My clients started leaving me.

At one point comes where I have left with zero clients.

I was not happy with that and what type of service I was providing was not that much scalable.

So I decided to Switch to Video Editing.

I have no idea how much time it gonna take to get my first client as a Video Editor.

But because of my all experience and knowledge it doesn't take that much time, I was able to land my first client within 14 days.

It was awesome.

Before that, I was the guy who have a fear of losing all my clients.

But it all changed after my first attempt.

3. Charging more starts with Asking

In my last gig, I had a fear of increasing my prices.

Whenever I am about to increase my rates I think,

What if they

• do not pay

• find a cheap one

• stop working with me

These all fears hold me back from increasing my rates. This was one of the reasons why my income started declining from Graphic designing.

But when I started video editing, I promised myself that I am gonna try everything out.

I am gonna put every fear of mine to the ground even if it cost me money.

I am gonna conquerer my every single fear. (Remind me in the future)

For the first video, I charged $20.

For the second one, I charged $80

The third one is $150.

And the fourth one is $200.

But then I again got the belief that this is the max I can charge.

And then the client who pays me $200/video comes to me asking if I am available to edit one video.

And he came to me after 2 weeks so I said

hey man I loved working with you last time, But now I have increased my price to $350/video.

It was a huge jump in my rates.

At that time I had enough work so I take a risk and took the leap.

we had some negotiation and we ended up with $300/video.

Great isn't it?

where at a moment I thought it is what I can charge max.

The belief got broken by just putting my beliefs down and asking.

That was the biggest jump in my price, I increased my prices by 50%.

But it all not have happened if I just shut up and worked at $200 per video.

That day I was happy cause my belief got broken.

Remember: Charging more starts with Asking.

This is my first newsletter so it can be a bit bad but we all have to start somewhere.

Believe me, my 10th newsletter will be the best newsletter you will ever receive as a Video Editor.

Few notes:

I struggled to write this newsletter for months cause I have no idea what should I write.

So I watched a lecture by Steve Jobs.

it was about his 3 simple lessons, nothing great.

(BTW if you feel lost in life you should watch this lecture)

So I took the same idea and write it as a newsletter.

And it turned out an awesome one.

If you have any questions going on your mind you can just reply to this email.

I will write a Tweet about it on my Twitter account.

Or add it to my next newsletter.

Till then Keep Doing Crazy Shits.