How I Made My First Million Dollars With Video Production

I graduated from film school in 2007 and I didn’t learn or know anything about making money as a filmmaker. And I struggled for over 5 years, doing random jobs that barely covered my bills.

For some reason, it’s somehow not ok to talk about making money as a filmmaker. No one talks about their rates or what they charge clients. I was a DP on so many shoots for $500 without realizing my friends were getting $1200. Because no one talks about it.

I charged $3000 for a video production service when I should have been charging 10k.

So that’s why I made these videos. I’m hoping to help people that are going through that same struggle I went through and since no one else seems to want to talk about it, I’m happy to.

When I was 29, almost 6 years after film school, still paying my student loan, I have about $1000 in my bank and maybe about 10k worth of video gear. I would take freelance jobs as a videographer, camera op, AC, editor, and once in a while, DP.

But I was seriously thinking about quitting. The only problem was, I didn’t even know what else I could do. I didn’t have a real job ever.
So I had to make something else work.

Even though I had a video production company, I decided to start a new one, with a focus and with a better life plan.

I wrote down my goal. Save a million by 35 and retire by 40.
And make over 100k next year at 30.

Then I started to write a business plan. First, I was going to turn my video production service into a product. I was going to make a very specific type of marketing video for 3k. I created 3 to 4 of them for my friends that had a business for free. And I made one for a law firm. Then I learn SEO and Google ads. It took about 6 months before it worked because I was trying to learn everyone on my own.

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