Masterclass Overview: The Complete Freelancing Blueprint
The creator presents the first-ever YouTube freelancing masterclass designed to take a complete beginner from zero to earning 1 lakh INR per month. The class emphasizes practical, actionable strategies over theory, drawing from the creator's personal experience building a successful freelancing career and agency.
Module 1: Foundations - Niche Selection & Career Strategy
The Generalization vs. Specialization Debate
A core principle introduced is counter-intuitive: beginners should start by generalizing, not niching down. The creator explains that without experience, you don't know what you're good at or what the market wants. The recommended approach is a pyramid:
- Stage 1 - Generalize (Bottom of Pyramid): Try everything in your field (e.g., cinematic, talking-head, motion graphics for video editing).
- Stage 2 - Analyze: See what services clients demand (e.g., talking-head videos) and what you enjoy/make money at.
- Stage 3 - Specialize (Top of Pyramid): Once experienced, specialize in a profitable, enjoyable skill (e.g., becoming a specialist). To build these foundational skills, you can follow a structured path like the one in the Freelancer English Course: Grammar, Communication & Soft Skills, which covers essential communication for client interactions.
By the time you reach the top of the pyramid, you'll have enough experience to confidently charge premium rates. This gradual progression mirrors the principles discussed in From 0 to 10K: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Building Successful Businesses, where starting broad and refining focus is key to scalable growth.
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overview which in depth knowledge into the industry
expectation zero say 1 lakh per month freelancer 1 lakh
what you will learn in this master class is the overview of everything and in depth explanation of the things that can
help you to go from zero a lakh per month Okay, now second year yes I can guarantee
stick say you know and
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if you are ambitious and have that drive expectations one day so let's
with module one module one foundations clear
foundations what do I mean by foundations foundations So
may you'll have decide what you'll have to choose in your niche and by niche I mean where do you want to go? Do you
love graphic designing? Do you love coding? Do you love UI UX? Do you love video editing? Do you love copywriting?
Whatever it is, you have to choose. For me, I'll take the example of video editing because I have been a video
editor and I know ins and outs of it. So I'll take that example. The whole masterclass will be very generalized so
that everyone copywriter or graphic designer or UI UX designer so much I benefit but I'll take just one
example that you don't go sorry cheesy example so much foundations may happen niche choose career which is video
editing. The video editing make me choose career now understand this is maybe look both of the confused
both logo video editing maybe a niche choose career video editing maybe but I don't know what you can you are popular
internet you make doctors come you make doctors you make doctors you make doctors you make doctors you make
doctors you make doctors you make doctors you make doctors you make doctors you make doctors you make
doctors you make doctors you make doctors you make doctors you make doctors
Listen to me. Yes, but do you have the experience to compare everything? Do you right now at the start? Absolutely not.
So what do you have to do? You have to take the bit. So what is best for you? You can generalize yourself. You don't
have to be really specific doctors you can doctors you can doctors you can doctors you can
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coaches founders so on and so forth doctors opportunity counter-intuitive
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different different fields then you'll be able to understand doctors
time So now you have the experience doctors come and come up. This is cut.
coaches come and come up funnel videos
Then you come across founders lifestyle Oh, this is interesting. You make a vlogs
You know your niche. So firstly first second year this is your approach. First
year may I'm pretty sure you'll be able to understand things you can see niche make a figure
niche figure figure
then you'll be able to dial down your niche. really necessary The question is this.
theory founders But is it necessary? No, absolutely.
Not. My agency I've not even dialed down my niche yet. income
logically, why would I want to decrease area. There are two approaches. First is niched. I will take one example of a guy
named Subha. He's doing really good in his agency and I know and you has a service, which is VC podcast service. We
can say that. And it is very niche, right? VC is going to podcast data. But, you need to have a team. Understand this
thing. To make niche me jar over to make niche cooperate capture gonna charge you. That is an unfair advantage for
you. That is I know, but this is the game that agency owners can play. This is the game that I, as an agency owner,
can play as an as a freelancer. If you try to capture just one niche VC bro, you don't know how many people are
already in the niche for just crushing it. But, you're competing directly with Subha, okay? If you're coming in my
niche, let's say, you're directly competing with me. Can you compete as a freelancer with agency? Absolutely not.
Up yeah, other freelancers can you something? I would say, but go. Go something but go to go to go something
but is it the right approach or you can go to the ROI bigger? Second approach me, you generalize
yourself. Okay, this is not something that people tell you on the internet. People always say specialize in one
skill. Specialized this, specialized that. Choose it come out to me. It's step to
go to go. So, this is the level. Okay. Let's take it as pyramid. You are here. This is
where you have to try out everything. I, when I didn't know about this field, I tried almost everything. I tried film
making, I tried photography, I tried video editing, I tried the cinematic films
YouTube cinematic film tutorials B-roll only videos
informative videos I am a freelancing niche all sorts of things. But, how did I land
on this? By doing all of this, this is the things that I've tried. Here, you try almost
everything that you can. Like at the start, this is where you are right now. You're You don't really know where
you'll be headed. So, you try this, you learn that this is the better thing for me, and then you climb up the ladder.
Here, you specialize. This is where you specialize. This is where you specialize, not here. Understand this,
you don't even know that you have this particular skill set right now. You might go and after a few years realize,
"Oh I was really good at that other skill. I realize it now, but I never gave myself that opportunity to
try that." So, it's better you try it and then do that. I got my YouTube pay all sorts
of niches capture me got that tackle me got that up to me so much me out that okay freelancing niches working for me
video editing is working for me why don't make content on that starting to make money but I don't know
who would even care who would even listen to me but now people listen to me so that's why this is very important at
the start. So, let's get on to the second approach that you as freelancers can take. So, specialization is good for
business owners, but what will be better for you is generalization. Let's get to the generalization part. Here, I've
almost explained you that you need to work with almost everyone, okay? But you don't have to specifically do
everything. Not everything. What do I mean by this? Very simple, I when I started freelance video editing, I just
was not interested in doing cinematic editing for clients because basic clients milk they didn't take. So, I had
to convince myself give all motion graphics and talking head videos are the thing that clients want and you have to
do that. What I did was starting with the opportunity work with everyone and I grab but I specified that
talking head video edits come along. With me all long forms will come along. So,
talking head was my thing. I was maybe able to realize I'm not really good at motion graphics, but I really don't want
to do this video editing because I was giving 12 hours of time every day and I was like it's better. I'm better at
doing business and I have that mental capacity. So let's just do that. So I eventually built an agency where
my specialized skill set is used. You understand? You make climb the ladder.
After I get to know my skill set, and then I specialize that skill set and implemented those special skill sets in
my agency. Got it? But here motion graphics and talking head bit wasn't clear if
I am interested in that or not. But I still did it and I made good money with it even though I didn't know. So you get
to know that you have to try, you have to do the thing that market demands and see in
your mind absolutely clear that you have to do what you like at the start. Of course,
you're a beginner. So what you can do is the market may demand to learn AI video editing.
Learn AI films. You can pitch that. That is a skill set. You can make automation
agency. You can learn that. That is a market demand. You can do
talking head and motion graphics. Then you will realize that this is not your skill set. So when you get to know your
skill set, you will realize that you have to do what you like. You have to do what you like. You have to do what you
like. You have to do what you like. You have to do what you like. You have to do what you like. You have to do what you
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like. You have to do what you like. You have to do what you like. You have to which I determined for myself I'm really
good at communication. Hence, I'm really good at sales. And I do all of my YouTube video content and I talk better
on camera. I'm good at marketing. I'm good at convincing people. So that's what I use now.
Similarly, talking head, motion graphics, you are a video editor, let's say you are graphic designer, you are
whatever. Graphic designer I'll give example. You start with almost everything. You make
carousels, you make posts, you make thumbnails, you make website designs, whatever it is. It is in your niche, you
do that. After that, you realize that when you start to do that, but I realize that
I really enjoy enjoy I really enjoy doing that and what I enjoy only and only carousels and thumbnails. So, I'll
take only those people and those projects that have carousels and thumbnails in them. Then you specialize
in that and you specifically say I have specialized skills that I can offer you and that is making carousels.
deep down there deep down there inverted
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SEO also psychology also psychology How some
in the head of people and again it can be more like aesthetics of the carousels are also
multiple things you realize when you go deep into the niche So, that's why it's really important for you to initially
work with almost everyone if you are a freelancer if you you really want to make a lot of money this is the exact
step that you'll have to do or take work with everyone but not everything It's pretty clear now. You don't have to like
offer everything give away cinematic I can I can I can I can I can I can I can I can some idea I can I can I can I can
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This is like specialization. You can still as a freelancer make $10,000 a month if that's your goal, but this is
where you scale up to 100,000, a million dollars per month. That is exactly the route I'm on. I'm not talking about
this. I am not specialized there. So, I won't talk about it. I'm just talking about the
or niche joker. You'll be able to make more money have an unfair advantage in the niche.
I think all the way all the example that I have. All the example that I have is that the practical example my life uh
say related my life say related. I started my freelance journey with talking heads. After that, I was
watching a lot of YouTube videos to make sure I earn a lot of money on YouTube. I realized talking heads may may coaches
consultants or the already some come the person that I tried but it didn't work. I had to work with everybody. Every and
it paid me really really If you could, I got all of the opportunity. But then, I realized there is few things I need to
consider. What? I have to make sure I can make a lot low paying clients. Starting me of
course I started with just 7,500 rupees per month. But then after a point when I started to make good money, I got some
really good clients. I was like no no no. First client I made my personal brand.
People were trying to work with me. I was like no. You you can make other a client to be made by the one thousand
dollars car. It's better than having three clients paying me 25, 35,000. I don't know. I'm bad at math. So, 22,
23,000 per month. Similar to that. Okay. So, it's better. So, that's why I aimed for this. I said key no no no. Then,
after that the cycle continues. I was like made it cool up 2,000 dollars I need to pitch in the game. That's what
we did. That's what I did. Then I realized I need to make up higher than I did it first. To scale. That's what did.
>> For 2-3 months and after that when I got so many clients that I couldn't handle Yeah, freelancing when he gonna get
gonna have agency man. So slowly slowly I said no to a lot of things and then I came up with one thing and it's maybe
there are a lot of things that I'm going deep into and saying no to which I'm not qualified yet to talk about. Once I will
reach a really good amount I will talk about that. Don't worry about that guys. I hope everything is clear now. Another
short example for you to understand. When I started my YouTube journey I was trying to make everything.
taking up crazily up a notch the right term would have. After that I did podcast too. I made tutorials by
sitting in front of the desk. I'm making videos on freelancing. The goal is to level up every time by
saying no to the things that are not serving your goal. You'll have to understand
Now that ultimate goal can be anything. For example, for me it's money related. It's becoming a millionaire and for my
life it's freedom. General terms that I know freedom as in like I don't have to constantly be
available for my team. I have to do anything that I want to do and I should be content with the money that I'm
making. I want to do filmmaking. I love filmmaking. I love this, uh, you know, cinematic genre of things, but that's
what I want to do for myself. That is really specified. I don't want to make any cinematic content for any client
unless that's really, really moving, unless that's really, really inspiring or motivating or I could desire it
around me that I I have to make this video as well. I have to have some skin in the game with the client to make sure
the vision comes to life. But apart from that, I'm not really ready to do that for any other person. So, I have some
goals that I have defined, and that's what I'm working towards to. The long-term perspective is that
freelancing is like an agency perspective, and or $7,500 jobs are really, really, really
I was able to charge upwards of $2,500, $3,000, $4,000. This happened because I had a bigger goal. Because you see
all of that you have to make per month. You would have been content making $1,200 a month. There's nothing wrong
with that. If you want to do that, go on that route, well and good, do that. And that's perfectly fine. But if you have
bigger goals, achieve that, but you have to make sure the path looks a bit different there. If you want to just
make a lakh per month, you probably might want to do a job that will give you security as well at the same time.
But if you want to make a really, really, really high amount of money, you probably have to build an agency or a
business in this niche that can pay you well. As a founder, you must have some equity in the business, something to
make sure that you achieve that goal. Again, I hope few of the foundations are clear. Now, there are few questions that
I'd like to address, which is people tend to not understand this thing means to boost the mother of the key which is
PC playing mobile to come to get them you just get you are trying to
build a business. Long-term perspective to when you try to build a business, you're
almost planting a seed and that thing may that seed needs nurturing. It needs a lot of care. After a point, let's say
a year or two, it has grown. Uske baad usko farak nahi padta hai usko pani mile na mile bada ped ho gaya hai usko kahin
na kahin se apne root se wo itne underground aa chuke hain ki wo ground water hi nikal leta hai. Usko pani ki
itni zyada zarurat nahi padegi, right? And probably agar barish wagera ho rahi hai to everything will be
self-sustained. Similar is the business. When you're trying to build something that needs to sustain for longer amount
of years that will give you exponential returns in your life, you need to understand this that you have to treat
it like a business first of all. And secondly, nurture it at the start. You'll have to give your time, effort.
You have to provide money to it. You'll have to do everything possible to make sure it works. But most of the people
are not ready to do this because they think that this is a get-rich-quick scheme. And isi liye maine pehle tumse
kaha tha ki agar tum isko get-rich-quick scheme samajh ke aaye ho to mat aao. Bahut sare freelancers ne industry ko
ganda karke rakha hua hai. I'm sorry. This is not that. So, yes, you need to invest good PC. Save up funds. Do
whatever you can, but invest in a good PC. Ha, low-end phone se maine bhi start kiya tha, but was I making money through
that? No. I just refined my skills. If you want to refine your skills, well and good, you can edit videos on your phone.
Do whatever you can. Refine your skills. If you want to make a real money, get some real softwares, real hardwares
to make sure that helps you become productive and gets you money. Ek saal mein tum uska ROI nikal loge. Like mera
jo MacBook hai, iska main pata nahi ab tak hazaar guna ROI nikal chuka hunga. Hazaar guna. 3 lakh ka 10 guna kitna
hua? 30 lakh. 30 lakh ka 10 guna 100 X 30 lakhs 3 crores. Nahi nahi, hazaar nahi. 100 guna nikal chuka hunga
main. Pretty good amount. Not bad, right? So, 100 X agar nikal gaya to 2 X to tumhara nikal hi jayega. 1 lakh ka PC
hai, 2 lakh bana lo next month ya next year $2,000 ka ek client le lo. Done. 2 mahine mein tum profit mein ho. But
you'll have to make sure you treat it like a business. That's all. And there's another thing that I'd like to
understand when I'm talking about stepping up the ladder. When you are a new freelancer, it's very easy to get
into the trap of just getting clients. It's very easy to see the YouTubers like me or other freelancers and get
inspired. That's well and good. Get inspired. But you fall into that trap of going just after clients and just
becoming a freelancer. But you have to realize this thing that I also started from a job which was freelance job, by
the way. And then I became a full-time freelancer. And that is what I'm trying to tell you. Most of the people who have
some kind of experience and if you want to grow exponentially, it's better if you join a startup or a business uh as a
freelance editor or graphic designer or whatever or just do a job. Why? This is like a ladder that you climb and the
journey becomes exponential for you here. Now, when you directly want to jump from there to here, which is
freelancing, yes, you can do freelancing, but you have to understand you'll have to have a lot of skills. As
a freelancer, as I said, it's a job. You'll have to have skills that are communication skills. I was able to go
from job to freelancing really fast. Like it was really fast because I was making videos on my YouTube channel. I
was really good at marketing already. I was really good at sales. I was not that good, but I was good at that. I was
really good at communicating. So, I had a lot of skill to land a job. And I landed a job. It was an internship
7.5 K 7.5 K internship and it was a freelance job that converted to it. I was making good
money. Then it was a miracle year but I tell you the industry operate like this. Industry operations but I tell you the
operations. >> It became very My freelancing clients. I I understood
what timely delivery looks like. I understood some inside requirements of the client. I understood net agree these
of the business that I'm in. Which is freelance video editing. I understood the softwares that are required to make
sure that I'm not getting crashed. I mean Adobe. So I shifted to DaVinci. I
experienced a lot of things. Initially experiences what you are aiming for at the start. So job is a good approach.
People come to me and say, "Bro, should I do a job or freelancing? I've never done freelancing. I've never done job.
I'm just starting as a freelancer. Do a job. It'll be worth it. Don't look down on job. If you don't have the
experience, accept this thing that job will put you three to four steps ahead of the
people who are just not willing to learn and looking down on things. Like if you're just consistent with everything
and you are accepting the things that okay, you don't know any And you want to go to that level. Take a
job. Learn about it. After that go to that freelancing. Who's saying to you that you'll have to do it for your
entire life. Do it for a year or two or maybe just do it for six months. I did it for I think August to March. I don't
know. Eight or nine months somewhat and then I I just said, "Okay, bye-bye. Take care." And then I landed my first ever
US client after three months of crazy depression and a lot of crying. So yeah, I mean get some experience then think of
freelancing. People often ask me this question and this is the answer. You can comment on the video that bro, are you
dumb? Freelancing kar sakte hain. I know how to pitch clients. Well, try that. If get the results, well and good for you.
Me to get me to go to go but this is the exact thing that I have to tell you that can give you good and faster results. I
hope you got some understanding of this. Now, I'll take on few more questions that I have written down that can help
you which I'll just write down life of a freelancer and then job say freelancing me shift from me cover full time to
freelancing me shift simple cover case of a better job. I'm not able to learn on my own. That is
exactly the point that I stopped doing the job for others. Me to go to me to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to
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go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go
to go to go to go to go to go to go by getting a better job. Let's say I like said, "Okay, bye-bye. Take care.
I am not doing the job anymore." So, that was my point and it for me it comes as a good feeling to get out. I'm not
getting similarly maybe I want to externally affect that clients are not getting to me and I can get a better
job. So, it's more of like emotional intuitive plus logical decision don't know what to do but I have to tell you
that can give you good and faster results. I hope you got some understanding of
this. Now, I'll take on few more questions that I have written down that can
growth phase of your life. Okay? I know it's hard. You'll be like Oh,
Good concern. What you can do is job that which freelancing clients a two freelancing clients can get to you
and then job like safest approach here is to go logically answer me but I can leap of faith
you are crazy like me just I directly say to them by my though this is how you can shift from
full-time to freelancing. It is more of a mental thing than a physical thing. If you just want to not do it, you should
just say you are not wanting to do it unless it's uh really required for you to do that. Life of a freelancer, I've
made I think two videos on that. I don't know. I've made videos on that. So,
the thing is life of a freelancer is not that glamorous as people show you on the
internet. It's pretty boring. You will have to sit in front of the computer and most of the freelancers who are watching
this video, they'll agree that it's pretty boring. You'll have to sit in front of the computer and just do the
work and when you get the money, you enjoy that money. I was lucky that I was at one
point able to do all of the clients' work in 4 to 6 hours a day. Content I was just able to just get it
done in 4 to 6 hours. After that, I used to make videos for my YouTube channel. The graph looks like this. Sometimes you
have a lot of time. Sometimes you don't have a lot of time. You're working 12 hours a day. Sometimes it goes like
this. Sometimes it goes like this and then this and then this. And similar is the graph of the income. It doesn't stay
like this. You can't expect stability from freelancing. One month or two months will be like crazy for you.
You'll be able to make $2,000, $3,000, $4,000. It's very important for you to understand finances and save up your
money. Don't spend it like a maniac. 6 months to 12 months of emergency fund saved for yourself. Sometimes it'll be a
lot. Sometimes it'll be nothing for you. But it'll be zero probably for you. But then again, you'll be able to make a lot
of money again. Other than that, recurring clients one-time projects. So, even recurring projects
that we could be payment cycle 45 days my past payment after that like deliverable to complete client
deliverable or my deliverable or my >> So that delays sometimes used to happen. So this is how the life of a freelancer
looks like. And this is how the whole foundation of this freelancing actually looks like. You almost have got
everything that you need to know in order to make sure you start freelancing the right way. You know what niche to
choose, how to choose, why to choose, you know a job or directly jump to freelancing, you know how to niche down,
you know how to shift from a full-time job to freelancing, you know some nitty-gritties of why niching down works
for few people, and then I gave you an example of agency, but that comes after a year or two of experience.
So I've covered up that foundation part of the video. I hope you got some real good understanding of it.
You can practice on that, but don't expect a lot of money from it. You can probably make some money out of that in
this day and age because CapCut is really good. Some softwares are really good like VN, but
Get a PC for yourself and then make even more money and then invest again into the hardware and then even make more
money until you reach your desired mark. Maybe it is one lakh per month or two lakh per month. So that's the thing. I
hope you got some value out of this foundation module. Let's go to another module, which will be very interesting
for you. So this is module two or this module may sub say zyada juice is stuff. From zero can say land can say they hope
and what will be the best approach for you to start your freelancing journey? I'll tell you I'll put up some sales
calls looking many here. I'll tell about a lot of things that I use. I'll talk about how you can get high ticket
clients and what is the process that looks like to close high ticket clients and how you can be good at outreach.
>> So this module is client machine. This is I. Okay guys, this is I. I hope you're able to see this.
outreach offer leads outreach and offer give up we can write closing and then lastly
So it'll be l o o c r l o o c r leads outreach offer closing retaining. When you have these
things sorted then you can call yourself a client machine. You literally know how to get leads, how to do outreach, what
is your offer and how you can close those clients through that offer and how you can retain those clients that you
have closed. So I'll give you one example to what is complicated over at the start to understand if you are not
familiar with all of this stuff. ex-client >> and what do my side team mean at that
time and then another client same Basically your outreach shouldn't be
stopping at this area. basically not area >> You need to get out to go over 10K MRR
going to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to
go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go
to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to
go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go
to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to
go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go
to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to
go two years, which is the case. You can do that. Like I have one client who is almost with us for two years. You can go
by the April 2025 will be working with us for two years. And you can close those clients. You can retain those
clients if you have good work. You can go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to
go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go
to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to confident in your skills. And the
chances are when the client is sticking with you for two years, you'll develop a really good relationship with them. And
at the same time you'll get a lot of referrals out of them. This is like the basic understanding that I had to give
it to you. But this is not what we are talking about right now. Of course, we'll talk about few things. But this is
more on the side of agency stuff. And pardon me if I'll be giving a lot of insights about the agency kind of
things. Some things will be a little technical for you because I am running the agency. So it's all right if it will
be technical for you. I don't say that I'm an expert at running the agency, but I still have some knowledge that
probably will be great for freelancers. Right? So I want to tackle leads but you don't know what I mean. What I mean is
I'm doing this. You have to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to
go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go
Look at my perspective. The best approach for a beginner could be LinkedIn.
Ah, >> [laughter] >> no. Why do you say LinkedIn? LinkedIn is
the place where people come to do the business and people are actively looking for a lot of stuff. You can go on X as
well. X is also a good platform or you can go and follow agency owners like me. They constantly put up forms where you
can apply and you can get selected basically. So, you can do that and if you want to go one to two steps further,
you can join their communities. There are a lot of agency owners who have their own communities. So, with me you
get higher chances. You understand first of all a lot about the market but and get a lot of knowledge when you're in
the paid community somewhat and at the same time when you show your work to them, the chances of you getting
selected increases by a lot because you're in the close community of course. You'll be selected first. So, that is
the thing and now you might be like, "Bro, take it on about the LinkedIn X agency owners to follow below
but I still don't have that clarity. What are you talking about? Make me understand." Okay, I'll make you
understand. So, when I was actually freelancing, I started it. So, I used to apply everywhere. I used to see a job
post or prospect hiring and I used to just apply there. That is like me increasing my surface area to land the
clients. As I said, I didn't have any niche came my doctors to start coming and I don't know what they were talking
about doctors, founders or founders to it's still a good niche or you can say fitness trainers. You didn't have
specific niche with my I was like, "I just want to edit the videos for anyone." Similarly, what you can do
is you don't have to think like a person who is running an agency right now because you are not. I don't know what
you mean by that but tomorrow I'll try to offer you what I can give you. You want to try to get what you want to get.
You okay? You don't know what you want to get. You don't have a good offer. You don't know what you want to get. You
don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You
don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You
don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You
don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You
don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You
don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You
don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You
don't know what you want to get. You don't know what you want to get. You don't offer that you know that you are
going to offer. Now, you know you can leads to target Now, you know as a person okay, I need to target the people
who are actually looking for these kind of services. So, these are the people that will be most likely available on
LinkedIn and the people who don't have good content on LinkedIn and target
and on your services provide. So, if you don't have the offer, you won't be able to understand you can leads go make find
and that is where most of the new freelancers stay stuck. But, the problem is not target the
problem is offer to me but I don't know they not get value to provide and at the
start honestly you don't have any good value to provide or any great value to provide because you're just entering
into the industry and only thing that you can provide is video editing services or on the other case if you're
a graphic designer or coder just some basic stuff that you can do, right? You just have one skill set that you can
provide. You can't really think of anything beyond that to help them get more leads impressions because let's be
honest you don't know how to get more leads or impressions if you haven't done that and you don't have experience of
that and as I told you in the previous module we have to gain experience first then earn more. So, right now what we'll
do is we'll not focus on getting the leads so much key sub the market leads starting as I said LinkedIn page out you
can apply on jobs similar maybe agency owners jobs I got something on my jobs by
it's better for you to gain experience start with a job and then go to that freelancing step but I'll tell you about
the freelancing thing to one of them to yes basic step if you want to go on that safer route
you want to get a hobby. I want to gain some experience then I'll jump into this leads a lot part job of as a freelancer.
I'll be able to my client more value and then charge more money for that. That is the route that at the start you can
take. After this once let's say you got some job you you know have some good amount of experience. Now either as a
second step you can do this or if you are really crazy and if you directly want to jump into this freelancing
outreach a part. I'll tell you how you can do that. Some things will be free, some things will be paid. So take
whatever you want to take. Okay. So now leads if you want to do you go to team
approach home maybe some say cold emails or something cold DMs cold call
I'm not sure who is doing this so I'll not talk about this thing. I'll talk about cold DMs and cold calls. So cold
emails there's a tool called channel crawler crawler subscription low bundle. After
that if you want to do it for free do it manually. You go to Google account account account about to go to
target YouTubers creators and you want to provide video editing services to them
and let's say to make specific niche some say your lifestyle creators finance creators SAS creators as a way
to I'll be able to take up those projects. I'll be able to work with what you'll do is you'll go and that fresh
account which finance creators follow SAS creators follow and binge watch videos. Let's say real estate real
estate to do follow and binge watch videos and then what you do will do is it will start to recommend you the
videos and those recommendations and emails you go to the manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the
manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the
manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the
manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the
manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the
manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the
manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the
manual emails you go to the manual emails you go to the manual Insta killer LinkedIn killer. I don't use any tools.
I do it manually. So LinkedIn killer man. Okay, now for this there's also another way for Instagram which is key
other to Instagram page hacker a profile page are real. Let's say example that is SAS finance and real estate people to
finance manager a creator account bigger was my suggested accounts at the coffee side to one suggested accounts for Jack
at the manual sub commander mixer to the sub guy email fetch. That's our approach and other one equal nacho
to one get them following list mention Google follow up there on the following list manager on camera manual fetch
cassette to the LinkedIn camera manual cutter home a usually comment section manager keyword search cookie for
example SAS keyword search cookie founder keyword search cookie man on a sheet Malik letter yourself as a good
day sheet maker select now what they will make them go away to tell me what I'm doing Jackie after this my link card
on Google sheet cassette maintain gonna and then you will be able to maintain a sheet. So guys this is a little bit of
walk through on how you can scrape leads and put it into the sheet through LinkedIn. Okay, so first of all you just
need a sheet of a maintain gonna it is complicated and if you'll have a lot of data you complicated over is clear home
looking notion page builder and I'm not sure how I'll go about that but I'm building a notion page right now to use
this exact same thing inside notion to be all organized to be but for now for beginners this will work just fine cuz
they will go to my first let's go to LinkedIn and to me lead scrape gonna be that to me
you just wanna open ebook with that to the section gender and that is the exact same thing that I will tell you. Okay,
so for example let's say you want to target the guys who are podcasters and they are in the finance niche. Okay, so
what I'll do is I'll just go and write podcasters or I would say by the way finance you don't get them finance so
finance may go to the navy logo cup. this finance word For example, I'll do okay, United States
already. United States title main cheese which is pod podcast podcast over
University of podcast dimension She's just an intern right now. She's
studying. podcast editor and host So, what I'll do is
qualify the sustainable finance podcast the sustainable
finance sustainable finance
podcast the sustainable finance podcast. Yeah, it is there. So, what I'll do is I'll just quickly copy this username,
sorry, link. Yeah, YouTube here.
Paul LinkedIn profile LinkedIn profile
Let me go and What's What's the name? What's the name? What's the name? the sustainable
finance podcast the podcast to Paul Ellis down the
Paul Ellis Okay. Send without a note. and 17th 1703 2026 done
1703 2026 For example, I even said that he had accepted it. copy paste, okay? or at the
same time because I want to do multi-channel outreach
maybe the connect request that we accept on Instagram email
email me a message to you and I did that and then
the conversation started. So, this is how it is notes for follow-up and engagement get a not a high-value client
Yeah, let go. For example, need doesn't doesn't post short form to do me but I will be able
to do this And then after this follow-up one got the other just in time to follow up one
down to follow up two, follow up three. After my dates mention you can do that. If you don't want to do that, no
worries. But I think I get to do the follow-up and I have to do I prefer five. Whatever you want to do, whatever
number you are trying to achieve, you can do that. And same cheese to yeah, but repeat go to get. As I said, simple
always scales. You need to do this to go daily, daily, daily different keywords to do near for example, let's go to
venture capital. Okay. Let's go to people and then we'll go to all filter, we'll go to
let's say United States and then here we'll click. We'll just write podcast for the sake of
easiness. And then okay, here we are. Search in venture
Okay, not our type. Okay, not our type. Co-host of Money Tales podcast. Yo, let's go. Co-host
executive producer of San Francisco Experience podcast. Let's go. These are our guys. We can go look deep into them
and then probably just paste their credentials and everything that we have, every information that we have into the
lead sheet that sheet lead sheet that we have built. So this is how you'll go about this LinkedIn maintenance. One
crucial thing that I forgot to mention which is for example, this client reply got the Sorry, this client connect
request accept the to me usually it's going to not going to get down yellow say. And I got to do this client to
follow up going to get. To me put up column to select going to it's going to get down okay. Then you have to get down
going to get blue. To me put up going to get blue equals to follow up going to get down going to get. And you client I
got interested here. And conversation going to get down going to to me first column going to get connect request
accept the you just put down going to get down going to get first column going to get down and it's going to get down
going to get how about you just put down going to he is yellow light kind of yellow green
yellow completely reject yellow
accepted anytime go into his DMs and message him about anything that I want in future.
Of course, accept the deal. And we are working with him. simple
track DMs reply
follow cancel So, that's basically it.
meeting booked point meeting
messages So, that's the thing with LinkedIn leads. And I hope you got clear
understanding of how this works. So, leads at the start is not really complicated.
complicated complicated There's one thing that you'll have to
keep in mind throughout this master class, and that is simple thing scale. It's a very like popular term in the
business world, which is simple always scales. Try to focus on the simple things. Keep doing those simple things
again and again and again in volume to make sure that you get some results out of that.
You'll definitely get some clients. As Alex Hormozi says, volume luck. More volume. So, do that. Leads
are about sorted, okay? For the start, you only need this much. It's going to be that complicated.
complicated People try to make things complicated for no reason. When simple things
actually work. And this is actually the thing that will work for you. But, if you still will look for
things, you can go and keep looking for that. Come back to this level. You must have seen one graph where, you know,
guys like this. The graph is like an inverted bell curve. So, there's a here who is like, "I need to do simple
things." But here, it's all complex stuff. Complex like notion management, CRM, so on and so forth. But then again,
here it's simple. And this is how it is. Like, you'll fall into that trap of complexity, but then you'll realize,
"Okay, simple scales." And that is what I'm trying to tell you that simple is what scales. You can like test your
waters. You can do whatever you like, but simple things will scale for you. If you'll just keep
on doing those again and again. So, outreach part is taken care of. I'll put a video to help you out with the
management of that lead scraping part, and then you'll understand what I'm actually trying to tell you. So now, the
leads part is done. Let's come to the outreach part. And this is where all of the human psychology and everything
comes into picture into the picture comes into the picture because when you're doing an outreach to the person,
it's like you're going to a random stranger in a street, and then you are asking them for money. And in exchange
of that, you're trying to give some services to them. This is more like that. And when you understand this
analogy, and you try to put yourself into that situation, you understand that selling
to a person physically requires a lot of trust, requires you to not be shady, and you to show yourself as an authentic
person. And all of these three sentences that I've told is almost the same has the same meaning. Apart from that, you
have to show your case studies. You have to make sure the prospect is really clear about what you're trying to
convey. And you only have few chance of converting them. They won't have three to four hours to just talk to you. They
might just have a minute or two. And in that one or two minutes, you will have to convey your message. And similar is
the game of the outreach. But once you convey the message to them and they're interested, they can give you further
minutes, which can be 15 or 20 minutes. So, first message should be treated like talking and approaching to a stranger.
When you understand this analogy and imagine this thing whenever you're writing a DM or a mail, you will
inherently write the message in a way where it builds the trust. It gives out a genuine human vibe to the client or
the prospect and it makes sure that everything is clear in that message. Now, how to draft that? How to do that?
I'll show you the practical stuff as well in my screen recording of all of the messages I've done. I'll show you
one example of me closing a client through emails, which was a kind of a warm lead. It was not absolutely cold.
I'll tell you what warm lead and cold lead means. Cold lead is something which is absolutely new. But
you don't even know anything about me and then you are going to that lead and saying that I am going to provide you
with these services. Would you like to buy that? Warm lead is like they know something about you that okay, you
provide these kind of services. Now you go to them and you are like would you like to buy those services? They are
already warm. They know about you. So they are more likely to trust you. Before that, I'll explain everything to
you about psychology of cold outreach. So today we are going to talk about the psychology of cold outreach. So this is
very simple, but the only thing that people don't understand here is despite this being simple, people are not able
to utilize it fully. Even I couldn't utilize it fully for first 1 and 1/2 years and after that I was able to
understand a framework that helped me get some replies from the prospects. Psychology of cold outreach.
I know you can't see that. Now let's talk about the psychology of cold outreach. See, your job as a person
who is doing cold outreach is to build trust, clarity to prospects mind and this thing in turns result in booking a
call. Booking a call or a sale. See, just think about it. If you can make another person trust on
you. If you can make the other person have ultimate clarity about your offer and what to do, then that client is
sold, that prospect is sold. Let me give you an example, a real-world example. Basically, you're reaching out to a guy
on a random street and you are able to tackle both of these things. Trust me, I think scammer
clarity basically it is of benefit. It is of some benefit to him. It's easy to make
him happy. Then it is obvious he'll be able to talk to you. It's a result of talking. And
then the more you will talk to them, it's about sales to close it's very easy. So I'm going to call out reach me.
I'm going to make it not advice online. We try to directly get on a call with the client and that's not sometimes how
it works. And in my case, I get clients when I only and only on email close and it's going to be example of doing easy
video or you will see some of the easy things that trust build clarity client close
psychology is pretty simple. Like It's based on what you want to do. You will be able to make the other person trust
you. Simple. Okay. Now when you have this thing with you, now the other job for you is to understand
psychology based on what you want to do. How do I make the other person trust? How do I bring the clarity to the mind
of the other person? In this scenario basically comes few things. This is what I use as well. Trust me guys, there
might be a lot of things that you can still do a psychology of cold outreach. I'm
talking about specifically the things that can help you go faster, reach faster to that a level where you are
clear on what you have to do at the start as a beginner. Okay. So you'll be advanced people who are watching this. I
don't know why you're watching this, but if you're watching this and judging me, you will be able to
do this. I am. No, I'm not. I am better than you. No, no, I'm not even better than you. I'm
just doing what I know. So basically my point is I know this works. It has been working for me. That's why this will
work for you. Now, psychology of cold outreach may I come to the base but I do here. Now, after that, you need to
understand open case concept here. What is the how behind it? So, let us first build on the trust to go okay. Yeah,
proof of work. This is what we do. Proof of work. This is the best thing that you can do when you are reaching out a
person. Like first outreach may you can give them a hint of your proof of work. It can be just a simple CTA where you
have your website name and your portfolio link. You have a real link here. Link as in you have a link
which I don't prefer in the first email. It goes to spam. Basically, you have two options. You
have your website name or you have your portfolio link. Portfolio link that is a better thing to do. You will have a link
inside but in my case I don't have any portfolio link in any spam folder. Reels go to spam folder.
I don't know how that Gmail works but this has happened. So, proof of work trust building case studies. But, you
will be like bro you don't have any beginner I'm just giving you an option. You might
not have case studies but if you have case studies I mean this client yeah I have done this work for him. He has been
working with me for a long time. He has got these results. You can case study as well. Case study
you have done work for him. Case study more will be like you have got results. You have done work proof of
work. Case study you have intermediate level of editor.
You can case study name drop some people. I say I have worked with some of the creators in the
freelancing niche named and he was sitting at 2000 subscribers and I was able to help him give quality
edits. Hence, through that also he was able to get 20,000 subscribers. Testimonial link
and case study third thing but I mean testimonial testimonial link but I mean I am not just saying this is a case
study but I mean I have done 2000 to 20,000 case study. You can record
this is the case study. This is the testimonial. I mean you have to say that the editor
The your channel grow faster. testimonial case study
proof testimonial And hence, this person trust build You can what else you can do? That
has worked for me. Let me think. Let me think. That's pretty much it. Whatever other points I have that comes under the
umbrella of clarity. trust proof case testimonials This will help you build
trust. And of course, other factors emails which is
signature profile picture company email sign up company
Gmail profile picture username random
001 What does that even mean, dude? You don't have to do that. Have a decent
freelancer Gmail somewhat what I mean. random
good Gmail This was how you can build trust. Now, bring clarity. This is pretty simple.
You need tell them benefits they'll get once sign for your services. Boom. What you can do is you can send a loom. Oh.
Now we're getting Now we are getting juicy stuff. So, loom
YouTube video pre-recorded This This
proof of work This help you. Write these down, okay? This This will help you frame your script
This This who I am. This what I've done. This my proof of work. This how it can
benefit And in this much time I can promise you this much of the results. Which have to
completely honest about If you can't promise any results, just say Promise results
guarantee every has with you. You can guarantee month
with me you be able to stay stress free from the changes revisions and the quality
because I am quality And if you can tackle that, boom, your
job's done. This is what you can offer. You can't offer views. Instead of just saying some random
things. Because honestly, as an agency owner myself, I don't trust them. Behind the scenes work. I know key
script matters that I got to the ideation matters. Not possible. Okay, that is just part, a
piece of the puzzle. That you can solve for them. So be honest about it. Key I'll solve that piece of the puzzle.
You got my attention and you got my attention. Okay. So this is what you can promise in this
Loom video man. Keep it really, really personalized. Go on his or her YouTube channel. Instagram, whatever, whatever
you're promising. Whatever you're doing outreach about. Extremely quality
Crazily quality. Actually Research for So what I mean by that is What do you have to include in
the loom is simple. You go to the content of Your prospect, watch the videos. Like really watch the videos.
Understand his or her perspective. See what you can offer To her. If you can't offer, Just say no, I cannot offer. Skip
this prospect. But if you can offer, If you know that this client can get Benefit out of your editing and
something. So you record the video and you say, See, I have seen that You Email me Loom me like
Here many of the guys to my age show Content Content There are few things that I think you can take leverage of.
First is Editing And Make Prototype So Many of them are content that I I saw that the visuals are not of high
quality. And when I research your competitors, I saw that the competitors quality is better than yours. And
believe it or not, statistically, you can pull up the stats from GPT. What can you research that to do stats because
believe it or not, visuals of the videos really matter and it can boost all the views up to 15%. 30% like and this is
not me stating that. This is GPT and the research papers saying that. So, I figured out that with my expertise,
which is video editing, you can really elevate the number of views that you're getting and in turn, you will be able to
turn that viewers into your loyal audience. And when you launch or if you have a digital product, you will be able
to convert those customers or you can say that loyal audience into paying customers if your product has value. And
if you have done deep research, I don't know if you have done the research correctly.
And you might be like I got to like to my digital product a lot of value. My views are not like digital product not
like views and value audience make convert and then value audience product that you
may be fine with my audience fine with and in turn be fine with because I do video editing services that I will
charge for it of course. So, you have to do research like this. It will take time. It will be not easy but the
framework is really simple. I have told you, okay? So, you can send loom, you can send pre-recorded by the videos,
YouTube videos. What you can do this? You can bombard follows. Okay, so this is what I do a lot follows. First follow
up with them that you can hey, were you able to check this message? Thank you. Okay, that makes sense. First follow up
with them. Second follow up with them that you can hey, just circling back to know if you just saw my previous message
or not. I was curious to know if you're looking for video editing services. No, give some value. I mean you don't have
to outreach to them. You don't have to outreach to them. You don't have to give clarity to them.
If that's the case, then well and good. Do that. If not, then case study ads go. Testimonials add go.
YouTube video pre-recorded add go. Some research research this this this.
edited video sample projects which I can say like free value add go.
free value add go clarity It's good.
ultimately clear It's not bluffing. Actually, he knows his And trust me, not many people
in the industry are doing this follow-ups. Follow-ups are necessary. Like you have
to do follow-ups. If the lead is warm, how you can do messages to them? And how does the email
and how does the whole high ticket client process of closing looks like through email.
I will link this conversation but point is under leverage
follow-up other than free value add clarity You will be able to make the clients or
prospects. Sorry, not clients. ultimately clear key okay understand what you're selling
What is your offer? What is your price? They'll ask. that resonates with them good If not,
then they'll just go. But this thing is under leveraged. Most of the DMs or I can say emails.
First email here, done. Follow up done. Okay. I got that. Let me follow up Corona follow up. If you have to make up
your mind about services and which value provide Corona follow up. I don't know what you mean about me follow up Corona
virus. But don't clients go follow up Corona visible over here. You don't need Corona virus.
So I can even say Corona virus is abundant over here. You don't need Corona virus.
You don't need Corona virus. You don't need Corona virus. You don't need Corona virus. You don't need Corona pre-edited
video Corona virus intro Corona virus check it. If you like it, you can work for you Corona virus I can remember
Corona virus Corona virus edited videos I take and Corona virus was missing Corona virus I don't know what it
competition the competition Corona virus hiring form was missing Corona virus Corona virus
bro my hiring form Corona virus qualify over here. But this is the sample that I have edited by
improvising it. I don't know what it was missing Corona virus he was still a beginner to qualify but he was doing
something right. Well and good. Like you should be doing that. So these are the things that are under leveraged that you
can use up clarity or trust me don't go a cheat code but I don't know what that I used as well. I don't know what cheat
code actually cheat code I don't know what starting with a point but cheat code I
don't know what and most of you might have guessed it till now but most of you might not okay I cheat code personal
brand now be it on LinkedIn be it on X be it on YT be it on Insta doesn't really matter. If you're selling a
service, showcase that. If you're not even showcasing that, don't worry. You just showcase yourself. When you show
yourself to the people out there in the world, they trust you more. The chances the likelihood of you closing that
prospect increases and I am the living proof of it. The first ever US client that I closed was a client that only saw
my YouTube channel. I didn't even give him the portfolio and that YouTube channel's videos were in Hindi. They
didn't even understand the Hindi language, but still I closed them. How in the world is that even possible? But
it happened to me. So personal brand is the cheat code, but it works after some point of time or you have great quality
content. Okay, so I closed that client when I had around 1,200 or 1,500 subscribers on my YouTube channel. I had
crazy cinematic content. If you'll just go and look at some of my old videos and you'll be like, "Bro, two freelancing
videos are going to be like two and a half cinematic content." I always feel like that. But again,
content they can it's it's more of like memes and language zero, understanding 100%. Similar as I guess that he can
understand me but they understood I know the basic fundamentals so good that I can type of videos and I I just closed
them. So personal brand may 1,200 followers could be I was able to grasp a deal of almost and almost I wouldn't say
like monthly number, but I will say the overall number not till now. My freelancing journey
let me calculate. Okay, this is getting a little juicy. Around 4 or 5,000 dollars. 4 to 5 K
dollars lifetime deal. Lifetime deal with them and as a freelancer
probably over the income count here. And apart from this
when I closed them up with a lifetime deal till now I'll tell you. I'll tell you. So let me just calculate.
Okay, hold on. Let me just calculate. Hmm. Okay, [clears throat] aroundish
18 19 K dollars. Closed that client when I had 1,200 followers. The cheat code is right in front of you. Not everyone will
follow it. I know, and I don't expect everyone to follow it because it is hard. Like, I am great at communication.
I believe that, I know that. I'm great at creating content, I'm great at talking in front of the camera. So, it
is really flawless for me. It is the camera is the second nature for me. So, I make I can like day in and out create
content up in front of the camera. So, yeah, personal brand wala stuff har koi nahi kar payega. But, jo genuinely is
cheez mein ghusna chahte hain and want to succeed in some way or the other, they will have to do it. Like, no cap,
[clears throat] simple. Founders are coming on the internet, creating content on YouTube. Cristiano Ronaldo made a
YouTube channel. Why do you think that's the case? Distribution is the new thing. See, I was not able to understand this
thing until I became an agency owner. I am hanging out with other founders. I understand that now, okay, why
distribution is important, why people uh hire media agencies, Reliance ke paas Viacom 18 ka control kyun hai, why he
has so many media companies under the eye, why rich people control the media. There's a reason behind it. Media sets a
narrative. And when you have distribution, you can set a narrative about yourself. The media that I'm
putting out on right right in front of you, the freelancing masterclass, it is creating a narrative of me in the
industry that I am someone in freelancing field. Bahut saare acche freelancers hain, but they are not
creating content. Unke paas distribution nahi hai. So, guess what? The one who has the distribution, and I might have
lesser skills than them, I'll be able to surpass them in a lot of ways in the long run because I have distribution.
Okay? So, this is important. This is a cheat code if you want to build clarity and trust at scale in the long run. It
won't be effective immediately. Long run mein isliye kyuki har koi aisa nahi hota jo ki perfectly start kare YouTube pe.
Mere paas bahut saara experience tha jab maine yeh wala channel start kiya. So, I had a lot of video editing skills and
all sorts of storytelling skills. So, mera starting se content bahut accha raha hai is channel pe. But, main paanch
channel fail bhi kar chuka hoon. Main yeh film making, storytelling, video editing jab main 16 saal ka tha tab se
kar raha hoon, phone se kar raha hoon. So, >> I have good hold of it.
Don't go probably key about cold outreach.
outreach basically client go outreach cursor to in the email
who offer create turkey offer outreach
it's almost combined together screen recording practically some general is very
difficult. screenshots outreach and then
emails DMs offer have I created? Okay. So, in this section I'll help you understand how a
message and the psychology behind it. So, I won't waste your time and let's just get to the screen. So, first
message is this is the connect request that I sent to the client and that is Hey, great connecting with you. Was
listening to your podcast just now. Some real great guest plus value there. Loved it.
connect request accept connect basically same to basically
connect request page it got accepted. And fit photo page Yes, I'm watching the podcast
right now. This is something that I used and it helped me get higher open rates for my emails and messages. And people
are like intrigued to see what is in the photos. And this is the thing that generally most of the people don't do.
They're my message and then I'll just be like this. Trust If you're genuinely interested in
someone you'll try to go one step beyond and make sure you make them trust you. If you do something for example you are
watching the podcast of that guy. You genuinely think that there's value there. You would want to show that, "Oh,
I watched the podcast." You would be interested in talking to that person. This is how I collaborate with other
creators. You It's more of like a collaboration. I'm coming to you. I have genuinely loved
your videos. It'll be great if we can hop on a call and I would love to chat with you. Works like works every time.
Most of the connections I see you have and for sure tomorrow your open rate will go higher. Now,
reply rate, meeting books, you have seen you will be told okay. First message, very long message
contrary to the belief that is out there in the market. This is a message that is absolutely will trigger the people who
say Let's see, okay. Hi, I've been spending some time with the show. Loved the one
with Art Brooks and Morgan Housel. What stood out is the depth of conversations. choose because Art Brooks or Morgan
Housel consume content. I have read the book of Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money. So, just in case our conversation
would be easy to talk about me and they get intrigued you have seen Morgan Housel
podcast or the Brooks podcast. What did you get out of that? Probably if you have not watched that you don't know me
but you have randomly picked a name and sent it to me. So, you have to answer
probably you have to watch the podcast before you answer. So, you have to answer the
podcast. But again, I chose these names because little things matter. Sometimes the conversation would be then I
probably might be able to answer them with ease. Okay. Now, another another line. What stood
out is the depth of conversations. Listening to the podcast for a while. This thing
you choose these little little you add little details and everything. It shows that it is a message that is written by
human. You let people slow down and actually unpack how they think, what shaped them,
and what they why they operate the way they do. I love that. So, simple. I've done that simply
because I didn't want I've written it. A human has written it. And then offer. However, there's one
opportunity which is heavily underutilized in its distribution. Most of those insights live inside the
podcast itself, and a lot of people who would genuinely enjoy these conversations never find them because
they are not able to discover you. That is, your podcast distribution needs to be on a much larger scale. You're
putting in a lot of effort, so you must get similar or exponential ROI too from the content. That's where we help. We
build an info your content system for founders where you only need to record and we handle the rest. Script if
needed, editing, packaging, and uh distributing across LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube. For the podcast
specifically, we pull short-form clips in batches from each episode, shape them with viral yet simple curiosity-driven
hooks. You short-form to consistently point people back to the long-form conversations and create multiple
touchpoints with the audience so you are visible to them everywhere on social media. Additionally, we also make
the intros of podcast episodes in a way we will generate curiosity in the minds of the audience, and if they want the
question to be answered, they stick to the episode. The goal is volume and visibility so that people come to your
YouTube, and we are 100% sure when they will start watching, they'll stick because the value is just so good in the
podcast. You already have great guests and conversations. Our role is simply to help them travel farther. If it's
useful, I'm happy to walk you through how the distribution system can help you work can work for you. Best, Madhu
Sharma. So, it is a very long message, but I've made him understand exact things that he should be knowing. I've
hit his pain points. So, basically, that deep into this game you will understand that which pain points you have. This is
what he exactly told me when we had a meeting and talked about his client prospect.
He said that he has been working with his YouTube guy who was managing his YouTube for a long
time and he was not getting the result he wanted. And podcast is doing very well. He is
performing well on the audio platform, but video platform he is not performing well. What is the reason?
These are the things that were going on in his mind. And that is what I told him in the
message. Now, the thing is, is this the best way to do the message? I don't know. Does
this work? Yes. So, it is working for me. It probably might work for you. Probably might not. But this is
something that I've experimented with. Sometimes a big message, sometimes a small message. I've sent five line
messages as well. They also work. But how do they work? Nobody tells you
that. I will tell you how they do. I will tell you how they work.
The money is in the follow-ups. This is not the single message that made me talk to this client. That made me book a
meeting. He didn't even read the message properly when I talked to him in the meeting. He said
that he received a Loom video from me. He watched that. He said that he got the understanding
that I got the understanding that okay, he might know something about YouTube. Whatever he is saying is something that
is resonating with me. He was not fully convinced that I could give him a solution.
But he was like okay, it's worth a chat. At least that was the thing. Then eventually when it was worth a chat, we
booked a call and then we took the things forward. We have not closed him yet, but we
are in talks with that client. Sorry, prospect. Okay, so this was the first message. The reason the format is
simple. I don't know if you were able to grasp it or not. The format is pretty much this that a little bit of
personalization at the start that okay, I know you and I've heard the podcast and while watching the podcast, I have
noticed few things that can help you. Okay, you focused messages you buy you tomorrow which mistakes are
you going to make and you could choose to utilize your problems and
you will solve everyone wants growth on YouTube. If you can help them do that. Everyone
wants reliable editors, reliable graphic designers and if you see that they are not consistent the quality is not good.
And if something is happening but I don't know what do I see something is happening. You can just
tell them that tomorrow you can do it for example editors
editors don't communicate and they cannot deliver the quality on time and I got to you choose to around a
message frame you can pitch you will get the clients and you message to message
but so message so much conversions and you could meet with the
client. You can choose to meet with the client but you can choose to message but you can choose to meet but you can
choose to message but you can choose to meet but you can choose to message
but first ever message you can choose to meet but you can choose to message but first ever message you can choose to
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ever message you can choose to meet but you can choose to message but first ever message you can choose to meet but you
can choose to message but first ever message you can choose to meet but you can choose to message but first ever
message you can choose to meet but you can choose to message but first ever message you can choose to meet but you
can choose I know that will help you out hence reaching out to let you know that there's a gold mine that you're sitting
on. Just say the word and I'll explain everything in detail. I mean this is not a rocket science. Everything is listed
here. You have to address their pain points and the pain point is simple. They are not getting the views. For me
that was a pain point. Basically that is how I framed my message around it and did my first message and then did the
follow-up. So, follow-up about of course my message reply to I was like follow-up two. It's all right if that's not your
priority right now, I completely understand. A word it from your end will help us understand if I should follow up
with you regarding that or not. With you regarding that or not. Simply I didn't want it to feel like a chat GPT
generated message. The mistakes I don't usually do them. Because in this today in this day and age there are a lot of
people that confuse even normal message as chat GPT generated message. I don't go on that route to perfect message. You
know, I just keep it flowing. I don't know how to do that. I don't know how to do that. I don't know grammar. I don't
know perfect grammar. I also don't want to spam your inbox unnecessarily, but if there's something
that you're looking for, I'm 100% sure that this will help you gain more views and distribution. Conviction,
confidence. I got under-confident pitch you won't be able to pitch. This is the one thing that I missed with this
client. It's my name. I was meeting with her. And I was sitting with one of the guys who has been running agency and he
was like, "Bro, yeah, you fumbled this client." And I actually know I fumbled this client. I could have
closed him way earlier if I would have done the meeting right. I didn't do the meeting right even though I had the
proof of work. The reason was simple. I was coming off as very submissive guy. You can say that. I was not confident.
like, "Yeah, we can deliver the services. Yeah, we can do that, but it's also on you that you need to do these
kind of things." And that's why some people don't get this. Like I was not able to build authority in the calls. I
unfortunately didn't record the call. I I'm not sure if I have done that or not, but if I would have recorded it, I'll
check it. And if I would have recorded it, I'll show you that. The meeting was not good. And I got to record it to get
to go. It's section about the call that he did. Yeah, I'm going to fumble here. Decoding
is your job, dude. You have to decode it and understand what went wrong. And from what I know, I'm better closing
in deals when I'm I've built my authority and I was not able to build my authority in that call. That is like a
drawback of cold outreach and lack of testimonials, too. We although have done good work for some of the great clients,
but we don't have testimonials for them from them yet. The reason is simple, NDAs have which complications and which
way to say, but we have them for them. So, that is what happened and this is something that is one of the biggest
lessons that I have got. Have the conviction, have the confidence that you can give them the results if you know
your services well. And our services work and that's why I know that I can give them the results. It's just that
don't doubt yourself. So, that's the thing and I'll just write that down that I'll have to send you guys that video,
too. So, that's the thing. Follow up two, follow up three, I was like, "Okay, hi, I didn't hear back from you, so I
figured I'd send the Loom anyway. Here it is. I need just need 5 minutes of yours.
Watch the Loom, see the upside that it can unlock for your podcast. If you're not convinced in those 5 minutes, I
won't nudge you. The reason of follow up is simple, the podcast at has great upside that can be unlocked
with the right system and no, I'm not bluffing. I've been following your content and I know this is a huge lever
that you can pull. Then again, I did the follow up. Hi, following up on the previous video sent. Did you get the
time to watch it? But 5 minutes is all it'll take to see where your podcast can be optimized to open up new growth on
top of existing audience. Really, you're just 5 minutes away from getting a deeper understanding of next part of
growth. Hope that helps. And then, we got the reply. Now, what did I do do right? What did I
do do wrong? There is no one-size-fits-all. I got them to go better online I think
it might be easy [snorts] to framework that you work at the end you get template work at the end you get them to
do the channel go and subscribe and just get out of that. There is one thing I'll relate it to one example, which is
people in trading industry, like stock market trading industry. With me, 99% of the people that you see on the internet
are fake and I have the data. I have seen that I don't have the data. I I'm lying if I'm saying I have the data. I
have seen most of the people go wrong. I've seen that all like mostly creators are exposed in trading world.
And I feel like yeah, the industry of the freelancing industry been really and people are just milking this, okay,
including me. I can assure you the things that I'm teaching actually work.
And if they're not working, then the problem is you because they have worked for me. I have the proof. And if someone
is saying to you give it to you just work at the end but you must prove me. I you are
You get to know what I can similarly trading world maybe I saw that I got to do profitable that say you have
to pay the second trading say tell me what to do course to take a course be a kind of
good deal with you. I may just go good deal with me to say I love you and you can give it
to people used to do that earlier as well. Guru
Guru Dronacharya take it in earlier times. This used to happen to the information was passed down to
generations like that and that was through a good direction. Okay, and I completely believe in this thing. I
don't think you can go through information they you should be from your good heart give him something. And in
this day and age it's through money. I can go through it as you can see all the five
Pandavas and I did this knowledge. Of course, they gave something back to them. It
happened. So I treated like this and I can go through it and I can go through it and I can go through it and I can go
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a bill going there. Offer go complicate my guru offer both simple offer is something when they come to play with
that yeah, I will go sit down and go down is master class man. Offer is something
that you offer to the client in order to solve their problem and get the money in return. I don't want you to go to get
the client to come to get you to offer go to go to get them on the problem solve go to go to get message go to get
a reference low and ask yourself give me a problem solve go to get them on the client to come to get video editor to
come to get problem go to get them on the problem solve go to get them on timely come to get communicate properly
go to get quality work go to get and you have skills. That is just like a prerequisite that
you must always have but this is something that if you will do, you will be able to land clients. Apart from that
they additionally if you know how to do YouTube, if you know how to grow your their channel, additional things like
ads and everything, well and good that's a plus one. But if you're just a video editor, people are looking for really
really good editors. It's just that when you supply me at the knee you get a demand still have video editors key.
Good editors will always get job and they will always have opportunities. Yes, I said it and if I will be able to
find the sales call Joe key prospect you will be I'll show you that what went wrong and how I was not able to close
him faster. I might close him. I am in talks with him but probably not be able to close him. So, this is the
transparency that I'm talking about. This is the honesty that I'm talking about. You got to get creative to follow
go to get to please see if they even have done those things or not. Let me go back there. I
can name drop those creators you can I just misguiding people and because I won't be making more content on
freelancing on this channel now. I am just going on that route of punching the people in the face who are misguiding
the new people who are coming in this industry. Beginner video editors or freelancer, whoever they are. But I
won't name drop them, of course. Okay, I'll find that and I'll see if I'll be able to show you that and after this, if
I have that, you'll be able to see that. Bye-bye. Take care, guys. Hello. Hi.
How are you? How's it going? Everything's great. >> Good. How do you pronounce your name? Um
Mr. Dull. Say that again. Mr. Dull. Okay. Where are you from? Um I'm from
India and I just came back from Dubai. So yesterday's It was the day. Oh, okay. Nice to connect with you, by the way.
And just just for the context, like I love your podcast. I was watching uh your podcast from
like it it's been a year. I like uh didn't watch it in the middle, of course, and then I randomly stumbled
upon your podcast again. I I remember I sent you a photo with me watching like you were the guest in that one
particular podcast. Nice. Yeah. Very cool. Oh, that's awesome. I appreciate that. That
That's The conversations are immaculate. I I love that. Phenomenal. Cool. Uh so I am very curious about YouTube. I
have I have tried, I feel like many different people to help with this.
Uh the current person I think is very good at making trailers. Mhm. But outside of that, um it's not growing or
you know we're not using shorts. I'm not really sure what to do. Uh I really want to put my focus and
continue to have my focus on finding the guest and conducting the interviews. Uh-huh. I don't want to have to think
about YouTube. I want it to grow. I want to be able to give the videos to whoever I'm choosing to work with and then they
figure out a way for it to grow. I know long-form Zoom interviews are tough Yeah. on
YouTube. Um and so I am doing more in person, but I'm also still going to continue to do
zooms cuz that's how it has to go sometimes for the guest. So, really I'm all ears. I'm I'm I'm curious to see
what your ideas are Mhm. to help grow this thing to be 100k uh subscribers and then keep growing
growing from there because right now I I'm kind of at a loss. I don't know. Okay.
Um So, for that I'd like to understand a little bit about your process. How does
your content production process currently is looking like so that I can give you an idea on that.
Okay. So, I pick the guest. I record the episodes. Uh we're doing a little bit
more in person, but still a lot of zooms. Mhm. I just then send over the video assets to the person who I have
one guy who does my audio YouTube or on my audio podcast, which I have I like it. He's been great. He's going
to continue to do the audio for the podcast. Okay. >> a complete separate person who does
YouTube. And he does the thumbnails. He does the titling, the packaging, all of it. I'm pretty hands-off. Uh
I I just you know, he has access to the YouTube channel and just does it all. Mhm. And
[clears throat] you know, most of the time they get no views on YouTube. Uh 99.9%
of my audience is just [snorts] the podcast and the audio podcast. And
>> I want YouTube to become closer in numbers to the audio. And I feel like some people have figured that out.
I haven't. Um and so, now if you go look at YouTube, you [clears throat] go, "Oh, that's that's
not that's not really a big show." But you look at Apple podcast and it's a top 10 business podcast pretty much all the
time every week if you go to the rankings. So, um that's the part that's frustrating. And
And again, I'm open to ideas because what we've tried for the past few years it it it hasn't really worked. We got
what, 20-some thousand subscribers. That's not bad, but it should be a lot more.
Mhm, yeah, yeah, definitely should be a lot more. And I'm just currently watching your channel.
Here. Um You've had a really
good track record of big hits on your YouTube channel, definitely.
And uh from what I can see, it's
pro- it's it's definitely not about the content that you're posting because the conversations are really great because I
also love the podcast. So, that's not about that. First thing is
uh ICP and the people that we're target- targeting. So, we have to understand if we're even communicating with them. So,
I'll tell you honestly, uh the reason uh the recent podcast that is uploaded, Bedros Keuilian explains how to build
championship culture. So, if you take two guests in contrast, one is Alex Hormozi and second is Bedros
Keuilian. So, most of the people know about this public figure who is Alex Hormozi. They're more likely to click on
this video compared to this video. So, we probably have to write this title in a way where it resonates
uh with the mass audience. For example, a normal person would want to make more money, uh don't want to live in poverty,
or let's say want to become 10% uh improvise their life,
uh for example. And if you see a niche that was not pro- it was not before COVID. It was not
very prominent. If you go to uh on the channel of Brian Johnson, Andrew Huberman Huberman, so these guys have
really nailed down whom they're targeting. So, that's what firstly should be the primary focus on
Uh if we are even communicating with our audience. So, for example, you are communicating
with people who are CEOs, the conversations and the topics will be completely different from
the people who just want to like level up their life or maybe just want to focus on their health for now.
So, that's that's the main pillar that is missing from what I see.
Another thing is I think you have a brand identity. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You have black, white, and yellow as your brand identity. Is it a solid one or are you
experimenting with these colors? No, that's pretty much it. Okay, so like do you have a formal brand
identity for your podcast? >> Yeah, I have like all the marketing team put all that stuff together. Yeah.
Okay. So, this is all that is it. So, we can improvise the visual aesthetics of it.
Definitely. This can be done. And apart from that, when it comes to the content, the
initial minute So, that's that's one thing that you saw when you we created the intros too.
Initial 1 minute needs to be the minute that hooks the audience when it comes to videos. Of course, the audio podcast is
the one where you are already ranking and you already have the authority. But, when people are discovering you on
a completely different platform and guys like me who a year before didn't know who was and I came to the video because
I saw some guest. Like I I don't know. I remember I don't remember the name of the guest. I'll have to look. But, I saw
the guest and then I came to the podcast. I listened to it because of the guest.
So, I want to make sure if uh that person that
audience is coming because of the guest we are over delivering in the first minute itself.
I I and like full like transparency there. I don't mean mean to look down on anyone like whoever is editing your
intro versus really doing a good job, but it can be improvised.
>> The The trailers you mean like the trailer part of the intro? >> Trailers. Of course, that can be
improvised. Another thing is if you see you're not AB testing the native feature of YouTube which YouTube has given. AB
testing YouTube and sorry, titles and thumbnails. I think they are AB testing. Uh no, I I cannot see though thumbnails
that are changed here. I'm pretty sure it when I look into it it says it's AB testing.
Uh but I don't see it here in my vidIQ extension if the thumbnails are changed regularly.
Uh check it check it in your dashboard if it's the case. I might be wrong here. Uh
I feel like I see it when I go in there that there are they are AB testing titles um
Yeah, between titles and thumbnails. Okay. Uh
I I'll just share the screen how that particular thing looks like. Uh can you see my screen?
Yeah. Okay, so I'll just go to Alex Hormozi's channel for example. And
if we go here and we see, let's say, this particular video. >> Literal. Uh we see all of the thumbnail
changes that has happened in the past and the all of the titles that have title changes that have happened. But in
your videos I cannot see, that's why I asked if that is happening on the channel or not. And if that's not
happening, we suggest you do that. So, uh the whole uh YouTube thing, it
definitely takes time, but it shouldn't take like 2 years to reach, let's say, 50,000 subscribers only uh when you
already have 20,000 subscribers. So, there are a lot of missing pieces that can be aligned. And uh
like ask shoot me with any questions that you have in your mind. You might be having some questions.
>> what would you do? Would you make the trailers like we make, but you'll make them your your version, so that the the
first minute hooks the audience, and then you play the the interview part of it? Yeah, I guess I'm just curious what
you what you would do differently that would then get to that 100,000 subscriber mark and beyond. That's
really the goal by the end of this year to be at 100,000 subscribers, and then like get the momentum rolling, so it
keeps growing. Got it. So, first thing is absolutely like understanding the
foundations. Uh whom you're targeting, why we are targeting that, understanding all of the
things related to our target audience. Once we have that data, we can easily craft a few keywords on which we can
build our titles upon. And once we'll uh be building the titles and creating the thumbnails around those uh let's say
ICP, uh and we know that let's say these 10 words are performing really good on your channel, we'll
double down on these, and we'll research all of the competitors that are doing well in your niche.
And what are they doing, right? Because if you see uh like any of the podcasts of
On the contrary of all this, he doesn't do any intros. He just starts the podcast.
So, On the on the audio or for the video? Video, video. So, he just starts the podcast, and the
thumbnails are pretty lean as well. But what he plays with is the title psychology and what he writes in the
thumbnails. So if you go to his channel, you'll realize that oh, this this might attract
mass audience. This might be something that more people will like apart from SEO. So that is the thing that we'll tap
into. We'll consistently test AB test all of the titles and thumbnails of what's
working, what's not. And we'll This is the exact strategy. This is like once everything is set up in first month,
after that everything is just a repeatable process. We know these 10 keywords work. We double down on that.
We research all other key all other competitors. We see what's working on their channel. We try to replicate it.
If that works, good. If that doesn't, we understand why it doesn't work. And then we iterate on that.
So that's the thing. And to do that, we have to have full control of what is going out on the channel.
So we have to make sure if for example, let's say if your long form is doing great,
but your short form is not helping the long form grow, everything will just fall apart. It's
like some missing piece of the puzzle which is
uh not coming together and the puzzle is not coming together. So that's the thing that we'll focus on.
We'll try to build an ecosystem that is feeding into each other. We'll post short forms that will feed into long
form. Short form will be the distribution channel. Long form will
Sorry, will be the authority channel. And then after that, uh we'll
create titles and thumbnails that matches your ICP. So would you make trailers and clips?
Yeah. It would be cuz like I use the trailers and clips, I could use those on social
media to then point people to the podcast, point people to YouTube, too. We we'll do that. That's exactly what
I'm suggesting. Like, we'll do the trailer. We we'll have full control of everything. We know what is going out on
the trailers, what is uh most resonating with the ICP that we have set. And that way, uh there's
not a disconnect in anything. There's a cohesiveness in our brand. And when every the brand is well put, people
attract get attracted to that brand. So, that is a thing that we'll focus on on a very, very foundational level. It is It
gets technical when we post regularly on YouTube. There's 30 shots going out on YouTube channel. Uh but, that is like a
gist of it. Okay. Okay. All right. Who Who are you working
with now? Or where are some examples of your work I can look up online? Uh so, we are working with
for some of our short forms and most of our like ads. And we're working with
currently. We've worked with multiple like regional channels, which is uh How did you get to work with
So, basically, that's a that's a very really a really interesting story. I worked as a freelancer for her uh for
her short-form content and podcast trailers and all of that. And then after that, I like uh quit because I started
my video agency. After that, I was like, "Probably I can reach out to her again uh to work with our agency." And then I
reached out to her, and she was like, "Okay, we'd like to work with you because you did a good job previously,
and we'd like to get these ads done. You can be our marketing wing for editing ads and all sorts of things."
So, like, I just started working like that. So, okay, cool. Where are you based out
of? Uh India. Oh, okay. So, you said you were in Dubai, so you just got going I I I yeah.
Correct. So, what is the time change then? Uh it's currently 2:00 a.m. IST, it's 2:00 a.m. here.
What? It is I'm I'm on my sleep. I'm an adult, so don't mind that.
What is Yeah, what are your sleeping hours and working hours? >> I I'm like awake till 3:00 or 4:00, and
then I'll sleep till 10:00, and then I'm awake again. Wow. So, is is doing video and editing
your full-time thing? Uh like yeah, this this content marketing agency is my full-time thing.
Apart from that, I also create content. You can look up my channel as well. It's The Mridul, t h e m r
d u l e d u l. So, say that again. So, youtube.com/what? Uh I'll just type out that link name for
you. So, I create a lot of cinematic content. This is where everything just started
for me. Uh I loved creating videos, and that's why I do that for other people as well.
Uh wait. Hold on a second. Is it youtube.com/that with a the
Yeah, yep. You can do it on slash, or you can just uh search on YouTube. The Mridul. It'll be the first channel. Oh,
okay. Okay. With two A's? Yes, two A's.
Uh okay. Okay. Hm. Yeah. So, I've not been posting
consistently yet because I'm more focused on agency right now. But I'll start again with more cinematic
films. Okay. Cool. Okay. Um is there a way you could kind of lay
this out in an email to me of like this is kind of the scope of the work of what we get every month, the cost, all that
stuff of, you know, this cuz I usually do four I do a one episode a week, so four episodes a month typically.
Um when I go in person, the person who films it usually will will edit that as well, but I would still then
if it's an in-person one, I'd still want you to make trip clips and trailer and the trailer and clips uh cuz my video
guy doesn't he doesn't do that. He just edits the episode together the the video together. So, that would be kind of the
expectation there. When it's on Zoom, you know, you just get like the files from Zoom. Um and and then I try to give
a good leeway. So, like I try not to make it a quick turnaround. Every once in a while I need to,
but I try to give give a few weeks of lag so that you have plenty of time to to do it all. Um with with the
occasional [clears throat] exception of hey, we have a quick turnaround here. So, that's really how it works.
Uh got it. Uh just just one thing. I want to understand
uh do you have any numbers of short forms that you want to put out on YouTube or do we decide it according to
our strategy? Uh I'm as far as clips, I think at least a few clips per episode, at least
a few that I also you put on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter. Um I think that would be smart.
Got it. Yeah, so we'll we'll create a system around it and then I'll shoot you an email.
Cool. Perfect. Uh so, just let me know if you have anything else that you'd like to
clarify, anything that you might have in your head. Okay. No, I think this is good. I'm
going to watch through your videos, but um and some of Cody's stuff or if you want
to send me specific ones of Cody's you've done, that would be great, too. And then yes, send me an email of just
kind of like a scope of work of how it all works and and then so we can kind of see
get it all out there and and figure it out. Correct. Uh just last thing for uh my
personal uh what is that kind of feedback?
What made you uh like jump on this call to work this out together and even after we had a lot of hiccups in setting up
this meeting? Um let me go back. Hold on. Let me look through. I get pitched
for this type of thing uh you know, multiple times a day. Mhm.
>> [clears throat] >> So, I'm trying to scan and see the difference in what may be
I mean, there was probably a part of it that the timing worked and a little bit is
a little bit of it is my current frustration with I I really like the person who does my
YouTube. He's a good guy, but it feels like the communication has dropped off as the
quality as like the the channel is not like I used to get reports every week on this is what we're doing, this is how
we're doing all this stuff and I don't get those anymore. Um I just the communication has fallen
off as far as what's going on. I still think the trailers he makes are great. Mhm.
I think you had sent something around you sent a loom. I actually watched the loom. I normally do not, but I did watch
your loom and it felt felt to me like the loom video that you had an understanding of
what we were missing on YouTube. Now that I'm seeing it here, um
And so what after I watched that loom, I felt like well, maybe there's a chance maybe there's a chance that you could
you could figure this thing out. Nobody has [clears throat] figured it out yet. Um and yeah, that's that's why I I
responded. And then you said multiple things you do with their titles, thumbnails, punchlines, CTR,
heavily repurpose the podcast into short form, AB testing. Yeah. Um you know, I thought I was doing most of that. I
think we're doing some of that, but it's obviously not working. So, I'm open to I'm open to to to trying things.
I also do appreciate somebody who hustles and works hard. Mhm. Um It feels like that's like like your your
your life is now. One of the things that has upset me in the past at times cuz I've been trying this for years is when
someone hustles really really really hard to earn the business and then after they earn the business, they stop
hustling and they just kind of do mediocre work. Mhm. You know, if that were to happen here, that would be a
huge bummer for me. Um Mhm. and and and it's it's obviously not going to be good for business for you because what what
you want is you want you want your clients and customers to rave about you and to tell their friends and to That's
how your business is going to grow, right? And that's how my business grows. So, that's how everybody's business
grows. So, if you hustle like crazy to earn the business and then you kind of like just chill out and not and like
work medium effort and don't get results afterwards, well, then it was you may have won the short term and got a little
bit of business, but it's not going to work long term. >> For sure.
>> So, hopefully you're you know, it doesn't seem like that's how you are, but Um
that my hope would be that you would work just as hard or even harder after earning this that you get the business.
Yeah. Uh That's absolutely the best. And my team will absolutely do my best to make sure that we do what we say.
Cool. Cool. Yeah. Okay. Um all right. Yeah, send me an email. We'll get it We'll we'll we'll keep keep keep
talking from there. Sure. Yeah, perfect. Thank you for coming on the call. Yeah. Yeah.
Sounds good. Thanks, man. Bye-bye. See you again. Take care. Goodnight. Bye. So, now let's come to the closing part.
Closing part is extremely practical. This chart with the will be some of the will be the theory in here. What I'll do
is my good sales calls list going to go on sales go take something and you can say I'm going to close here. I was going
to say I'm going to go to go to go to go to go to go to and after that I'll put one one two more
sales calls so that do take something out of it. You will be able to grasp how you make your communication with the
clients. So That's the service actually. Yeah. Okay, so you are doing content creation right
now or No, it's my partner. My partner is uh he he he he owns a like
video photography company. Okay. Uh so he is the one who will take care of
the course. Okay. And I will handle everything everything else. I understand. So like
uh this is for one-time project for the course only or you'll be you know, getting other work done as
well like ads Yeah. and the VSL. Yeah. So so at the moment first we're going to create a free platform
like like a lead magnet. Uh-huh. Yeah. It will have like five six videos like
between 3 to 7 minutes. Okay. And then when they want to with the VSL at the end and if
they want to like get to know more about the course, they will have the actual course.
So at the at first it's a short-term project in form of creating these videos, you know, editing these videos
and just test out to see how many people that are interested in the course and if we see that
a lot of people wants to join and want to learn more, then we will create Okay, the full flash course.
>> Yeah, exactly and then it will be a long-term project. Got you. I understand.
So like it will be just the basic videos of the course with the to warm up the leads basically
and to get the data from the industry or the market. If your course will perform or not.
That's the thing. Yeah, exactly. So we we don't want to create everything before and then it
doesn't it's not popular. >> of course. Yeah, so you want to do basically lead gen right now.
Yeah, exactly. Okay, have you worked with an agency before or an editor before?
>> With an agency or an editor? Yeah, like for these kind of services for video production services. I have a
short-form editor. It's not the same. Yeah, so little bit difference. Got it. Got it.
Uh understood. Uh so, do you have the content ready right now or you'll be preparing it after we, you know,
conclude everything? No, it's it's he has filmed it and everything. Or just editing?
>> Yeah. Okay. So, like any style that you have right
now in mind, anything that you want >> Like Like Okay. Yeah, like that.
I'll just write that down. Yeah. Uh I I >> we
we like a lot of animations, like you do, you know, that animations that is so people can picture what they hear. Yeah.
Yeah. And in combination with a lot of B-rolls. Okay. So, uh if I assume it right, you
don't have a brand identity for that course right now. Like some logo, some fonts, some colors that we'll have to
pick from. You don't have it right now. Got it. No, we have We'll have to build it essentially. Yeah, exactly.
Got it. So, when are you planning to launch this thing? When do you want this to be done?
As soon as possible. Still like something, some deadline that you have in your
head. In a month. In a month. And how many videos or raw
files do we have in GBs or runtime? So, it's five videos. Okay. And they and my partner has already
put in the right sequences and everything. So, you don't need to find the right, you know, raw
you don't need to mix with the raw footage. He has fixed everything with the
I think also with the color grading if I if I'm not wrong. You just need the animations and the b-rolls.
Got it. So, is it in Premiere Pro, if you know about it, or DaVinci Resolve? Yeah, Premiere Pro.
Okay. We'll have a look there. So, do you have any budget allotted right now for this project, or do you have
flexibility? I'm a little bit flexible, but also in a budget. I checked with another guy, but
it was a little bit over our budget. Um I was going to check out like your like what what do you normally
take, or how how how does your uh like compensation structure works? Okay. So, uh if I assume it right, only
things thing is we need to do five videos. At the moment, yes. At the moment. And
length, I forgot to ask you about the length of the videos. Uh it's between, I think, like 3 to 5 6
7 minutes at most. 3 to I'll just take it at 3 to 6 minutes. Yeah.
Okay. And as you said, like we have already done
color grading part. >> Yeah. And cuts part.
Yeah, exactly. And you want it done in a month. Yeah.
Okay. To kickstart this, we can start off with uh
these five videos Mhm. uh $1,000. Mhm.
And then, once this is done and you know uh how we are working with you, then we can, you know, work on the recurring
basis about your course and whatever you input uh you take the input from the market. Yeah.
Yeah. Do you normally do monthly, or do you always do per video? Uh monthly. It's like a retainer. Right
now, it is a one-time project, so we want to mitigate risk from your end as well.
So, it will be like uh for now, it's a one-time project, so of course, 50% up front and
Exactly. I think monthly. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Um so let's say these five videos are
1,000. Let's say we need maybe three videos short form with for the ads, you know? Okay.
Um under a minute, right? Yeah, exactly. Under a minute. Three short forms. And you can take it
at uh $100 per short form. For now.
Yeah. And just one thing I forgot to ask you, uh how do you define success in this
campaign that you'll be running? What is a KPI? Uh what is the metric that you're
chasing for? Uh in in in what Uh in launching these five videos and
then you'll be of course getting some data. What is the main KPI that you'll be looking for to launch the course
afterwards? Yeah, so we we we Listen, we will do Facebook
ads. Mhm. To Do you know what school is? Yeah.
The platform school, yeah. So we will have the course inside of school. So it's not exactly like
Uh-huh. So we will have a VSL where we welcome them to join the
community. And then this free school community with these
five videos, the last video is a VSL to schedule a meeting so they can join the paid course. course. Yeah.
So the purpose of these videos is to make it so good that they think, "Okay,
if this is what I'm getting from the free version, I imagine what I will get from the
Yeah. paid version. Exactly. Exactly.
And then for example, if if you're also doing a great job and like really good job and
want to book Yeah. Uh because we we also want to have a module in the course that's about
animations. Okay. Yeah, so then like we can have a
like future project also with where you can be a coach for example inside of the course where we'll where
you teach other people as well. Uh that's an also like a future alternative
we can talk about. Yeah. Yeah, but first videos is like make them so good
that people think them I I need to join this course so I can see >> So every content is planned. We just
have to dial in the editing part, the animations part. Yeah. So so for the free free version, everything is done.
We will start planning for the paid version. We will have like
let's say seven modules with one to seven videos in each module as well. And length? The same. I I don't
know I'm not I'm not sure because we will teach them. I don't know how long the video will be.
Uh So this is something I need to discuss with my partner because he will he's the
one who will film himself and create everything. Mhm. Uh
I can show you I can send like his Instagram is uh
Yeah, yeah. I wrote here in the chat. Oh, okay. I'll check it just now.
So he's the one who will create like film himself and do all the content. Um
He will be the face of the course. I will work in the background.
So, it depends on how long he he takes for him to film like to teach them to
different kind of things. Because if you have the Exactly. Exactly.
Yeah, so Yeah, so it depends how long it takes for him to
Because he's going to teach him graphic like filming, editing, VFX, you know, everything. Yeah, it takes time. I mean,
I'm also building a course in the back end with one of my partners and it takes a lot of time planning.
Yeah. That's That's for sure. And I did it and you know, just
taking down everything from planning to execution takes a lot of time. We have planned We planned initially that it
will take us 3 months, but it has already took us We are in 4 months and then we are just 50% there.
Yeah, it's always like that. You doing the same type of course? Uh, we are doing it for freelancing. So,
I've been doing freelancing for like 3 to 4 years and now I'm running an agency. So, it's like he's really good
at the technical parts of a software that is DaVinci Resolve and I'm really good at, you know, sales, marketing and
all of that part. So, we'll be, you know, combining our skill set and making a course in India because there's there
are very less courses Oh, okay. to target this Indian market and most of them are
We really want to make a really good course. Okay, that's awesome. We will start in Scandinavia and then see how
the market is. So, that will be in local language, right? No, no, we will do it in English.
English, okay. Got it. Because it's easier to scale. >> Okay, I was thinking you'll you'll do in
your regional language. No, we'll do it in English. Okay, okay, got it. Got it. So,
are you ready to, you know, start it right away and I'll just prepare the contract right now or you want to, you
know, take time, think about it? Uh, I think I'm 100% sure. I will just need to talk with uh,
my partner. Okay. Uh, I will I will give you the answer today, but it looks good.
Um, Uh, how can I come in contact with you the best? Is it through mail or
>> Uh, yes. Uh, once we sign the contract, we'll onboard you into a Slack and we'll talk about everything there and we'll,
you know, send uh, the invoice. And you essentially have to pay 50% up
front, send us the raw files and everything that you have. If if possible, you can send us the project
files as well because everything will be there. So, we'll just start from this uh, that base.
So, we'll let you know everything that you need to know before starting the project.
Okay. >> Uh, just once confirm me uh, through the mail and we'll send you the essential
things. Let me talk to my partner because he will be the one having the meeting with
you because he has filmed himself and knows exactly Yeah. So, and he's coming home today
from Japan. So, let me just come in contact with him and we can start right away after that. Sure. Uh,
when can I expect the reply? Anytime? Today What what time is it for you today at
the moment? >> right now in India.
2:00 p.m. or a.m.? Um, let me just check so I can see. Uh,
so at the moment, let's say let's say around maybe 10:00 11:00 p.m.
Got it. I'll I'll ping you at 11:00 p.m. through the mail.
So, let me write it down. My WhatsApp number, you can take it as well if you just want to have quick conversations
there. Contact Okay, awesome.
I've sent you my WhatsApp number as well. Yeah, okay, really good.
Okay, perfect. Yeah, awesome. Yeah, perfect. Let's get started with
this project. Yeah, yeah, let let let's make it fire. >> [laughter]
>> We It will be fire. I going to show you that. Yeah, what I have seen I know that you
can do it. Awesome. >> talking to you.
And I I I write to you later today, okay? Okay, yep, sure. Bye-bye. Perfect. Thank
you. I think it will be very easy to actually break through in Sweden.
Because there's no one that's like sharing the insides of how it is as an entrepreneur. And like a lot of people
thinks like working online, making money online is a scam in in Sweden. They just think it it's basically.
So, that's what what I want to do like first of all. And I also want to play a bit in the part like that I don't have
anything to sell the people. But my long-term goal with the personal
brand is to basically have a B2C offer where I teach people sales. That's what I do
myself. And then also have my B2B offer. So, my B2C offer is basically I teach I taking
people, teach them sales, and then from that I hire them to my sales agency. And we go out to companies and put up sales
systems. That's like my whole like end goal with with the personal brand and like
just build a a community around it as well. And uh do you want to do it like this
year itself? Or do you have a number in your head? Suppose
after 10k I'll start doing this B2C thing. And once probably I'll hit 20k, I'll start to do this B2B thing.
Do you have any number in your head or is it just like uh just normal thing?
Not a number in terms of like uh subscribers and stuff. Just like I want to start launching it like at the end of
the year. So, like let's say in December. Okay. That's where I want to start like
actually launch the product. Yeah. Okay. So, you have a deadline, but you don't have any number or less such of
subscribers and all. Right? Yeah. Yeah, correct. Okay. And you told me about uh sales that you're
working in sales right now. Do you have your own company on which you work in which you're working?
Or another company? Good question. So, I have my own company and I work inside of other companies.
So, you know Maxim and and Oliver? Yeah. I run the sales team for Maxim and Oliver and they do some sales there as
well. And then I run I run a sales team in America as well. So, I like come in as a consultant basically.
Okay. And that is under the umbrella of your company. Yep. Yep.
Okay. That's perfect. So, that is your B2B offer that is currently running. Pretty much, yeah. Exactly.
Okay. Okay. And for the documentation as you told me it's like one video a month or two video a month?
Exactly what that is. I really like value high quality over quan- quantity.
Um so, I want one YouTube video a month and then push out short form as well.
Okay. Um Just one thing.
Do you have a number goal in my in your head? Again, I'm asking the same question. Because uh
you'll be focusing on quality. Uh that makes sense, but
you want to do like high value stuff. But at the start, as far as I have seen, I've been in the game
in the initial phases, a creator has to do a lot of reps to make sure the algorithm knows what
the content is all about. Mhm. I'm down, bro. Yeah, man. I mean, there are of course uh
creators like uh I don't I've got the name of him. He has posted one video a month and has
got a million subs under a year. But that's just Mhm. you know, kind of very lucky thing. And he has been doing on
other YouTube channels as well. It's not like he just started and went all boom, like boom his channel. It is like he was
working on other channels, but it didn't work out the way he wanted. So, he shifted to a new channel and strategized
everything. Yeah. Of course, if we'll be working together, I uh will be
internally strategizing everything for your YouTube. But again, if the volume won't be there, the chances of you
gaining visibility in the short term will be >> Mhm. a little less compared to if you
just push quality plus quantity, because quality of course, you can shoot great videos with the camera with all of the
great pre-production. We'll take care of the post-production part. The quality will be there in the
post-production. And if you can do >> like bump up preferably a video a week,
Mhm. then it will be really great. But if not, if you're comfortable uh if not comfortable doing that, if you're
comfortable with one video a month, we can test it out. We can test out in a month four videos as well and compare
both of the things. Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. Um
No, I like as you are the specialist here as well, like you have a big pretty big YouTube as well. So, obviously I'll
listen to you. Um and yeah, the the reason why I say like one a month is because
to be honest, like I sit most of my desk like every single day. Um
>> That's content, dude. That's your content. Sit, [laughter] that's the reality that
you're telling to the audience. Online money money making is not a scam. You can do it. You'll have to sit whole
day. Yeah. Yeah. No, but two two a month is 100% doable, for sure.
Um 100% like two YouTube videos a month is 100% doable. And I also really want to
play into like short form style because what I've seen like clipping is the thing that's like helps
you actually gain audience like really fast, basically. >> You're right, yeah.
That does. So, you can be more visible to a lot of people in the shortest amount of time.
That we are sure of. We do that because we do it for every client. So, what we do is
as like ideally we prefer that the the client gives one video a week. And then we clip out four to six short
forms out of that. So, six days of content four to six days of content is ready for short form
content. And in one day, like that long form content goes out. So, seven weeks seven days of content is almost ready.
Every day something is being posted. Yeah. Yeah. What I'm smiling is because bro, I
like I've been I've been waiting for this for so long and finally like things are
are starting to pick up. So, yeah, that's the reason. >> Great, man. I mean, I I would love to,
you know, work with the personal brand. And I also um really fond of that cinematic stuff and all of those things.
I would really love to do this thing personally as well. Because I also do that
on my YouTube channel as well. Yeah, I really really I really with your content. That's the reason I
reached out as well. Yeah, I'm glad you love the content. Yeah. Yeah, man.
I think that was pretty much it that I wanted to know. Just just one thing, what is the number
of short forms that you ideally want to take out from a long form content and then again, ideally what you will be
shooting in terms of short form Good good question. So Ideally
like as much as possible, but there is well like I don't just want content out there like because it's tied
to my brand, you know, and and I want like high-quality stuff because just that's just who I am as a
person and the reason why I reached out to you in the first place because I tried to do everything, you know,
learn editing myself and I was sitting like 20-hour days behind my desk while trying to, you know, do the stuff I run
as well and like it doesn't work with the scalability, you know. So
like [clears throat] just as much as possible. Like a number as I wrote to you as well like between 15 to 30 short
forms a month basically. Yeah. And that I just like prioritize high-quality over
quantity. If it's like not that good, but I believe in you guys and I believe that you'll fix the quality stuff and
then just the more the better in my opinion.
Okay. Ideally it's 30, but we can start with 15
to see how that works. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Okay.
And what I would shoot is like if you guys do you help with like short form ideas
as well or What we do right now is like I'll tell you a little behind the scenes
about the process. What our USP is is basically we tell the client to just shoot a long form content
and it's majorly for talking heads. Right? So you are coming and you know, talking about stuff and we are getting
one video a week and then what and then what we do is we take everything out of the hands of the client.
We do the post-production. We distribute it. We manage the YouTube. And we take out short forms from that
particular long-form video as much as we can so that the long form is not getting affected. I mean, we can take out every
minute of it, but still we don't do that. That's not ideal. >> Yeah. So, we do that and if the client
is opting for X and LinkedIn repurposing as well, we do that through AI. >> Mhm.
So, that is the whole repurposing game that we're playing, but if we're talking about the new shorts that you'll be
giving Mhm. >> So, in that scripting for the scripting
part, we'll have to sit together and jot down ideas together because in the scripting part, we'll have to understand
you first. What are you What are you as a person? What do you want with your brand?
Then only we'll be able to, you know, script those videos out better than you. And you can you can be
completely free. >> Exactly. You just have to shoot and everything
will be done by us. But scripting is a little hectic and that's why we are like we jot down pointers for the clients,
not the whole script. >> Yeah. Yeah, makes sense. Makes sense. Um
yeah, man. Like to be honest, you guys are the experts. Like I literally do whatever it takes to to like
just my goal right now is to build a personal brand. Like that's everything I want to focus on and and grow a big
audience. That's great. I mean, I love people who are, you know, going all in into this
thing. I love the clients that are, you know, ready to do efforts that it takes, you know, build a
personal brand because building personal brand is definitely not easy. Mhm. This is just a little side thing.
Clients come in the meeting and they expect like everything will be done by us and they won't have to put in
efforts, but they forget that the personal brand has person in it. 100%
No, I agree. Exactly. And I like that. That's what I like. I I like because it's my brand and
it just reflects like I am the guy that puts in the effort. So, um I like that.
Yep. I mean, uh we are on for it. I love the whole idea. I'm excited for it. Uh so, basically the content
deliverables, I'll I'll just, you know, wrap it up. Two long forms a month. Mhm. And ideally
for the first month, if we start, it's 15 short forms. Let's just take it at 16. So, it'll be easier to divide per
week. Four short forms a week. >> So, uh if you if you have a budget allotted for these things, please let me
know. And if you're open with the budget, uh if you want to discuss it right now, we can do that as well. If
you want to, you know, give it a thought and think about these things, we can do that as well.
Yeah. Um no, for sure. I just want to hear as
well like because obviously there's a lot of, you know, good at editors and and a lot of good at people to work with
out there. So, like obviously the money part plays a a big role in in itself. So, like
for two long form a week uh or two long form a month and then 16 short form to start off with, like what
would you guys basically like charge for that? Mhm. Uh the videos will be all cinematic
in a sense. >> Yeah. With some animations that'll reflect the uh reflect the brand.
Ideally, it'll range from 10 to 15 minutes or 15 to 30 minutes. What will be the ideal range? I just want to know
from you. Mhm. Um What do you think is best? I mean, if you're vlogging stuff,
if you really want to show the authentic side of it, 20 minutes will be good.
Sometimes, if you if you if you So, you want to put quantity, the ideal length is 7 to 12 minutes.
But, if you're doing quality, people are coming after a long time. Like, you are publishing after a long time. So,
ideally, I'd suggest 15 to 20 minutes because the watch time will be more. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I would say if 15 to
20 minutes, that's good. Yeah. Okay, so 15 to 20 minutes, two videos, and then 16 short forms.
I'd say $2,000 for that.
A month? A month. Okay. Gotcha.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's a it's a lot of money,
uh for sure. Um and I spoke with with Maxim as well.
Um And how much did you do you charge Maxim like a month? Do you Do you know that?
For short forms, uh ads. Yeah. For ads, right now we are doing 1,700 for 15 ads.
15 ads a month? A month, yeah. Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah. Like, what I like as well, I don't
only like to because, for example, myself, I work on a performance basis. So, I like to throw in like some sort of
performance basis where I can like, you know, give you better bonuses. Exactly, because
it minimizes the risks, and it's also like performance-based because then you guys get what you are giving,
you know? And that's what I like like, "Okay, let's say when I get 10K subscribers, you can get
like We can come up with like some like, um finances where you can get like a bonus
when I get like 10K YouTube subscribers." If that makes sense. >> sense, yeah.
Um So, uh tell me like if you have something in your mind about the budget.
We'll figure it out together. Mhm. Yeah. Um
my budget to be honest like what I what I am am thinking is basically like around 1K per month.
So, $1,000. Yeah. That'll be hard for us
because the videos long form videos are longer. And short form videos will not be
repurposed from those long form videos. It will be repurposed but not all of those will be you know
And yeah, just to be clear this price is for you know YouTube management plus YouTube like
editing and all. We usually charge four grand for it.
Mhm. We are working with the clients and they are you know happy to pay that. But right now I've just cut 50% off of that
because you're starting and you really don't know where you're going with all of that stuff.
And um I can come down to maybe 1,800 a month for the same deliverables
and then we can once you hit 4,000 hours watch time
and 1,000 subscribers will you essentially monetize your brand. We can come up with a rev share model, reduce
the retainer, and do a rev share of whatever you you know YouTube is making or some other model that we can think
of. Mhm. Gotcha. Um yeah, I mean it it's it's a
little over my budget um from what I've been thinking about before, but I mean like I can give it a
thought and and basically you know I have some other options to go with as well. I obviously I just pick
and choose the the right one. I just want to hear like do you guys offer like a guarantee in terms of I
don't know like I I it's hard for you to say like yeah, you can get this many subscribers or or
this amount this amount this amount, but do you offer like some sort of guarantee in terms of that or or not?
Yeah, I can I see like you are a salesman because you often give guarantees to you know
get the this like mitigate the risk. I mean I ideally would say if your channel is
above 10k subscribers, we offer guarantees for those people because we really know that they've been putting
efforts and the algorithm knows them. Right? >> Yeah. What happens is like when I
started my YouTube, I was putting out great content from the start, but then what happened was even though I was
putting out great content, the channel didn't pick up. Yeah. We like
uh after 12 months it started picking up and that just one video went viral and I just you know hit 20k subscribers with
just one video. So that happens everything like nothing happens nothing happens for a year and
then everything happens at once. So it's like everything is just compounding slowly behind the scenes and
all of a sudden boom, one video one video goes viral and you're like sitting on 10k 20k subscribers all of a sudden.
Uh so yeah. Initially I would say no guarantee as such,
but that's for a fact that we can we will really try to make this channel work because that's
all of our job. That's like our whole job to make things work for you on YouTube.
>> Yeah. So what I can assure you is that
we'll put in the efforts to make sure the things that you're doing the efforts that you're putting is not going to
waste. You're getting the ROI of that. And apart from that
uh we would really like you to be patient with the result and at the same time impatient with the
action. So if we're saying that this is going to work, maybe this is not going to work
instantly, but in the long term some of the videos after your blows up. This that thing is
ending in maybe 2026 or 2027. Yeah. So, things work, but some takes a lot of time, some instantly blows up.
Yeah, 100%. Yeah. So, yeah, the whole gist of it is no guarantees as such, but we'll try our best to make sure this
thing works in your favor. Yeah. Got you.
Um 100% done. Uh and like just a realistic number, um what
would you think? Like let's say followers over Just Just let's say Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Like on
a whole, how many followers, like let's say we start with this and and start posting
a week from now. How many followers do you think it's possible to to get before like the end
of the year? Like realistically. Realistically, uh we're especially doing YouTube, so I
can tell you a number for YouTube. Um yeah. I would say if you're posting
content regularly, everything is just dialed in, and you're constantly pushing ourselves to create more content every
month, the channel will be monetized, and you can expect
anywhere the least least subscribers of 5 to 10,000 in that range. And the
max can be like maybe 100,000 if everything just works out in our favor. Yeah, of course. Um yeah.
So, yeah, that's the thing. I don't want to set, you know, unrealistic expectations. Sometimes things don't
work out, but I would say if you're, you know, being con- consistent on YouTube, YouTube is really rewarding.
It's not like one like Instagram, one reel booms and then others just drops off.
If one video does go viral, one video goes viral, second will go too. Third will go to Yeah. Like it happens
with YouTube way more way more often. Uh so you can expect if one video goes viral and viral in terms of above 50,000
subscribers. Sorry, views. Mhm. Your channel is like sorted. Yeah. You'll be able to gain traction to
that. Yeah. Yeah, man.
Um Yeah. Um but I think it's good.
I I'll give the thought around like the budget side of things as well because obviously, you know, I'm just starting
out and I'm new to this and I want to minimize the risk like as much as possible.
Um and like if we can basically come up with
something that works for for the both of us, that would be great because I like the performance-based models.
Um that's just what I, you know, that's what I I'm a
I'm confident with and I just like that way more because I've been, you know, with stuff as well like
the where I'm paying for a service and then you know, it's it's not what I expect expect. Obviously, I don't I'm
not saying it will happen with you guys but it's just like for for instance, you know.
Um But all right. I mean, it's it's good to know.
What I would like as well, I almost have like a finished video where I edited myself.
Um because I want to see your guys' work as well, you know, before jumping into to
stuff. Like how basically would look like. Um
How much would you charge? Like it's almost I I can share my screen here. My DaVinci is going to lag but
Um let's see. >> in DaVinci? Yeah.
Yeah, man. But it's going to lag a lot because I'm on my stationary computer and it's
pretty slow. My MacBook is here but yeah, the the file is in DaVinci. Um so
I basically just sat down like my my time editing trying to fix fix it myself, but
it just ended up being taking too much of my time and focus, so let's see here.
Might take a while to open. I'll just wait with this shirt. Well, yeah, is that something you guys
would be Yeah, but let's say like how much it's almost finished. It's just like
obviously, you guys like would make it 100 times better probably and I know to tweak the the color grading and
everything, so like just for a test video, like how much would you guys charge for it like a test video, so I
can like see and try it out basically. Or just a minute. >> Yeah.
The whole video, it's like around 10 minutes. Around 10 minutes.
I'd say if you're not really compatible with the if you just want to
risk really low, you can just go with $100 and there's a dog here. Sorry for
not seeing it. So, yeah, we can go with $100 for the video.
This video. Okay. Just for the trial edit, you can do that. Mhm. Yeah. No, but that's good. Uh I'm I'm
really down for that. Would I like can I just export the the finished what I have done and export
that to you or how do we do that? If if possible, you know, give me the project file of DaVinci. I also work in DaVinci.
So, what I'll do is I'll just see the project myself how that looks like. If anything needs to change needs to be
changed, I'll sit down with the editor and see what we can make better make uh what we can do better in the cuts and
all of those things and in the storyline. And uh just one thing uh that I need to
you know talk about that, which is really important. And that is uh you even if you don't work together,
I just want you to know that with whom who am whomever you're working, just make sure the YouTube
strategy is dialed in. That's all you'll have to, you know, uh think about at the start. Of course, you
you'll make good content. Of course, you'll dial in everything in terms of post-production and pre-production. Your
editor will take care of it. But if you have time, you study the YouTube strategy.
Because at the start, if you just keep posting, it's like like shooting arrows in the
void, and you won't hit anything. Exactly. >> You'll have to understand the game of
YouTube. Yeah. Understand the game of YouTube, and then post strategically. So, how we
craft certain titles is like it caters to the mass audience. It caters to certain
You're in sales, so you know you must have an ICP that you're talking to. Yeah. So,
like firstly sit down together with the client, and then we dial down the ICP, who you're actually targeting.
And then build a content around that. It's very easy. You know, stick to one niche and grow faster.
Even though you're documenting your journey, but you can craft the titles in a way where it actually sells to a
particular ICP. Yeah. Yeah, 100%. So, that's what you you just have to keep in mind even if we
don't work together. Yeah, man. Yeah, that's that's really good to know
as well. Let's see my DaVinci don't want to open. I don't know. Like this computer is
pretty slow. Let's see here. Yeah, essentially, when it opens, I can send it over to you.
If that's fine, I'll just send it over to Can I Do I just I've never done like exporting, and do I just send it over on
email, or how do I do that? You can upload it on a drive and send over the
project file, or maybe the the drive link. Okay. Okay, I'll upload it to to drive,
and then I Okay, got you. And if you need I don't know, dude. I'll just you know how we can discuss
Yeah, no, that's really good. I appreciate that. But yeah, I'll fix that as well and then send that over to
you. Um There's some Can I write like what I want as well because there's some stuff
I want within the the video as well that is missing. If that's like it's a I want
I don't I don't know if you have seen like the YouTube videos where you can like have drone like drone footage like
cinematic drone footage. You can get like stock cinematic drone footage from from places.
Yeah, and I want that in in the video in itself as well because I was in Bali and and in Vietnam where I filmed this.
So I just want to add that within the video as well if that's possible. Give us You can mark it in the DaVinci
timeline. Oh, yeah. Put the marker there and then I trust you guys. Like you can just put
it in wherever. Like I have no idea. I have no clue what I'm doing with with DaVinci and everything. For sure, man. I
mean just just send it over. We'll send you the file. Yeah, all right. That's that's good.
Just send me like a yeah, Stripe link essentially or whatever where I can pay 100 bucks for for the video. We usually
use Payoneer if you know about that. No, I've never heard about it. So we we send the Payoneer link because
Stripe is not working in India anymore. Oh, got you. If you've heard about Wise, we can use that as well. We can send
over the contact Sorry, bank account details to you. Mhm. And you can pay through Wise.
>> okay. Yeah, whatever whatever works best for you guys.
>> we'll send over our contact uh bank details and you can pay through Wise. pizza.
Perfect. Perfect. Is it possible for you guys to throw in like a short form as well? Just so I can see like how a short
form like just the examples I sent to you, if you saw
them on the IG. I saw that. Okay, let's just do that.
Perfect, man. Appreciate it. Let's see, man. Um perfect. All right, I'll give the the
budget a thought as well. See what I can work around and then I'll just hit you up in IG because I
want speed, man. Like I want to get this out there, you know? Yeah, so think about it and it's like
the break even amount of whatever you'll be investing will probably come after a year of constantly
putting in the efforts. It's like uh Yeah. If I give you the rough number, maybe
you you'll be investing roughly 24 20 grand a year into this whole post-production part.
And then that 20 grand will be maybe 40 or 50 grand in the next year. Yeah.
Usually, the CPM is higher in Norway in Scandinavian countries. So, you'll be able to get the ROI.
But, that'll be next year. You'll have to, you know, invest in it. Yeah, for sure.
What's the difference between post-production and pre-production? Pre-production is like you're shooting
the video, scripting it, and basically having a storyboard. Like this is what I shoot. This is what
the video will look like. This is the scripting part of it. And post-production is like editing,
publishing, you know, making sure the color grading is good, sound design is really good, and
the editing and publishing is being taken care of, basically.
Yeah. Yeah. Gotcha. In pre-production, you don't you only
sort of like post-production type of things, right? Yep, we do. And in the pre-production,
we just help with scripting if client is willing to, you know, invest his time and effort.
Yeah. Uh that that then only we can we'll be able to do that because if we just agree to it and client is like
but I won't be able to come on the call, then how will be we be able to, you
know, understand him and his thought process? Exactly. Yeah. No, that makes sense. Um, for
sure. All right. Is there anything I need except for like would there be anything
I need except for you guys like actually growing the audience here? Mhm, I didn't get the question.
Like would it would I need to hire someone for pre-production or everything or like anything else or do I only need
you guys to be able to help me like grow my personal brand? The possibilities are endless again. I
mean, but I don't want to complicate it. If you're good at pre-production, you know the lighting and stuff,
then I don't think so you need to hire that, but there's a big butt, which is if you want to scale and be fast at the
game, you need to have a guy at that point of time. Yeah.
Yeah. In the initial phases, if you know your stuff and we can help you with pre-production as well in terms of like
I can tell you we have SOPs, so we can send that to you. You can dial in the camera settings and everything.
You can take some shots, certain things. But like we have everything there. You can essentially watch that and dial
in everything, but you'll have to shoot. And once you are maybe making money with which you are having a break-even
amount for the services that you are getting uh, for your personal brand, then you can maybe invest in a
videographer as well, pre-production part as well. Yeah.
But yeah, we'll we'll as uh, like apart from all of the things that uh,
you know, we are essentially pitching you, we'll really help you, you know, build this up from scratch with
post-production and pre- uh, like pre-production. Mhm. We'll be like, "Okay, this is where
you're going wrong." Because at the start, maybe you don't have enough feedback loop from the audience itself.
Like, "This is where you're going wrong. This is where you can do it right." So, we'll help you with that as well, that
Okay, now this is this can be optimized. The hook can be optimized in terms of verbal, you know,
delivery. And then the audience will hook better. They'll watch more of the video.
Yeah. That's really good. Not sure. All right. And And the guys I sent over,
like, what I would like to basically, like, a bit, like, take inspiration from, but obviously, like,
tweak it to my own stuff. Like, do you think Do you like their guys' content? And do you think it would
be achievable to to basically make make that type of content here as well? Yeah. It is.
I mean, just that in the post-production, we'll do the post-production part.
We'll shoot as many B-rolls and A-rolls as possible. We'll take care of the post-production
part. Yeah, let's go. Let's go. Let's go. All right, man. Uh then, I'll fix the
the Drive link and send it over to you. Um just shoot me with a the WhatsApp pioneer, and then I'll give the the
thought about the budget and everything in general, and then I'll just get back to you like
at the latest tomorrow about it. Okay. And you can So, what I would suggest is
if uh you can, you know, finalize everything by tomorrow itself. It'll be better if you can just start off with
the projects altogether. And not do a trial edit, because if you are just, you know, finalizing
everything by tomorrow uh night maybe,
then there's no point of doing a trial edit. Just straight up start with the project. Because in just a day, we won't
be able to do the trial edit as well. Right? Yeah. So, if you If you need time, and
if you You just complete it by like, finalize everything by tomorrow.
I would personally suggest you know Okay. Don't do the trial edit, just
start with the project all together. That's my Okay, so also If you wanted then we can do that as well.
Yeah, I was just thinking I'll get back to you tomorrow about like the decision of either doing this or not. That's what
I meant. Yeah. >> Yeah, I That's That's what I'm saying. I
think I didn't get that part. If you'll be working with us or not with that $1,800 Mhm.
So yeah, I mean that is what I want to, you know, clarify that if you'll be working with us
uh then it'll be better we just straight up start with the project, not do the trial edit.
Because if you trust us, we trust you like you trust me, we trust you, that's a mutual relationship and
we'll make sure that everything goes as planned. Yeah. If you're like you you'll take a
little more time to decide it in the meanwhile we can do the trial edit and then we can start with the Let's start
what makes sense actually. Yeah. Yeah. Do the trial edit and then you just finalize everything by tomorrow.
And then we are stuck on the trial edit and you know, that just doesn't make sense.
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, makes sense. Yeah, 100% makes sense. Okay, but let's do that. Let's do the
trial edit and then once that's done, let's make a decision and then I also have some more time to like, you know,
finalize things in my head as well and um Yeah, when would you think the trial
edit would be would be done basically? I'll have to look through the file, but ideally it takes 4 to 6 days if it's a
long form. Okay. Yeah, got you. Yeah, that sounds good.
And then Yeah, I guess we'll take it from there. I'll finish it and send it over to you
and then just shoot me over with whatever you you need to shoot over to me and then uh take it from there.
Yep. Works. I'll just send you the mail where you
can send everything. You can send over the drive link here essentially and uh no, we'll start with
the trial edit and we'll keep you informed. We'll keep you in the loop. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect.
All right, man. Yep. Good talking to you. Same, man. All right, have a nice day
and I'll I'll see you in a few days. Yep. Later. Bye-bye. All right, man. Ciao. Take care. Take care.
Yo, bro. Sworn second, let me find my camera here. Yep.
How's it going, bro? You all good? >> Going good. Yep. How are you? Yeah, all good. All good. I was a bit
down last week with a food poisoning, so I'm just recovering a bit. That's why I look a bit
>> [laughter] >> Yeah, I can see that. You're looking a little cooked.
Yeah. Yeah. So, I'm a little bit uh tired still. Um but apart from that, everything is um
everything is good. Yeah. Keeping up with content as of now, so just trying to get that like rolling, but um yeah.
Yeah, I was I was I was watching videos of yours on YouTube. Those are really great.
Yeah. Yeah, I think it's pretty sick. Um you wanted to just send over Harsh. So, he's doing a good job. So, that's pretty
nice. Yeah. So, um yeah.
So, yeah. Uh I received the message about, you know, uh the past things. Uh
the quality drops and the retainer payment issues like Yeah. Uh so Yeah.
Uh Go ahead. Okay. What do you have in your mind? Like, what are the things that I should be
knowing so that we can structure everything properly and make sure that the things
that have uh the mistakes basically and the hiccups that have been in the past can
be probably properly done with professionalism because the thing that
happened was like I messaged after the break in December. I followed up with him to see where the
things went wrong and essentially he said that he'll be continuing the services in January.
I you know confirmed with him. But the problem was that he didn't reply and the communication you know went off.
Yeah. >> And it was not [snorts] professional from his end you know drop off and then
don't inform what actually is happening what actually is the problem. Mhm. If we could have understood the
problem that this is the problem that we're facing right now we would have sorted it out.
Yeah. >> Because we do it for like there I understand this is a service-based
business and hiccups happens. Yeah. >> I I completely acknowledge that part.
That it has happened from our end. But there was communication gap. A big one and then and then like
a complete ghosting so Yeah. >> unprofessional. Yeah.
I was on I agree. Um that's unprofessional on our end and I think there's a bit of like background so you
know like kind of what went down like our end. Um pretty much like December yeah I think it was December. Um
December we were just dead. Like we just died completely like one year of work just like
relentlessly on the same project every single day day in and day out and then we launched it and then
that was it like that that was the only thing we were literally just like preparing for like for so long. And then
we just died like completely. Um so we basically just like took
a good period where we were just like reflecting and not doing any new Like we didn't talk to anyone pretty
much. It was just like yeah just like I would would call it like a vacation without actually
it being a vacation. It was just like just not talking. Yeah, exactly. So, like we I think yeah,
we just we just went MIA pretty much for everyone. Um he went back to Norway.
I went back to Denmark, and then we kind of just like planned the next steps uh from there. And then we actually came
to a point when um the boot camp has been running for quite some time now, and we kind of just like
let it run a bit. And then we saw that the the uh metrics and everything wasn't going 100% according to plan, like the
metrics that we wanted to to reach with it. Um because it was it was too much value.
Like people got everything that they needed pretty much. And we saw that there was just a big gap between us
actually like giving them that value and then pitching them the service that we had Uh-huh. for them to them that. So,
that was a huge issue, and and we've learned from that. And now we've seen that uh it's not a good funnel for
converting people. It's a really good funnel for like educating people and and sharing a bunch of value. But for the
amount of like hours and work and money and everything that that has been put into it, it was just not like
it was not giving like an immediate like outcome of it. We were profitable, but it's like as quick as we expected. So,
what we basically did now was that we went back into like the um Yeah, I mean like to the drawing board
board pretty much and try to figure out like what we can do instead. And then we came up with this new offer. I'm not
sure if you saw the recent video that I made uh like young the student that we had.
Yeah, but it's like um it's like a um software deployment offer that we that we made. So, it's like we teach people
how to sell a low-ticket offer, and then we have wrapped like an entire service around that. It's the same thing that
we're teaching people. It's just a different frame to it and a different packaging.
But we pretty much made like the a new paid program, a one-on-one mentorship program, that is all wrapped around
that. So, like that is the whole core product essentially. So, it's one-on-one coaching, and then we just run the
similar funnel that we have done in the past. So now we're literally just like running ads directly to a
video sales letter that are then selling people on booking a call with us and then that's it. So we just need ads,
good editor for like visual and that's it. And then um we just sell people immediately. So we
actually decided to scratch the boot camp completely uh pretty much. Uh and just go with this funnel instead,
the new one. And already now like it's been We've been running for like literally a week.
And I think for the first week we've almost made like $100,000 in revenue, I think. That's great. Um
in like in like a week. So it's like it's pretty it's pretty good. And um yeah, we just need to like scale
that up now. But the problem is that we don't have good editors. And the editors that we're
using right now are horrific. Like they're really bad. They're so bad. And that's a huge deal
because they're not delivering on time. Expectations are set wrong. They are Yeah, it's just like not a good
partnership to be honest. We have one ad running and that's problematic because we're not testing as much as we could.
And how many ads do you need? Just just sorry to cut you off.
I mean Ideally like honestly like As as many as possible. Yeah, exactly. Like we we just
want to be testing so many different things. I'm not sure if you've seen what he's doing right now, but he's running
so many different like creatives. He's running these like um
You should almost check it for yourself. He has like 290 different ads running on Facebook right now. Uh just so many
different formats. And that's kind of what we want to do. Like we want to have like the professional style, but we also
want to have that like cheap style where it's just like it's almost as like the shitty
short-form content real framework where it's just like the ugly fonts and everything. Uh just cut up like B-roll
and and like a a podcast interview we've cut up uh uh different like uh apps. And that's that's also something we want to
try out, see how that works. So, yeah, I mean like to be honest, as many as possible, but I think yeah, I
mean like main bottleneck is just like the quality. Like we are ready to pay for like quality, but but it has to be
there. And it's it's just the only thing that we've struggled to find with like anyone pretty much. You guys did a great
job. Like when you started out, uh like big props to you as well for like the stuff that you did because that was
really really good. And then um as mentioned like I think there was this transition between you
starting to do the content and got your team on, and then it kind of dropped from there.
Um and that's natural. I I know that's that's a big bottleneck, and it it makes sense like you obviously need to scale
in some way as well. And I know that's a big issue for like editors uh that are running agencies, and that's how they
scale as well. But anyways, I was just thinking if there's any way that we can essentially look into
getting this started somehow again. Um I mean that would make sense. Would we still reach quality levels that we're
looking for? Uh and even to the extent of what we previously did with the ads. Um maybe something more simple where you
guys are doing the again, as mentioned, the more like shitty format videos where we can just like redistribute a whole
bunch of like ads because then Max is going maniac mode recording a whole bunch of and you guys will just
like yeah, put all that together. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Um
I'm really down for like anything, to be honest. Uh I think it's just expectations that I think that has to be
on point. Yeah. So, I don't know what your thoughts are with that.
Yeah. So, there were like uh majorly the quality issues. I I went back
into all of the data that we had for the things that we were working on. Since essentially uh
you shifted to the agency, and I essentially, you know, scaled up my agency
uh in June or July. Uh before that, I was working with you. And uh
you were we were majorly working on the ads and the course. And the course was on a very slow base at that time. But
then when we shifted to the agency, uh what happened was uh the editor was doing all of the work for the uh you
know, course part. And then uh there used to be bursts of work that used to come in
terms of ads. And the ads quality used to suffer because
uh the deadlines were very close and we needed to get the cuts of the uh days done. [snorts] Day one, day two, day
three courses done. And then at the same time you would needed ads as soon as possible. Yours, Dennis's
ads. So, that used to create hiccups in the processes because we didn't have, you know, clear deliverables. If we know
that these are the things that are coming our way, we'll plan everything accordingly.
Even if we want to hire multiple editors for the same thing, for the same client, we can do that. But the thing is we need
to have a clear set of expectation that this is coming our way. We know next month these 20 ads
are coming. We need to keep our workforce ready. So, uh
when we are working together, uh I can assure you of the quality. We have uh the systems are refined. You'll get the
quality that you want. Uh we have one of the best editors, but the is that uh the changes, of course, I
understand the changes part because that was where I was lacking and I take full accountability of it. Uh the editor was
doing a great job, but what happened was he uh
didn't look in the knits and bits of the processes that I used to take care of. And sometimes what I did was uh because
I was managing uh the course part closely, I didn't used to look into those ads so closely that I used to be
like, okay, these are ads. These are yours now. I didn't check them very deeply. So, there used to be a lot of
changes there. Uh so, yeah. I take full accountability of that.
>> Yeah, but it's fun. Yeah, it's fun. It's fine. It makes sense because like I think I think honestly like it's it's
probably one of the hardest thing of yeah, running like an Yeah, I mean like constant agencies like
managing people. It's hard. It's like it's really hard because uh
it is the it is the the small things and it's like it's the same thing that I see with when we manage people. Like
I see things very differently than like Simon, my success manager, has seen things.
Um so, he might not see all the integrity things that I see when it comes like the
process systems. Whereas it's probably the same thing with you. Like you see something different because you actually
did it. You did first person that started the agency are seeing things a bit
differently than than your editors might be seeing it. So, I get it. There's I fully understand it.
Uh so, yeah. I'll I'll show you that even if you start working with the agency, even if I'm not working, I'll
make sure that every deliverable that is coming to your end is on par.
Non-negotiable thing. So, you'll get that. That is my promise to you. And uh
if uh like major pillar was this. Major problem was just the quality issue. Apart from that, I
mean the timely deliverables, everything was going on there. Everything was on time. There used to be little to no
delays and sometimes used to be delays. The raw files were not there for the projects. Uh
so, I just want to know what are the clear amount of deliverables that we can
come up with so that we can have a retainer pricing, not pay as you go. Because that is not
predictable, first of all. And secondly, if we are supposed We are saying okay, you'll be giving 10 hours
per month. We'll assign the workforce according to that and at the same time you'll be a
little accountable that okay we need to get these 10 hours done because we are paying for it.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but um I mean it's hard to say because like
obviously like if you if you compare the ads that we had last time they were a bit more advanced than compared to ours.
I want to show you right now like what I was meaning with function. Um so this is what he's basically
running right now. Like you can see Do you think AI is going to replace jobs? The answer is yes. right now. Yeah, now
I get it. You see it? Yeah, it's just like I mean this is a bit more like a little bit but
like you see like this is most of it. It's just so Like it's so but it works.
Like it's a whole bunch of like redistributed >> Excuse me.
Oh yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, exactly. So I mean it looks so but it's like you just have so much
of this. Um So I think like
Excuse me. Yeah. So so like these things I think without being an editor I could probably
tell for a fact it's more simple to edit than some of the stuff that we used to do back when we were at it like the more
advanced stuff. Um so I think what what my point is really it's just like it it comes down
to like the the expectations that we're setting like what type of like ads are we creating?
Uh I can't tell you exactly right now. Look, here's This is probably a bit more like
advanced to to make I think. I don't know. I have no idea actually. Yes. Yeah, I guess I understand what
you're saying. I understand it. Yeah. So So so So what I mean is um
I think from like the previous amount that we paid we don't have like we we don't have cash
to actually be able to put retainer payments on like $2,500 a month. As of now we can't do that because we've just
been having like rising cost with like the software over the past couple of months and we're spending like right now
I think we have like we have so many payrolls and it's just adding up and adding up and adding up.
So right now we're spending nearly like $150,000, $125,000
a month uh pretty much. So it's it's a lot of expenses that we have right now. Uh and that's just being like fully
honest with you. I would love to get on a like a retainer basis payment if it makes sense for the amount of like stuff
that we get for it. So if it's something that can outweigh like the Yeah, I mean either like quality or like
the the volume. Um I think we can figure something out like on a retainer. Yep. Yep. Yep. I mean I
completely agree. Uh the ROI should be there if you're paying for the services. That is the whole I get point of you
know getting the services. And you know I'll tell you about the pricing that we previously agreed on on the $2,700
pricing. It was for you know uh maximum firstly came to me and it was four long form and 16 short form.
Yeah. >> deliverables kept on changing and changing and changing. So it all went
down to course and only ads. So that was the pricing for four long forms and 16 short forms essentially.
Yeah, I mean we can work on the retainer part. We'll talk about that. Uh so I'll tell you Do you have scripts ready
for the ads? Or are you planning to you know No, we're making scripts. We're we're
making everything. So like the only thing like we we already have like scripts and the raw footage everything
is like ready. We just need editors start editing So it's like you know psychologically everything is done. Like
I've done ads. So I'll I'll tell you one thing which is there are few things that click with people a lot. The certain
hooks. So certain generic hooks like on Instagram especially it's uh
uh sub, you know, very cringey hooks where a guy is throwing a rock into the ice.
And then there's a snap comes after a second or two, and then the information continues.
These type of ads are working there as well. So, if I'll be having ideas, I'll be sharing that with you. And I just
want to know if you want those ideas uh, as well when we are doing the ads. Yeah, I mean, always down for like
inputs, of course. Uh, that's that's Um, but but I agree like we have, I mean, um,
yeah, I mean, like I I would say we're pretty pretty good with like hooks. So, like I think brainstorming is, I mean,
always cool. Like you just give your inputs. That's that's always good. Sure, sure, sure. Uh, so I just want to know
uh, we can come down to the retainer part. What are the exact amount of
deliverables? Not exact, a range of the deliverables uh, that you want as an ads. Like we need to have a certain
number of deliverables so that we have consistency there. For ads only? Like if we're just looking
at that? Or >> I think you were saying only for ads
when you messaged me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I don't know exactly how you like like how you refer to it, but like what
what I would think is um, is reasonable is between like 15 and like
20 to 30 ads per month. Like separate videos, probably. Um, that is like a dream outcome. 100%.
15 would be a good start. 15 >> But Okay. Yeah. Something like that.
Um, I think that's a pretty good start. But I really, I mean, like again, you see here, like I don't want to share my
screen, but like he has like 6,700 different ad creatives on his Facebook ad library. Okay.
I want to get that >> [laughter] >> eventually. We we we I a lot, bro. Um,
but I know we start somewhere and we need to be able to keep up with like ad creation ad creation as well. I know
that's the majority of the place where like Max is going to spend his time right now
just like shooting ads. He just did that the other day and I told him he needed to do that. We are going to the UK now
so we have UK ads. Then we have Norwegian ads. I assume we're going to have like Swedish ads ads as well and
then we're going to have like Danish ads with me. But right now we have Norwegian Swedish language and Norwegian
and then English. Yeah. That's pretty much what we have right now. Sure. So starting point is 50 and then you want
to work all the way up to 30 ads per month ideally. Ideally. Ideally. Yeah. Got you.
Understood. And right now it's purely Norwegian and English ads. I don't know exactly what
the scope for me are because I'm working on like Did you see the video that Jamie Robbins made? His short movie? Uh no.
No. Not yet. You need to check that because that is a really good video. That's basically what
we're going to recreate. I'm making like a VSL format like in a short
like short movie style thing. So it's like storytelling video but turning it into like a VSL.
I'll just send it to you on LinkedIn and then you can check it out. So that's where majority of my time is going like
doing this month and next month. And after that I think I'm going to get
started with Danish ads. So right now it's just maximum so Norwegian and English pretty much.
Understood. Understood. Yep. So essentially you want quality things on time
accountability with ROI of course. 100%.
For sure. So I think I mean ideally like
because I know it reflects the the price point when it comes like the I'll just call them shitty ad creatives
compared to the good ones. Um so I think it would be good for us to get a
scope of price range for like how do you look like purely just like the shitty creatives,
purely just with the quality, and then a split between like the shitty and the good.
Okay, that will be a little hard. Because you know, just shitty and just that
like that pricing won't actually work. Uh you know,
that's not feasible. Uh we can, you know, do shitty and all creative ads both at
the same time. >> Yeah. Uh at the same price. Uh there'll be no issues with that, but
making things complex will not be feasible on both ends. So, sometimes it's like uh
for a month it's uh you're planning to do just normal ads, and then changing the pricing, and then
we are just doing crazily heavily edited, and then the pricing is getting changed.
Mhm. No, I mean more so like it's not going to change over time. I mean more so like how would
it look if we do like a setup where we only do like the shitty creatives, or how would it look if we only do the high
quality, or how would it look if we do like a split between like the shitty and the high quality. So, let's say if we
have 20 creatives per month. Mhm. We do like 10 of the shitty, 10 of the good ones.
And then I know obviously like because like if I go on Upwork and I find some shitty editor, they could just like put
some ads together and do the same thing that Iman is doing, it's going to cost me like
I mean we're paying the shitty agency right now like 30 20 to 30 dollars per ad.
So, it's like that in itself would be like that would cost us 3 400 dollars a month. So, it's more about like making a
package, and then comparing the different ones to to each other so we can see how that would look. That's what
I mean with it. It's not like it's going to be like okay, this month we going to like send you 200 dollars because it's
shitty ads, and then next month we're going to send you like 2.5 k because it's better quality.
It's not that. It's just a combination between both, and then what it would cost us.
Sorry to interrupt. Okay, I I understood your concerns, of course.
See, you are essentially not comfortable with that $2,700 pricing. That's not justified for you right now.
I do what? $2,700 price. No, we can't afford that. No, we cannot. Uh that's that's not like possible for
us by any means because like we like we have way too much cost right now. We'd be able to afford it at some point, but
like right now it's it's not possible. Okay. So so that's what I mean like that's why
I texted you in regards to like the pay as we go basis because I don't know like exactly how much it's going to like
how much work is going to require from us, like how much like we get out of it right now,
obviously, compared to like the expenses that we have right now. So for us, it would be
good to just like yeah, I mean like not having to be like set in stone that we have to pay like 10
grand the next like 6 months or whatever. So like a pay as you go basis, pretty
much, um because things are changing for us like drastically over time. Like again, last year we had no cost for the
software, and now we have like $150,000 a month in cost, which is like it's just insane how much that has
changed. Um so right now it's just it's just really hard for us to do that, even though I
wanted to do it. Mhm. I get it. Ideally, like your problem is
of quality. And we would really want to deliver the ROI
and quality that you want. The results will, you know, as I said, the ad funnel is working really great in
your favor. Yeah. If you're putting out more ads, you'll essentially get the ROI that
you wanted. And I understand the budget concerns there.
But that is This is the base that you'll be building your >> [snorts]
>> essentially funnel on, the high-quality funnel. We I completely agree with the shitty ads. I mean, that can be done
with normal editors as well. But the quality ones, uh we want to
focus on that. Yeah. Uh and if you're building the creatives,
the library of it, which will eventually give you the ROI. Yeah. I think
you we should take the bid on it. I mean, of course, $2,700 is a lot of amount for you to pay.
You are essentially, you know, one paying $150,000
a month uh to get the software, which is a lot, and I agree on that part.
And uh these ads will essentially, you know, give you the ROI that you're looking
for. And I just want to, you know, align the expectations right,
that this is not like another expense that you're making. And I'm not, you know,
doing any sleazy kind of thing here. I just really want to tell you that this is the ROI that you're expecting. This
is from where you'll get the ROI. Mhm. Because yes, we want to deliver the services, but for the quality,
and you know, the quality comes with the price. Yeah.
>> do the shitty ads, we can change the pricing a little bit, negotiate down a little bit, but not a lot.
Yeah. Yeah. I get it. I get it. I get it. Uh but I mean, like $2,700 is like I mean,
I know I'm not saying it was like the decision, by the way. I need to talk to him regardless. I told him that that
we're having this call. Um but I know like I know 2700 is probably for a 110% fact not going to happen.
Um, unless there is a like unless we are going to be able to get like volume from
that. Because at that point is we I mean like our boards like the
30-ish I think would would make more sense. Um, >> and to make it, you know, to make it
a win-win because you're starting with 15 creatives
right now. Yeah. Yeah. >> We can revamp the pricing later on, but
that's like as we are increasing the creatives we'll have to revamp the price.
Obviously. >> increasing increasing the creatives for 15 creatives a month for this month
what we can do is we can essentially just a straight you know, $700
for 15 creatives. How much is that? $1700. $1700? 15 creatives. Uh, if you want to
get it done high-quality creatives, that's all. And then for as we move on 30 creatives like it's straight $100 per
creative, $3000. $3000? Yeah. Yeah. So, this is like uh low risk for you at the start. You'll
get 15 creatives. >> Yeah, that's way better. Yeah. It's more reasonable. It's more
reasonable. Um, so what do what does this entail? Like we could just like tell you like
this is this is like the the quality creatives or Quality creatives, yeah. I mean we
really want to work on the quality part. See, we can, you know, create volume of those shitty ads, of course. But if they
are performing then we'll be able to do that as well. Yeah, yeah, obviously. We'll have to you know check with the
hooks and all you're also experimenting on the back end about the ads and all. So you'll have a better data of it.
So I don't know what you want to you know experiment with first. But I would essentially say 15 creatives
high quality that will really work the ads. Yeah. We have some really good ones that
we want to test with right now. Um I don't know like how like are you guys like really like ASAP? Or like what
is your workload looking like? >> When do you want it? Like just tomorrow when we on board you like what to Three
months ago bro. Three months ago that's when we wanted it. Um no but like I mean like if you guys
are ready like uh we could move pretty quickly on it. I just I'll call Max him up like right after this. Okay.
>> I don't want to let you have me too long. Um So I'll call him up and then I'll just
let you know. But um I think that's more reasonable to be honest. I think it sounds I think it
sounds pretty good and then um with the scale up again like as I said like we we we have paid you money before. We're
down to do it. It's just like again for us it's just like either volume It's Okay yeah so it's volume
expectation setting and quality. That's what we want. >> Yeah I I don't want to do that. I don't
want to do that. I don't know I don't want to you know give you nothing and just expect money.
That's not how our relationships in this service I get it because I want to like I mean
I mean I want us all to ball. Like I want us all to be riding Porsches and bro. So that's what we do. Yeah.
>> Um you included you included. So um So yeah I mean I'll talk >> from the ads. The result will be running
so many ads. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah for sure for sure. Okay
sounds good sounds good. Okay cool but um no what I said before was was pretty much just like I'll call him up now. I
need to meet up with the an old childhood friend in about 45 so So do that and then
yeah I'll just now and then I'll I'll just like hit you up later today and let you know but um
yeah I mean we need to get this role ASAP but I think it sounds reasonable like that's that's a good good setup I
think. Got it. So yeah. And I hope we like that you get the ROI
out of it and we really want to do that. I hope so me too. I hope so.
That would be ideal is working and I'm pretty sure that more ads you'll know the more return you'll get.
Okay that was all. Yeah sounds good. I appreciate you bro
and yeah I'll let you know soon and then just let me know if you need anything from me in the meantime and then we can
take it from there. Sure yep. Bye-bye. Take care. Nice talking to you. Take care bro. Bye.
You're based in Indore? Oh nice. My one of one of my co-founders is in Indore. Oh nice. Yeah. So do you have like team
over here also? Yep. We have a team. So it's like a full production marketing agency that we have and we handle all of
the organic marketing part right now. So I love your videos. No no it's all right. It's fine. It's
fine. Not really our setup right now. about how your video was cuz there were
a storytelling format which so storytelling is words meaning visual storytelling that we
that we love and that's what we were looking for also. He was so short to be here was there to
say he will output up there. Correct. How do you plan? I'll tell you the exact process that I
do. Firstly, for my videos and then for the clients. So, usually if
I am shooting my own videos, so what I do is I plan the script properly. And I can show you right now so that you can
have a clear idea about it. Just give me a second. Yes, yes, yes, absolutely. Okay, so this is how I
actually plan my videos. I firstly research the titles. I don't write the scripts. I don't do anything.
So, that's why I choose the title. I do the research with ChatGPT and some manual research on YouTube. Then I plan
some thumbnails. So, the plan thumbnail planning part Why do we do it before making the script is
purely because I don't have to look at thumbnails and we have to write three months left or
let's say beat 99% of the freelancers. Don't be in the rat race or step-by-step blueprint. So, we'll have to craft the
hook and the conclusion of the video in a way where we are using these terms so that will
click bait in a way. So, that's why I write thumbnail and everything. Then comes the part of these
scripts which is like the pointers and everything. And then I properly write
the script. So, basically whatever you're seeing in green, I mark it as the top down view shots. And I write every
single thing possible in the script. So, the yellow color is angle one. Green color is top down shot of my iPad.
Blue color is a different angle. Blue color is a different angle. And this is red is a different angle, angle four.
Q is a close up close so this is how like I plan the whole script, and that's why the production quality looks good.
It's less burden when I'm shooting the videos, but more when I'm writing the
scripts. And majority of the part when we want to produce really high-quality videos, we'll have to make sure the
script is actually to the point. We're not talking fluff in the videos.
So, uh that is like the go-to thing that I do in my videos, but it is not necessarily possible to do it for every
client. Because usually what happens is agar hum log koi ek video light create karna hai
ya koi ek angle batana hai client ko, possibility ye hai he doesn't have that filmmaking skills or a team to pull
that. So, what we do is we try to write the script, we give them the framework, and
if they have the bandwidth to add something creative of their own, they can do that.
So, that's how we do it for the clients, but if you're willing to invest your uh time, and if a guy or a client has
filmmaking skills, to we we go to the edge ki hum uska content or quality me produce kare.
Mhm. So, that's the thing with the whole scripting part, and So, aap shoot nahi karte, aap bas script
dete ho, aisa? Because we work with foreign clients, so it's not feasible ki hum kar sake wo
shoot. For Indian clients, yes, we have done that. Okay. So, yeah, we have produced a
documentary, actually. It is on my channel, it's a And I'll show you the link on the
LinkedIn. You can have a look at it. So, it is purely shot by my team. Okay. So, yeah, we do shoot, but that is
for just Indian clients. Okay. So, only Indian, fortunately. Yeah.
>> [laughter] >> So, you can come and shoot as well. Uh so, the point of I'll I'll tell you a
little brief of about this meeting, and it is basically to understand your vision with
YouTube, because as far as I've seen your YouTube videos, they're scattered a little.
Mhm. Some are case studies, some are informative videos, some are, you know, solving the problems. I love the video
where you went to a business, solved a problem for them. It was a cloud kitchen.
So, that kind of videos really work on the internet considering we have a good production quality. We
But that is a good content. Yeah. Come time may actually produce ho sakta you just have to go there and
uh get it done in just one day. I don't even need any script. I can Students also love it. Plus
even we can charge for it. >> [laughter] >> Because
Because I don't do phone calls also. So, I'm not even available on phone calls. I don't have charger on my phone and I'm
not around to become like, "Oh my god." >> [laughter] >> So, yeah.
Yeah. Or see you Because
we are not YouTuber first, we are coaches first. I get it. So, you do my side hustle type of work. Yeah. Just me
You don't know how to do that. Or you don't know how to do that. You can do 1,000 times or you can do
that. You don't know. That's okay. Uh team B lucky on me. So, you don't
know how to do that. You don't know how to do that. You don't know how to do that. You don't know how to do that. You
don't know how to do that. You don't know how to do that. You don't know how to do that. You don't know how to do
that. You don't know how to do that. You don't know how to do that. You don't know how to do that. You don't know how
to do that. You don't know. Yeah. So, you don't know how to do that. You don't know how to do that. You don't know how
to do that. You don't know how to do that. You don't know how to You don't know how to do that. You don't know how
to do that. You don't know how to do that. You don't know how to You don't know how to do that. You don't know how
to do that. You don't know how to do that. You don't >> [laughter]
>> Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Yeah, of course. >> YouTube grow
YouTube grow here there. or What I can say come effort.
Okay. I play up me but company here to home already run career.
So basically you don't want to invest much time into this, but still get the ROI that you are looking for.
Huh. I understand. There is so much focus required and then
I mean you can focus on it and then this company will suffer. So we have to choose our
you know, fights. Two days in a month to record a video. No, we we actually plan the content
calendar beforehand if you guys want to save time. So what we do is we'll prepare the scripts. Let's say you
want to post one video per month, sorry, per week. So we'll have four videos in our
arsenals. Okay, but if you guys want to shoot two Even if it's for ads, Instagram or
YouTube. So we'll shoot everything and then editing all the part of my area. You
don't have to do anything. So we'll do it, we'll keep on posting and then again in the next month we can do it for two
three days and the cycle can repeat. So this way you can save the time. Only thing that you'll have to invest time in
is the approval of the videos. Of course we'll be editing it, but you have to have your taste in the videos as well.
So we'll give you the links after editing the videos. You'll see if the video is according to you or not. And
then once it is we try to make the changes where we'll do that and we'll post it. Okay.
Uh So And then let's create a checklist. Mhm. So that
Then it is pretty much okay. You can get it in a In past what has happened that uh review by here to get the season.
>> that review by post can review can you work at the time you
have? I will no matter
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your I will I will tell you to do it right. I like it when I will I will tell you to do it. I will tell you to do it.
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you to do it. I will tell you to do it. I will tell you to do it.
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will tell you to do it. I will tell you to I will I will tell I will tell you to do it.
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you to do it. I will tell you to I will tell I will tell you to do it.
>> [laughter] >> I will tell you to do it. I will tell you to do it.
I will tell you to I will tell you to do I will I will tell I will tell you to do it.
I will tell you to do it. I will tell you to I will tell you to do it. I will tell
you to do Uh I am plus uh Does it uncle body cool say like her? Rajiv Kalra say like her rush shamani
Kelly Joe agency come get the work on my daily come get the end. So we are working with top league so we understand
and these are in the same circle. You are among the top coaches of India. Mhm. Uh just reach here or with all
humbleness not to brag. No no no it's all right. Joe Joe all
Yeah. Joe mara already uh circle here say the insights kind of insights we get. My favorite was to
level pay daily daily push guru here is to SM ESS or get to get there. To one pay home to Jana but I will be a minimum
he said to her but he had basically over here complete with that least. Consistency I got We'll do it. You'll
you'll love the first video itself. So no worries there. Uh I have few questions that I've
written down. I'll just rapid fire it. Uh so firstly we talked a lot about YouTube. So I want to understand if you
are coming to YouTube. You already have a successful business that you were talking about. Yeah. What is your
primary goal with YouTube? Some just wants awareness. To open doors. I'm very clear about these things. So
you are just ask me I will no options required. I will tell you directly answer. So what is the primary objective
with YouTube? To open doors. About meaning? Meaning
when we have certain level of uh subscribers then uh the credibility is higher. Then we can invite certain guest
and we can go to certain guest and all that becomes accessible. So our main YouTube goal is number one to open
doors, open access, set that credibility. Number two goal is yes, generate some
leads related to our business also and make money so that we can sustain this. That is number two goal. These are two
primary goal nothing else. Got it. And what is the exact time frame or a
rough time frame that you want a certain time a certain transformation to happen? Let's say hitting 100k or let's say
200k, 500k. Or a view meter >> I mean
190k, huh? We are at 190k already. So, next 500k ka goal hai. Mhm. Jo ki Agar realistically speaking
Mujhe pata hai do teen mahine bahot hai Hit karne ke liye. Kyunki certain momentum already hai. Mhm. And Just we
have to leverage that. Hamare paas leads 10 lakh hai. I know Jabki hamare paas
Hai unki Mhm. I know Oh my god, this is so much relevant to
me. Aisa kuch launch karte hai to more views will Pump in Organically and like suggestively also. Mhm. Uh Abhi tak
Searchable content pe kaam kiya hai. Okay. Kyunki wahan se leads solid aati hai. Aur humne suggestive content pe kam
kaam kiya hai. Mhm. Aur suggestive content Humne past kiya hai. Yaar
I will openly share where I am stuck with. Mai already Matlab kahunga Not fully but
Partially I I have Already in past cracked the code. If you see These videos. So, what I did here I
targeted a particular community. Yeah. Which was like that Sick state Odisha. Odisha ke
Videos se. Mhm. >> Is videos Ke re-sharing hui hai. Kam se kam 500 bar. I know. Mhm. To 500
Recreate kiya ye videos. To maine unko Lekin bata raha hu
Re-share kiya gaya ye content. Okay. Reaction videos banaye iske upar. Pakistan ke logon ne reaction videos
banaye. Aisa wala craze hua hai. Achha okay. Aur ye tha suggestive content. Correct.
Okay. Yeah, makes sense. Okay. Yeah, noticed.
Okay. Looking case study videos is something I've done it. I know how to do it, and
it doesn't feel like me. What do you want to create? What type of content do you resonate with the most?
So, I have a lot of knowledge related to business, related to food business or any business. I've worked with 30 plus
industry. But, eventually I have a lot of knowledge about all the
industry, and we can go a little broad also. Then, leadership, team management is something that I love.
Management is something like from team management to self-management to business
management, all those kind of area I can touch upon. And I've transformed their life.
That kind of level I have. I'm not a YouTuber. YouTube is like with me. No disrespect to YouTubers.
And I have so many tools, so many knowledge that I can share related to life also. Life in the sense
relationship management over here. Suicidal thoughts out there. Even in our food business
strategies, steps, tricks become good there. >> Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Yeah, I am very comfortable with. Mhm. All things I'm comfortable with. Okay. So, life business, selling
all three. A leadership So, But I don't know these are the things
I'm very comfortable with. Mhm. Case study videos actually come in.
Okay. But I'm very comfortable with the style recording. Yeah, it's scripting maybe. Mhm. But I want to But I think
decode camera angle I think
I decode I think Yes, for example I
video it went viral. Um I
I will count it as video video. Mhm. I think I don't know why I
number video number video I don't know why I am So, I don't know why I am videos experiment it went some of them
went viral. I don't know why I am I don't know why I am south restaurant I'm forgetting. So,
you may short me because they don't Mhm. Here we go. reels I don't know why I am
I don't know why I am I don't know why I am Instagram lifestyle you can record.
So, I'm sharing you what are the content that I really love and it's very easy to create. For example video I don't know
why I am video I don't know why I am I don't know why I am
I don't know why I am video I am and I don't know why I don't know why I am I don't know why I am I don't know why I
don't know I don't know I don't know why I am I don't know >> [laughter]
>> I don't know why I am videos I don't know why I don't know why I am I don't know why most of them went viral.
A lot of video went viral. So, this is This is a Haldiram. So, I don't know why I don't know why I I don't know why I am
I don't know why I am reason I don't know You know,
do good marketing. And it's going to open the product video these video also got little bit good
views. So just to give you idea. Hope you understood. Yeah, naturally and I'm very pretty much comfortable
decoding anything which is existing in the market. Or you could decode
like I can give pointers also. But Joe That you know or people who already
Yes. So that you have created that's good and I'm proud of you. I'm all I'm saying
that's okay. Okay. I understand.
>> [clears throat] >> Why you are not understanding? I'm not comfortable at creating again
style videos. What do you mean by that? person to create content the lady who
That's okay. What do you call that in the market? real type
Those kind of way it goes. Okay. So you see I'm just suggesting. Mhm. Yeah. Rithul. So
I I got the understanding of what you are trying to target. I'll sum it up. I
watch business content and what I have in my head is if you know Alex Hormozi. Yes, love it.
>> He has a business channel kind of. He does acquisitions and everything, but what business tips data.
So that is what you can do as well. You have worked with 30 different industries, so of course you are
targeting food industry. But I'm looking down but I need to get here.
Mhm. Business content but I can take. Mhm. But that is what we'll have to sit down and or
let's say we'll have to research the industry first and understand you better. Then
only we'll be able to dial down the content calendar. And ideally
how many videos do you want in a month? Long form and short form. So I'll tell you just a little bit about the process.
What we do is if you have four given us four videos we take out short forms from those videos as well. Let's say we have
one video of 10 minutes or we have four short videos and we put them on YouTube short form and then we put them
Instagram but it not work like that. But short say conversion but that I'm looking for
long form video link with them. Mhm. So how many videos do you prefer per week or per month? Long form
plus short form. Look at her. Um Just a minute ago next three months may
let's aim for five lakhs. Mhm. Already we are at close to two lakhs. Mhm. You suggest what should be the frequency
and accordingly See I'll I'll be honest. I have just opened your channel.
And I'll have to look into the statistics analytics of your YouTube
channel. So even though you have 200,000 subscribers and many big creators have even 1
million subscribers, but the audience dies after some time if you're not posting content for them.
So, it doesn't necessarily mean that if we post content, the content will perform better.
If we bump up the quality of the content even if we shoot like crazy content. It doesn't guarantee us.
We have logo call 500,000 car mark even if we have daily post coming will hit ho jayega.
I'm logo here direction decide we will have to revive the audience first. Or at least reach the right audience.
Okay, if you're shifting niches, let's say I'm business niche me jar ahead. The coffee wider time ho gaya to food
business cup give it to take her a audience. They might not resonate with it. Which
videos to general videos only once they resonate curling it, but they won't to start their food business. They are in
the food business. So, probably I'm going to new audience target karna padega.
And that is the right way to do it. So, analytics I'm logo take now what then only we'll be able to decide in
three minutes 500,000 achieve concept and because I don't want to set wrong expectations here.
It is good to have a goal in the head, but we'll have to understand the analytics first as well.
But I'll suggest with the quality that you are talking about and
like the videos that I produce it takes a week to create one video.
So, we can if you're shooting we can come there. We can shoot the videos in two three days and then it will take us
at least four to five days to edit the videos. And
charges can I get scared? So, have you allocated anything to it or like Okay, I'll tell you. I just have few
more questions rapid fire. Once I'll have everything then we can talk about this.
And uh uh if we are, let's say, posting a video, Just a second, huh? All right, back back
back. Yes, let's go. So, just the last question, which is, uh do you have some brand guidelines,
assets that you have for your brand, YouTube basically? >> Uh
yeah, so uh to a certain extent, I do agree with that. I do get that. It's just that I mean, we didn't really know
what to do, so we experimented a little bit to see what works and what doesn't.
But, pretty much you do have a background. And this is our brand guideline, so mix of blue and red,
pinkish kind of This is our background throughout. kind of thing.
And we just got married a few months back. Congratulations. Thank you. Okay. Okay.
Uh so, are you open to, you you know, changing some colors, fonts on YouTube? I'm open to change. I'm
I agree with this I agree with you that let's standardize. We can change or experiment,
after that we have to standardize. Yeah, yeah, of course. Like, we'll have >> Uh Kritika, you had some point uh
Go on. Go on. Go on. Right. Right. So, I hope this
rapid fire is done. Yeah, it's it's done. Uh I have got everything that I should have to give you the exact quote.
Uh I wanted to share a couple of things. >> Yeah, go on. Go on.
>> [laughter] >> I was sharing I was just saying we will do what works.
We can start and then we can Number two.
is what do you call? Uh
rather than going directly into it or topics So, that it can be a very nice segue.
Something on those lines. Okay. So, So,
Tell me one thing. Let's say what I do is uh my camera is stopped for some reason.
Uh sorry for that. Uh so, I I want to ask one thing. Although I'm a freelancer and running a
business. I love filmmaking. But what I do is I tell the audience that I'm a freelancer who has been doing it for 3
years. And I've been into filmmaking for 6 years. What >> who has been doing it for 3 years. And
I've been into film making for 6 years. What will be your intro for the audience?
I This has been intro since like 6 7 years of mine. Okay. So uh it has always been I'm a serial
entrepreneur, Uh-huh. uh mentor, and an investor. Okay. Uh and uh
I'm co-founder of the company called which is the largest platform. Mhm. Uh we are all food business owner learn and
grow their food businesses. And uh this has been the intro. So, mainly your tagline agar aap bologe, to
it is mentor, serial entrepreneur, and uh investor. That's how I get
>> like we can create a lot of content around it. Yeah.
>> A lot of content around it. You have a lot of experience under your belt. 15 saal experience we have business may
I've like proper proper art company alag alag bana chuka hu. So, us tarike se hai. Although majorly failed, and now
I'm on the success route. So, yeah. So, that has been up my invest speaker on. We are doing like Shark Tank kind of
thing for our students. Okay. >> And we are also investing uh in our student brands and becoming partner with
them. So, both are the same thing. You will get exposed to that business. Yeah. I mean, uh this is fire. Uh the videos
will come out good. We'll have to dial down a few things, but I'm pretty sure the videos will come out good.
Uh for the ballpark figure, I'll give you a range uh for just the post-production right
now. Uh I'll have to talk about everything in depth with my team first, then give you the exact figure. I'll
give you a ballpark so that you can also plan accordingly on the back end. Uh for four videos and 16 short-form
plus YouTube management and scripting. Okay. Right? This will cost you anywhere around 1 lakh to 1.5 lakhs to you.
Mhm. And shoots are excluded because uh will depend on how many days are we coming
to the shoot. Okay. No.
We don't have team there. We just have one co-founder there. Okay. Yeah, but we have some connections
over Indore, so they'll come to shoot for you guys. Okay. Yeah.
No, no, absolutely. I'll make sure I'm talking to the team about this
pre-production part as well and we'll include in the standard package. We won't let it vary so that it is feasible
for both of us. Right. So yeah, I can actually show you three
channels that we have worked with so that you can also gain some confidence. Sure, sure, sure. Yeah. So this is the
channel of we have been working with him for past 1 year
and in the channel was pretty all over the place previously, so we put a channel revamp
here. Like every thumbnail from the start. You have to in the channel I'm going to take over here. Actually you
have to get them over there, but we changed the thumbnails here. And in the brand identity I'm going to
dial down here to because he didn't have any brand identity as such. So we dialed down few brand identities
and then worked on his videos. So this is the thing. This is a very, very niche down
content, so not a lot of people watch this, but we have worked with this client as well.
So in the initial phases of this podcast we produced a lot of videos. Is that comfortable for you? Yeah, we
are doing it right now as well. Sorry. Okay. Okay.
I grew my channel. That is these are the three channels that I can show you. Of course, I have few others, but those are
not directly tied to us. I still look forward and want to create content something like
You must go to school. That will be so good for your channel as well. Yeah. Yes.
Yeah, I agree. No. And
I don't want to do that anymore. I want to be like more young. Yeah. So, more connected to my
Like your video. youth audience also or about to make it elder generation to appeal to them to
the fast pace so Yeah. And then to do graphics here that should be like poppy instead of little subtle
and boring. Huh. Uh neon colors and all are good. It's just that that will cringe color what you know Yeah. That
will say No, no, we'll make sure we're dialing down the brand identity to sophisticated like it brand new stuff.
It's not something random. So, we'll make sure of that right. Uh rest assured, I'll talk to the team and
give you the give you like send you the message on LinkedIn itself. Is that fine?
We need WhatsApp. WhatsApp message literally YouTube growth getting started with that's why I logged in. Everything
is on WhatsApp. Okay, I'll send you over the WhatsApp. WhatsApp
Yeah. Share code. Sure, sure, sure. I actually have
recorded it myself as well. So, yeah, please do Take it slow. We're going to start to
get there somewhere. Figure out a way that we can at least get it started somewhere. Sure.
Let's start somewhere. Instagram like podcast, but podcast show.
Episode wise. Hello. Season wise. That ways. We were thinking. Nitin, can I know
Nitin government Uh Nikhil Nikhil government Some government Nikhil government, uh
founder of Zerodha, right? Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. So, kind of combination of that, but more of you know, more
interesting. Yes. Not very much techy, but more of fun. Also, having some games. Also, uh
Uh-huh. So, the guest show combined with Nitin government with some Gen-Z creators
Mhm. Focus is live business money. And we can explore a little bit more
that ways. Uh Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Uh it's all will be uh on a risk.
Mhm. But I'll make sure that it goes with you not against you.
Yeah. Yeah. So we Definitely. Definitely.
Yep. Okay, I'll revert back on the WhatsApp itself. Next step
What's the timeline and what is the next step? Tonight. By tonight I'll give you the quote and exact things that we can
move forward with. And you just tell me what is is it a comfortable range for you? 1.1.5 lakh
range for you to start with the posting and uh you know, continue this for let's say
next 6 months. Mhm. Yeah, I was looking for
uh 50,000 to 1 lakh rupees range. Okay. Okay. So and uh
uh shorts So 1 lakh is I think a decent range to start
or views If views and performance grows that
maybe increase the budget also. I don't mind. Yeah, we'll do that we actually do the
performance thing, but we have a whole package around it. I'll talk to the team. Uh don't worry
about it and we'll get back to you. Over the WhatsApp. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Bye-bye. Nice talking
to you. So firstly I reach out to this client on 13th January with the offer and us me
money job on K channel make come you that you can get on K content become you that you can
get you can job money on K content become you that you can get you can get you can get you can get you can get you
can get you can get you can get you can get you can get you can get you can get you can get you can get you can get you
can get you can get you can I followed up with them with a similar offer in hopes of key on Google here email mirror
the camera and then after that I got the reply. I'm a dude. I'm connecting you with someone in
the team who can help you out here. I've recently transitioned out of content, but I'm glad still had my contact for a
story [music] connect. So again, I messaged them on the same day. Hey, thanks a lot and then many first of we
offer explain Kia that cookie other team members go and then the conversation goes on for few days and they ask me for
few rates this may 6 minutes to meet you 1 minute to open the videos to get me charges and get ideally and I
availability and everything of that sort. Then when I am going to tell you that he I'm looking at the basis of what
they do. This is how we usually roll and the whole thing that was happening in these emails were we were not able to
grasp the income get to me or the offer when we get the value of heavy and he and that is exactly what happened. You
have offered that was not really valuable for them. They didn't want that [music] and we were selling that. So
what communication gap are you getting? What are the challenges different or the map in a jar which is different and
that's why I'm looking at the website emails to come on some good terms and get a real understanding of what they
actually want. So again, I got the reply from the team. Congrats on starting your own agency. Examples money on and money
all the way my films got website video but still if the client is asking for it, don't just say bro money they get a
car where first of we do top three videos and something of that sort. Joe on Google ideal requirements get that
resonate in this case on Google money for you podcast get intro Joe Google chat at the like this point
of time to come look podcast and on Google chat and management which got it so I told them keep you have money
podcast get intro score a long form video have got to get a whole this is how it is and then you
email they can meet to make a second to get no immediate need on my end but I
appreciate the willingness. I'll let you and the teammate connect on the podcast after. I was like, "Okay, sure thing.
Looking forward to it." By January message came in. These January came in and then follow up. This was the biggest
mistake for me. By January I went to these January message here. Almost 1 week later, which
hurt a lot in terms of communication. And then after that, if you see April I mean a message here. It's not a
long time over. Almost almost 45 days over. I mean a message here. And the reason for it was home and go in trouble
and I wanted to podcast already up front value offer but you have a teammate intro at that point delay at that point.
I don't know what issues and we didn't force him enough to do the work at that point. So this happened on 15th April
which I don't know. 15th April message and I mean an intro edit here. Keep going intro like a team intro
and you can have a look at it or I don't know what ideas short form to buy a key to existing podcast or say to my
good shots and potentially just say time stamps to include this now the thing was job when I email what
happened was in case of teammate what you should get this communication around the podcast
subject. Of course I was like now what but luckily Joe first ever made a point of contact is email was reply here
he's no longer with the company and I'm looking to discuss discuss so so I mean I mean I was reply here same day give
thank you for letting me know and I mean I mean I exactly what you want I mean I don't know what you want I
mean I don't know what you want I mean I don't know what you want I mean I don't know what you want I mean I don't know
what you want I mean I don't know what you want I mean I don't know what you want I mean I don't know what you want I
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what you want I mean I don't know what you want I mean I don't key can miss not your message was never say reply to you
mirror other team mate was set about Carlo and then to hammer podcast was to put a revamp career and kind of and
she'll be a good person to talk to about this. I was like okay, we see them to my reply get down and I was like okay, I'm
ready available when I was here I just wanted to keep the conversation going then was getting teammates a reply I had
my prices get at this point of time medical requirements. about that he get this was a very confusing point for me
to me and go prices picture to kiss the picture you need but I need to change it and podcast into podcast requirement is
this year I came up with structured model to get them get set to product I service just which was a post production
price they do and then a option B they do this may come sub to get YouTube channel management and make a b testing
and everything and I was like according to the work that we'll be doing this price seems good and I sent it in a
product I manner and I've seen this with most of the high ticket clients and companies key and call you need to get
them and go customize offer to my personal product I service offer is 25 thousand dollars 5 thousand 25 hundred
dollars to get set of services provide and that is exactly communicated clearly to them and go and go that I just need
to get compared to just asking to my requirements for back and forth with them directly with that you have offer
and go to customize solution to you to go to go message them and go to get you but we'll try from now on product I
service and we listed on our website. Website to put a revamp career but this is what I have got the input about and
you can take advantage of as well. So, many of you but I am and then was getting bad money to podcast got into
the edit get that I might even go better and feel many of you but I am and go message key but I can get reply near but
I am and go message very late I know but I am and go pink and go and go PDF but I am and go into and have you seen it but
I am and go and go but I am and go but I am and go and go and go busy schedule. You get bombarded with a lot of emails,
but this is not just another email written with ChatGPT. We really think that the Big Deal podcast has immense
potential to scale, and we'd like to help you with that. I talked to over at email. She directed me to you. Let me
know if I need to talk to someone else in your team regarding this. that I'm talking to.
So, all of these things happen. So, of course, I was like, "Yeah, are you the right person?"
other teammate of yours said, "Okay, huh? Then when I come back here, first I
follow up tagging another point of contact to give first ever point of contact. And was going to make a I sent
few follow-ups to your other teammate and got to know she's not working with your company right now. And I was like,
I thought Yeah. Yeah.
contact Yeah, you buy podcast
I just overall podcast progress
growth management production help Again, attach And first reply This may go
5 then bought Correct. Thanks for checking in. You're correct. The teammate is no longer with the company.
We do have a video one of our businesses is trying to create. It's more of a graphic demo reel. Is this something
your agency is able to help with? If so, then what does the rate look like? And I was like, "Definitely, we can do that.
What is the length of the video we're looking at? And is there something else that I should be knowing about the
project?" He only sent me a reply here. Hey Madhu, so we have an editor on the video right
now, and the whole team hates it. Immediately, I got the inside editor motion main editor Probably he's
not working on the right note with them. So, it could be helpful to see what we're not going for. You can view that
here. You want to keep it around 60 seconds. It's a demo reel for a new product that is launching on the
website. see if I can get a brief but based on the example video and the length, what would you estimate the cost
would be for this edit? So, on the same day, I reply because I was excited.
And I was like strategically so good. I pitched him $1,000 for a 60-second reel, like $600
to $1,000 depending on And they were like, "This is a great feedback. Love that you're already
starting to attack the edit in your head. Do you have an example of demos you've done in the past to pass off to
my team?" Thank you for sending the sample. I've sent it over to the team.
We won't be moving forward with you right now. But for next project, we'll be reaching out to you. So, we had gates
open for new further projects. might come out as squid kind of, but let's do this.
Hey, no issues. I understand. One thing, I saw recent podcast. I noticed that the intro is not like what we initially had.
Punchy sound bites, clean visuals, brand consistency, and so on and so forth. First
ever different words I messaged them so that they see it and tell me that okay, I
acknowledge it. And then they reply. And then I finally understood, okay, they don't need [music] this. Hey Madhul, I
dig this. Thanks for sending. And then they essentially said "Tum apne rates bata do future projects ke liye." I was
like done, why not? And then I said I hear you and even if this is an email you can let me know what can potentially
be done to elevate brands perceived value. It doesn't matter if we execute it by your team. Those tips will help
level up the brand for sure. And if you need any help here and there just ping me. I know I won't charge for it. So I
wanted to add some human element and that is what it is. You asked for it below are the retainers we offer. Madhav
message dal diya tha retainer ka. And then here you go. Hey Madhul, what if you're just looking for short form?
We're needing an event reel editor and I know you helped us out with the last one. Is that something you all are able
to do? I was like damn, history it's history it's history is repeating itself. Those who know, know. So Madhav
ne fir unse kuch questions puche ki bhai project ka requirement kya hai wo mere ko batao then I'll be able to make you
understand. Then unhone mere ko pura chitta diya and then fir unhone examples diye kuch usi din pe. Maine unko cost
bataya. This will cost you around $400. I have a better offer if you're looking for more content. Four similar videos
for $1100. We'll need to go through eight hours of footage since we'll already have a good understanding of the
raw files from working on the first edit. Creating additional reels will be easier to ideate and edit along similar
lines. A single edit will cost $400 but if you need more marketing material from the same footage you can deliver four
reels for $1100. Expected deadline for version one is one week from the day we start. Let me know your thoughts. Usi
din message aata hai "Hey Madhul, definitely love that idea but let's get this one done for $400 right now." And
there you go. We closed a client for 30 to 60 seconds edit for $400. Iske upar main separate video banaunga
banane ja raha tha main but I think isme cover ho chuki hai baatein but algorithm ke liye bana dunga yaar. Kya hi farak
padta hai. Minting views. So we closed a client for a one-time project for $400 30 to 60 seconds ke reel ke liye. You
have the proof right now, okay? Aur ye maine pehle bhi bataya hua tha. People didn't believe me. I mean good for you.
I've done it. You didn't. Sorry, that was a little egocentric statement. No, you should have good ego.
Now, again, the conversation goes on and on and on. Projects are related We send the contract. They sign the
contract. Everything happens. We deliver the video and And then
approved And 6th June we get the payment from the client. projects when can we expect next
projects key this was great and we'll be coming up with new projects to you and we look
forward to working with you on those projects. message
about and then motion graphics
query query 17th June and we have come in June ideally
actually That was 21st of July. July videos
And then Okay, green light here. Let's do it. We did
then boom boom boom boom July 29th July was the changing day for us.
changing July was a really good day for us. I wanted to close this client and has been
6 months since I've been constantly in chats with these clients. projects
We were like we need to close this. create project
project this game. Thank you so much for catching this. Really appreciate you. Right now we have done 1500 for 16
videos. We want to up that to 25 videos for 200 and 250 dollars. We have a lot of content that we would love your viral
eye on. Some longer content like the scaling workshop you all have scrubbed and some other content. What do you
think about that? We'd also love to get back you into a notion how you work together in the past to get your content
more effectively or efficiently. And so on and so forth. We send the contract. We sign the deal and boom, they become
our client. And on the 5th of August we get this rolling. So now that you have watched all of the closing process of
mine and how I convinced them, how I tackle all of the questions, now comes the part of retaining. So retaining the
clients is pretty simple. Like which basic principles of that you don't go down that road. Timely delivery whole
communication intact regular check-ins to call weekly meetings monthly meetings and
like personal relation build up the client and his life events and his Instagram follow and his LinkedIn follow
and his Facebook follow and his Twitter follow and his YouTube follow and his Snapchat follow and his Pinterest follow
and his Tumblr follow and his Reddit follow and his Quora follow and his Medium follow and his Vimeo follow and
his SoundCloud follow and his Spotify follow and his Apple Music follow and his Google Play Music follow and his
Amazon Music follow and his Tidal follow and his Deezer follow and his Pandora follow and his iHeartRadio follow and
his TuneIn follow and his SiriusXM follow and his Slacker follow and his 8tracks follow and his Mixcloud follow
and his Bandcamp follow and his ReverbNation follow and his Last.fm follow and his Vevo follow and his
Dailymotion follow and his Vimeo follow and his Metacafe follow and his Funny or Die follow and his CollegeHumor follow
and his Cracked follow and his The Onion follow and his BuzzFeed follow and his Mashable follow and his TechCrunch
follow and his Engadget follow and his Gizmodo follow and his Lifehacker follow and his Gawker follow and his Deadspin
follow and his Jezebel follow and his Kotaku follow and his io9 follow and his The Verge follow and his Polygon follow
and his SB Nation follow and his Curbed follow and his Eater follow and his Racked follow and deep discussion but I
have a button and he tried to steal a couple of key key. I suppose loved ones that they be
here. What sorry my dad upset by the one who is on the bus they fired and they fired
punishment again to do typical kind of after that when they will be able to support you but they think that they
will be able to get it. Who is near this active sentence passive sentence and he was like
that you can get in here. I have nice sorry I suppose you will see meaning different framing same analogy
when it comes to talking about pricing handling objections doing all sorts of things
to me but I just say that they will be able to get it but I have a lot of things to get it but I have a lot of
things to get it but I have a lot of things to get it but I have a lot of things to get it but I have a lot of
things to get it but I have a lot of things to get it but I have a lot of things to get it but I have a lot of
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things to get it but I have a lot of things to get it but I have a lot of things to get it but I have a lot of
things to get it but I have a lot of things to get it but I have a lot day to day life
but your outfit doesn't look good but you can say this can also be a little
controversial but I'm just not coming up with a good example you can probably say you look good but I've seen that
according to the body type that you have the body corn dress if you will be a bad that will look way much better on you
and you will look even better in that so you're not directly attacking her you're just saying I know that your body type
is this this shape and I've seen in general that body corn looks really better and you're not essentially saying
that your dress looks off you have complimented but at the same time you have given a constructive criticism as
well so that's what I'm trying to convey here that soft skills matter in that so in retaining part what I'll do is I'll
attach a video that I've already recorded and you can look into that closing the bottom of the all deeply
back to the already gaining body maybe or deeply back to the if you get the hold of it you'll be able to understand
it perfectly So this topic is for those people who struggle to close clients and most of
all retain them they go you lead generation process may be
closing the process which means sales calls or clients about and how you can close the client inside
the sales call tacky to escape come come and start or ghost call you by offer you and make a cat
so that is what we cover in this video which is not out there on the internet you see maybe internet but we scattered
and I will make sure condense them to make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you
can do make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you can do
make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure
you can do make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you can
do make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you can do make
sure you can do make sure you can do make sure you can do make sure So don't second point you should go
which is listen listen to the requirements of the client listen to the pain problems little listen to whatever
they are saying like 70% of the times the client should be talking and 30% of the times you should be talking.
client to actually get to you and then in the real time you can craft an offer for the client and pitch them. Let's say
client get you I actually don't need those four long form 16 short forms from you. I probably want to you know scale
my SAS and want to get some ads done from you. I don't know how many ads can be done in
the budget range of $2,000 but I would really want to get my paid channel up and running instead of the organic
channel. So you are going to pitch organic content to him but we'll sales call pay again to say get it to buy me
to get paid ads. So don't use time pay real time offer you pay scale okay by $2,000 budget or I can do is
I can give you 20 ads and it will cost you $100 per ad and because you're reckoning I can also offer you 22 ads in
that $2,000 budget. So this is a little discount or additional from my end. So it will be a little enticing offer for
him to pay to make a deal and base build to pay $2,000 to get $100 per ad. So don't make a deal to get to get more
than 2 ads or to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads
to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get
more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more
than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than
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to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get
more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more
than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than
2 ads to get more than 2 ads to get more than 2 ads to talking about closing right now, so I'll firstly purely focus
on that. Then your point is to position yourself as the go-to authority. Now, if you're a
beginner, this will be difficult As a beginner, you don't have. As a beginner to make him trust you,
Okay, I probably don't have as much proof of work as other people in my industry have, but I can assure you I'll
give you the guaranteed results that you want. Give me one project. I'll prove it to
you, and that will be a free sample for you. You can use it on your YouTube channel or on ads, wherever you want to
use, and the results yourself. We can start working on a retainer project. If not, no strings attached. I
won't nudge you. So, it'll be a little eased off offer for free me but I mean he worth
to him offer create career or he'll be like but
he's responsible. confidence I don't know if I'll be able to do it, but I think I can do it.
As free, I don't know if you'll be able to get results. You can give results. Results in terms of a highly edited
video. That's all. That's the result that clients want client wants. And if you can give that, well and good. So,
that is the other thing, which is keep them up in positioning stronger or 40 C up in up go to go to go to authority
I know I know my I know how to do that, and I'll be able to get it done offer
offer to my company as a free trial. And after that, you can come on a regular retainer with me.
Similar, like whatever you want to do. So, he'll be able to trust you. And then when the person can trust you, the
chances of you closing that client increases. Because I just got an AI and it's kind of weird that and people are
just bombarding clients and prospects with AI generated emails and it's very hard to trust
the client is going to stick with you. I will retain them and I will retain them and I will retain them. But let's first
talk about closing them in the call itself. Last point in closing the client section will be handling objections.
a sales call or online on the internet objection Maybe I need to think about it. I'm
like, okay, I understand you need to think about it, but let's just go through it together. I
want to understand what you're not clear about right now here so that I can give you the clarity that you need to have
and I can assure that I have given you all of the information that you should be knowing about our offer and how it
can help you. Simple. And he'll be like, okay, yeah, I was confused in this this this thing.
Then I'll be like, okay, this is the solution for that. This is how we offer those things.
Then boom, you got the you're giving him the solution. And then whenever that objection comes,
to my best instantly solution of sky. So this sales call becomes very smooth. Last and bonus tip is communicate,
communicate, communicate. One step up point here on a broader scale.
Treat the other person like a human. Ask the real questions if something feels off to you. I'm going to go dig right
in. Ask him to why don't you do that? People love that, especially clients to be high ticket with the love that. It
was one video of watching and he was like He was hiring an HR for his team and HR name which
cross questions put you and didn't have the answer for that and he was like impressed with her key.
Okay, she knows her thing. She's asking the right questions which I don't have the answers for and he was not like he
made answers near easily was smart. He was like she's asking the right questions that I don't have the answers
for. Similarly, you go in the call and if you feel something is off and you can help them, ask them that this is off
I think you can improvise this thing by a lot and you can do these kind of things.
Treat it like a communication. Treat it like conversation where you genuinely want to
help the other person. And in return, you get the money for the help that you provide in the form of services. Got it?
So this was the thing that I had to cover in very brief manner in order to tell you other to make beginner to do
client to close cut to do on a very very basic level. Go over and look deep and dig deep cut
sorry planning a master on freelancing but right now for that 15 hours of master classes is a lot for
me but I'll make sure to structured way of information I'll I'll
So your closing thing is done. in frameworks to use the client to close it. Now how to retain them?
I don't know which basic things what complex is that thing? depend on that as an agency as a
freelancer you only need to have I think three to four things. First is service delivery. Time to
service deliver the goal. What did I do to make a call? deal with here Yeah, I'm going to
quality promise to get I don't provide good quality. Second is communication. Actively communicate with
the client as I said key client close call with them at this point to communicate to client close
call but active communication to call lucky to client call perspective weekly to be checking to get what you
want. So that you can have some conversations going on with the client. which is delayed to call before hand but
I do this you delay we are facing some problems and they'll respect that
or you can project they have to which is disappear to update they have to call here This is the first draft that I'm
doing. video which I want a single message to call them you have to call them client
will be happy and 5 minutes maximum message draft call them to service delivery
and last, third, I think is reliability. Freelancers these days are not reliable, and I've seen it a lot. If I say by you
come come now here, they are like you have my car doing my butt poker knee button tool.
Do I got cuz I have to hold what you choose to be a hacker tool? No, no, cuz I have to hold but no cuz I have to hold
but I got no cuz I have to hold and you can figure it out and do that within the deadline, then only say yes. I chose the
last option when I closed my first ever US client. You can make a better than I figure out doing
this one I did figure it out and I delivered the quality that they wanted and trust me you reliability with a
factor is a competitive advantage that you will have amongst other freelancers because as I said, people are not
reliable. Like freelancers are not reliable. So, if you can do that, you are better than a lot of other
freelancers. And a bonus tip, try to make the process for the client be seamless
And if some miscommunication happens, to do them email me he can take contact me with a tool and I will do contact me
with a tool and I will do contact me with a tool and I will do contact me with a tool and I
will do contact me with a tool and I will do contact me with a tool and I will do contact me with a tool and I
will do contact me with a tool and I will do contact me with a tool and I will do contact
>> He knows his He'll be able to do that. Done.
client could have to turn He's reliable. I trust. Bonus point always
money client she won't leave you.
She won't leave you. And now I got cheese. I got to do something. videos
frame by a drive by to something is organized December January
March organized or something client
Just a little tip. or which not to do things client
client project मिला 7 day deadline 6 day 7 day video No.
client freelancer money I can come and task done. No,
yeah. This is a service based a relations. You have to treat the person like a
human. So client biggest mistake the client
client Okay. I will not bad testimonial Third thing is you stop improving. basic
client skills improve hire
client >> proving basic point that I've told you skills you improve for which he has
hired you fourth thing other than client business goals and some other stuff vision is
opening one mercy to be edited by the client for the client to go away to client the client vision of client
simple thing by simple motion designer to simple simple edit I don't know what I mean by
what you know to be better than what you know lastly taking feedback personally human and personally what to make over
critical feedback there are take it with a pinch of salt learn those things implement those things and you learn as
a person you'll grow as a person to it's a win-win politely you can tell him that the scene I'll I'll
improvise it and then go on other than what you know he would have said that is a different story call that client out
but I would have critical criticism there I will positive to take it you learn you'll grow
I don't know what you mean by what you know again I don't know what you mean by what you know
I don't know what you mean by what you know I mean I covered majority of the points that I have in my head and that I
wrote down to make sure I give you few action steps that you can follow immediately after this video if you're
going to a sales call to make sure you close the client and if you have closed the client to retain the client so yeah
this was a pretty short and crisp video I don't think so it is short I don't know what you mean by what you know
good enough long video to make you guys understand some juicy stuff related to
closing client and retaining client and if you want to join the community of freelancers and learn more about
freelancing international clients to close cold outreach to personal brand to be a
freelancer and a lot more problems so you can go and check out my ebook with my video
modules to text me boring to go study in depth explanation the link will be in the pin comments or here somewhat I'm
pretty sure you'll love it so yeah check it out and this is me signing off bye-bye Take care. Now that we have
covered psychology of cold outreach, how to write cold outreach, how to do cold outreach, and closing and retaining
clients, we'll now talk about how you can make more money as a freelancer, how much pricing that you should be
pitching. Next module is pretty simple. It is very straightforward. The math is really, really simple. You will be able
to understand it pretty fast and in a very, very simple way. I'm going to put simple fact of your math talk. So, see
you in there. See you in that particular module. I hope you got some real, real value out of it. So, the next module is
about pricing. So, pricing is very subjective. Oh, why am I making Z? Pricing.
So, this thing is very subjective. A credit card math probably $200, $300 charge
but don't hesitate to probably $50, $60 charge. Simple reason yeah yeah okay. Don't let this make you give up your
waters go and at the same time the prospects matter. Okay, get me paying power. Secondly, problems solved big big
problem. Problem. Thirdly, to my good psychological beliefs b e l i e f s give item charging concept to say that was
given a time let's say proof of work. Proof of work which by this I mean experience in layman terms and after
this and pricing is also affected by the country of India method maybe $300 $400 or 60 charge for the average but US may
on an average charge for sector. Soft skills also affects the pricing. Like how you communicate your offer, how you
tell the clients key to get value provide problem solved particular client these are the things that affects the
client affects the pricing and as you can see all of these things when controlled can give you great pricing.
What do I mean by that? My soft skills check a country USA let's say proof of work to my pass a experience but about I
had them prospects to my income sophisticated and my prospects I mean I don't get to reach out to get real
income but I had to get in services to charge ideally in the rate that they have paying power they know the
importance of video editing graphic designing marketing so on and so forth they will be able to pay if you're
solving a good problem for them and you know yourself key by I deserve this money so pricing will be very very easy
for you but it's got bought simple solution of you sorry to say to me it's a tackle money can be power can be sorry
to say that I can prove of what I can be I can be country to me immediately tackle can prospects can say find can I
sophisticated with the money can be I can be income can say I can be I can be I can be I can be I can be sophisticated
clients and money prospects and money soft skills to money immediately money money money develop time to get beliefs
to change money money money money so what sorry to say to me immediately money can be but what you can do is you
can use this math as a beginner and slowly climb the ladder and get to a price point where you will be satisfied
and the client will be satisfied and that's exactly what I did and that's exactly what I've taught inside my
freelance shortcut ebook and the modules there so what do I mean by pricing how does that affect so in the beginning you
start with a base price then you climb up then you climb up then you climb up then you climb up so base price let's
say to me determine can I have arts or say one can agree my charge can say let's say a base price of money can say
start can money to buy 100 can say to me money can say arts or 8000 can say to me money can say money starting point to
say to me money can say money money money money money money money money money money money just imagine the level
of grind or you can say that I must do it that I have done okay to you can say money and after 20 projects you increase
the price by 20% to hazard can say 20% can say 1200 and if you are getting 20 projects here as well with the money to
me money Yeah, I mean this is good. Slow but I think
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works this. 100% I believe that they all but And now everything is simple for you.
Pricing is psychological. Simple. Yeah.
Either do that or you know work at the same price that you were working at. So, both of the things are viable. It's just
you who have to decide So, your pricing guy, I think I've made it you understand. I'll see if I'll be
able to tackle some other problems. I'll see if I have any questions. And that is
as I am so okay, first 6 months to be a complete beginner. I'm in the right paid car to please
accept it and use it in your portfolio and majorly do free work to build your portfolio.
Once you have a portfolio set and you know that you can demand some money from the market after probably 6 to 6 months
to 12 months of grinding, you'll be able to do that. Then start doing this. Like start charging 800, 1,200 and even if
you're learning only thing is but you should be okay with that because
after a point you know how to charge. You know that your skill sets are good. You can
increase your pricing and leave your existing clients and go with higher ticket clients for yourself. And it all
question here Joe bought salad probably when you have coffee salad websites for the cover
a little packages for the market and the way a thousand dollar package of a thousand dollar package of a thousand
dollar a thousand dollar package of a little bit of cheese cake really I don't really need will be
getting that will be another loop that will be in even intermediate level will be
packages we don't have any packages just do custom pricing for everyone. So you can
do the packages once you are standardizing or you know productizing the services productizing come with a
year how about it standard deliverable will be or yeah I'm going to quality set somewhat that
to me threshold set that yeah. But I will be able to do that but I will be able to do that but I will be able to do
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is positioning and upselling. Now after this video what I'll do is I'll link two videos just go to positioning video
positioning is the authority building and is my communication skills matter and is
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but I will be able to do that but I will be able to do that but I will be able to do that but I will be able to do that
but I will be able to do that but I will be able I'll tell you straight up the reason is
positioning and clear communication. You can be really good at editing coding graphic designing UI UX but if you can't
clearly communicate and you'll just keep on chasing low ticket clients and you'll just keep begging for attention. So now
what do I mean by positioning and clear communication? Let me explain it. This is what most freelancers do. I'm a video
editor. I'm a graphic designer. I do UI UX hire me. This thing is like you don't make hospital me
and you are saying I'm a doctor. Yes I get it you You doctor but don't get to agree with and why should I trust you
with my problem? Just say you can say you can do my video editor who would you have
like to automatically question like how does this help me? What result does this give me? What problem does
this solve? And if you fail to answer these questions directly or indirectly, the client will just leave you and in
majority of the cases show them that in questions answer about how to get some job at that that person gets clients
even if he's not better than you in the skill set or any other thing. That's the hard truth. Now think in these terms. I
help YouTubers turn raw talking head videos into high retention content that increases AVD by at least 15% or I
design landing pages for SAS startups to reduce bounce rates by 40%. Now with these statements, it's clear who you
help, what outcome you deliver, and what makes you valuable. And in my theory so that I could not get out of practically
implemented this particular thing. I never in my sales call say I just did videos for you or my agency just did
this videos for you. We help them grow their business faster. How do we do that? We identify the pain problems and
we solve those pain problems of that particular client and hence it helps increase the things that they want in
the business. I can make short clip down the sales call key job money sales founder could some job at the key man
quality video edit money going to do money I will craft the ads in a way where it will help you get more
customers into your SAS and it's a main problem he had that that the ads that they were making was in his terms.
So I was like we can make it better. But then the objection came when I pitched the price. He was like it's too
expensive and I was like it's not if I'm making ads for you and you're getting customers out of that, you'll recover
the cost, you'll get the ROI. And he eventually got convinced. Similarly, if the client has got the results from the
edits that you have done, which in my case one of my clients got the results, then I got to high ticket price pitch go
okay. The chances are that the client will accept that price because the client got the results. And in my case,
I recently charged $400 for a 60-second edit because previously he got almost 10x ROI of that. And now
they came to me with a similar style of edit and I was like again $400 for that edit.
And today only I got the mail again from that client. We want more work from you. Crazy. So,
of course your work has to speak for yourself, but on the other hand you'll have to position your skill or yourself
in a way where you are a growth partner for them. Not just a video editor, graphic designer, or UI/UX wala banda.
So, you don't have to sell your hours, rather sell the value that you provide to the client. And remember this thing,
the more specific you are, the more people trust you can solve their problem. So, if you're stuck and you're
not able to charge high ticket prices to the client, don't just improve your technical parts. Improve your clarity.
Answer these questions to improve your clarity. First, who do you help? Your niche, industry, problem. Second, what
results do they want? More leads, better content, time saved, etc. Third, why you? Your process, your results, your
approach. Now the answer that you have got us open bio may portfolio may your quality email may download. Bad pitches,
I do thumbnails for YouTube. Better pitches, I help growing YouTubers design CTR optimized thumbnails that get more
clicks and views. And if you can be specific, then say that my thumbnails on an average get 5% CTR. Lastly, don't
just become better at the skill, become better at presenting your skill, aka positioning. And just for your
information, marketing industry is multi-trillion dollar industry. And you, my friend, are ignoring the skill. Don't
overlook marketing. You'll have to present yourself better to become a great freelancer. And again, if you
don't want to waste your time in fluff information, you can go and grab the ebook. Now, see you in another video.
Bye-bye. So, first thing is offers. And second thing which you guys might not know about is upsell. Up
sell. What are you going to go to to be able to optimize and utilize to
make more money? What is this thing? Briefly, upselling means you're selling to the customer
that has already bought your services. Now, go pitch
to them upsell. to them
work to them upsell.
pitch to them upsell. Let's say a client services $1,000. Six short form and three long form to
you. Now, upload YouTube. mathematically to them
I think you're better off when you four long content YouTube and 16 short form. Why do you
So, you'll explain. long form you can one a week post 16 long you can do it here
you can four x a week post four single long Okay. I understand that maths, why? Why should
posting four times content and four times a week form content? So, you can explain. give you more visibility, more
subscribers, and more views. And he'll be like, "Okay.
Now, I get it." And outcome more more
more subscribers then be able get more leads. And you make more money. Now, understands
why should posting long content 16 form content YouTube channel. And guys, you successfully upsold $1,000
let's pitched him $1,800. all of that. It's five hundred dollars per month additional revenue in your pocket.
[music] six thousand dollars guys six thousand dollars what
six thousand dollars extra yearly to mara revenue at all right crazy. So this is how you can upsell when you are
pitching. Now let's talk about when you're working with the client. Now this is exactly what I did.
offers calendar directly upsell >> [music]
>> I left that client agency and then after that I went to the client and
and I actually got the message from them key So what happened was
approx per month come get that okay. 450 dollars now when we did one time
projects when we offered a solution to them. Of course recurring projects
Now they were like okay we have a team who is already doing that but will you be able to become our marketing wing
instead? And we were like why not? So what we did was 4500 dollars per income close care.
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may I got one second cat I'm a school number disclose me offer disclose me purely but you'll understand how we
close this line so all in all 4500 dollars per hundred school closed here which is almost 10x increase on what I
used to charge that client on a monthly basis so this thing works other than playing the game
together a bad to me with the trust build career with you have the chances we do this thing a lot of times with
multiple offers to my office bill karna on a chain get to offer get provide to actually on Google help so you will
upsell or offer that thing to the client let's say a client can video production about the cat are you to Moscow get a
video get cut the whole to Moscow upsell to get a message because my YouTube channel let's say I can come and shoot
for you to these are my charges and let's open a call and discuss this thing further the chances of you closing that
client will be almost 10 20 times more than a guy who is completely new and will call lead some day
tomorrow I can go to school the trusted to go to my brother is that I can go to the second to go to
multiple services or to Moscow which is to Moscow offer to sell because but shut the key to offer a chance to
entice you for example a client to get video to get what
you do video short form and now we are thinking of pitching ads to that client as well because the reason is simple as
pitch because he has some even that goes on on some months as a lot of course so we'll branch out into that area I might
be able to make it experiment to get my account is a experiment to get to get content marketing agency to to
get a new to get a new to get experiment to get a new to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to
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get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to you're an agency owner watching this, you have the
leverage of, you know, hiring people to do this. And if you're a single freelancer, you don't have that
leverage, but you can learn the skill and pull out these things as well from your stack of offers. So, that's the
thing. Now, work related pretty simple. I think 3 months is the sweet spot. Or other than that, I mean
you can do it result about that you can do it. Let's say Let's say 2x, 3x increase in my YouTube
views or subscriber rate. What you did is about you can do it. You can do that client now trust you.
So, 3 months is the sweet spot for this. But, consider this other than the result that you can do it.
Just make sure you're giving quality work to the client. That's all that matters. Now, let's come to the offers.
Offers concept job prospect about and prospect about sure
that you will services let them or not. You can do it card play with the client. Which is paid project
but for a very minimal fees. Now, this is where the game changes. Client psychology about the client. You can do
paid project about the client. You can offer them $1,000, $1,500 to them. You can offer
them in short form and in long form. The client is risking his $1,500 every month. And long term about the $1,500 to
12 to multiply to the amount. You can do it with the client. You can do it with the client. You can do it with the
client. 15 multiplied by 12 $18,000. That client is risking $18,000. And what is holding
him back is trust. So, you will have to make him trust you. You can do $18,000 compared to let's say just $200. You can
do to the client. You can do project with the client.
Let's see how I work with you and you see my results what I provide in terms of video editing, graphic designing,
coding, whatever it is. Now $18,000 and $150 is a very big difference. $1,500 and $150 is like a 10x decrement
if that's a word. It is a very enticing offer for the client. Okay, I got my $1,500
to do $150. That is the thing that will have to operate on. Psychology be okay with them
going by the law. Cheese play out which is a study with the and make sure you can make money by the law. A big day
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then two 1500 dollars close it is also a 10x increment so like all in all this thing works I have been doing that and I
have got that is it so yeah I hope you got some real value out of this and this is the real juicy stuff now there's also
one query that I get and that is key are my charges increase better increase better simple if you
know to tomorrow skills better see that that my prices are this right now that's
it there's no rocket science here there's nothing that I can talk about that will help you at the start you just
have to go and the client I'm raising my prices of the services and these are my new revised rates and
I'll be happy to work with you on these rates and for the first month I'm happy to give you a discount of 10% on these
rates as an offer because you have been working with me yes I did you can go and and you'll be able to like most of the
clients if they are happy with the work and they are not in financial crisis they'll be ready to pay you I know
they'll be ready to pay you so this is what you can do and this is how you can you know get higher money or what is
higher money you can get more money for the existing work that you are doing but the quality will be better because of
course better and lastly my or you can look you can international payments international payments you can pay and
you are wise you can do so you can use PayPal you can use Skype you can use remedy these are the options
that I prefer you can use I'll be happy to go explore and you'll be able to understand for yourself
payment methods better but most of the beginner freelancers shy away from working immediately so you can do UPI
best but you can do this for options best you can set up
you can do so you can do so you can do so it's not difficult >> And I just noticed one more question
karunga especially beginner freelancers ke liye a freelancing
And even I have made a video I made 2 lakhs per month Is it actually true or everyone is
taking it? scheme This is not a get rich quick scheme.
And coming here just for get rich quick scheme wala thing. So, yeah, that is
aside. answer is yes, you can make 3 lakhs per month 5 lakhs, 10 lakhs per month even through freelancing.
Kitna time lagta Kitna mehnat lagta hai? journey follow videos
May of 2022, 2023, 2024 able to understand how much I've grinded. sari chize to mai of course
But there's a lot of crying that goes on behind the scenes. I've worked for 12 hours a day
for months and months reach a level where I'm able to communicate my offer to the clients properly
clients can trust me. content alongside on YouTube authority in to build a positioning to do a lot of
things particularly. All of those things have helped me get that amount of money. connections referrals I have. I want to
just have this setup in your head this is possible. 1 lakh per month as a freelancer per month as a freelancer,
it's possible. I have closed clients worth $2,000, $1,800,
$1,000. So, everything is possible. that matters is are you willing to go to that limit push yourself and get out of
that rat race those limiting beliefs out there on the internet editing
You have to get out of that. You have to rise above that and see the market. If I am charging that amount of money then
there's a proof that you can also charge that amount of money. It's just that you'll have to figure out how you can do
that and I've told you how you can do that and of course that's not all. It's not easy for me
but it's not humanly possible for me but I'll try to convince as much information as possible for you to make sure you
charge the right price and you are able to hit that one lakh per month mark after watching this master class and
continuing to implement all of the practical steps that I'll be talking about. Yes, one lakh per month is
possible. Only thing that you need to hit that one lakh per month mark is client that is paying you $1200. Just
one client. And trust me, like really really trust me. It is actually really easy and possible. I will not say easy,
it's simple. It's not easy, it's difficult but you'll have to dial down the things and $1200 per month is like a
piece of cake for you. People are ready to throw money at you. If you are providing four long forms and 16 short
forms in royal $100. Like that is the cheapest rate that you can go in an international market and people will
just throw money at you. I'm I'm telling you. So I hope you got the point. Two lakh, three lakh, four lakh, five lakh,
six lakh up to 10 lakh. You can make this lakh to generate more system as you can but it's not so easy to get up to
that point you can become more mature as you go but one lakh, two lakh, three lakh around there as a freelancer
without any great systems you can go up to that but you have to organize a little bit but you'll be able to reach
there. So the next model is really about me talking and convincing you on few things and basically removing the
limiting beliefs that you might be having in your brain. This module go over it and listen and understand what I
am trying to say and overall life you can be related to your career
I think in every scenario of your life this thing will help you. Okay, the things that I am I'm to talk about and
the videos that I'll be linking will help you a lot. So, this is soft skill just give me a moment about
soft skills investing investing and enjoying life in general life or I should say self-help self-help. See, I
know most of the people don't talk about this on the internet and I felt it I didn't want to include it because I was
like yeah freelancing masterclass is a good include and I didn't even want to shoot the video like this honestly like
the way I'm shooting it. I'm just coming up in front of the camera and talking to you in a very raw format. I had no plans
to do that honestly zero plans for that but I was like yeah that will be really Injustice of all my audience to not talk
about the self-help stuff because when I revisited I was like yeah yeah cheese name it go to pause that I helped you
and I might come out as Guru to which teach color I but if this has helped me and if people which is freelancers are
not able to charge because of this thing then probably this is where they are lacking and I'm telling you the soft
skills part you may never be able to recover is given story but I want to and I was
able to charge almost a thousand dollars more than a guy just because of my soft skills. So, there's a story that goes
like this not a story real life incident though it goes maybe those who have a referral via the same client as client
who do editors need to push the client to close get 1800 dollars same deliverables for long from 16 short
forms and many of the client to close 2700 dollars may 3100 dollars up many of the client
same deliverables and he was like Casey and unfortunately I was not really sensible enough to make a meeting record
but when I did that and I realized immediately by I'm so good at my communication skills I am able to make
the client understand my perspective in a way where the client feels that I'm able to give a lot of value and at the
same time I had personal brand I had good authority to just give it a say I was able to charge more and we went into
previous model but I had a personal brand helps you a lot is just your choice you want to do it or not and I
see a good guest because sessions we going to master class me with them to better get personal brand really helps
you a lot and how you can build your personal brand so that's the thing and apart from that so soft skills me I
think when I was really so good cover up what I had when I get the key to a video or link going to go take it with me you
don't know points cover up for a soft skills and investing in yourself in the go at your so no jacket video many job
may let that you have to do many short credit on my bike to please watch that video and then after that you be point
cover or I do you will be able to understand a lot of things when I'll be talking about that stuff right in front
of you so we are back again from another beautiful location >> [music]
>> this video is another you can say heart to heart conversation or you don't know what you can say to me and then I will
be using your number to tell you to go comment me and then I will be having a heart to heart conversation
and I will be having but let's get to the points of many good points not only that I will be and I will be talking
about a lot of stuff majorly it will be around how to live in your 20s and crush your 20s in a way where you actually
achieve the dream life that you wanted to achieve so first and the major thing that I have noticed is people on the
internet and on the hustle culture say a lot about hard work smart work and we stay confused at least [music] I used to
stay confused a lot look at hard work a success and then hard work I'm getting burnt out so what is the actual thing
that we will have to do in order to be successful and you might be thinking who am I to tell you all of this to me
previous YouTube videos they accept if you want to understand me why I am qualified to say these things have
grinded a lot in my 20s I'm still in my 20s, early 20s to be honest. I started basically teenage I've grinded a lot
unconventional and I have achieved whatever I dreamt of as a guy who used to think [music] he
bike or cookie cookie sorry cheese I have that you have to make a video for years I don't want to you know name drop
everything that I've done anyways what's better hard work or smart work I tried to make hard work or smart work a
category medal for that's not just how that works but they don't go hard work but I got to go complete hard work this
is the equation that you can dial down everything is dependent on this equation firstly you do hard work it's not hard
work then you understand the pros and cons the shortcuts of the game that you are in but suppose you are doing
freelancing or freelancing with the hard work you got to go you don't have any option to do smart work because you
don't know about the industry then after a point you'll understand there are few loopholes that you can take advantage of
and then you do smart work once you do that you understand we can do smart work plus hard work and achieve the things
faster then you take a kind of leverage if you know white label the things white label basically clients are coming in
and editors could delegate without having an agency so that is more of like you tomorrow revenue but again you are
essentially doing a little smart work it's just an example right and then after a point you understand the game so
deeply you only do smart work in my case I do only sales so this is more of like leveling up till a point where you
understand the game so good that you only do the things that move the lever after a point of time so that is how you
can do the smart work but there's big nuance in there and that is I've tried to understand this key hard work smart
work is particular point of time as a whole time you can call it smart work successful or call it hard work
successful there's one thing called seasons of life and if you know the weekend to come down to
he also says work like a lion initially I thought as a new year or and I got a little skeptical
conventionally I used to work a lot and made it go get a new year come to I'll be able to do more work naturally as a
lot of And most of the successful people are saying that. What do they mean? So, work
like a lion is taking breaks to rejuvenate and just cutting off from the work then coming back and doing the work
with full force. So, when lion hunts, he just hunts. And when he rests, he rests. So, that's what it is. I mean, I am here
right now. It was a workation because workation pay I did almost everything except
I couldn't do that. a little disappointed, but at the same time, I also thought to myself now you have to
take a break. Why I'll take a break up other my break I'll be completely cut off from the regular work that I'll be
doing. It's a good keep them no network zone and you're cutting off.
Once you do that, you take breaks. You rejuvenate. You give space to your brain. And then after that,
to break full flesh you'll have to work like a lion. Up in July, I'll have to work with
full force. goals because I've taken the break. Now, once they'll be achieved, I'll take a break
again. So, this is how this whole thing works. If is good at this grasp the working like a lion come get that Okay,
so to get the advantage you'll be able to work a lot productively.
unconventional is you're in that culture you are brainwashed into thinking to come get
that When you are doing a work, just do the work. That is the ultimate productivity hack. When you're recording
a video, just record the video. When you are editing a video, you edit the video. That is the ultimate productivity hack.
Why? Because we think come good at this actual good at this good at this good at
good at multitasking good at good at >> Quality work you'll have to focus. So
good limitless. When You do the work and you just do the
work. And then When you take the break, you take the break. Just say to everyone that I don't care. I'm going.
I deserve the break. And when you've done the break Goal set go to the next 8 months.
45 days sprint. After that I'll take a break of 10 days again. Do this. You will see the benefits of this.
You can just do the work for 10 hours straight. You have 10 hours to come go to the come
go to the Believe me. This is one of the best thing that you'll do to yourself in your 20s.
When we are in 20s, we try to save up A lot of fun and we Have gained A lot of insights from those financial gurus.
Investments go to the Nifty medal. BS advices. At least I feel like that. If you have 6 to 12 months of Emergency
fund saved Leave all of the saving part. You're in your 20s.
Just go and travel the world. You'll just See a lot of things. So many things to change your
perspective. You'll be more mature. You'll be able You'll be Don't just travel for the sake of travel. You
travel for the sake of stories. You meet new people. You talk to them and then Maybe in just one conversation your life
just flips. Compound with the in traveling. When you don't want to just save the money for
the sake of saving the money And you invest it in yourself. You get a lot of benefit rather than
saving. You get 1000 x ROI money. Stock market money is very hard to get unless Crypto
Multi-bagger stock. Anyways my point is when you're earning money your emergency fund is let's say 3 lakhs
you are earning 50,000 rupees per month vacations a couple of times understand the wealth I also was a
skeptical of I was a little skeptical to do it or not. It will be not worth it.
And then accessories I thought that but then so many stories about bikes
I've talked to a lot of people and after that leave everything aside this is something
memories this machine buying a bike you build a lot of
memories financial money that is just not possible
memories build that is lifetime memories so it was a worth it investment financial gurus this was a liability
which it is in financial terms but it's not really going to get I've met a lot of people
I've learned a lot of things do the thing that you want to do instead of holding yourself back for unnecessary
reasons especially in your twenties responsibility at the end that is understandable
invest in yourself you experience the wealth because if you want to think like wealthy people
have to think in their perspective you'll have to surround yourself in wealthy environments. When you do that,
you understand how those people walk, talk, and do certain things. And you see psychologically, subconsciously, you get
affected a little. Up this cheese guy example other than when you stay in an area where
you're constantly dragged down. You don't look up because you don't have anyone who is crushing it in the life.
But instead, you have one community in contrast to that job at the crazy entrepreneurs crazy creators and my
field crazy father to get motivation to get the growth you also know the point. You also know the answer. So, that is
what I'm saying other than wealthy environments which 5000 can be 5000
with 5000 aside to make expensive cheese to get expensive watch recently bought one watch for this
reason as well watch gives you sense of achievement at least and I love collecting watches as well and you get
access to certain conversations which naturally or normally doesn't happen because you have an expensive watch and
then people are like okay you are into watches. He thinks that his time is worth something that's why he has bought
the watch for the psychological effects of the movie and I understand it happens at the start I also used to think like
that watch at the time you would take it but then once you get into the industry you understand good cheese and that
holds a lot of value and one of them is watches and shorts and I don't want to go to the store but when you see a Rolex
AP or Richard Mille in the hands of that person automatically you know bro he's on to some That is the
psychological factor that I'm talking about. I'm going a little off track here and there but to be about facts
to just trying to tell you try to be in that wealthy environment perspective change over because in 20s when you not
into that environment brain is more than you can build a cheese but once we mold ourselves into thinking
how wealth works, how money works. You understand the game of money and then you play it in a way where it helps you
gain a lot of money exponentially and then you understand the perspective of how you can multiply and keep
multiplying your wealth. Because agar tum paise ko dekhoge as a source of income, just income, to vo tumhe zyada
paisa bana ke nahi dega. But you think of money as a tool that multiplies the money, then it'll help you make money.
It's a little complicated to make you guys understand because I'm also understanding this factor as well. But
this is how actually the equation of the money works. You don't think that money is your income, it's your wealth
multiplier if you invest it in the right things. That's all. And lastly, isi points related ek bohot badhiya point
mai tumko batane wala hu which is invest in yourself. Now, again, a cliche point bohot sare log tumko batate hai ki bhai
investing in yourself, ye karo, vo karo, workout karo, apne upar kharch karo. Thik hai, I get it. Tumne bohot sari
chize aisi suni hongi, which is true. Tumko karna chahiye. But I also was confused when I heard this term invest
in yourself ki yaar actual me investment in yourself kya count hota hai? Is it only money? Kyunki mere ko jab bhi ye
term dikhta tha ya koi bhi batata tha to mostly log mere ko yehi batate the ki yaar paisa jo hai na vo apne upar invest
karo. Invest in yourself. But then I got to understand it's not just money that you invest in yourself, it's the time
and effort in the other things that you invest in yourself. And what do I mean by that? Let's just say you invest money
on yourself, which is going to an expensive gym or a good gym and then having a great diet, traveling a lot and
having a great setup, great ergonomic chair, desk and everything. So it's like investing money in the things to give
you a comfortable life. But then what's the other meaning of investing in yourself? So unfortunately, my file got
corrupted and I'm starting this video again from the point that I left. So, what do I mean by investing in
yourself? Basically, investing in yourself in terms of time and space. Now, what do I mean by that? Again, and
by that I mean you have given yourself a set amount of time daily or set aside a set amount of time daily to think
through life, think through the things that you're actually doing. So, we have been brainwashed into thinking that only
investing with money into yourself is the kind of investment that we all should be looking for and that is ideal.
But, it's not. You invest in yourself also through time and space. Oh, what do I mean by that? I've explained it to
you, but I'll give you an example. When you are writing anything, poetry, scripts, or whatever you want to do,
just some creative things. When you are, you know, reading, when you are just sitting in silence, meditating, doing
things with yourself without any external stimuli, then you're investing in yourself indirectly. And that is, I
should say, you're investing in yourself directly. How? Let's just uh take this example. We all want to be a millionaire
or billionaire. We have all dreamt of this thing. We want a lot of money, we want a lot of money, we want a lot of
money. But, then we never sit down and think, do we actually want to be a millionaire or billionaire?
Have we thought about the responsibilities and sacrifices that come when we become a millionaire or
billionaire? We've never thought of it. We just want that byproduct, which is money, and that's all. We never, I mean,
in 95% of the cases I can say, people just don't want that kind of responsibility and the lifestyle hectic
lifestyle that millionaires or billionaires have. They have a lot of stress that is going on in their heads.
But, people are not ready for it. They just want the money. So, I want you to understand, if you're watching this
video, if you want to invest in yourself, do it through money, of course. That is a kind of investment
that you can do. But, do it through time and space. Give yourself space, travel, understand yourself that this is
actually what you want. If If love traveling, do travel. You get a lot of space. Write the things down daily that
this is what I'm doing these days. This is what my goal is for next 5 years. This is what I want out of my life. When
you understand this thing that you want these things out of your life, this is the trajectory that I want to go on. You
achieve things faster instead of just taking the desires from everyone, taking the success metrics from everyone, and
then just going nowhere. You'll delay your process. Sit down, understand yourself, invest time and energy and
space in yourself, and then you'll be able to understand how fast and easy it is to really be successful. Success
metric different really success metric I just want to travel have just enough money just next 10 years and maybe let's
say next 60 years. That's all. That's my success metric. I don't want that millionaire billionaire tag. But for
someone who just wants to grind millionaire billionaire this is why I'm doing it. You'll be able
to do it faster because you have why you yeah. That is the thing invest in yourself
it's not just money. We often think I'm the traveling coming traveling grinding
looking room for 365 days and then just grinding the out. No brother as I mean
in real life you'll get exhausted and you'll have nothing to do except just the work. Won't have any
hobbies. Go out explore hobbies, explore yourself, go and just travel if you want to travel if you love traveling. If you
don't want to travel if you love hobbies, explore that. But apart from work, embrace your personality and build
your personality as well. You're a human meant to experience life, experience it. That's pretty much it. I hope you love
this video and I love these mountains. Bye. You made one of the craziest mountains experience
I'm right now in search of the see the plane ground.
But ultimately you go by >> So, now that you have watched the video,
you must have understood almost all of the points that I've talked about. And I am pretty sure you're convinced that
you're investing in yourself is necessary. And investing in yourself in terms of time is also necessary. And how
soft skills can help you. And why enjoying life is also important. And that goes like this. The more you
work on yourself, the wider your vision becomes. And hence you believe or start to believe that you will be able to or
you are capable to charge more. You become confident in your life. In your pursuits, you think of a lot of new ways
to make money. And I would say with all of this, connections also matters. And I am very grateful to have these
connections through my YouTube channel. I'm able to get in the rooms where people have to pay for. Right? Self-help
helps. Discipline helps a lot. I'll tell you how. If you have good time management, if you have good soft
skills, and if you're working constantly on yourself, with time, even though this guy who doesn't have soft skills, this
guy is performing better than you in the short time shorter time scale, but on the longer time horizon, what
will happen is he'll start to hate his life. And this is the story that is mine. I
worked like this guy for four to six months and even more than that and I was just working for others. I was making
good money, but I felt miserable. I didn't go to boxing. I didn't go to any gym. I couldn't actually go to any gym.
I couldn't enjoy. The constant thought was "Keep buying me good at line to come finish again." And everything was just
taking a toll on my mental health. So, on the other hand, when I started to have boundaries and invest the money
into some asset allocation which was hiring one video editor for myself to delegate the work and share the 50%
amount with him. 50/50 percent come over here. 50% come over here. And at the same time, I put a time block
in my calendar to my path say sat rat key the summer miracle boxing gym Jana here gym Jana. I was able to feel
better. I'm a content to be able to very thing that I love the most. So, when that was happening, I felt like you have
calling better to important money. That is for sure. That is for sure. So, what kind of is important? Feeling good with
yourself, self-help, and actually enjoying life. I went on a lot of trips to get the answer to this question and I
always always got the answer key have a little balance. Yeah, I know. Like work-life balance completely to make a
second in your 20s and that's completely fine and I'm okay with it. You just have to have some kind of balance and to
tackle that, I have built a routine to get my video to be documented here. How to do more in four weeks than others do
in 365 days. Yeah, documented I mean and you can watch this video. My link to go
there. Here you will be able to understand key make a second life my season at the time where in few months
which is the season that I'm in right now and by the end of the year, I'll be in a chilling mode. Okay, so my grinding
season of time is my egg winner egg winner egg winner was this the camera going after that I'll go in the
maintenance zone go in the chilling zone for the second chilling zone. Relax, rejuvenate, I'll come back stronger and
work again. This thing comes when you sit down, talk to yourself, write a lot of stuff. I have a lot of diaries that I
have with me that I've just filled up. But both sides of the way perspective both wide away and will come
career many more such things will help you to self-help is important. Please take that seriously. Have a physical
thing that you do daily or maybe twice a week. If you feel like you're making money, but you're not able to enjoy
life, go out on the trips. I'm a big advocate of it. I do a lot of trips. If you want to buy things, buy those if you
really want to buy those. Like previous clip I bought my bike. Well, I wanted to buy
that. It's a liability, but it's an asset for me. It gives me memories. Who the hell hates that? Finance gurus could
have blindly follow my guru. Okay, you are here to live a little, okay? So, enjoy your life. Self-help is also
important alongside your career. Your career is directly proportional to the amount of self-help or self-improvement
that you do in your life. A guy who is constantly improving in his arena will outperform the guy who is not doing any
kind of self-improvement because the mindset shifts are completely crazy on the longer time horizon. Be it any
creator on your PC with creator go to take low to be successful with the good take low which not good as a
self-improvement habits have on the life made that helps them stay sane and build discipline and consistency into the
routines or the careers that they have. Hope you got some understanding to why this is also important. You got to do
things daily go in time to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to
go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go
to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to
For example, for me what happens is whenever I go to the gym, my diet
automatically becomes good. What I need to do is just go to the gym. So what do I have to do? Just go to the
gym. When you do that, you'll be able to understand why self-help matters and why
soft skills matter. Why investing in yourself matters and your hardware matters.
All right, I know you got it. And lastly, I'll quickly go over a few things that I've written down for you
guys. And that is have clear set of boundaries. Usually I'm going to unlimited revisions
but if you want to do revisions, you can do that. Give me that scope.
Solar deliverable and That is done. Few things that can help you to
understand this soft skills for the part better and have some clear boundaries. With the clients.
Decide color I'm unlimited Cut the hand. Decide
Date that my tomorrow project day to month. And you make sure you deliver that project by that time.
Scope of the day. It's pretty contract. The four long form 16 short form
And that is sorted. That is the scope of this project. That will be chargeable. Apart from
that, you have to See for the red flags. Saying key I won't be able to In the next few months. Will you be able to do
the work? Just say no to client. First client. Just no.
Open with that. And there are few questions that I've written and those are like this. How do improve your
communication skills? Okay. Communication skills. 2.5 years of freelance knowledge in 15
minutes Communication skills get to my head tips.
And you can make sure that your communication skills are better that way. Read books, listen to podcast. Talk
to new people. Talk in English if you are looking to improve your English. Meet new people.
And you'll be able to communicate with the people around you in a better way. So that's what you can do. And how to
deal with fake clients or detect fake clients. On the budget but come over. Collaboration. Barter.
Projects for barter. Yeah, we're going to get to buy a friend payment.
Payment cycle. Which matter. Matter.
Payment cycle. Don't have to worry about as much.
Hesitating. They are not ready to sign the contract that you've sent. They are not replying on time. Maybe ghosting you
for a long time. After they have signed up for the project. They are expecting a lot of deliverables from you with the
minimal budget range. What were the red flags? Communicating clearly. This is the exact thing that
happened to me. And I lost is of that. So yeah, I mean these are some of the things that I have came up
with in my head. You may be starting to get a little bit of a red flag with your clients, okay? And don't fall into these
traps of the clients, and this can really, really hurt you. So, this is how you can detect fake clients. This will
be the last module, okay? So, now, the module four is complete. This was just me lecturing you about a lot of stuff.
That's it. Module five will be around that area, but it'll be pretty short because I'll be talking about that
module five. There's a lot of people that I'll be interviewing in this masterclass, so you'll be able to grasp
the amount of knowledge that I want to give you through that podcast, through that interview. So, yeah, see you in the
module five. So, this is module five, and in this module, we'll be covering AI, cutthroat, personal branding, and
long-term growth in this career. So, firstly, let's talk about AI. AI will not replace you, not replace you if you
know how to use AI. But, it will definitely replace you if you treat it as an enemy. Simple. Like, this is the
basic equation. You have to use AI as a tool in your workflow to make the life easier for your client and yourself.
Just say to my heart process go productivity but I got deliverables delivered by the client go and the
clients will be happy, and you'll be able to take on more clients because you'll be able to do faster work, or
you'll be able to do more volume for the same client and get more money for that same amount of deliverable. Got it? And
this is basically the AI thing, okay? I don't want to make it really complicated. It's simple. If you know
how to use AI in your workflow, you'll be able to gain more clients, more money. If you treat it as an enemy, you
will be vanishing out in the air. Okay, there's one more thing which I'd like to talk about in this AI thing.
Okay, AI equal as a pyramid something. You have to get to the base level characters on there. They'll be
replaced. Intermediate level characters on there, those who know a little bit of AI they'll still survive.
So AI to increase productivity reduce delays they'll be able to charge
more and they will thrive. Simple. Okay. So this is what you'll have to keep in mind.
Still you'll be able to make money and survive but eventually you'll become you'll come that basic level and you'll
be like replaced. And then after that top 1% people or 5% people will stay in the game because they will be adapting
with the market scenarios and they'll be able to make more money through AI. But now let's talk about some juicy stuff on
personal branding because as you know I closed my first ever US client through my personal brand and this is a real
story and I was speaking Hindi in that particular video. So I guess you got it. Why why personal
brand is important? Personal It is important [clears throat] to build your authority to have unfair advantage
to stand out and you can unfair advantage maybe I stand out improve your soft skills soft skills and make more
money more dollars. Because when you have a personal brand you'll be able to sell digital products and if not you can
make more money by showing your authority getting sponsorships a lot of those things. So unfair advantage
because as I told you in one of the examples key made pass audience and distribution but
freelancer distribution the chances of me getting the client increases because I have a distribution channel built
authority is that I will be the client game mind me because I'm making content for myself, right? So, what is that some
sugar came okay he opened a new content manager to take it really banana lega yeah educate Kerala local he is a good
old guy in this freelance English or website niche whatever it is. So, that is why personal branding is important
and it gives you access to the rooms that you cannot access otherwise access to people that you cannot access
otherwise. I'll give you an example so it's a good to go connection connection with that my idea record
master class and then it suddenly hit me that is it means that the value at the end of
the day the value at the end of the day is what is going to be the reason why you don't need to watch anything on the
internet freelance English related video editing related graphic designing somewhat around those lines majorly
sales marketing and basic stuff of freelancing and it hit me logo about
you other fellow freelancers in a contact me at the sorry freelancers and agency owners and I just dropped a voice
note to them and this idea is like okay I'm down to it if you are a freelancer who hasn't done anything except for the
work only to my proof of work over but just not much access to the other side of the access by going over because
you're not connected to the audio offer to them I on the other way I'm a content creator have talked to them and I am
connected to them I am pretty warm for them and they are pretty warm for me they know me so it's a very easy for me
to convince them and say I don't like podcast yeah freelancing video segment they are
like I'm down for it few meetings are scheduled few people are still on hold getting a message of course I'm going to
reply but the point that I'm trying to convey here is when you have a personal brand it gives you the access to a lot
of rooms and you have a lot of advanced stuff the reason you see people building
personal brands and not getting views is that they are not just doing it for the views we as normal humans are normal
humans normal people who are not able to understand this industry just see the vanity metrics metrics which is numbers
views likes comments that's all but I on the other hand know tomorrow views are founders creators tomorrow views are my
ideal prospects and tomorrow is personal brand connections build or because you are out there on the internet creating
crazy content dude that is the best thing that you do people don't do that just to make money from YouTube they do
that to create the authority and build connections on the internet similar is the podcasting people don't do podcast
for just a sake of it people do podcast to build connections in the industry so that when they need something they can
talk to them and they can immediately access their network and build something crazy like just imagine I have a network
of VCS venture capitalist and I start a startup and I'm like this is the thing that I'm building I need to raise one
million dollars VCS about and if he's not down for it he can refer
me someone else in his network so is cheating interested over so this is the thing that you might not understand
right now when you are a beginner but when you start creating content when you keep doing that and people notice you in
the industry you'll understand this so you better tell me hacker Valley
what do what do you say to that a dark or dark meaning a secret but I don't know what do you mean feeling are you by
YouTube and literally as I juicy stuff your sauce but I do you have any idea secret cheese but I do you don't go this
is tomorrow life perspective or content creation silly put a perspective change or
so yeah I hope you got some real understanding to somebody else somebody else somebody else
somebody else somebody else you build a lot of connections and this in turn helps you not in your career but in your
entire life this is absolutely on top of my list
when I'm building any personal brand any personal brand because this is extremely crucial like connections are the things
that helps you gain access to a lot of things. That's it. I hope you got the understanding of why personal branding
is im- portant. Now that you're convinced your personal branding is important, I am not
giving you any sauce on how to build YouTube, how to build your Instagram, or how to build your LinkedIn account. But,
what I'll do is I'll talk to some of the people about this stuff, and if they'll be able to drop some sauce around this
topic, they'll do it. to grow on certain platforms. So, now let's talk about long-term growth in
this career. And long-term growth is pretty solid in this career. Long-term growth may everything is
sorted when you want to do freelancing. People tend to create fake sense of FOMO, or I would say
out there on the internet about freelancing, but that's not the case. Freelancing is a safe career option.
Video editing ho, graphic designing ho, coding ho, everything can be done. Only thing is you need to keep iterating with
the market, with the tools that are coming, and keep yourself updated. That's all. Videos are still going to be
there. You can get assisted with a lot of tools. Specifically video about coding.
That's all I'm saying. Marketing industry may janta ho, and I know that is going to stay there for the years to
come. People will want some videos to be edited. People will want ki unke videos ko shoot kare aake. So, it's just you to
get a piece of that pie. And for you to get that piece of the pie, you'll have to constantly update yourself with the
new tools that are coming in the market, and at the same time level up your skills so that you match the level of
the market and you're coming at the top level where you are competing with the top freelancers or something of that
sort. So, that is basically the long-term game here. And long-term game may you can build an agency, you can
build a media company, you can do all sorts of things. But utna aage ka bus may vision dena chahta hu mai tumko koi
road map nahi dena chahta hu abhi kyuki that will be a lot confusing. Vision bus ye hai ki ha ek $1 million per year ki
company tum bana sakte ho is field me reh ke and that is just very small piece of the pie that you will take. Everyone
can make $1 million through their agencies. Trillions, I'll look it up right now for you how much
the marketing segment is worth. I'll just pull it up ChatGPT. Hey, how are you? I'm doing
great. Thanks for asking. Hope you're doing well, too. Let me know what's up or how I can help today.
So, I want to understand what the marketing industry looks like. What is the valuation of the marketing industry
and how many people can make $1 million while being in that industry? >> Sure. So, as of 2024, the global
marketing industry is definitely on a strong growth path. For instance, the overall advertising market is valued
around $676 billion and is expected to grow significantly over the next decade. The digital
marketing segment is also booming and can potentially reach over a trillion dollars by 2034. Now, as for how many
people in the industry earn over a million dollars annually, there's not really a single clear figure. Some
niches, like network marketing, do have a small percentage of high earners, but overall, it's a bit hard to pin down
exact numbers. Okay. So, I would like to get some math done from you. If we account $676 billion
as the valuation of the advertising market, I want to understand how many people can do $1 million annually
in this >> Let's break it down a bit. If we have a $676 billion industry and we imagine
each person earning a million dollars a year, then mathematically, if you just did a simple division, that's like
saying the industry could theoretically support 676,000 people each making a million dollars a year if everything
were evenly distributed. Of course, in reality, earnings aren't evenly distributed at all. Only a small
fraction of people in the boxing industry would reach that million dollar mark because income tends to be
concentrated at the top. But that gives you a rough mathematical ceiling. In other words, if you imagined a perfectly
fair world where a big chunk of the industry's value was paid out in those million dollar slices, that's the kind
of number you'd be looking 676,000 people.
676 100,000 people can make $1 million per year each.
That's a lot That's a big number. That's not mathematically accurate, but if just to give you perspective that this is
possible and I just showed you, okay? And it is expected to reach a trillion dollars in by 2034, I think. 2034, so
like almost a million people, I think, right? A million people can do a million dollars each, which is not bad,
honestly. Mathematically, it makes sense. So, the growth is there and if I just talk about Let's let's talk about
freelancing field, okay? Let's just talk about freelancing field and see what she says about that. Hey, so I want to
understand what is the market for freelancers look like right now and how much is it expected to grow in next 10
years and what are the major changes that will be there when the market will grow and how can freelancers adapt to
that? >> Right now, the global freelance market is valued around $455 billion
and is expected to keep growing steadily over the next decade, possibly even doubling in some segments. We're seeing
a shift toward more flexible workforce models, a big demand for specialized digital skills, and a lot more AI
integration into how freelancers and companies connect. So, for freelancers, adapting means staying on top of these
trends, honing in on high-value skills, and being ready for a more tech-driven freelance landscape.
Got you. I understand $455 something billion dollars. You can make $10,000 a month easily, right? Yes, you
can. Mathematically, it's possible. Possible. Possible. You just have to figure out how to do that. That's it.
You can even make a billion dollars. Like you have $466 billion dollars worth of
industry. $1 billion It's not feasible. Anyways, long-term growth is there. This
was the whole conversation that I want to talk about key graph as he going to steady growth होगी. So, you don't have
to worry about it being outdated career option. You can still choose it as a career option and it is growing. It will
continue to grow because more flexible work models are there. Work from home model and you can work from almost
anywhere as a freelancer. So, that is a big win for you. And lastly, before hopping on to the podcast segment with
some crazy boys that have brought into this masterclass for you guys. I'll tell you one thing. You don't
realize how much volume it takes to succeed at one thing. You just don't. When I was a beginner, I was like,
"Okay, bunch of emails daily कर लूंगा. So, emails daily कर लूंगा. हो जाएगा. I'm
still not at that level कि मैं सो ईमेल डेली कर लूंगा. I'll reach that level, but the amount of volume over the years
that I've done is like phenomenal. And if you see the people that are out there crushing it on the internet, they are
doing a lot and lots of volume to put out the content to close clients, to build their authorities on the internet.
So, don't worry about it. Feel good now. Feel good now. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about
it. Then you will be able to understand okay, this thing is not working now. This thing is okay. Don't worry about
it. This thing is okay. See, it took me 1.5 years to understand all the principles of cold outreach and I was
doing it very inactively. Actively I was doing it for 6 months. But at 1.5 years of failure was
important to help me understand what I should not do. And always important than do's. You can
do what you want to do. Then it's very easy for you to figure out what you want to do. Okay, okay. So,
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>> This is our first time collaborating on my channel. I have your channel like podcast here right now. For my audience
who doesn't know about you maybe like maybe most of the audience video editing on YouTube at this point
now. >> [laughter] >> Give me give them a little introduction
of yourself and what do you do? And what is your primary objective of
this is what I'm pursuing and this is what I used to do. Okay though. I
run a YouTube channel Abhay PS Rathore mostly directed towards video editing and
concepts fundamentals of video editing. The main purpose of the YouTube channel itself and
like making these videos on my channel was to provide audience with the content or
with the knowledge that is not being provided on Indian YouTube at least at this time.
So some little tutorials about the software but actual fundamentals and concepts of video editing are not that
prevalent in Indian YouTube. So what I mean purpose that we may be able to get that and I will be able to
push it like that which I Apart from YouTube I used to do a software engineering job but I have
left my job recently. And just freelancing agency building slowly.
So that is all I'm doing currently. I will buy you a bottle of lemonade today.
Okay job by Abhay. He has a lot of YouTube channel he manages here. And freelancing
at this point of time. I quit. So you just manage every week every week post on
YouTube and then after that you shifted to three videos a month. I will buy you a bike crazy.
Didn't know about it. You have 10 minutes my shift at 10 minutes a video download.
So. January 20, January 20, but March 2024 say.
I'll be that doesn't we can see the compounding effect. That it has done on your channel.
What I got the channel I think. June July June July was the best months. I I
What about that way? >> [laughter] >> Anyways, yeah,
so. For the audience. I want to. Talk about few things. I know you also you might
also agree with this you can have a different perspective on this as well key.
Yeah. What do you recommend section market? I want to do video editing roadmap.
Give me a case of zero to liquor. 100 to 400 at least.
First dollar of my own guru video editing say. And we all know. Which basic fundamental principles? We
have no dialing curling. We'll be able to do that. It's just that he would. What do you say to repeat Connie with
you? But still. Even if we.
Remove all of that part give away to the repeat Connie and. You have to. Talk about it from a really fresh
perspective. What was Bundy Cabana to school coach Winnie better?
Okay, let's start cuz I can get say up my first dollar on cassette. What will be the road map for that guy?
Okay, they go. I got up sugar with you to don't think you have been learning to say that you
have been learning to say that you have been learning to say that you have been learning
I'll go to see you today. You will feel miserable miserably and feel up guilty to go to feel guilty
It's better to get up in the skills to get up in the skills And with me at least three to four
minutes what I suggest is key then I see you to learn just the concepts of fundamental video editing and basics to
go to come to see you today. You will feel miserable After that at least give two months of
two months of practicing Maybe with podcast clips maybe raw files maybe
they don't have any YouTube channel but what do they do today? to go to see you today. You will feel miserable And after
six months of update to go to video editing to to go to see you today. You will feel
miserable start going for clients and clients go to I miss time to what I suggest to everyone is to I use LinkedIn
and Twitter I told her what to say to reach out to her to see what to do and
I got to go to see you today. You will feel miserable I have been learning to say that you have been learning to say
that you have been learning to say that you have been learning Maybe they have seen on YouTube to go to
see you today. You will feel miserable I got to go to see you today. You will feel miserable I want to go to see you
today. You will feel miserable I want to go to see you today. You will feel miserable
I want to go to see you today. You will feel miserable But you will make mistakes and
I want to go to see you today. You will feel miserable to I want to go to see you today. You
will feel miserable and then you can maybe start making it into a real business or real career.
Mhm. So, I got to go to see you today. You will feel Starting to go to see you to
You have to firstly focus on the skills. And then eventually after six months I got to go to see you today. You will
feel miserable and you can think of uh getting the clients of what we have to make it on
directly $2,000 of the day. So come say essay step-by-step to
process of my start cassette. And you have client Bob stuck with that to deadlines with
you. Maybe client go satisfactory on me with that. And after repetition with that to you. Then best way to be with
the motivation with that to you. up with that to you up to you that's why I suggest key up with that to
you up to you with that to you. Yeah, I think define time to video deliver concept to
or up with that to you up to you with that to you with that to you. But can I have to go with that to you
with that to you with that to you. That's why I suggest key up with that to you up to you with that to you with that
to you with that to you. I suggest to wait. So like how how do they determine how do we do it with that
to you with that to you with that to you with that to you. I would say to make it up to you with that
to you with that to you with that to you. I would say to make it up to you with that to you with I would say to
make it up to you with that to you with that to you. I would say to make it up to you with I
would say to make it up to you with that to you with that to you with that to you with that to you. I would
[clears throat] say to make it up to you with that to you. I would say to make it up to you with that to you with that to
you with that to you with that I would say to make it up to you with that to you with that to you with that
to you with that to you. I would say to make it up I would say to make it up to you. I would say to make it up to you
with that to you with that to you with that to you with that to you with that I would say to make I would say to make
it up I would say to make it up to you. I would say to make it up I would say to make it up to you with that to you. I
would say to make it up to you with that to you with that to you with that to you with that I would say to make it up I
would say to make I would say to make it up to you. I would say to make it up to you with
that to you with that to you. I would say to make it up to you with that to you with that to you with that
I would say to make it up to you. I would say to make it up to you. I would say to make it up to you with that to
you with that to you with that yourself. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Then what are the things that I can do to reduce the time
What's Sorry. It's going to be a suggestion that I
keep consume content as much as you can. Keep your mindful of ideas ideas
Give it a particular information Uh No other way. Then
>> [clears throat] >> second zero
Uh effects go animations The presets like one of the basic most
basic And then I guess it's more about Joe
Uh helps key up in the first watch only
write down And up near Tell
to to correct So
That saves a lot of time. And additionally from my end, there's also one point which you can use, which
is keyboard shortcuts. If you have those. So
Now uh person or a beginner knows how he can you know speed up his process. And
>> [snorts] >> Most of the times they're like So how they can navigate
Okay so portfolio what I suggest is key Uh mirror job
process right there if I I have helped you editors also too. What we try is key client give us the
time to make a good portfolio doesn't make sense. I agree with you but that should be
best. Up Woah requirements are like what client
can style getting required I mean you should all be clear style man.
>> Most of the time but if that is different style You just skip to the next portfolio.
when someone is at this stage. After that you can try putting two three
different styles of videos. And If you reach out individually reach out
to them. You have to know what kind of videos he wants. You have to send him the same
It shouldn't be that you have You know what he wants and you still send him something different in hopes that he
will he will [laughter] If you are sending it to
the best strategy is best video first and then you can put two three different So the chances
increase. I won't say 100% because that never happens. But the chances increase that the client
will maybe reach out to Then next question you asked was that uh like what if the client asks if you have
done it yourself or not. Something like that. Correct.
portfolio drive I think it's outdated. Okay. come look
effort drive link video video hoga bhi to processing
thoda intuitive video lagte hai client ke liye bhi website hoti hai scroll karoge automatic play hai to automatic
nahi to click click me tumhara So I always suggest video editor
to make website or both side websites are uh but only say uh from your perspective
what are some of the best websites that video editors can look forward to and we can have our portfolio hosted there.
Some free and some paid. That domain logo can not be edited and I believe can not be sent in a copy of that.
Uh, Adobe subscription if you have it with you to start with portfolio and a portfolio like that. I would use that to
make that a lot better portfolio than that one design wise. But basic come with that. It's like it's still better
than Drive. And Killer auto with platform and free provide for that one. Uh, but we have
quite a good website like that. And free may scale up. I don't think I know
any other platform had to be noted. I mean we don't have that many of them. But I got paid up just like that. The
framer is one of the best I have got in my life. Uh, and hosting will be here which is
easier. Uh, to be basic. But similar to a professional website. You got options. According to me. So, uh, if this
question comes up key to me it can be too. What I suggest is key better to have a
testimonial to my previous client say just like that I did carry it. I got to message me and I did carry it
or I used to carry it. Uh, though just give a sample video to them key We can give a sample video and I did
carry it up in my life just like that. And you can check me and my skills just like that. I did carry it up in my life.
Though we can carry it. And could I have a carrier testimonial just like that I did carry it up in my life. Just like
that I did carry it up in my life. Just like that I did carry it up in my life. Just like that I did carry it up. I got
to go if possible. To show to the clients just like that I did carry it up in my life. Just like that I did carry
it up. I did carry it up just like that I did Perfect
and I think if the client is saying key I did to my head and I need it.
Uh, like But, if you're an intermediate guy email
Mhm. And carry on here.
Should I do it again? I don't know if I was already proof of work had to this can also be an option.
Most of the times that would happen to me but just in case I got to find out where they start with that when I was
closing a client for the agency. I mean simply get the website check out we are not scammers.
Mhm. Again, just have been a testimonial to get out of here.
Yeah. Okay, so they go uh
video editing man a cheese head DaVinci Resolve versus Premiere Pro. Mhm.
Many [laughter] video what I did the video man >> I got to color it.
You have a part to them It's it's considered it as a rapid fire
or rapid fire man to them a reason DaVinci Resolve a reason Premiere Pro here. Just to fire
to them can go DaVinci use to you or can logo go Premiere use Premiere with Premiere I
mean Premiere plus After Effects usually. A client was only doing that.
I I think more lines but many times >> Uh eight
Honestly, but Uh eight Secondly,
Premier So, community
Premier of DaVinci And DaVinci
But, if you software DaVinci DaVinci of
professional DaVinci If invest graphic
illustrations also and video editing then go for it. creative cloud software
Then, choose Pro and After Effects. That's it. Muj
What difference software You software Both
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what the software But,
based inside the what
layer because What come nodes come compared layers So,
learning Fusion That's people prefer Either way,
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clear what fundamentals clear software choose you get you will to good of through
Now when we're talking about earning uh Is he video editing I don't know.
Many people talk to me. >> [laughter] >> Look. I believe that I have a good
individual or agency Come two legs I guess is the cap.
What's the plan? I'm going to go. I guess.
I know. But take a good normal work balance individually
one point five to two legs is the cap. Easy. I'm going But
fully The more you can scale the more bigger team you can build. The more you can
grow. I got to go. But I think she's going to also add on
this is Don't think two legs I don't know. I don't know what I mean. Correct. I
don't know what I mean. Of course. I don't know what I I don't know what I
I don't know what I don't know what I I don't know what I mean. I know. I know.
I know. I know. I know. I know. Mhm. I know.
I know. I know. I know. I don't know what
I don't know what I I know. I don't know what I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.
I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I don't know Yeah.
And especially if you're in teenage I don't know what I mean. I don't know what I
I don't know what I don't know what I mean. Even 20 21 age
Just college I and I don't know I know. I don't know I know. I know. I
don't know I know. I don't know what I mean. I know. I know. I know. I know.
I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.
>> We will try to compare. But just understand this thing that zero to direct 40,000 30,000 that is
30,000 x jump. Exactly. Yeah. We want to give you the perspective.
It's not quick money. It is a stable money. It is a stable job career option that is going to stay. It
is just that you have to learn it like any other skill.
>> [snorts] >> animation >> [laughter]
>> Same. I will not suggest anything. YouTube but the only thing is when you know the
skill you will be able to earn it over the period of 3 to 4 years. And then after that
I have seen it personally. Depends highly on how you're projecting yourself to the client.
Single-handedly I have closed clients for $4,500 $4,000 so I know
if you close a client close it. $4,000 is good now. Yeah. And if you use clients as
a job let's say the market standard you can go to $3,000 $3,500 even if you take $2,500 job you will
earn more. You are well settled in India. So
upper limit upper ceiling here I would say keep 10 grand up.
Individual to an individual news logo that was going to be a year to do to me white labeling for you but I would say
Chow Panch Lakdum individually as a freelancer come out because I know people who are doing that and they're
doing it solo. So that is possible. It's just that again to fundamental about all these
things a client to be able to do that. To scale of skill to sing it to me communicate and I see positioning
authority is it is a summary. I need to enjoy my tongue to video link this masterclass to some child of you
Mary but it's a chicken to be masterclass is a test. But you can take it into masterclass to
me take it to me I will ask for podcast section to me. You know all these things to carry on it's just that I'm going to
reinforce this to me some child to see this thing. So
I hope I give give them a good lecture to me some child to see this. Some child to see this thing to me.
So I think I'm going to see this thing to conclude that it's not a good thing to
see this thing to see stable option. You are in this niche video editing
around content to me you are seeing a lot of trends in the industry as well.
What do you think? The future of video editing industry is and the people who see the the market is
saturated. What are your thoughts on that? Like he has that
Yeah. Mhm. Mhm.
Uh Uh would say
All right. Mhm. Uh yeah, it's doing a lot of advancements or two years only. Basic video editing will
be replaced by a Uh So, you are going to be get replaced.
emotional music So, of course, you will not be replaced
because that is something AI will never be able to do. Uh Mhm. So, where you
concepts tools Uh instead of effects So, up
tools effects That is something learn in like one day.
So, Uh That is the future. And Uh And he
Mhm. Uh Mhm. Uh Exactly.
emotion Yeah, that is like Mhm. biggest thing you got
money be I'll be agency time side me and to be going on. This is like very new place
for me. If I feel key man actually wondering what do you do? I'll go ahead.
Maximum interest in the key to do you want to put that in here and key you don't want to take care of that and take
care of that. Mhm. Can you pay music download and you don't want to download it? You don't
want to download music download it. You don't want to download it. You don't want to download it.
Maybe you don't want to download it. You don't want to download You don't want to download it.
Manual captions you don't want to download it. You don't want to download it.
But at least he was doing captions automatic captions You don't want to download it. You don't
want to download it. You don't want to download it. You don't want to download it.
But I don't want to You don't want to download it. I don't want
Yeah. So Before moving to personal branding on
the section a class question is key zero say one lakh tak ka
Not step by step step by step to go out number of jacket. A overview may road map
a blueprint Yeah, what is that guy? I don't want to download technical skills include only thing.
And secondly, you don't want to download skills. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Okay.
Mhm. Explain. I will start with a good example.
Okay. will be difficult. It is possible. We will talk about this but it is
difficult. Uh Then you start learning about
storytelling. So Well, it cannot be taught.
Uh you start doing intentional editing. at that point key Don't
You could take a lot of time to You can do that because there's a reason.
You can choose the color why you are choosing that specific color. We going to
text a lot of time. You can You can understand So
advance Then maybe uh motion graphics is something to
going ahead of taking a break. Okay. When we talk about advance editing to
motion graphics is the easiest thing to do. So visible editing with the other up up smooth flow video cut. I got a music
that I just got a little bit of feeling that I would do this. But So And
a lot of clients. or good shots be Of course, it'll be
included. Uh Whenever you go towards pitching a client, you always pitch a
package. Get up. Uh it's a short form videos don't go with key make video with number selling
up because that usually It's better if you go for a package.
So Uh the only thing that is left is Uh may I have some recommendations? Two
clients key up and about one visit maybe why or intro is not good. May what can you change in your scripts?
Um In one word I can make one of those things go to content creation up to
could be signal for you in in short. Okay, it's not just keep our editor. You have to be limited to editing. No. I got
up go eat the client say Uh you want to reach more than one lakh to content creation got at least up to 30
or so much money to you because as a editor up to come and you do my attention I as a editor up to come and
you do my key Uh video engaging a low commercial local Joe feel Uh creator dinner shot a local Joe feel
Miller video say to Oscar Leo content creation submission
for you Oscar Leo pacing submission for you video make a submission for you content make a submission.
Um music is something which uh I cannot
Each other than the one of the most common music but I don't know uh music bought complicated cheese in video
editing and it is one of the most important thing in video editing which is a lot of
after Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. And additionally you can you start to use AI moving forward.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. You summarized it pretty well, bro. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
Mhm. Mhm. it like charge me to unlock the charge it to you too.
And Yeah, I mean that was pretty much it for this video editing a section that we
have. We'll move on to personal branding. And specifically I'm going to video to
go by and talk to you. It'll be very short and concise. Okay, and uh I want to ask you
starting with video editors job of my personal Sorry. I don't know if I'm not skilled seeking out there. Mhm.
Portfolio building at the time of my job out there. So they also tend to move towards the Instagram people post
content or it's going to be a portfolio trade cut them up. Mhm. Now I think this is a good approach.
But tell me what more they can do to make sure key vo content say inbound lead
and apart from just inbound leads what are the benefits of content creation? Okay.
Uh so they go uh I don't know personal branding career to both side editors you got to think he
uh building portfolio and building portfolio will not edit something upload cut there. But those are edits are like
uh any any make way to download the effort we random editing download the to what we got to build career to the
personal branding building yoga. I got to client video cut before after download there was personal branding
building yoga. If you want to build personal branding to up videos up in the company around my own key maybe mirror
you can tell me maybe we can deliver the company to the this is how I did it. To this type of videos I got to build to
that will reach to more clients possible clients potential clients and what's up in my mind clients I don't
need to die in the key. That is one thing to do to up with the hand of me in short I
don't know if I can say it okay. I call random ninja knight content to make it when you are random ninja
content to make when you are trying to build your platform or your a personal brand.
Which we want to learn randomly. Uh stay focused get up. Yeah, I'm going to go. Um
Apple Google client to see if you have a personal brand to get away from the reason that to make videos according to
that only key up get services that you want to do with me about that open videos me up get three days of project
sandal get to a booty to discuss get to a tool. I would say Mr. Lee is a good
example. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. If you uh
try to show key up get to get some good to go. And I think the company may get to come
get to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to That brings you more
clients. I got up entertainment on the internet editor okay that will not bring clients.
So Who up to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go Specifically you
are aiming at the growth in the video. So broad job content to go to go to go to
go Uh entertainment to go to go to go to go to go to Uh random to go to go to I got
up what specifically target to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go
to go to go to go to Then you have to make the targeted content as well. And
in my own pillow or get to get to get to I got to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to There is like a number of
things that are good if you create content but it's of course I can see the sales communication is a good to improve
I got to get to get to get to get to get to get Sponsorships is a really good source of
money I got up with my own personal brand to go to go to go to go to go You can make products I got up
You can get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get
to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to
get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get
to So you can get more sources of income affiliate is a good source to get to get
to get I got to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get I got
to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to
So next is key affiliate affiliate
after that I got up team up at one point I want to build team.
personal brand set up up what's that easy way team build compared to
personal brand market up job listing and it all up guys reach out up guys see
audience go to get up one going to specific up secondly I got good personal brand the
people are interested to work for you you want to take out connected feel good up you got
>> [clears throat] >> take out you got take out take out work out
to to you got benefits I feel like building personal brand.
or inbound to pay discuss and if they want to go that route to
build a personal what is the best platform to choose or written platforms are X or LinkedIn visual platforms like
YouTube Instagram what should they choose up for the start the goal so easy Instagram starting Instagram
up I got to go going to create I got to by the platform what you do with the video
but Instagram YouTube YouTube I would what you do going to start
YouTube is the best we are going to it's the hardest to
Instagram to start going you got normally what you do easy what you do with the video platform
I just got to you can go for LinkedIn I got clients I just got to LinkedIn Twitter I just got to
and at the end I got to go audience I got to community I got to products I got to go
in future then YouTube you should choose three ways if you
want easy go for Instagram if you want client specific, go for LinkedIn or Twitter. If you want audience specific,
go for YouTube. And again, last question for this section.
And that is So, if we are creating content on both of the video platforms or either of the
video platforms, so how much money a person can expect, let's say 100,000 100,000
subscribers probably 50k Instagram over I guess it's less than YouTube.
I'll talk about YouTube because I know it. Correct.
But if you have decent average views pull off career, 30 to 40,000 is what you can expect from YouTube AdSense
Aquila. Then of course multiple ways of personal brand to get
money from it. I've got lot of offers that you can teach on our platform or teach on our platform
or make a specific product for us. They will sell it, they will market it. This
is one source also. Then affiliate source here, then brand
sponsorship here as we have talked about it. Exact number though we have any
Average range? Average [clears throat] range we do not have but we will
give you a specific number because 100k subscribers is not the correct metric according to me. more about average
views your pull off career per video. What's the outcome? What's the outcome sponsorship outcome
reach outcome outcome? So Let's take average 100 K car channel
head to will be getting around 25 to 40 50 K views per video. Take average range made a sub say 1 to 2
lakh rupees a job on cassette to through just your YouTube channel. Instagram pay a number same 100 K
followers pay I guess around 60 50 60 K over a minute sub say what I should do. I am not sure
what they don't have any backup seriously but Correct. Correct. YouTube pay I know YouTube makes a lot of money
if you have 100 K subscribers. And Instagram car case you put out to say push Lena.
I think this is a couple of days to make push now we got but he he does Instagram a lot of will be I think 2000 followers
there. You went to 40 K. Uh-huh. I got it.
Mhm. So like YouTube has the potential only
thing is my time and YouTube but I benefit your long term content at the one authority and the
video that you can compare to Instagram Instagram pay I would say easy platform at all but I
don't know available but you can random which we can tend out there. Or YouTube at the end audience is that
a customer can set up a potential client can set up a lot of time you spend there.
Why Instagram pay you can take me up let's say 8 to 10 minutes 8 minutes. I got my account on the 45 second video. I
will be there. I think you can take me up with that time spend there. And YouTube pay why you can do that you can
take me up and it's more of like you have to spend a lot of time you spend there. Mhm. And what you can take me up
with that you can take me up with that you can take me up with that you can take me up with that
you can take me up with that you can take me up with that you can take >> Mhm.
I say I start Instagram to go but if you are really serious about your long term future
as in any career doesn't matter if you're a video editor, graphic designer, or even in sales marketing, which video
So yeah, I mean, that was pretty much it. If you have anything else to add Jokowi
video editors go your freelancers go help go sexy up. You can think about it and added to the
last note of this podcast. Take video editing as a real career. Take video editing as a real job.
Engineering let you get a 50-60 k job per month. And then you get a maybe 50-60 k job per
month. And then you get a maybe 50-60 k job per month. So you
video editing say you can say you can expect to get a exist
or exist video editors in the world. So it doesn't matter. It is also real job. You
have to give 1-2 years 3 years to get to that level and then you can get a competitive income here and get a
competitive income here. You can get a competitive income here. So yeah, that is all I had to say.
Crazy bro. I mean, I I love the podcast. I love the podcast. I'm pretty sure you have noted that down
overview. You have noted that down overview. You have noted that down overview. You
have noted that down overview. You have noted that down overview. You have noted that down overview. You have noted that
down overview. You have noted that down overview. You have noted that down overview. You have noted that down
overview. You have noted that down So, yeah. That was sexy, bro. I mean I've got all of the answers that I had
to for this particular masterclass. So, thanks a lot, for joining with us and sharing your
insights. It was lovely hosting you. Lovely being here. >> [laughter]
>> Hello. Bye-bye, guys. Take care. Hi, welcome again to the channel. And for those of you who don't know
how you can go from zero to a thousand dollars we covered the road map But this time we're specifically
focusing on Fiverr. And I think from you I want to get your introduction and introduce yourself to my audience and
tell them what do you do and how did you come into this Fiverr thing? When people are doing cold outreach and
everything. >> [laughter] >> For sure. Thanks a lot for having me
again. It's always good to see you, bro. So, regarding Fiverr, I started freelancing
on Fiverr in 2020. So, this is before the COVID boom. Like and after that people say that, you
know, Fiverr got very saturated. Too many people are there. So, for people who don't know what Fiverr is, it's just
a freelance platform where you list your gig. Just as simple as that. A gig is
something which defines your service. >> [snorts] >> Say, I'll do video editing, I'll do
graphic design, and things like that. Now, once you're listed, it's a search-based plat- platform, which means
client will come and will search getting your offer. And then you have to basically rank your
gig. And once your gig is ranking you know, they'll click on it and they can directly purchase and the Fiverr will
take care of all the messaging system, delivery time, and just in case something goes wrong,
they have a customer support, too. Okay. >> So, in Sub car, they also, of course, charge a fee, which is 20% on each
order. Okay. >> that is Fiverr.
Now, [snorts] the problem most people have is key they are not able to get started on
Fiverr only. Like, it's very tricky for beginners to get started. But,
I have seen majority of people who can get clients anywhere, like, for example, domain
tically or maybe cold outreach, they are also able to get it on Fiverr. Like, I don't know what you want to buy
clients about. I don't know what I want to buy clients about. If your work is really good, you'll get
clients everywhere, right? Which is a problem now. A beginner can be a problem with the key their work is not good.
Yeah. >> Yeah. They don't know how to represent themselves.
Mhm. What's the word? They don't understand Mhm. I think I got to carry key look
purchase carrying business carrying a mindset. So, this is a major problem. This is like I would say 98% of the
profiles you want to get there. Who are like just not ready for the market, right?
Mhm. >> You don't know what I need to get clients about. Okay. Right. So, this is
the major problem, but I think if you are a beginner, Mhm. >> Fiverr or Upwork, these are really good
to get consistent volume of new client. Mhm. For example, right now, I wake up and I I know I haven't checked my phone
yet. But, I saw in the morning that there were like five to 10 new clients. Subtle flex. Oh.
Correct. >> [laughter] >> So, they were like already lined up. I
just have to reply to them and just guide them to the new package, right package. Mhm.
>> So, right now, I'm running a volume-based agency. Mhm.
>> Which means we don't do as many retainers. I'm going to do retainers but majority, we focus on new volume of
clients. One off edits that I like to get. One off edits, correct. Yeah. Okay. For example, the majority projects is
Christmas. They need Christmas chaos pass a video for their brand, maybe for their personal thing. So, as a project
one challenge of it. So, we we have like very seasonal projects, very like one-time projects.
And of course about B5 will be we have 50% of recurring revenue. Okay. The repeat clients say they are
there and the YouTube channel they are there. Mhm. Uh and the thing is uh it's a trade-off. Uh so, for example,
uh which YouTube uh I make content, right? So, which clients are there? And I still send them to Fiverr.
Why? Uh it boosts my profile even more because
I'm good sending them new clients, right? And they keep working on for me. The thing is outside I have to create an
entire system again. Mhm. >> For example, Fiverr will pay we have the
uh management set. set up separate Trello set up for them. Correct.
Separate feedback looks like that. It's really I prefer everything over Fiverr. But yeah, we are trying to do both, but
I still prefer Fiverr over anything else. Yeah. That was a very very crisp answer, dude.
Beginners up may someone say they have Fiverr got importance to I don't know. And for those of you who don't know, uh
Fiverr like I said also has a Fiverr course. Many people create a way many people take a risk. Uh but of course, we
are not on Fiverr. We are not primarily on that platform called outreach against the clients close cut there. But if you
want that, you can check that out too. May link at the way about link base dinner. Would you maybe have this way I
I I I forgot. So, yeah, okay.
Now, you talked about one thing while you were telling about Fiverr key beginners go rank on the new idea key
rank is a good idea. So, how can beginners go about that route key how can beginners go about
that route key first of all, let's skip that question. First of all, who are the good market fit? You said
98% of the people to ready he knew the market clearly. How can the freelancers understand key who are market may a good
fit here? 98% to open our two key and if they are ready to sell the services on Fiverr or not.
Correct. I think I would not suggest any complete beginner beginner to that just directly go on Fiverr. Okay. So, for
example, when I also meant went matlab I had little experience of internships with couple of companies. Mhm. So,
roughly you should know key kya bolna hota hai kya karna hota hai aur ye sab kisi bhi absolute beginner ko
obviously nahi pata hoga, right? >> yeah. The ideally you would I would suggest you do some internship, you just
work for someone, mentor under someone for some time. Uh-huh. Or I think between beginner and intermediate is
the right time when you can start. A good few signs would be key you have some clients coming in.
Like you're able to close clients through cold email or Instagram outreach or
maybe just walk in domestically to have the upgrade here. And just ask a couple of people if they are happy to work with
you and they like suggest your work to other people. Mhm. And then you would know key huh, people are happy with the
work. Then I think when you go and create a profile, you'll be able to reflect what
you are, you know, actually able to do. Mhm. And I think that would be the best time.
Okay. Uh so, again is maybe to the second in depth problem which is key
see, this is more of a personal problem for everyone, okay? Uh but let's talk about it to get
practically not everyone. Video editors are mostly introverts if I with what I've seen. Yeah. And if they are and
even the freelancers so Jana chat and again my generalize my guru to they don't they a cafe, let's say, or
restaurant and sell their services. They they just have some kind of belief system that
they are willing to accept and they have a scene. Cold email outreach it takes time to really hone in the skill of
doing the cold email. Uh although they have the framework with this masterclass, they can implement that and
get good replies. But if we go really really technical and
we talk about our past feedback loops come here. What they can do in the limited area of
just them and a laptop. Let's say we will go on that journey and we will try to work
on a laptop and we will try to get feedback from you. Okay, yes, I'm a good market fit. How they can go
about it? Correct. So the major problem with this is
there's a knowledge gap. For example, you might [clears throat] have seen in your comments I have seen in my comments
that people think they know a lot. Yeah. >> They >> [snorts]
>> have the self-confidence that they can do it. But reality is very different from that,
right? >> Uh-huh. And
with this loop I was trying to do is to overcome the knowledge gap for a common goal. Correct.
>> If they go to a stranger, they will get a very good feedback, right? They will provide a very good feedback, right? So
let's say I got busted laptop here. I would still suggest I will do something with it with my laptop.
They will also be very honest, but what I'm trying to do is to create a feedback loop of course.
You will get to know the market and how good or bad it is. Absolute beginner can't go and work for
a client. Like Correct. >> They will even the client will have a very bad experience and they will also
have a very bad experience. It won't be good for their own self-image, right?
So I think if you go to a stranger you can't talk to them. You can talk to your relatives or your
family. Just create something for them. I that's how I started. I created a reel for sister.
Okay. And she was like she really like happily posted it and her friends were like you work is not going to happen.
You will get it and she was like make one more for me. So, this is a good feedback loop you have come up with and
I like it so far. Like I can do this for more people. Okay. Okay.
>> So, this this feedback loop I'm trying to create. Key once they know key kya sahi hai kya nahi hai. Am I able to
create something good? People like it or not? Will they be able to like post the work I create on their social media?
Because social media is basically two videos up and down usually like to do it like that. It's too like people are
actually like present by good quality. Correct. Correct. >> That's kind of roughly the idea.
So, what I wanted to do is key knowledge gap come on to me.
And who's going to put the camera on strangers would be best because they'll be very direct. You'll get a really good
feedback. Yeah. >> got what you're saying but then I think next would be to just ask your friends
and family. Real work for them and get the feedback. >> And maybe social media post them expect
to make up. That is that is also an option. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. So, now coming to the next question which is how do they rank? Now, take a feedback
loop here so good here come be take talk here beginners better here come be better but it can professional level can
be here. How they can >> Intermediate here. Yeah. How how they
can rank their gig at the start? Good to show me ranking won't happen as my love at all. It won't happen but
you'll get few hundred impressions even if you have a really good gig. It doesn't convert to anything, okay? Mhm.
>> So, you make a gig. Yeah. Making a gig is just doing market research seeing who's ranking where.
And initially if I would pay you can create up to four gigs, okay? Mhm. You make a couple of uh
high volume keyword gigs. So, for example be on platform to do it like that.
Okay. So, I got video director also just video editing, professional video editing, YouTube, things like that. And
then apart from that, you can have two more gigs which are niche. Mhm. Uh
Thumbnail and video are like extremely important. You see what's working with the competitors and you create a list.
And once you're inspired, okay, you create everything, okay? Like your own touch.
Just don't copy it. Just create something, okay? Now this is ready. Now it's just about
iteration and solving problems, okay? After 1 week of going live, you'll have some feedback
Let's say gigs pay impressions on a gig. Mhm. Let's say you get like a 100 impressions. No. Ideally, on 100
message, you should make at least one click. Okay. Okay. I got to go be near order
then we have to think you are mirror thumbnail stand up camera guinea. He's all over all over the day but he click
me care. Right? That's a click problem will solve. Click is basically I'm going to
thumbnail like that. I'm going to price like the I'm going to delivery date like that I'm going to
reviews like that. Mhm. Complete beginner give us good video like reviews me on gay right? Mhm.
Uh price come over to you have to make a really good company which like really stands out. I would suggest hire a uh
thumbnail designer. Mhm. What's the one more? You can you just post something to click me I got to get Mhm. Now we solve
the click problem by a really good thumbnail or a promo video. Well, maybe video we show with the like if you hold
over the thumbnail 40 days the video play with the and I think that's what's working for me. I have like a very
animated first uh 10 seconds of something when the someone over there. So that increases the click.
You can have only click earlier now it's about conversion. You have to it's like you have to convince you to you will
purchase the way which is a like a very big skill to have. And I don't assume you can see the
password over there, right? Initially. But here you have to show such good work people be like oh, it's the same when I
take it but it's the same I like this the best. Right to which is slightly tricky either
your work is really good you have your price is very stands out to them your delivery time is very low something
like that you can review me and then this becomes very tricky, right? This is why I said to you work with clients
outside and you will have some reviews there. Which will also help us with the
conversion here, right? Okay. No, you do some projects with them on Fiverr.
>> On Fiverr, okay, okay, makes sense. Correct. Once you do a couple of projects with them to we have a review
over there and the view is here to say all I have to do is conversion the process about it's me here. It'll be
better for the past year. Correct. Yeah. Now you conversion base pay usually what makes a sale is your USB.
Which is unique selling proposition, right? What what do you what are you offering
that other hundreds of thousands of profiles don't have? So when I personally started my USB was
my show real was decent or standing for 2020 or something. The thumbnail was good. I was offering
money-back I was working for $5 $10 and I was doing a one-day delivery. All this so anyone who wanted a rush work I was
like the ideal profile of correct that's how I got the first few reviews and once you have like good reviews and you're
standing up then you can increase the price. Okay and
>> It's just about solving very small problems which is click conversion and then repeat business.
Okay. Yeah. So When like we have got how many reviews
are necessary to you know around the gig or is it is it not actually a metric to look at?
I look to be honest not a metric which like really defines it. It's just about the conversion thing. People have got
but I got my first review. I didn't get clients from outside. But it's just something that helps. It
will help you get clients faster. And this in turn will help the gig rank better when we have the reviews and when
we are optimizing profile. Not really rank but it will help convert them better and once the conversion
increases it will eventually rank. Okay, so when we'll have more orders, more quality work is given to the clients and
five star rating, 4.5 star rating my pass consistently are here to Fiverr is going to automatically push career
search rankings. Correct because you are eventually giving more business to Fiverr
and Fiverr is saying key yeah clients are coming and they are like doing business again with this buyer to coach
over it will then in turn show it to more people. Okay.
Yeah, makes sense. Correct. So like okay we we have talked about some positives of Fiverr.
What are the downsides of Fiverr? Like you are running an agency right now volume based agency and you're getting
one off gigs. First thing that I know for sure is retainers. Like recurring revenue is
thing that you can expect but it comes from one off gigs.
Mostly. So what are some of the downsides of Fiverr that a person should have in mind before
coming to Fiverr? It's not easy. Like it's definitely not easy. If you
have it has way too many rules and regulations going on that it becomes very tricky for you. Especially
beginners when beginners have a habit of email and let's say if you have been working for 2 years and you did a
mistake, your account will go directly. It's very risky. Just yesterday I got a message that my
profile was deranked. Yeah, it it happened to you a week or two before as well, right? Some That was Yeah, that
was a glitch and yesterday was also a glitch. Okay. Yesterday all sellers got that they are deranking or their level
is going off and like it was whole panic in the Indian Fiverr community. Okay. But yeah, it was a glitch. So something
like this can happen where you are like very scared. So it's like 100% not a thing where you are like 100%
dependent on the platform. Mhm. So I would suggest even like once you start Fiverr, I would suggest you
eventually like diversify. So for example, even I have agency clients right now. And then I eventually
started YouTube because you know, I was unsure about how it will work. Yeah, yeah, correct. And so I think downsides
for sure key it's not predictable. Especially with a video AI
shift with the video editors are seeing a very high fluctuation. Even top rated sellers used to be
packed. They bought some projects out there. And for example, next downside is let's
say you have couple of cancellation. Mhm. A couple of bad reviews, it will derank
your gig. But you won't get orders for some time. That is it. And
let's say customer support is very buyer favorite. Okay. They will rarely support you.
Like which hold it to they will prefer to keep on the buyer not there. Because we repeated
income business. Which which I understand but yeah, this is also a downside which
sellers don't like. >> [snorts] >> And Uskelawa
I think just like anything Uskelawa is not a downside, but I think it compounds fairly well.
Mhm. But it takes a lot of time. It took me how many years to reach here? 4 5 years.
>> me Yeah, 5 years now. 5 years. So and uh two uh when you saw your first big money,
what was that year? Through Fiverr? Uh it was uh next year that I started.
2021 I was full-time on Fiverr. Okay. Like are you open to sharing that big number that you achieved Correct.
Correct. So 2020 I made around I started around June July.
Mhm. July I started and that year I made 2.5 lakhs. The entire year. Yeah, the 6 6 months,
yeah. Uskelawa 2021 I made close to 20 lakhs which is like
something really big for me. Mhm. I was like well sustained because I was also in MP. I think 20 lakhs man I
can live in Hyderabad also, but yeah. That this is in 2021. Yeah, okay.
>> Well, 2022 I reached close to 40 50 lakhs. And on Fiverr?
>> Yeah, yeah, go on. Go on. Go on. Got you, Jimmy. No, I was just getting the understanding
of the GST thing because after 20 lakhs you have to uh get a GST. Although that's not the scope of this video, but
it just clicked me. You 20 lakhs here to buy, then after that when you're in a service business you'll have to get a
GST number and then file for the GST. Is it Yeah. >> something that Right on cue. 2023 I
started one for edits because I needed GST number. >> [laughter]
>> Sole proprietorship may Correct, yeah. Makes sense. Makes sense. >> And then 2023 it hit close to 50 lakhs.
2024 7 2024 was all 2024 was good 84 lakhs if you take out the 10% and this year we
have crossed 1 crore or something. Oh, crazy by crazy nice. The year is ending with a boom.
>> [laughter] >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice. So, like uh now that you guys have seen the numbers,
uh understand this thing that this is possible and it is not something that
probably 99% of the people will be able to do. That is also a prerequisite because
it took him 5 years to reach here. 5 saal tum wait agar kar sakte ho to yahan pe pahunch sakte ho, but the reality is
most of the people are not ready to give those 5 years uh to this particular thing.
Apart from that, okay, like we talked about this. You talked ki maine internship pehle kari thi. I had some
proof of work and then after that I got into this Fiverr thing. Uh
how did you get those internship internships and how can a person get an internship?
Uh so, I did my bachelor's in multimedia and animation, right? So, I had some knowledge of the industry. Okay.
>> Like, for example, even to get industry, you should have some skills. Like, some basic surface level skills you you need
to have. Mhm. So, where if you want to get uh internship as a video editor, you should be able to compile reels at this
point because people can do that with like simple mobiles now, right? Like, any app can do it and you doing it in
Premiere Pro is a skill. You can just start there. Mhm. Okay. So, I think basic skills in Premiere Pro
or After Effects and basic conversational skills. Yeah. And uske baad I think you can start. So,
once you have basic technical skills, plus you have uh basic communication skill
and then uh you can apply it on LinkedIn. Of course, network comes in handy uh if you know the right people,
you can work for agencies. Uh personally, how I did it, first one was in my college only. I did internship for
uh one of the clubs in the college. Mhm. So, this is something you can do. Uh, uske baad second one, uh I got referral
from one of my friend who was working in a e-learning studio. Mhm. And then, that's where I did my second.
Uske baad I started uh Fiverr, and I did my third internship uh with a US-based uh studio along with one working with
like Fiverr. >> Fiverr. Okay. So, I did total three internships. But yeah, it's it's about
just knowing the right people or reaching out to the right people. Okay, so that that's where you can start
if you're in college. Like you can get some internships out of there. Yeah, for sure. Clubs me to easily mil
jayega, bhai. You can just go ask for clubs. Saare clubs ko videos, photos to chahiye hi hota hai aajkal. Mhm. Like
that's a very easy way to start. >> I don't have much experience of that. Never I I am dropped out of college.
>> [laughter] >> Don't know. Yeah, so clubs wagera me or even like
for example, let's say if you're in a metro city, Uh-huh. uh yeah, around clubs hote hain, bahut saari cheezein
hoti hain. You can just ask and work with them. That's like very easy way to do it.
Uh. That's cool. Yeah, that's cool. Never thought of it. This mereko pata hi nahi
tha ki aisa bhi hota hai. Correct. For example, Delhi me to for example, Delhi me there are so many
events, uh things happening, and Yeah, yeah. Iske liye to tumhe bahar jaane ki zaroorat nahi hai. You just see uh kahan
kya event ho raha hai, and then you reach out to the team. Just do some stalking. You just need some stalking
skills as well. And then you make a note. >> you just reach out to that team. Yeah.
Like can I like create some videos for you? Mhm.
So, uh walk us through how a typical day in your life looks like. See, uh you are
running prob- uh prob- not probably, I'm sure. 10 lakhs plus a month agency, uh and that is purely through Fiverr. I
want to understand how your time is manager managed because as far as I know you're doing rock
climbing, you're doing gym, you do badminton, you do all sorts of things, bro.
Even I'm curious And apart from that, how many hours do the
person who is starting out Fiverr and getting at the intermediate level to have a score
Yeah. Uh right now my day is the light fluctuates a lot of it or
YouTube videos there. Because everything goes around the shoot. So, the Fiverr thing usually takes
around 2-3 hours in the morning of management work because I'm doing it every bit.
So, manage management communication and assigning tasks to the team. It's like 2-3 hours of work in the
morning. So, typically I'll do that from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00. 12:00 a.m.
But I would say yeah, kind of okay. Then I'll have a YouTube agency.
Or I said good come with the mostly around YouTube personal brand I'll work. And then
that's the way it will turn out, I guess. Okay. About then I have like separate. Yeah. So, YouTube takes most
of your time. Right now personal brand and like digital product development takes
majority of time. Okay. Okay. And let's get a lot I think let's get a
lot I have like some coffee if I want to play badminton, if I want to go the whatever rock climbing or gym or coffee.
So, I have like let's get it weekend have entire time free. I won't work
much. A couple of hours on Fiverr and best is just activities go around have fun. And then
major majorly you delegate all of the tasks in those 2-3 hours and then after in the next day how do you receive the
files? Like uh doesn't it get very messy that you're having 10 to 15 orders and you're assigning those edits to editors
and then they're giving back, you're giving the changes. So, usually that the change loop is not
happening up because the team is like very trained for like few years now. Mhm. And so, all editors that I have
have worked around 1 to years for now. All of them are work from home, remote employees.
>> Work from home, correct. And we have a proper uh timeline and everything set in place.
Hello. So, when I assign projects, they'll know when to submit, what to submit.
And uh the revision wala ab nahi hota. Like rarely if the project is sticky we'll do. Warna I can directly send the
link direct to directly to the client. So, that I can do on mobile only, you know.
Like kuch bhi kar raha hu to I'll just take the link and just copy paste it on uh Viber.
So, I think that is a good thing jisme time lagta. And everyone sends their projects on time matlab was only work
out. That's good. That's a really good advantage of a good team.
Kahi aur aisa bhi nahi for example abhi I I had this call I didn't inform my team also and they're not aware that I'm
on this call, but everyone is working. Like so, for example whenever I get back, I'll have updates from each one of
them ki unhone kya kya kya kya kya kiya. And uh yeah. So, how many people do you have in a
team? Abhi is 10 people. Uh 10 all of them are video editors.
All video editors. >> [laughter] >> Crazy way.
So, uh the last question for you will be I I've talked about a lot of blueprints and road maps uh to multiple guests
throughout this masterclass. I want to get it from you as well. Uh you can give an overview, you can
give an in-depth explanation, whatever you prefer. At every step from zero to 10 lakhs,
sorry, uh 1 lakh a month for a freelancer. Uh, what it will take for him to do, and what are the things at
every step that he can account for. Let's say 20,000 and 1 lakh beyond these other things
only change. And uh, this is how much time possibly it can take to reach till 1 lakh a month. So, 1 lakh a month.
>> Yeah, how does that road map look like? >> Let's say your work is good though in 2 months you should get your first order.
Okay. >> Like 2 months is a good time frame. A lot of people get it in 1 week, 2 weeks,
but yeah, realistically 2 months, 2 months. >> 2 months. Yeah. 2 [snorts] months you
got your first client. Uh, you got you completed it and you got what's working, what's not. Mhm. And ideally you start
getting more clients after that. So, I saw that you feel really really intensity but they got to be given you
doing good work. So, it's going to be next week you'll get one more time. Let's get about
you'll get multiple queries as you get here. Uh, we need to scale it to uh, 10 20 orders per month.
Okay. >> Like once you do that, uh, given that let's say you're doing
$10 per edit in the starting just like hypothetically. Mhm. So, let's say 20 orders okay, 30
orders okay. Now you start increasing the price because demand is also increasing. You have like more projects
lined up so you can start increasing the price, okay? Now here, after you have a set profile,
you can decide if you want to do high volume or you have or you want to do high value. Like you can also increase
the price and charge a premium. Okay. And do less orders or you can do high volume and do a lot of orders. So, this
is a, you know, this is a choice that you have. Mhm. Now let's say you select one of
those, you said goals. He uh, next three months may I want to do this much. I want to do this much. I think
six months may you can aim to get close to one lakh per month. I think that is very possible. Yeah, six
months may. Yeah. Because you can let's say you charge 5,000 rupees per reel.
So according to that you can understand how many reels I would have to do to reach like one lakh per month. 20 reels,
so on. Correct, yeah. 20 reels is doable in a month. Yeah, absolutely. Correct. So I think initially you can
aim for that and then once you have like a set profile you can increase the prices. Like I did. I started $5 there
but I think we charge around $100 for a one-minute video. Mhm. That that makes sense.
And to those let's say who are sticking with cold outreach, who are doing cold emails and everything. Their
works good but they're not able to get some clients out of that. How can they transition to Fiverr? I
know it will be it it is technically very simple that you just have to post a gig, get an intro video if you're a
video editor, and everything is sorted. You just have to set up a profile. But there's just something in their head
that yeah, Fiverr 20% will take it. Fiverr pay which downsides here and Fiverr pay down
upwork pay down. Cold emails to do my clients will go with stable clients to get recurring clients. Okay, so how do
they navigate these kind of thoughts? This is somewhat more of an internal thing that they have.
Correct. I think biggest lesson would be to learn that
nothing out of all of these is easy. Let's say if I were upwork, cold emailing, or even reaching out to people
in person. All of this will take a lot of iteration, a lot of failing, a lot of you know, learning key or I'm not good
enough right now. Maybe that's why I'm not getting clients. Which is a lesson you need to eventually learn. And I also
learned it very hard way on a hook where I was like not able to get anything and I thought the platform did not work, but
I didn't have the balls to say it to myself that you're not good enough right now. Correct.
>> Right? So, that's something you need to understand that these platforms are not against you.
They're just for people who are more skilled than you, okay? And eventually when you are
on that level, you will find clients. Mhm. What is I forgot what I was saying.
>> [laughter] >> No worries, but I think I can sum it up in just one sentence, which is choose
your hard. Everything is hard. It's just that whatever like resonates with your goals,
choose that thing. If Fiverr works best for you, do that. If cold email is something that is looking that you're
looking forward to, do that. For as for example, like you're doing Fiverr, I'm doing cold emails. Both works. We know
both works. It's just that I am trying I'm choosing it because I have a different ICP. I'm targeting different
type of clients. And you have built that you're targeting different type of clients. So, whatever like everything
works. It's just that you have to be competent enough to be in that niche and just keep iterating and doubling down on
that. Exactly. And I think it will like at some point I've also tried cold
emailing. At some point you have also tried Fiverr. So, it's always good to like try different things. See what's
working for you and then you can, you know, filter out what's not working. Mhm.
>> But in best case scenario, you will have multiple you should have multiple ways to get clients. Mhm. I think eventually
I diversify. Yeah. Yeah. Correct. For example, you also right now have YouTube which can bring you more leads. You also
post on LinkedIn. Yeah, yeah. do. >> different approach than mine. Uh because I have Fiverr and I post on Instagram
and YouTube instead of LinkedIn, right? So, all of this works. It's just about what you're doing and you have to stay
consistent. Uh I I remember when and we started, we were doing that few years ago also. Did
the same things and we are still doing it now. So, I think the biggest thing is consistency. You have to like keep
trying irrespective of what results you're seeing. Absolutely. Like that is the cheat real
cheat code, man. You just have to stick to it and then you'll eventually see the results. Most of the people have stuck
to the game. That's why they are where they are actually. Correct, yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's that's what I have.
Uh all of the questions are answered and I hope you got some real value out of it. You have everything that you need to
know in this masterclass. It's just that if you're still not acting, then do it. The problem is you. I've
given you everything. >> [laughter] >> So, yeah. Thanks a lot, for sharing the
insights. And if you have any last bit of piece of advice for the audience that they should really have in their head
before starting freelancing, please feel free to tell that.
I think just starting freelancing, I would highly suggest to learn sales psychology. Read a lot because
initially, I think when I started, the major major thing was I didn't know how to scale after a point. So, let's say
you even get some clients initially, but you'll run into some problems and only way to go ahead of that is to read, to
understand, and to learn more things. Because as a freelancer, it's a very lonely journey, especially the first few
years. But you won't have many people who will understand what problems you're facing
through. So, I think you have to become self-reliant. And I think reading books
is one of the hacks which I got which like I can see the golden >> [laughter]
>> Yeah, which did wonders for me so I think that's just one thing I would highly suggest anyone who is starting.
Read a lot. Yeah. Yeah. And then just last thing, most of the people know as a guy who
talks about Fiverr and teaches video editing. Bro, he's he's like the guy who does all of the things.
You just don't know him yet. >> [laughter] >> Why guitar
>> [laughter] >> Sorry. Yeah, I think I think yeah, I think a
lot of new experiences slows मतलब the thing which was happening in Hyderabad here was really time to get a lot and I
was like not able to understand same routine man. So I was like here I'll try multiple different things which like
slows down time and increases you know, the quality of life. But that's good. That's a rough idea. Like you have a
really good physique as well because of all of the physical things that you're doing. Right. Right. Yeah. I don't miss
workout. I was just eating protein or forcing myself to eat in the morning. Yeah.
Crazy [laughter] man. Crazy. That is one other thing that you can take apart from all of the freelancing thing from us as
well. So yeah. >> Let's go.
>> Thanks a lot for coming to the podcast and sharing your
insights about Fiverr. Welcome. Thanks a lot for having me. Yeah. Bye-bye. Take care.
So this is Shakti in our master class and if you don't know, I'll give you a little intro of him. He has been working
with Tech Burner. What is the name of him? Yeah, I must have a name for you though.
Shlok Srivastava Shlok Srivastava and he's currently working as a freelance video editor. I
first interacted with him through Instagram, right? Yes. And then we had a few calls.
And then after probably I think uh months we are right now sitting in a
call when I first time I saw Shakti bro. So it is new for me as well. I'll get some real insights from him for you. And
you'll get some industry specific knowledge that you need to have as a video editor so that you can start a
journey and some freelancing tips in general that can help you grow faster in the freelancing career and how it helped
him. And feel free to ask him to skip the questions if you
don't want to answer that. There are few questions related to probably the numbers. I don't want to reveal numbers
of any creators because I personally don't want to don't do that as well. So if you're comfortable with that then
only give me a ball ball park figure or an expected range okay freelancers can freelance video editor.
Sure sure. >> So I'll do that. Yeah. So for the detailed introduction what I'll do is
I'll let Shakti speak for himself and yeah please introduce yourself to my audience.
Hi everyone. My name is Shakti and I've been a video editor for over like a decade now because I started in 2016. I
left it all in 2021 because I was pursuing my CA exams. And I I was working remotely earlier in the in my
life phase when I was 19 or 20 years old just like you or you may not be you but at that time I was working with a lot of
music video editor music video artist. So I got a lot of clients and even I got some international clients. So things
were running smooth but then COVID happened and I thought let's go and study for a while. For like 2 to 3 years
I was studying and I was studying hard. So make sure you're also studying apart from doing video editing and doing
anything else. And in 2023 a great opportunity came to my place where I got an opportunity to work with Tech Burner
as his video editor. So I just I just made a cool very sick what do you say the trial video and they just loved it
they just loved it they just they just told me asked me to just onboard me in the Noida team. I went there. The team
was amazing for like two to and a half years I worked there, like two and a half years. I started as a video editor,
then I quickly moved up to a creative director making all these videos and having a lot of fun creating them and
directing them and even editing a lot of cool cool videos you can see in my portfolio. And in 2025, I just thought
that let's just move into a freelance space and just see what all other creators I can work with because when
you're working at a job, you are not supposed to do that and please don't do that because not only that will be more
hassling, but also it is not like it is not the right, you know, you shouldn't do that. So, whatever, I just I started
my freelance journey in 20 March 2025 this year and I was I searched a lot of videos about it in the in YouTube and
fortunately Madhu was making amazing videos and I took a lot of inspiration from him and a lot of guidance from him.
And that's the that's the time only when I called Madhu like he said. And I started my journey from there and now
currently I'm working with all the creators worldwide. Most of my Most of my clients are from US and Europe. One
of them from is from Australia and I just have fun working with them because the projects are amazing and it just
makes me push much more harder as compared to what I used to do earlier. That's great, man. I mean, I didn't
expect the communication skills to be too fluid. So, by the way, you told me that you started way back in 2016,
right? Uh what was your age back then and what is
what it is now? I was I I'm born in 2000. So, I think that time my age was 16, I guess.
Very early, very early. Very early. I was I was into this game very very early and I was I just got
Most of you must be motivated with the people like Sam Kolder, Casey Neistat. For me, Tomorrowland's after movie 2014
was something which I was which I was amazed to see and I wanted to make some kind of visuals like that. So, that made
me and one of my friend was in music video production, that pushed me into okay, let's do something with my laptop.
Although, we all know we all start with a very cheap laptop. Yeah. >> And so, I I I started making them, but
somehow I landed my first gig as a freelance editor when I was 18 or 19 years old was from Z Music. So, that is
where where all this it started kicked off where it kicked off. And then I got a lot of international clients.
International rappers connected me so that I can work for them. I do have a lot of portfolio of them. Mhm. That's
That's sick, man. And uh by by that time if anyone wants to go into this music industry or let's say they are like
looking forward to work with the brands. So, unko kitna expect karna chahiye ki they can earn this much amount of money
by still being uh a very niched video editor which in your case was a music video editor.
Back then, I'm talking about 2019 pre-COVID era. What I was being paid was $200 or something. It was very minuscule
as compared to what I was supposed to get, but it was amazing for me because in India
the music editing 5 to 10K was USD client 25 30K at in 2019. And I
do have the all the receipts and I do have all the projects uploaded. And this and unka kaam karna
to be very fair. Although India projects were good, but the projects which they sent because they sent FX to FX 1K
cinema cinema log footage. That was something which was tempting for me even for my laptop also.
Okay. So, like that was per project pricing not a recurring. Yeah, no no no. That was never recurring
because in music video a DJ rapper shoot karega kal bhejega. So, it is it is not a recurring.
>> So, do you do you did you used to hunt clients or do you get did you get leads from your
portfolio or something? What was the process? >> See, when back in that day only word of
mouth was the only game. So, the way I got into Z Music is because my friend was a music video producer. He
asked me why can't you help us on the edit? So, that's that's the way I got my first
client from Zee Music. Then after the clients from Zee Music, they liked my work and they had a producer outside in
US. The one who produces produces our music. He liked my work. He reached out to his rapper, like we have this guy
over in India who can do your videos because at that point of point in time, editing videos in there was there was
like lot of money costs associated with because it was a very niche skill at that time, 2019 2018. So, they sought me
out like, okay, we can send you some footages. Just play around and just show us what you can do. I did a great edit,
so they just made me okay. Then they had a word of mouth in the LA. They were based in LA. They were three rappers.
They asked my help out. Although they were not big names, they were small pretty small artists, but they used to
pay me sufficient, I I must say because I was 18 19, I was in college. And that's the way where it all started and
where I where I thought like maybe video editing is the thing for me. But that's the bad 2020 2021 came in because
lockdown came in and everything is shut down. So, that was the point where I left video editing. So, I started once,
then I left once in 2019 and then I started in 2023 after 4 years of gap. Mhm. Okay.
Okay, but yeah, as you said, 200 to 300 dollars per project for a guy who is 18 is
really good. I mean It was really good. Exactly. And people try to, you know, look down on the
amount of money that they're making at that age and they think this is our pieces are pieces are coming
out. But yeah, actually think about it. You are making decent amount of cash to
sustain your life and probably probably give some funds to your family as well. And if you don't want to, probably your
parents won't ask if they are not in need. But you're self-sufficient. That is a
very good taste of money that you get in your early age and then after that it just
motivates you to go further in your life. Go further. Absolutely. That's That's really motivated me to be very
frank about it. That really motivated me. Okay, I feel if I can do this, if I can reach to LA, then I can reach to
Hollywood. If my love I can reach to the rappers. I may May I get I may get in get in some kind of
short film or something. Because at that time I was not into content. That was it. That was a very different era. 2019
2018 it was a very different era. Video editing was a niche at that point of time. Not is like a
What's happening today in today's era? Hey, it is great gig work. It is great to be very frank. It is It is awesome to
see people from India and all those good creatives from India they are pushing in pushing out the boundaries from India.
And I have a lot of connections who they really say to me people working from India they do a really really great
stuff. Because freelance market may you need to make sure which country you belong to
and the quality of work you are delivering. So I am glad people have not done
anything bad. So that is very good. That that is the insane insane amount of feedback which I used to get. And mostly
when people are working with the international clients not everyone can reach at that level. So
basically we can treat it as a pyramid. international players or creators or A players or B players which
intermediate level players could target and hence and that's
or or what Yeah. So one thing hit me here.
You said key you started with music production. You got a referral from one of your friends.
Yes. Was How How did your first freelance client's journey look like looked like?
Was it like this key how I adjust video it going to have the music guy to cut the hair.
What was it? It was kind of that only. It was like a by by situation over there because the producers were super chill.
It was from my hometown and they used to like Shakti here to go to go to go to go. The first video to be very fair, I
can show you I will be giving you the links. It was shot on a Samsung S21 Ultra.
It was shot on a Samsung S21 Ultra. Let me to make a cool play one of the color grade. I see. I did something I
made the highlights blue like yellowish and some kind of tone to it. And that was a very nice nascent thing
initial phase with that. Because at that point of point in time what was happening with producers also in Kobe a
good video production on that they had to invest a lot of money for like 50 60 K for a music video. Mhm. Instead of
that they wanted to shoot in a style which they wanted and for a while they can implement with the editors. So
because that time editors are not like this key I can help you out. It was they were mostly
As a freelancing what coming I mean it is like it everyone you can help anybody can help anyone. Mhm. Music
videos and then now the music videos are short by I don't know what level match going to
get you to manage the game. I wanted I crave that kind of thing but
somehow in 2021 I as I said I was totally focusing on international clients.
As 2021 2020 2020 I started the COVID that time I wasn't hit because for the work for this company 2021 when the
second wave came into India and across the world it was a full mayhem for me. No projects nothing so I had to shut my
shut my professional journey now I just think think a think a second thought about it. And you started seeing
Yeah I started for see I was already I was already studying so boys and girls just make sure you're not leaving your
primary education. Mhm. I am a big mentor of this. Please please if you're studying do study and I I am a I am a
like a great example of it. It's that I can start start give you something both of these are something
that will get bigger for that >> See, the hard work which I did in 2019-2020, I left my I left my career,
but in 2023 I landed at Tech Burner. And now you must be thinking you must be lucky.
To be very honest, I was not lucky because there was a parameter ki aapko ek edit karke dena padega. To wo jo edit
hai, that was totally they were counting on my skills. It is not ki I have to make sure ki the music we could not
because I was a music video editor, mind you. I didn't know how to find a music from Epidemic or any anywhere else. So
that was a really new skill which I needed to learn so that I could learn so that I could learn that I had to
implement in that case study so that they can select me. Fortunately, that was a great case study and they loved
it. So you see they selected me. Otherwise, they would have wouldn't have selected me. To be honest, when I was in
Tech Burner, I was also made sure that I was also making hirings for them. Jab main aapko is case study bhej raha
tha, I was not getting that kind of call. And that is a reality. People they don't
understand the style of a creator or understand the style of the video they are wanting. Usme main music videos se
effect nahi aa sakta but the music videos se bahut saara fast cut nahi kar sakta. I have to think about it.
Ki content kaise bol raha hai wo bande ka jo bol raha hai, how many gaps are there, how many cuts are there, what is
he showing? In content, you have to show what you are editing. In music video, it is a
very different game. It is a very different game. It is almost visuals. In content, it is like story. The story
will narrate the pacing of that slow or fast or what. Bahut saare match cuts honge. So wo bhi hai mere paas. I can
show you what I made in the uh for the Tech Burner case study. I have saved it for my Yeah, I I
I'll do one thing. I'll link your portfolio in the description. People can see that portfolio of yours.
The portfolio I have never updated. The only concern is that >> [laughter]
>> I have never very bad. Lekin main do teen videos but I had I have a decent portfolio which
which I just sent. But mostly I used to send the videos which I have made with Tech Burner or with my all the freelance
clients which I have made it. So that they can give a gist of it because portfolio may you are making sure you
but both side client to both different different videos to you but something to make a lot of portfolio
but I want to both portfolio because I have music video creators real estate video finance video short from portfolio
how can you make sure that all of this is crammed crammed into one big basic portfolio but my just
to be you plus one but not so you make me up I will tell this in the somewhere else what I should do for
every client. Okay. But I used to do it in person so that you can do that that is a much more valuable point. Okay.
Somewhere later in the video. Mhm. Correct. So like first clients was mostly I would say that you had
connections and you got the first client and more for most of the people it's really hard to get the their first
it to get their first client. Apart from that when I'm saying this it doesn't mean that Shakti got lucky and
he had connections and he just landed client. See there's
there's certain amount of depth to this statement and that is when he
landed that he capitalized on that opportunity and he refined his skills and then eventually
in 2023 landed TechBurner which he talked about he he had three days in which he had to
learn few things and implement that and TechBurner a guy who has right now I don't know how many followers He has 12
12 and a half million followers. 12 and a half and was time to I think 1 to million followers.
By 10 million 9.9 8 to 9 8 I'm just not remembering the number. Okay, but still bro 9 million be other followers and if
he has put up post he may video editors hire still a big deal you landed that job.
Because you had to edit and compete with other people just over it so sorry miss it so many people submit to
you time to Absolutely. It takes a lot of skill set. It takes a
lot of a big selection process where a creator has to see multiple videos and then
finally come up with something that resonates with his style and the taste. Right? So, don't think anyone got lucky.
Please never think about You just don't know the story yet. So,
Uh you told me Just think about it. Just think about it, people. It gives me left my editing journey.
Three years ago, I started a fresh. With a with again a decent laptop. So, it was it was not at
all easy. To be very fair, there's a huge difference in editing. I was using After Effects very little.
So, let me put it out straight. It was It was very tough.
Even to be very fair, let me tell you one more thing. I had my CAT exams. So, I I had a decent percentile. So, I was
getting into a college. But then I chose not to because I always wanted to do this. I had one chance and I just had to
make sure either I'm going to Games to the management board or I'm going for a new job. And I chose to do a new job and
I'm thankful that I did it because that is what satisfied my soul. And maybe in the coming years,
maybe maybe I don't know. But yes, you It was a very tough choice and it was a very very
tough decision for me. foreign creators rappers credits Mhm. Correct. And I agree with a part of
it. Also, I want to clarify this thing. It doesn't mean that it It matters. But what he's saying is the
niche is different. When he worked as a music video editor So,
to Possibly Okay, he has worked with Zee Music. But
what can he bring to my table? And if he can bring something to my table,
then well and good. I I can But if not, then So, that is what he wants to like
emphasize on. Now, Shakti, tell me one thing. People these days mostly freelancers struggle
with learning the skills. They constantly ask me in the comments Okay. And I think we talked about it on
the call. You can get the video on the road there. Uh but you will kind of figure out you
will get it eventually. Absolutely. And >> And for the entire road map, Madhu is
there. His His channel is a gold mine. I started my freelance journey in 2025 five this year seeing all his content.
I'm But it doesn't matter. I saw all
I can say you this. I'm glad that So, you have to be like chatting 10 to
you have to understand what he was saying what he is telling what he wants you to understand. But I suppose
but what he is making you sure he's making so much effort into this entire is providing so much value to us.
We have to grasp it and I know if 10 k people are watching or 20,000 people are watching only 10 or 20 people are really
implementing it and within 10 fully two or five people. I don't know what the 8 year top 0.1%
then you are not then you are in the camera I know. For sure. Yeah. So, yeah I I'll
add to that question that I was asking. How did you start your learning process? What does your learning process look
like? He made me to start it and then I eventually shifted to these platforms. And
what do you think an editor or a freelancer should focus on? You can specifically talk about video editors
because you are a video editor. So, these are two set of questions. How did you learn? What is your process? And
secondly the way that the video editors can maximize their learning process.
Sure. I will be going through the questions. So, first I'm answering the first question. How did I learn? So,
basically I was doing all the client works and I was seeing a lot of things which I could have I couldn't do but I
needed to do. And that point of time there was not a decent kind of portfolio not a decent kind of
YouTube tutorials available out there. So, may I see experiment with that? That I've been using you must be knowing
this transform key. When I transform it for a while somehow I made I saw a video
shutter go faster blurriness I got. I made an entire music video Indian music video
I was making zoom in zoom out video I was making zoom in zoom out I was making zoom in zoom out zoom in zoom out. And
it was very random. To be very famous, very random. So,
you have to be proactively learning a new kind of skill set watching Insta, YouTube, but actively you have to
implement them also. What I will consider is you have to go to the
cookie. It makes no sense. I will go to the cookie. That time I used to consume a lot.
Like the sky replacement thing. And the 2019, 18 that was like sky replace career, roto career. That was a big
thing. Now it's very easy to do. And the road map which I will suggest you to go is you just need to see what
people are doing. And two days era, people will have to seek out their great. I know a lot of creators, Indian
creators, total total creators like What it means that they explain you how to music to stop here. I know there's a
guy Rohit Prajapati who used to show a lot of like breakdowns of teasers and trailers.
Excellent, excellent road map, excellent gold mine of a channel he is. He will music use concept to the concept of base
concept to concept of riser concept to concept of contrast edit. There's a lot of things which you can do. But the only
core fundamental which I will ask you to do is I will long term video consume to edit technique video. If you are seeing
it short term you you won't remember. Really know someone
All long term you have to try to implement at least 10% of it. If you have done 10% you can do it. That will
be a like reminder of you guys. You will get the next I think who's video let's try this in my client's video or in my
own video. So in that process I also did in the same way in 2018, 2019, 2020. Even now
what I used to do is to watch a lot of content, a good content. But I have to do that content for
example watch a lot of Casey Neistat videos. Watch a lot of I must say calling first video launch watch a lot
of box video. You can take a lot of inspiration from them. You don't need to
implement all of them, but I'm going to taste it and your taste matters much as compared
to your entire skill set cookie other of taste enough you would be using a red phone with a motion blur with a forest
of ocean down the that will look cinematic because I could taste myself evolve with you okay after taste evolve
it was copy paste get into the simple text that could be that to a basic one not a sensory for other different style
if you want to implement. So, I would say keep consuming a lot of good content and when you're consuming a tutorial,
please consume a tutorial which is long form cookie up the portal implement cookie of wasted like wasted VST the
wasted around 20 30 minutes up going up to implement short may you just never remember what
the short you have to give it to both of the the tutorial to do that but I must say you must consume long form and
please if you're also editing, make sure you're getting editing long form content. That will change your entire
perspective in editing. I have your short form of the cut to it is great, but you have long form of the
cut to that this to real but it is like this critical ODI of like editing. I
keep on doing but you keep the real test of game. You have to be patient. You have to learn
the lot of skills. Skills you have to learn a lot of skills that I like I do not like
to you have to learn a lot of skills and we scale in music pacing storytelling not I'm saying not about the motion of
motion of what about the matter that I have a basic structure of the matter that you have to do. Is what you have to
do to both impact you have to do music to both impact that you need to practice and for that
you have to watch a lot of long form content. I will emphasize on that because I just love editing long form
content. Although I would get a lot of them I used to get a lot of short form edits, but
I technically did a lot of long form content because I just absolutely love them love editing.
That's crazy breakdown bro. I loved it.
So you talked about consuming long form content
and creating long form content. So if someone is a video editor and he's not getting long form content
from their clients. Usually how many agency maybe there are few clients that just sends us short form
videos or ads. Doesn't necessarily want us for long form content. What do they do?
How can they develop taste? That's a good question.
Consumption can evolve your taste, but unless until you're editing it, you are not making it.
Cameras will be short and long video. Please if you are a day in my life as a
video editor, a lot of videos over there. A day in my life in my college if you're in a college. Please try to put
emphasis on long form content. And if not, then try to make some memories with your friends.
And in a way you will understand because it takes a lot of effort to bring a complete story.
Random clips is something different, but a story is a very very different. Like there there's a lot of great guys who
are doing it. And there's a guy whose name is Rohit_CB. He made an un- undoubtedly like the gold mine of video
when he went to Ladakh. I was like shocked that my Indian creators it's not that good.
And then he made an amazing long form video. There's another guy who made a home for his mother. I'll be just bought
recently just moved out. Mhm. If you don't know Home for his mother? Like for Indian client Indian creator?
>> Indian Indian Indian Indian creator. I'll be just blew up here as well. Just two or three months back.
Maybe just Give give me some reference. I think maybe Like he is he was struggling with his
house. Then he made sure No, I don't know. I don't know. I will share with the link, but that is
a like people they are just making documenting their life and just They're making amazing video. Even one of
Madhu's friend, Ravi and Mithun Jay. Amazing guy. And see that See where he's coming from, man.
I have a huge respect for him as well. Because if you can see his journey This guy he's got The only benefit is he
also documenting it. At the same time he also elevating his content. And that is what makes you a complacent
video editor. Like up go seek the sort Apply your good video apply go go go go go go My lucky masala I used to
implement a lot of them in my videos, but currently I'm not pushing any content. But yes, if you having no
clients make sure you're documenting your own life in a way fruitful over the new purpose here. I got communication
skills to be better over and secondly I got I got skills that are enhanced with the key you know Yeah, you have been a
time lapse over. So that time lapse you should time lapse I need to get the most of it.
Match cut like Hicks with the AI So you can getting you can get my
contact what I'm trying to say over here. That's sick. And like you said
that you can create content, but with the two benefits of communication skills and skill sets. At the same time if you
have a knack of you know at the love for creating content, you can also blow up. Like that
is an additional benefit and you can keep editing videos for for clients. There's no harm in that. And be a
content creator as well. No worries. I was creating content for video editing since until 2024
start, I think. And after that, I shifted to freelancing. So, I was a video editor for other people, and I was
creating my videos as well. Win-win for me. I built an audience, and you never know
where you can reach with the the content game. You just never know. You never know. Yeah.
Content plays a massive If you're a video editor, only your known connections know you. But if you are a
creator and a video editor, I think you have the world to explore. And for the audience, for the new
freelancers, uh I want to ask you this question. You landed a job. How First of all, how
did you land a job? Did you get the form uh and you applied to it? Was it that, or did you cold out? I think it was a
form, right? Yeah, I got it from LinkedIn. Okay, you got it from LinkedIn. So, if people any
any people are looking for the jobs, they can go to LinkedIn, search for the jobs, and they can apply there.
But if >> Apply there. uh you like video editors, graphic designers, coders
are doing freelance thing and want to land their own clients, what is your usual process? What do you do to land
clients for yourself? Because you are now shifted to being a freelance video editor, you have now shifted. So,
since March, and it has been, I think, 9 or 10 months? >> 6 months. 6 months? 6 or 9 months. Yeah,
it's December, bro. So, November, yeah. You forgot.
You because freelancing game is such a like like it's a nightmare. To be very honest, it's a nightmare. Because you
are not able to take rest. You are constantly working. I can feel you. Anyways.
Anyways. Yeah, so it's almost already 8 9 months. Mm. So, how how do you land clients right now? If you had to give a
framework, if you had to give any approach or the mistakes that people do, what would it look like?
So, first of all, guys, I don't know if I was taking my neck back yet. Let me just be very honest
with you. It give no benefit to me. No benefit. No benefit to me. Zero benefit.
What benefit I had was I can make good videos. That is the only benefit which I used I can sell. And to be very fair and
to be very honest, I got my first client just I made a cold outreach. After seeing a lot of videos, a lot of
tutorials, I got a client. He asked me, "See, I don't want to see your portfolio or
anything. I just I'm sending you a data. And also, I'm paying you a some kind of a test amount of money. Like a trial
video for the video." "Are you able to make sure that you are able to make a content which I make?"
And I was like, "Yeah, I can I can." But that was a huge but both the advanced 3D motion graphics are.
I started working on it, but I was not able to complete it. Then when I don't know what I did, I said, "I'm so sorry
about it. I'm a good storyteller, but I'm I I do a lot of motion graphics, but this is like
advanced level of motion graphics which I was unable to do within the 2 days of time time work time frame."
He just asked me, "Since you made the entire cuts so good with the because the cuts cuts maybe what depends on the
music selection what depends on the what sort of the basic narrative that was great for the video. And what happened
is it was like 5 minutes of 5 minute old video. Also, he told me to make it 1 minute video." And that I missed out. I
thought it was the entire video he was asking. So, many 5 minutes of 5 minute video like
video. And I used a lot of techniques. It was I was using a technique from Max Joseph from Casey Neistat. I saw a lot
of mixed media type of video. So, he just liked the style of it. He just asked me, "Do you Have you this Is
this your primary skill set? Like you you don't care about it. You can apply to you. Okay, this is you." I was like,
"Yeah, I have I'm applying to you. And this is the This is the style which I made during the editing. It's not
something I've done before." He was just impressed of it. Like I had to put everything in the video. He was
like, "It does I don't about the 3D motion graphics anymore. Can you just deliver
on this? I said yes, I can deliver on this. And instantly he sent me I I must say $400 for that scene.
I'm going to send you this he was charging like 8 minute video he was paying $50 at the trail.
Somehow many make a lot of that was also concerned my social media like you may You were saying I am going to going to
make your one 60 second of video. But somehow I made the entire video 5 5
and a half minutes and he was impressed with the entire style of it. It was not the motion graphics or the heaviness of
it it was the entire video style of it. So then he asked me. Now if you're asking me how can you reach out to the
client? So and how do you get much more clients? So the process which has worked me was cold
emailing. I got my first client like I said maybe his expectation his expectation must be different and your
deliverables must be must be different. Like in my case both were as I knew I could find me to put convert and then
you are matching at the same time. But I must say cold email hits better as compared to any kind of other format any
kind of other things. You can back you up okay I know my chance for but cold email me either
either he is interested or not you can make sure you can make it up and even he he can also make out from it
pay trial video. I I think I deliver for you. Then it's fair and good. That worked for me but yeah it was a
very different case for me but like I must say so like to be honest it is like I would have to say in a way it makes
way for me. But yeah it was a very super secret. I just made sure my proposal for something
the kind of amazing to magazine come in I can't explain it in a way I can't I just
did it in a way. You just have to think about mix >> Okay. So, you said
email works and that's absolutely true. Works for us as well. LinkedIn works as well. I've been testing LinkedIn.
So, for those of you who wants to test a platform for cold DMs, LinkedIn is your way to go for now and
take the advantage of it as much as you can while it's working because when it will not
you'll be only left with cold emails. So, that's another thing. Also, you're medical
Yeah, or other freelancers go Just tell me about a little bit of your framework of cold emails. How do you write? What
is the process of it? Can you give us a reference? of your email
>> Yeah, I do. I have learned a lot of I would like but I would be doing both of them in the earlier. Firstly, I just
make sure the client the prospect which I'm finding they do really help of me or not. You can both say do I can't mail
Mr. Beast. Makes no sense. No the guy but they got I used to make sure certain amount of creators they need
your help. For example, creators under 250k. This is a like a first benchmark. You can only need to look to have to go
to team leader. What's the open up your personal case of one million? They do have of their own team and they really
don't want a lot of like deliverables to be given outside. One of my two of my creators are there whom I working with
as a like a creative director and as an editor. But that is a different scenario that they reach out me from the
perspective of TechBurner. You don't know about the TechBurner company. So, they reach out me. So, that's a
different case. But I don't know if you reach out me >> Maybe you can land it to a land to a
very high client like 1 million, 2 million, 3 million. No. But chances are mostly if
you want to land it like you have to achieve it to you. Try out all the creators under the 500k. You will be
hitting a hitting someone who I want you to do my video need. That's the first point. And second, how to draft your
email like email? Just see what you can do with me. Just see what you can do with me. Even a small of mistake
but you can do it like I have to jump in the music and it's way off as compared to what you should have been used. You
have to do motion graphic which you made it. It could have been better. You have to do intro which you made now. It is it
is not compelling me to see. I want to make a good video like this. It is like I forgot if you are in the niche you
must be knowing Hidden Hills Smith. Hidden Hills Smith. He makes an amazing story like this. Intro
like this. The entire video should look like. When I was looking at TechBurner I was
inspired a lot and made an amazing videos for TechBurner also. But that in that in that way that I evolved my
taste. So my taste evolved and I can now see what this creator made like intro like this. If you can do it like this.
You have to do a lot of video like this. You have to do a lot of video like this. Sound effects like this. You have to do
intro like this. You have to do intro like this. This is going to happen later in the video. Maybe the the video would
have performed much more better. And I would have been amazed to see the entire video as compared to like a normal
intro. So a lot of factors you have to understand in this video what you can do
better like this. Up parallel we don't know. Hey Mr. Smith. I saw your video and I
just love the flow of it. I have been following you for so many years. But your recent video is is sick but if this
would have been done that would have been much more better for me to consume or something like that. Then you tell
about yourself that I have been working with this is creators. And I would like to extend my services of video editing
to you. On my creative direction or any anything else. Like I would like to have a short video for me for you. I would
like to do anything for you. Anything like that. Could as a matter of that you like I would like to accept my services
for you and thank you. And a small portfolio or a great work link. My best work and my portfolio. I do link you
with them but all best work I link with them or all best work should be related relatable to
his content. That you have to make sure. Yeah, but 50% relatable. Mhm. Otherwise that won't work. Otherwise that won't
work. You can mostly what I have seen was your click cut there will be what
they think it tomorrow will get relatable work here. Then you have to check the portfolio.
But a little relatable work you can pass them through portfolio they can take a minute to reply. Okay, I want to connect
with you. This is the plan. So that is it. The framework is understand what what is missing from the videos and what
can be done between these videos. You just have to the first line should be only that. Like it don't start with that
but you can buy what I mean improve with that. Start with a good humble note. I love your videos and
something like of that sort. Then you in the second line you just need to mention fundamental could have been better. In
the second in the second para you introduce about yourself. In the third para the CTA is which is your good best
work link and your portfolio. Simple. You can make it easy better with that. You said I don't know what you mean by
that. What do you mean by that? You can be just straight forward with them. Come what may come what may come
what may come what may simple one. Mhm. Correct. That is what for me. Yeah, it it will work for most of the
people. People just don't understand that simple things scale. And I've repeatedly talked about this in
the masterclass as well. You can buy simple things and go but multiple time go.
Over the year over the year I will do 10 15 20 emails based on what I do daily. You will eventually be there and this is
some this is the thing that is coming from me who has learned it the hard way this year as well. So please you know
simple things scale a lot. By the way just if you have any reference of the email you can blur out the emails name
and everything of the prospects. You can send over the reference to me so that I can show to some of to the audience.
Sure, I will make sure that once which clicked once once the email whatever the super simple that really worked for me,
I will send that send the same email because that was a conversion email because the client really converted on
that email. Yeah, for sure for sure. Please do. Uh again, uh there's one thing that I
would like to correct and I'd like to ask you as well. So, while we were chatting uh and we were talking about
cold emails, you were like, "Yeah, Tech Burner ka naam really mereko help nahi kiya."
But oh hidden mean ki woh completely invisible hai name. When he talks about Tech Burner
kuch credibility build hoti hai. I know it. Uh because when I uh name drop someone whom I've worked with and uh has
more than a million followers usually and Shakti ke case mein 9 million super
followers hai. It builds a certain level of credibility. Ho sakta hai 100 mein se 99 log nahi
check kare jaake ki Tech Burner kaun hai aur nahi jaante ho. Aur international audience toh waise bhi nahi jaante hoge.
Nahi jaante. Agar Shakti Indian clients ko email karega toh iske conversion ke chances
significantly badh jayenge. Reason is simple. Indian audience ko Tech Burner ke baare mein pata hai. Indian creators
ko pata hai. Agency owners ko bhi pata hai. Toh
he can land really good clients or maybe get a good job in a good agency. But international clients pe Shakti ka kehne
ka matlab hai ki yeh cheez valid nahi hai because Hindi ka content hai uh Tech Burner ka and international creators
usko nahi dekhte hai. So, that's why he said ki jo uska approach of cold emails hai, that won't work. Uh sorry, the name
of Tech Burner doesn't work in his cold email approach. But yes. He also told one thing during
the call and that is he got I think two referrals. Two referrals? Two referrals. Uh while
he was uh That was a warm lead which means they contacted me. not me contacting
So, when you're working with big creators, when you're working with some big names in the industry, you get a lot
of referrals. And thing that you can have if you're doing or delivering great work. So, that is
something that you'll have to keep in mind. Key yes, that name helps, but in a different ICP and in an in a different
niche. But, for him Mr. Beast. And
I, you know, I I'm coming off as a noob here. Uh
clients Okay, that makes sense. I can do that, but
I don't know what leads. Some process, something that you have in your head.
First, let me just let me just correct you, you need to do that job.
If you're in a good good company, like I was in a great company, so I can really count on that.
You get to know the entire framework of it. makes you work faster. Mind you
Job you got only 6 hours to deliver the thing. When I have got the manager, he will be asking you about you where
where's the work? Mhm. So, job makes you faster and it also makes you competitive because you can compete with the editor.
You have to compete because you are something but it is like in a classroom. To make 90 out of 100, you score 95 out
of 100. You have five marks out of 100. You have to make sure you are reaching to at least 94 or even 100 out of 100.
So, that is the one case. Secondly, if you have a pool So, I must say in today's world, it is
easier also, it is hard also. Easier because you bought some content creators on YouTube. If you have a content
creator to work with, you can work with them, you can easily have a DM to him saying I am a editor, I can render my
services. Also, the only concern is you will bought by all means of what you have to do with
but you can do it it's not a question. You have to do it. Also, a lot of small
small creators over Insta or over Face Facebook and over Instagram, you can message a lot of them. They may not be
replying to you but chances are they will reply to you. I'm talking about YouTube editors,
YouTube creators. I don't think you should be approaching it straight forward because you have to
up up to get their email and then you have to do that to market it. It's it's a different game all together. Email
marketing is a different thing. Insta marketing, Instagram you can DM them and it's comparatively easy. Simple
I charge you to make a problem with them and then I will send you an email about it. Take a portfolio and ask the charge
you to make a short note that I'm a video editor and I want to render a services. And this is my client who is
working in finance or who is working in beauty niche. I will make a short draft for them for a cold pitch. Charge you to
make a lot of word over this up to fundamentally change it a little bit. Or up to 10 to 15 of them
you can do that. This is not I would I have an idea not I have not I have not done it but I think
this might work for getting your first client. And once you get your one client, one
client after you have done with the other one you have it's easy for you to get another client because of the
reference of the other one. You get another one. The second one to the third one to the fourth one. But that is a
loop. You the only first client is a really decent it's a very big thing even when I started
my freelance journey 2025 this year, it was a very big thing for me because it was not easy.
I can get you I've been in your shoes. I could never have made it but I have been in your shoes. You have to trust me.
But how? Get your job. You can have job Who is that you can be in the same NDA
Add this to your profile But I've got For example It creator
versus finance versus podcast a clip
I don't then you can much more confidently. You might
I can solve it. And I have made it. I got to make I got to make
free me. I don't But but you have to be very sure you was
one day guy and you one day guy
You can Otherwise you are not going to be wasted. That I
don't want. You see the better way is to job guru job
I mean that is the the Instagram only option which will be very much credible to you. You can maybe
I've been on LinkedIn. I've got a great profile. But then use it for getting my
LinkedIn different kind of different kind of clients. For example venture capitalist
or sorry real estate guy people in or sorry agencies
But I will say then Instagram platform for
or sorry But in LinkedIn you can try. But I've got
I want to be If you if you have premium you can just send as many connection requests as
possible. And in mails 50 minutes per month. So you can do 50 emails a month but
everything can be high quality. And there. If 50 of if 50 of your leads are great
by eight to convert ho sakta hai is there a small chance of it, but yes. Agar apne
do mahina kiya, 100 emails kiya, LinkedIn ko LinkedIn prospects ko apne message kiya. Ho sakta you may land up
in one of them. And mind you, your first client is tough. But your second line will be the
easiest. Kyunki pehla client aapko bas connect karna padta hai. Then you are getting the entire tab aapko tab you are
getting the into that mind set. Achha ye karna tha, ye karna tha, ye karna tha, ye karna tha. You're able to into into
this scheme and you will be in this podcast and this you will be in this masterclass.
Mhm. Again, uh I'll reinforce that question ki how do you find leads right now if you're open to
sharing that process? Yeah, so currently I found out this uh great plat- platform called YT Jobs and
I made sure that all my profile is updated and all my work which I've done is now accredited. So that is something
which is great and that has helped me to like blow me up and instantaneously getting much more clients as compared to
what I used to get. Mere ko malum hi nahi tha ki YT Jobs karke ek platform hai. Usme you can upload these videos
because you have worked with the creators and you can get their accreditation and you can work with
other creators too. So that was a very different thing for me. I just got to know about it like two or three months
back. Now when I'm accredited with this with this creators and I have all those baki bhi creators ko mere ko bas wo
approve karwana padta hai. You get this badge. Jaise man lo aapka 100k ke creators ka apne kaam kar liya, you get
the silver badge. You have worked with a uh uh creator who has 1 to 9 million
followers, you will get a golden badge. And if you have worked with the creators who has above 10 million uh
followers or 10 million followers or subscribers in YouTube, you will get a diamond badge which is very rare. Bahut
kam logo ke paas hi hota hai. So that has helped me out a lot. Mhm. So I really don't want you to compare on that
front. Kyunki aapko pehle 12 minute ka channel kholna padega matlab mein kaam karna padega. Kyunki people who are at
10 million they are not looking for freelancers. I must say this. Mhm. Even if they are looking, they're looking for
a very different set of like problems. For example, if you see motion graphics
course come on they will going to reach out to them. But good creative videos they have their
own team. I was with we hired a team of seven seven creatives. Five of them were in
hospital two of them were freelance motion graphics designer. You can as a video editor your job is to edit the
video. Motion graphics designer come with the motion graphics designer. Come on.
I think comes at first. It long form video in a day or two days.
That might sound very big to you but yes, that's the speed which also I have. It long form video about the video with
a lot of video lot of graphics in a day I can do it. I have a lot of yes a lot of videos I've done it.
So that is a speed which I'm saying I got a big job join up your speed ready up your speed ready
up your speed ready up your speed ready up your speed ready up your speed ready up your speed ready up your speed ready
up your speed ready up your speed ready up your speed ready up your speed ready up your speed ready up
And that is how to make it to email to make it to find
it a big it's a different game only. You can have been
competing with international people. I will feel about it there a lot of international
editors which one is from Philippines one is from Tehran so maybe you can compete so that
I can land at a good position. So I will get different game I'm not representing my nation. That's a real key.
You can that's a very different game to be very honest. What's going to happen fundamental
how are they serving what is the client servicing and how are they delivering the projects and what kind of time is it
to match with the that's a that's a different game all together and what are the services which
you are providing apart from editing like how we are using the projects using notion using slack using trello using
monday.com using all those the database management like I have put it on that in my home like you can get the database
management I can have a transfer that's a different game all together. It is a way of talking to the person
tell me a decent client who that can help you grow and in you have to say that
It's It's It's fair on that side also. Mhm. And after It is not the only niche. It is not the
only thing. And I'm fortunate enough that I work with Tech Burner because if you have noticed, Slope doesn't make
tech videos. He makes a lot of variety of videos. If you must have the latest launch
video, that the entire creative direction was made by me. And a lot of great videos, a lot of supercar videos,
a lot of amazing videos. Tesla Cybertruck was selling many videos in India. There was also a lot of gadget
videos. It was also music that different niche genre of videos. The different genre of videos you know The
different genre mindset will be there. So, it is not like you have to do this only. The different genre will become
that also helps you in getting a lot of being a great editor. Mhm.
That's sick, man. Lastly, I want to end this thing with top three that you think video editors
and slash or freelancers make that they really really should avoid to land high-ticket clients or grow in
their careers. So, firstly, you asking in the process of making it out or in the process of
you already made it and then you have messed up with your client. I don't know.
That's a good question. I would say I was asking for some generalized tips
after acquisition and before acquisition. So, let's do one thing. Drop
three for after client acquisition and drop three for before client acquisition.
That will be good. So, for the first first part of it, like before you acquisition of client client
acquisition I I must say before you just email them email the prospects. Like I said, you have to make sure the
related work which you're sending is almost in a same niche. Up which will be able to
he won't be able to understand your skill set of it. You can't sell a finance guy a tech video tech video and
I have a beauty blog but it makes no sense. I at least you have that kind of videos
in your profile or I must say give me the heck. Ask your friend about it but this is a
very very bad act. I don't need you you're going to be ruined for your life.
So you can ask your friend who must be in that niche bro I'm using one of your videos for for this project for my for
my client acquisition. And the client may maybe impressed with you then he will be sending the footage
but you have to make sure you you are going to make the same kind of effort in that video a world video almost similar.
So that's the that's a very nice but yes never steal anybody's work. Always ask for your friends or everyone
is it okay for me because I have a lot of I have a I am I can edit good great videos.
But with the utmost like respect of it ask him first. You might think I can start with you but I am make sure I can
make client give me the video the moment he sends me I will run the entire process of it. And I will make sure that
you can make a difference with that match so that is a heck of it but what you're sending the first thing has
to match like what the client you know about the creator or whatever the niche is you can match with it with your
document [clears throat] may be that is before the acquisition better. You communication should be good like I
have made you bola you like you first line that is my code email your first line should be impactful it
is like how many you this is the real problem like is video may facing the ticket ticket here. That even the client
will understand how to search for it. But you have to say what I say. The third thing I must say finding right
client or right niche for you. You have been working in finance niche. Maybe I got a boost niche for export or
I get to you might get a greater client and greater synergy as compared to what you can do
in a different niche. But I got a finish for export or I get to you for example blogs.
I know a great editor who works works with the international client and he's from India. He edits for
him. I don't remember the guy's name. But yeah, he is there and I love you don't need to waste your podcast or
anything. But when I met with met with him in Delhi, he was like you might may I was
making blogs for this Indian creator, but I wanted to expand my horizon. So I landed up niche down my own niche only
that was the blogs. But I want to do blogs for editing but both of them both of them both of them. That guy used to
visit all around the world. So it's cool to scale that was making him a Should we connect with him?
He was wanting someone who can make amazing cinematic videos. Up He was making a simple iPhone video for editing
in India. But when he got that prospect he was he was asking him what much more from him because he was doing the
footage that was made in such a footage that was made. What are the angles that were both of them storytelling? Then he
has to also upgrade. But yes, you can niche down on your own niche. This niche I can go
that was the three fundamentals. First one is job communicate job presentation video. The video which link which you're
sending has to be almost in the same niche. Second, you have the the question which we have arising in this video by
this video you have to cut that has to be a real issue. Not get to the about the video. Motion blur in the video or
you get that that makes no sense. It has to be of great impact on the things that are in the video in the video. That's
the only thing you can do in the video or that video. You can also get to the video about the content or you have to
do the video render issue. You know the software in today's date. You it be able to get that but yeah, you
have you can still in that case you can email them. But if there are two or three videos that are
fundamentally repeated or anything, then you have a strong hold that hey, look at your three or four videos, there's a
problem with them. So for example, it is for example, your music doesn't match with the video you upload.
It makes no sense to upload upbeat music when you are an educational channel. It makes no
sense. You have to be very smooth because people are learning. So the music should be subtle and slow so that
the learning is happening. The rhythm makes you just tune in to the content. It is not giving a good
impression. You are uploading videos and audios. So that's the fundamental mistake which
they are doing. Then you can help them out. And the third one as I have said. Okay, got it. And after client
acquisition? After client acquisition, I can really help you on this. After client
acquisition, the first thing which I will say there was also communication there and
here the first thing is communication. Hey, if you are not able to deliver, say
them. If you are able to deliver, say them. If you are able to say that hey, there's more work in this, then you can
also ask them to increase the prices. This is the really new game because in this
you are portraying as an as an individual who has set amount of time to deliver the videos. If it's taking you
more than that, for example, it was supposed to take you eight hours to do motion graphics, but
it took you more than that. It took you more than eight hours or 16 hours. It took you 16 hours. You can ask them that
hey, the amount of hard work or the amount of time which I thought
this certain amount of motion graphics would have taken, it took me double of it. I would like to increase the pay.
They will allow it because they can see your efforts putting in their content. And the first thing is
communication. You have to communicate it. Like if if you are not able to deliver today, if you are sick today,
they will understand and the deadlines will shift. That's not a hassle. But if you have built a trust on the basis that
since you are staying in India, they are staying anywhere across the world, they don't know about you. They don't know
what you are doing. They don't know how you are feeling. They don't know if you have light in your house. They don't
know if your laptop is working. There are many problems. You know it. You know it. You know it. You know it.
You know it. You know it. You know it. You know it. You know it. You know it. You know it. You know it. You know it.
You know it. You know it. You So please communicate about it because
that's the first fundamental rule after client acquisition. Second is client servicing. Now, I have a great thing in
client servicing which I will like this is like hack for everyone which I've saved for you.
I've already be client cool. I love the video going on. Then you just make a dossier of it.
Dossier matlab ki ye intro tha. Maine aisa music banaya. Ye iska mid I'm talking about
long form videos. So, ye mid tha. Isme maine aisa aisa music use kiya. So, here a screenshot le lo. Usme music vusic aap
bata do ki is tarah ka music maine dala. I do have a matlab template of it which I make in Canva. It's a very random
thing but it's a very looks very cool. And ab usme bolo ki now tell me or or you can have a Google Meet with them.
Tell me what better could have been done. Now, that's what sells you as a
freelancer or as an editor. It that sells you that you're a storyteller or you're a creative director.
Because you have to uplift yourself. You have to up your game. Aap in logo se to main bas edit karunga. I am a story
medal or I am a content maker. I am a storyteller. To maine ye to kiya but according to you
because trust me, creator knows his better. I have worked with Shlok. Bahut bad as a way I ki bahut bad bad
emotion graphics maine banaya. Shlok was like, "I don't need it. I don't need it. Get me a b-roll over there."
You key audience will relate much more to a b-roll or a visual thing as compared to a motion graphics. Mhm. They
won't relate to it and I matlab aapko lag raha hoga ki bhai you must be fluffing because everybody needs motion
graphics. No, man. Real impact has been delivered with videos. Aap ye video motion graphics mein nahi consume
karoge. Aapko koi bhi Monkey Magic ki video yaad hogi as compared to any of the Magnito Media ki video. It's simple
as that. It is as simple as that. Matlab yaad hai you can recall
aisa tha wo scenario. Because videos, we are human being, we love seeing scenarios as compared to we
love seeing designs. Designs are there to elevate the story, not to make the story. Stories are made with real
visuals and those has has to be captured by camera like me, mines and you. That is it. You have to And the third one,
the third one is a great thing. is This video may you can make a complete
like why didn't the video looks great but the performance is not like that great.
Then you have this only simple answer. You sir, I tried my best but I think I could have done it better. Can you help
me out in figuring out the same with you? I got up those of that going to with
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because you can look at that you can make a complete haha approve but then you will get a
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after what is that you can make a complete video amount of leverage pay I'm going to come here to
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that you can make a complete video even I make a project for the year end? Key I'm going to this project here. This
is the year project impact I have. This project is the least I have. Now tell me what's your what's your
basis of it? This is what I do. This is my personal thing because I have to make sure key the
relationship with the client goes on for a longer duration of time. That is it. First is communication.
Second is communication skills and third is if you have made some kind of mistake or if your work is not putting out the
value to it, just add a with you all the word and ask him if you can fix together. Instead of just saying keep
you will get a way. That makes no sense. I'll do it to fight about the ticket. So
I'm going to get to fight to get to fight come to you. I will get in fact. Perfect bro. That was
a really really sick session with you. I hope the audience like you really got some good insights out of this. And if
you have not, that is your mistake. Not ours. We have tried to give everything that we can to make sure this
masterclass is one of its kind and you're getting as much value as possible through these videos, through this
particular video itself. And Shakti has given some real juicy stuff for you. You don't have to implement everything
all in one go. Pick up pick up two to three things that you can immediately
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again, watch this podcast again and then consume more of it. So yeah, thank you Shakti for giving us
some real secrets about the industry and just some juicy stuff that you have in your head. Thank you model. Thank you
for hosting me as well and I will be putting out all those things which you have asked me. Like my first video with
and the second video email templates and everything which you have asked me. I will for the audience of it key like
nothing is fake. Everything is real and every struggle every hustle will come to an end and you will be a
great editor or a great storyteller, I must say. Yeah, man. I mean, thank you. Appreciate your time.
And it was nice talking to you, bro. Thank you. Thank you, brother, for hosting me as well. And it was nice
chatting with you in person as compared to on a telephone. Yeah, man. Thank you.
Done. I got a question. Uh So, let me I've been doing this agency
work for almost 5 and 1/2 years now. Uh but I always say content as my primary thing because I started my
agency or I started freelancing with this sole purpose of like uh accumulating enough money
so that I can buy a camera, I can buy the lights to start my content journey.
So, whenever I I like I recently made a video on this that I hate when uh I have to introduce
people as I'm a founder of an agency and stuff. Uh because realistically, that does not
highlight the creative part within me. So, the dream has always been to create content. But along the way, the journey
took me to a certain space where freelancing grew to uh multiple clients, multiple clients to
gaining their trust enough to offer them key, can I do the entire mandate? One client's mandate lead to 10, 10 to 50,
and today we're doing an agency now for 5 years. Uh but uh the impact an agency can make
is very much monetary in our my life at least. You can take it as an example from me, but but impact that content
makes uh for me like it transcends a little bit boundaries.
Like I grew up watching Casey Neistat. And what he's impacted on me, uh I wish to do the same because India, we're
still trying to figure out the space between, you know, quality and cringe. Yeah. So, I'm a little bit trying to fix
that gap, do my part in it, and do the best content people have seen. So, that's why I like whenever you used to
ask me, I'm like, agency to ho jayega, content main hai. Okay. Uh so, as far as I understand and
for the audience, he's just doing the content because he loves that art.
Agency is the main business because he started as a freelancer and that's it just snowballed into something big. And
now he's running it. But to create to have some creative outlet, you are doing that content creation. And it doesn't
really relate to freelancing in any way. You're not aiming for clients, you're not aiming for some monetary benefit. I
mean, monetary benefits are good, part of it, but not the primary reason. Yeah. It's not the primary reason.
Yeah, got it. So, to those of you who don't Like, I've seen your videos, so I know that story.
So, my audience doesn't know your story as much. Uh we have seen your agency side,
founder side most of in most of the videos in on the internet. I want to understand
like really in detail, what was your freelancing case? What's the time to get the feeling of
having to take it? People see your success. People are like, "Okay, bye. One day I'll come out of the shower and
I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll tell you what I'll do." But your starting would be it.
What what's what's that thing? How does that feel like? Uh You started it firstly.
How it's a It's a very fun story. Like uh COVID was happening. I was in my final year of engineering
and uh uh my college master I guess I mean you got to wait last 6 months you got to
submit a project or do an internship. There are no exams exams the last semester. So, what that does is uh I got
free 6 months. It was anyway COVID year. Uh I got a fake internship certificate
and I started like um sitting for my placements which are companies coming to our college.
I got placed into Oracle. And after I got placed into Oracle, my uh my mood swings were like,
"I don't want to go to that company. I don't want to do any job." And
that was something that started basically the kid in my head which is uh what else can I do?
But also what else can I do which is easier for me to convince my parents? Without them feeling like hey you job
could you try it out you have hot maybe China engineering like you could try it out.
So that is when the last 6 months I started filming in my house my mother's recipe videos my
mother's a pastry chef. So she used to create desserts every weekend and I used to shoot like around
three four dishes every weekend with her. I started uploading on YouTube. And what happened was we we created almost
50 to 53 videos in that span. Now I have almost 53 videos so many videos with me even in my video
if you have one good shot two good shot you can create compile a reel around it like you know crazy showcase reel show
work. So I compiled that and I started like what if I start sending this to
restaurants and stuff and what if maybe they are interested in doing something like this. I don't know what I was
thinking. And I just started DMing one two restaurants out of curiosity like what do they think about this?
And I still have my exact message I guess it's one of in one of my videos if you want to put like what I used to DM
them. So hey this is me I do this this this is my work would love to do something for
you. And in a day I sent two three messages next day I sent like four five more
messages and that snowballed into Instagram started showing me ads of restaurant. Because Instagram thought
restaurant about interested started showing me ads of restaurant. Whenever ads were coming I used to go in
that ad click on that restaurant start DMing them. Shortcut save
same copy paste message. So that turned to almost 700 message in a week.
That 700 message led to first client getting back to me. Which was hey we would like to do this
with you cool stuff how what's your commercials? And my exact logic was a client would
like to get it here. You get two lights a reflector 30 plus five dollars each.
>> That client was like 8,000. Okay. Only condition was can you pay me that
That happened that first client the scenario was I took 7 and 1/2 thousand rupees from my friend, put that
8,000 rupees in, got the light and stuff. Uh with one light we did the shoot but
we did we did like we put in our heart and soul in it and I was copying Daniel Schiffer at
that time. So if you don't know who that is, Daniel Schiffer is a great food photographer
great food videographer. He does this amazing transition transition clips around food videos like you'll see cool
shots that you open a Nutella jar and something else will transition into it and all that crazy stuff he used to do.
So I started copying that which no one else was doing in India. And luckily one of that videos like hit
like decent 15-20,000 views which was not the time of reels so that that hit 15-20,000 views on the horizontal
format, right? Uh then one of the clients saw that video one of the person saw that video then they approached me
hey you create this how much do you charge and everything. And then I was like last week I actually
got it so I said 10 bucks to dust eight of them about the market rate it to have a proper
The 10th client got got in and she was like I want five videos. So total billing was around
20-22. And her fiance was the marketing director of Starbucks
at that time. I created and he didn't take me seriously at all. He saw me in her house
I was filming and stuff but he's like I could be freelancer I could do bigger at Starbucks Starbucks for bigger than
local circle. He clearly gave me that and I'm like I think I'm fair.
But what happened was one of her reels went to 7 and 1/2 million which I created for her.
That snowballed into him connecting with me doing stuff for me. So his agency Starbucks
that is his her fiance's agency. Uh Starbucks to manage they came to me that
we got your number from this. We have a pitch, we have a mandate. Can you come and give you ideas?
I gave my ideas. They were a little hesitant before they were like because that was like
again very traditional way of doing. That channel was there. So they were like I see it though they you do this
what we are saying. You just shoot. So they assumed like okay my concepts are very far-fetched or practically doable
near which I was very sure it was like that. But initially three videos I did
according to them. I did those videos. Again all those videos were doing decent way above their
expectations. And slowly they started giving me return recurring month. That's when I
understood the concept of a retainer. So that's when they started me Rishi a freelancer was put on a retainer with
Starbucks was shooting every month for them and they were paying me around 80-90,000 rupees every month for two
days of shoot. Which for me at that time was crazy. I'm like 80,000 rupees sorted. I have
matched my Oracle salary. Now I don't need to tell my parents that hey my job
I am doing a better than that solved my first thing that engineering my job to any year.
Okay. That's when the confidence came in. Worked with them, worked with more such profile retainers.
Along the way to client come to clients military. And when I had six retainers whom I was
just shooting for that's what I decided. I didn't want to work for any other agency.
Because I could see their scripts were limiting me. Uh their briefs were very copy pasted from XYZ real good but I
didn't want to do that. So I decided out of these five seven clients that I have
he let's approach two three who will be like can I do your entire thing? From creating graphics for you, creating
your stories, briefs, videos, scripts, everything. Can you give me that mandate and I'll do it?
Uh very KPI driven like if I reach this views if I reach this only then you pay
me. Mhm. So two of these clients put their trust in me and just a heads
up, both of them are still my clients till date. One of them is Irish House and one of
them is Indigo Hospitality. Both of them are still my clients. And we started the retainer at around 75,000
per client. So imagine I took a back step. I took from 80,000 rupees just for shoot to doing the entire month's of
retainer 75,000 rupees. Today those same clients pay me upwards of
10x of that fees because that's the trust to gain them. So the advantage of retainer, you do great service.
You do you get great recommendations. So that was the transition from freelancer to agency.
Yeah, is there anything I've missed or something you want me to cover more? No, no, no. It's good. I'll just keep on
asking the questions. So like Rishi said one thing he when you were making 80-90k
okay and it was through just one client. Now you wanted to approach more clients.
And Now this is where most of the freelancers
struggle. They constantly think about here may results and go get to get to how can I
promise something? How do you get the confidence first of all because you bought the mental piece of it.
Okay, okay, and secondly how like why did you think about that
and how were you able to do that? Okay, maybe I'll say it was also a lot of young energy, overconfidence inside
you at 21, 20 you are very young and stuff. And also I'd seen results, right? I'd seen like last four five videos are
hitting great numbers. Key words videos are hitting like 50-60k on that Instagram IGTV era which no one was
doing. And because it was very shareable like those videos at that time were like
people are not used to so professional quality video. They're not used to such like transition based editing and stuff.
So it was that but very honestly it was also more than that was
trust me like from day one I was very clear. Uh
We are like it's a service industry like if we are in the service business. Uh
And the only way I can get more work is by giving great service. So that was that was very much very much
in my hand that I'm going to over deliver every single shoot of mine. I still we
still do that and the entire reason of that is when the experience of the client is
great there are two things. Either he'll call you back for another shoot.
Even if you miss your KPIs a little bit here and there, if you give a great experience
as I mean you can have many options to promise kind of all this it happens with them. Correct? But the
reason that it does great service compensates for that or great experience compensates for that.
The key better yet I will give you some other good recommendations or they'll give you good recommendations when
someone else ask about key where did you get this done from? Who is doing this for you? Because more often
than not if one client say in my case hotels and restaurants if uh one restaurant owner knows at least five
other restaurant owners. Correct? So they are in that circle. It's the same for businesses. It's the same for any
group of circle where if you do good work the other people in that group is going to be like mine is not that great.
Who are you getting it done from? So the idea was I'm going to do everything that's like to the T and
trust me I know that's all I was doing for last 6 months in the COVID and before that all I was doing was learning
camera and bits. So that I was I was very sure that India may be a match to win it by now.
Okay. Now that might sound little like how do we achieve this level in today's thing because everyone so much into
cameras and everyone's refining their craft. Yeah. Not true again very honestly. Not
everyone's refined their craft. India still needs to work a lot on their taste.
Because people think like moody lighting and stuff is what does the job. It's very much on your taste, like the
story you narrate, the visuals you create. If your tastes are very well developed,
competition is very low. And you still can get for the like we still do it, like we
still get into a newer I'll give a very nice example. Recently,
we hopped into a category which was baby care products. We were not doing any baby care products
before this. We were majorly hospitality and FMCG. Uh we'd gotten into the baby care
product. We took them on board when they were doing 3 and 1/2 lakh rupees of revenue a month.
Today they are doing 6 and 1/2 crores of revenue a month. That is in 2 years.
In that 2 years I didn't take any baby care brand. My all those assets were with the baby care brand for focus on
that other stuff. Except last 3 months. The last 3 months the results were for the data.
In last 3 months I have closed 14 brands in the similar sector. Wouldn't be exactly baby care, but
pharmaceuticals, baby neutraceuticals, and stuff. The entire reason is if you focus on
giving great work, great case study, that case study gets you work. Because who else has all those case studies,
right? Then you're competing with people who have that case study of 2 years result oriented.
In the freelancing world it's really like you have the case study of 40 videos that have done very well. Who has
that case study? So when they compare you, if they're going to compare you to this guy who has
five edits and this guy who has five That race is very big. But if they compare you to he has 100
proven with videos, versus he has five proven videos, five videos. The choice is very easy. You're
not playing in the same race at all. So that is what they wanted. In my case, 100 of the 50 were my mom's recipe
videos that I was making. I was making them. I was making them with no monetary
expectation. It meant there was no result that was coming in. Videos were not even getting views on YouTube, to be
very honest. So it's it's it's that. Like if you're
looking for clients, number one give great service. Great service gives great recommendation. Great recommendation
gives great business. Always the mantra for any service industry.
And if you want to make sure that you don't want to continuously find good new new
clients, make sure you over deliver to your current one.
Because more often than not, as long as they keep coming back, the pressure of you finding new clients
is lower. Yeah. So,
uh just to sum up, you did the outreach for first week, just
with 700 messages altogether. And after that, you haven't done much of an outreach or zero outreach really. And
everything is a reference. Everything is a reference. And
for the audience, this is mainly because of the work as Rishi has talked about. If you can give the quality work,
you can expect recurring work and at the same time referrals from the existing clients. So, that is like a no-brainer
if you're in the service service industry. Apart from that, uh Rishi,
like you are an agency owner, okay? You hire a lot of people. Mhm. What are the few things that you look
for in a guy or let's say we we we can get more specific. What do you specifically
look for in a video editor? Okay, if this is not there, I'm not going to hire.
So, I'm very clear with video editors. I don't have editors who who don't Really but now I ask them any definition of
editing because very few people in India know definition of editing. Please understand, editing and stitching
is very different. Like I ask them this this question like what do you mean by editing?
90% of our country knows stitch 10 clips together. Color grade it, it's editing. Editing
has nothing to do with actually the the tech part of it, the software part of it.
Uh editing is everything like how can you get out the story that was shot or
fix the up that was done on the shoot. Correct? To build a story that audience
connects with. So, I look at the depth like okay, do you understand storytelling? Do you
understand the conclusion and the establishment bits of editing? Can you establish the stakes, be it
results that they're looking for, be it issues, and can you conclude it in a nice way? And even in a simple video
which is such as if you want to make a strawberry dessert, I look for an editor with project that we give to them is
make a start and a conclusion to this. There needs to be a reward at the end of it. And that's when an editor does that.
I'm very okay with it if they don't know fancy edit. I don't look at if they know After Effects 100% or Well,
trust me, and majority of the clients as well don't. Except the Alex Hormozi of the world and go set it up and retention
editing can I have suddenly to which is also dying. Very honestly. Like that's not what I
look at. I look at very simple Have they developed their taste to do storytelling? Do they understand the
difference between editing and stitching? Don't give me stitched to work. That's for interns.
Give me completed work that tells a story. That's the only thing I look at them.
I'm okay if I have to then sit with them, develop them, you know, in terms of technicalities little bit. Correct.
Because those can be fixed. Those are rote learning things. Kisi ko bhi sikha sakte ho. Kisi ko bhi sikha sakte ho
technicalities. Can't teach them Can't I have tried when I can't teach them taste. I can't teach
them the storytelling which can't teach them. Because kai bar the editors that we have,
they do it better than I do. Correct? Now, I can't teach it to them because they're already doing it.
They're applying their brains to it. They're applying their storytelling narrative to it.
Mhm. Correct? And there's something which is editors don't understand. There's
something such as finesse. Jo dikh jata hai. If you are you know, editors sometimes start applying with
very surface level knowledge. Mhm. And then you can see when they submit their portfolio that there's no
finesse in it. As simple as harsh corners, as simple as, you know, not if if they have four
footages from different different location, not not matching the color temperatures
of each. Because they don't understand the color temperature not technicality. It's like
my moods are changing in four different situation, but the four different situation combined is telling me a
story. You can't change my mood in every situation outdoor to indoor.
Mhm. That's why you will see in my videos in I shoot a lot of outdoor, I shoot a lot of studio. I'll make sure it
looks a Rishi video. You remove Rishi from it, you remove and you'll see the visuals, you remove the
face and it'll be like a Rishika video. Mhm. So that consistency is something that I look a lot. I look at that taste
if they've developed. Technicalities take it, someone will get it. Mhm.
And uh if I conclude it, so majorly soft skills Yeah. they can come under that umbrella,
if I'm not wrong. Soft skills as in speaking and stuff? I'm okay with them. Uh yeah. Editors
that Biggest advantage of editors is they don't have to be client facing. When you were working in an agency,
because agencies has has have people which are dealing with the clients, getting the briefs for you.
Correct? So even if you're okay if you even if you're introvert, even if you don't
speak much, all good. As long as you think story. Yeah, okay. Uh and most of the people
who want to do freelancing, uh this doesn't apply to them. They might have to talk to the clients. They might have
to go out there, present themselves in a better way. Yeah, or talk to the clients or create a
portfolio that speaks for yourself. Editors again can be okay with not talking much if you're just editor.
Not in agency. If If you're a big boss, we are talking just about editors and how we go about hiring editors or if
editors want to do freelancing, you can get away with if you don't speak very well, if you're introvert,
uh as long as your portfolio work is crazy. Because any You write a great message, okay? I'll still check the link
that you sent for your body of work. You write a shitty message. I'll still check the link that you have shared.
Correct? Now, if a great message the link is shitty. What's going to become any other than that? So, many other
going to go, but for shitty message has a great portfolio work. I'll be the first person like pro comment like let's
start working. And my mind I'll be like chill out take it. He's also a simple guy hasn't thought about doing a chat
GPT and stuff which I don't want from my editor to be manipulative, right? I am I am I'm very much okay with the
with the soft skills are bad. So, I want to understand from you who is already running a good stable agency.
Yeah, how much of a of a range can a freelancer expect if he's working at a good stabilized
Uh so, yeah I'll tell you I have few editors in my agency that are with me
for 4 years now. Uh uh very honestly I tell you when they
joined in they were at around 30 35k. That's 4 years back. Some of these editors today are earning
more than 2 lakh rupees a month. And again, the the thing becomes what can they expect depends entirely on how they
work is very honestly. Uh but if you're asking me I said I can't comment for other agencies.
Uh Answering your first question that they hate doing jobs.
I I understand that why a lot of editors hate doing jobs. So, try finding yourself an agency which uh is number
one very professional at their approach, has the system set as you rightly said. Because for example, see
we are a creative studio. We don't even call ourselves an agency. We have no punching times or punch out times. We
don't record anything about anything about anything. Uh all we record is what the deliverables are being submitted at
the end of the day, right? And we have editors who leave at 3:30, who come at sometimes 11:00, 12:00.
Because they are that fast at their work. So, it's a creative process, we are okay. Uh
they get paid well at at the same time. A range, if you tell me from a fresher editor, would be around 55k today. That
is 4 years later, 55k to 65k max. Max.
And upwards of 2 lakhs if the client Yeah, if you have an experience of say 4 years,
it And by 4 years I mean good work 4 years. Mhm.
You can demand whatever you want. That then it's not a game of 2 lakh, 3 lakh. Then it's a game of
agencies will be fighting for you. Mhm. You want to get this, you want to get
this because at a at because I know editors who have also worked who will also be offered only 20,000, 30,000.
Because again, those are not editors, those are stitching guys. They won't do
They won't do uh what the work demands. They'll just stitch five clips together and put some
visual effects to it and they are calling it a day. But then there are editors 50,000 I'm
saying for people who know the work, but who don't have a lot of portfolio. Those are the people who charge around 50,000.
They create their portfolio, work in an agency. Agency is the best place to work to start with. Reason, you get good
agencies have great brands. For example, today at Adco you have a Marriott, you have a Google. We create
keep creating work for them. Having a Google, Marriott, and Radisson, and all these bigger top multi-nationals as your
portfolio gives you that leeway to then demand a lakh rupees, right?
Correct. You can't go and demand a lakh rupees or 80,000 or 70,000 by I don't know but I'm a great editor.
So, that's that's not going to happen. Uh and very practically, once you have that portfolio and even my agency, like
the reason the 30k guy today owns 2 lakh is it's not that I might be able to get the same skill
set guy for lakh rupees. But the thing is more than the monetary value here today
he is an asset for me. He He saves what for me? Not the editing time. He saves me explaining time.
He knows what Rishi wants Which to a new guy I'm like well now I'll have to hire then teach him for 6
months how I operate. And then my luck that luck is not any value for me. So because why I'm saying this is
because a lot of people today also have agencies. I see the iteration rates are very high. They jump very fast. Duck
duck duck duck duck. Luckily at Go we have very stable like as I said that's the reason we don't
have punch in punch out times. We do very creative stuff. Uh that was the same reason like I want to
retain my talent. I want to work for them. If I And again there's no friend relation.
There's no like hey I'm not promoting a family culture. It's good to be me. It's just that since they are very
professional they finish their task. I don't have to explain them much. That extra lakh rupees a month is a
comfort value. So you also need to see that okay 1 2 years you're building portfolio but 3 4
years 5 years you need to be someone's comfort value. It's either your agency may your
employer or it's either your freelancing may your clients. Clients can be same clients won't switch
an agency so fast if they agencies understands their requirement very very clean.
Like the reason Irish House is with me for 4 years or Radisson is with me for 4 years is not because when agency will
get there are multiple hundreds of agencies. Is it they know once Ad Go understands
what they want and Ad Go will not have to explain they're working with us for so long. We can't afford to now get a
new guy make them do errors and mistakes to starting with what they have. But it's a big brand.
So it's the same process across. Be that comfort person be an asset for the company.
Uh you're an asset you earn more and don't expect more than 50 55k. Without a good
body of work. Nah. That's what I'm telling you in Mumbai. I'm telling you a tier one city.
It's very People say Indian clients don't pay? Bro, I'm telling you if you know your
work there are so many agencies who are looking for editors in the pay scale
below 100,000. Correct? An agency won't have 300,000 rupees 50 editors.
They'll have 50,000 50 editors and they'll have 300,000 one one two three editors.
So to be that one one two three, make sure your body of work is good. And if you keep That's why like the
market is not saturated. Yeah. Market is saturated with freshers who are not working on their portfolio
enough and who want immediate money. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bro, my editor, my YouTube editor. So I
you know, I used to For the longest time two years I've edited myself. I told you I can't outsource. I don't
understand I can't give my editing to someone else. Four months ago I hired an editor.
You know what's the age of that guy? Guess. Yeah.
18 year old guy, bro. I know how much he earns. 150,000 rupees a month.
18 year old guy earns 150,000 rupees because bro, his taste his taste matches mine. I don't need to explain him. The
first video he created which was the Bangalore agency I'll tell you which video you can go You guys can
go and see that video. It was the Bangalore agency's first vlog. We which we were in IKEA setting up our
first Bangalore office. He was That was done by the
That That edit has zero inputs from me. That edit had Sanku Tarun go what the is this guy?
Because it's not the edit is crazy, it's the storytelling is crazy. Exactly.
>> He understood that. I haven't edited that. And and look at look at his takes also.
He joined in. He said you give me 28,000 rupees which was his exact cost of stay and food because he was from Pune.
He said this to me. He was homeschooled. He didn't attend his 12th. He was so sure he's going to edit he's going to
edit it kind of like. But he said if every video you hit more than 10K
because that time my average was 6,7000. That time my average was very low. Today my average is 30, 25,000 minimum.
But the change you see is like every week every video you hit 10K you promise me you'll double it.
I'm like done done yeah I'm a and you know I'm possessive about content. I'm like done done every video
every video since then has hit more than 10K. My highest performing video that is
right now like around almost around 3 and a half lakh edited by him.
You understand asset. It's asset it's asset ultimately it's asset creation right?
He becomes Oh yeah yeah so we I have clearly so right now I have we have a deal going in
that uh 2026 we have a YouTube plan in plan that we need to by March we need to crack 100K. We already have a series
that's already planned that we are very much sure. Thanks.
Because we Instagram he doesn't edit Instagram I still edit myself. Because Instagram for me is like 20
minutes I have to shoot and edit so that's a very tight time timeline. But, uh we have the series and the plan
is uh there's a lot of sponsors that are coming in.
So, we split we split the he gets a percentage of those sponsors in 2026. That would be great for him as well. So,
because then he feels part of the game, right? He feels it's his as well. Mhm.
So, it's it's >> And he'll put in his efforts to Oh, yeah. make the videos thing.
And he still does. I yeah I good guy. So, that's what people want. They Again, what he's doing exactly what
I said. Great service. Correct. So, that it's easy to work with him.
He's over-delivering, which he didn't have to when he started. Yeah. Correct.
Mhm. Simple. Expected less, gave more. Automatically, the person who's
employing is like, "Please take more." Now, you're an asset. I'm not even I'm not even thinking about replacing. You
understand? I'm dependent. Yeah. Because running an agency and
editing takes time. He edits it well. He edits very close to what I like. Our tastes are very similar. You take
that money. Mhm. And that is uh the thing that I've talked about in
some of my videos key client retention agar tumko karna hai but we have also a client that has been
working for us I think after in May hamare 24 months ho jayenge. Two years ho jayenge.
And this is this one thing uh there's something I I don't know if it's
there or yeah happens with you or not. But, woh hum logo ko hum logo ko zyada communicate karne ki zaroorat nahi padti
hai. Project aata hai uh hum log hi basically sab kuch manage kar rahe hote hain uska except shoots
because foreign client hai. So, we do all of the things and then usko ek baar usne shoot kar diya aur hume de diya.
Phir usko ek baar poochne ki bhi zaroorat nahi padti ki bhai yeh video kab jaa raha hai.
We just send it ki bhai Monday ko video jayega, Wednesday ko tumhara podcast jayega and usse pehle Sunday ko usko
video mil jata hai aur Tuesday ko video mil jata hai. Slack par uska link hota hai, Notion par sab kuch updated hota
hai. So, I have seen this myself as well Okay.
Uh two of the clients, okay, uh highest ticket clients They have been sticking with us because
of the work and at the same time the process that we have made for them. Basically, which is very easier for them
to navigate. So, that is like an additional note for [clears throat]
you or like You see the Yes.
This is another case study that this thing is the thing that actually really works. You'll have to uh deliver, you'll
have to over-deliver, and make sure that you're making the process easier for the client.
And hence, the client will stick with you. Good. Yeah. It has to be as frictionless as
possible. Exactly. Yeah. And uh just getting It is a rapid fire.
People tend to hate on jobs, as I told you before. So,
jobs versus freelancing Yeah. Let me take here. I'll [clears throat]
start first. Take a job. Learn from it, and then start freelancing if you want to.
Okay. >> What's your take? I can't say anything about except
freelancing because see, I never did a job. So, if me saying job will be very hypocritical.
Mhm. So, I would choose freelancing if I was doing it all over again. But, for majority of the world, it should be job.
Mhm. Uh might sound a little odd, but majority
of the world it is should be job to build your portfolio. Because uh again, if you want to do freelancing, then a
lot of other skills come into the picture. You need to be good at speaking. You need to be very, very,
very good at presenting your work to other people. Your
Then, the soft skills and XYZ other barriers come into the picture. And if you don't have those ready, and you
don't want to get into the hassle of it, or you don't have the business mind going working for you,
uh go for go for a job. Mhm. Another thing,
uh you you don't plan to have a sales team in your agency right now or in near future because you are getting most of
the clients from referrals. Correct. We don't have a BD, we don't have a outreach team. Everything that happens
with us is even today I can show you my my inbox has almost 70 to 80 inquiries a day of
clients coming in which we can't cater to because we don't have the bandwidth.
Okay. So, to like it hasn't happened because of content.
Those are inbound leads. All are inbound leads. So, that has happened because you have
given the great work. But how did that shift happen? Key I'm doing the great work. I'm getting
the referrals. Then you have word of mouth to work. Then you you started getting DMs and all sorts of things.
Did you build any social presence because of that because it started happening
or was it some other factor that was playing into the picture? Key word of mouth got out there key emails are out
there and you're getting bombarded in the inbox. See, the word the email bombardment happened after the content.
Especially after Instagram content. No, my personal page. And in my personal page I don't even
speak about agency or I my personal page is not at all for like I don't even say what I do for clients. It's not at all
for me getting work. But what happens is on my personal page they discover and then they go and check
AdChanakya's page. And then they when they go and check AdChanakya's opinion of webs
I always say AdChanakya's website is probably the one of the best agency websites in the country in the world.
We've literally put our efforts to make the AdChanakya's website that is very much we don't do We don't
write hey, this is what we do. We show our work. And I say this to every agency founder
as well. There are so many agency founders that I have very honestly I'm very annoyed with. So, this is a
controversial take. Who speaks so big about this is I have done seven figures, six figures, eight figures. Great. Show
the work. Don't about it. Because we are service industry, we need
to show the work what we've done. So, whenever for example, when I created a video about we did a
we did a shoot with Google, my responsibility is to I literally showed that entire shoot, that entire
process, and that entire thing that what we did for Google. That's what my agent my website's also
focused upon. The reason I get a lot of work is See, a lot of people might see my content, but it's not that they'll
translate to a funnel that is emails unless and until they see the work. It's the same freelancing link. Yeah, you
understand? Her teeth So, same thing. My website speaks for us. AdGoes pages, we've recently done a
campaign for Le Meridien, which is a hotel that launched in the first Le Meridien in India,
Marriott Group. That's the best hotel launch campaign ever in India. That's not us saying it.
That's the Marriott Group coming and saying us, flying us down to Singapore to please
uh like inform their team about how the strategy went so that they can replicate it.
Mhm. So, the referral works strong when you dedicate yourself to a project. Mhm.
And uh what if the client has NDAs? They say that uh we don't want to show that.
And we can't put that on your portfolio. >> Very few clients have that NDA. And that too is limited to okay, you
can't use their video Mhm. to your monetary factors.
Mhm. But you can always show what you as an agency did. Mhm. For example, the loophole is say
I'm working with this baby care brands. We grew them from this to this. These are the visuals we created for them.
Don't say the brand name. Yeah. The no one can see legally no one can
stop you. Entire legal system of India is very good in terms of protecting your rights.
Although we are going down in the democracy bit, but it's it's still okay in terms of protecting your rights where
you are always open to showcase your work unless it's done inside an intellectually protected uh property
space and stuff which you don't have the permission for. But for example, I am creating something
that I am shooting which Rishi like Google office. And bro, other Google does not have NDAs
no one has. Google is the most protected entity in the in the world, right? They'll they'll
do everything to not show. We showcase the entire office. They were like, "Listen, as long as you don't show the
final video because that's for them to monitor and them to decide when it goes out. We are okay with you showing your
journey." Mhm. And And most of the clients, listen, my clients today tell me "Yeah,
Rishi, do you have my page to be done something like that?" They because they get free publicity out
of it. Every business wants business. Yeah. So today like you can the channel
that has helped me is it's also helping me monitor that I can monetize the ad for page or Rishi page if I wanted to to
showcase yeah, this is say listen, this is what we did. Go check them out. I did that for that for the first Le Meridien
post. I get around 20,000 views on my story. They got 20,000 views in the first hour
because of that. Win for them, got the boost, win for us. Mhm.
So I don't think that's the problem. Again, there will be some one two clients you have to okay, they will be
finicky. You don't want to legally fight them. Okay. Absolutely. Like like we have one
client that we have signed NDA with and we can't show their name or the work yet.
So that's why I asked you about that that might be that. But that's international client, right?
International client. No, but there's the system No, but that there's the system is
because you have not shot it. For international clients, we can't shoot it. So, there is a patent
infringement that on the data of them. Okay. Okay. That makes sense. But in an agency, you still have an advantage that
you when you shoot it. Uh-huh. But editing editing clients, yeah,
there's a little bit left, right, center. If you're working with international clients because you don't
have all the permits for the requirements. It's someone else's footage.
Other international clients have to have the whole thing. What should we be up? Up up a better
check all the other stuff. Okay. Please put a expiry date for the NDA. I can't use this for how long?
Because it cannot be perpetual. Because if it's perpetual, then I'll charge you extra for exclusivity.
Because then you take you Because it's a very simple you take ownership agreement from me. You take the rows as well from
me. Then it is your property. You want exclusive rows from you. Take
exclusive rows from me. It is your property. You pay me extra for that. I'm okay. I won't show it.
Yeah. Okay. So, last question. I think It's all answered over here. It's all
answered over here. Will help a lot of freelancers. If you were 21 today, Mhm.
how would you do the things differently? What would you choose to do then? And that part will stay the same.
How would you start again from zero? Uh Without the knowledge that you have
right now. I would probably do the same thing. The only thing that I would change would be
I would uh improve my risk-taking appetite little early in the game.
I'll tell you why I say that. See, coming from a little middle class family, like my father shifted to Mumbai
when he was uh like in his 40s with two kids and all so like
matchbox little house and everything and that made me little frugal with money because I knew that you know money is
not abundant in our in our household. Uh and that made me a little conservative
about money even so when I started earning when I got my first few paychecks and when I got first few money
after buying my equipment I was like how is it so business expand in the year 2010.
Okay. Which slowed the growth a little bit.
For example if I had would have taken my office on rent little earlier I would have
uh probably been at this stage 1 year earlier
where I am today. And again the reason I say that very strongly is
uh people think saving is what builds you money, right? People think today saving is what
what helps you in the longer term and this and that. The problem is uh what they don't
understand is there are few people out there outside our environment which have the innate advantage that if
they have 5 lakh rupees, no? Who business risk living here? As compared to us if we have 5 lakh
rupees, no? We'll spend 1 lakh rupees in growing the business, keep 4 lakh rupees in a savings account. Keep it to make a
better budget. Which is the most harmful when you are starting a business.
The starting the business entire thing has to be in your own pocket. Mhm. Basically just a business order
every money that you're putting in needs to go back into the business. Give the business anything and
everything that you can to basically grow faster. Uh get your better resources, get higher
a better team, higher better editors, higher better uh spokespersons, get social media analysts in my case and
everything because what that helps is you take that journey which will
eventually take you two two years you can do that in 6 months. Mhm. If you reinvest in the business.
And then And then up obviously let me up remote working channel
which also helped me like working in a Starbucks was the cheapest method in Mumbai I've explained in my video.
People think Starbucks manga. I've literally made a video about why Starbucks is the cheapest place.
Yeah. I'm ordering. Yeah. Okay. So that's that's the that's the
one thing that I would change. I would change the risk-taking appetite. And
yeah, that's the rest is This is the same. The same principles the same. Cuz that innocence helps yeah.
That innocence help. Not knowing a lot of things helps in that time. That overconfidence in the younger age
helps in that time. So changing that wouldn't be make some sense. Mhm.
Okay. And branch out You talk about risk appetite.
We somehow in teenage late teens and early 20s we try to glorify hustle culture.
There's a lot of bad advice out there. You have to work for sometimes 12 hours a day. I do work 12 hours a day. I still
take breaks. I do all sort of things. Why is that the case? Key
the actual hustle culture key advice has to uh I'm going to follow up on this here.
For example key instead of going and doing random productivity routines
starting with the morning routine here and I could have been kind of just doing the work. Why is not out there and what
do you think about it? What is your typical day looks like right now? I know you Right now.
right now. Right now it's a very messed up routine very Like as I told you in the beginning, I'm going to shoot now
five videos after this conversation. I sleep at around 4:00, 4:30 a.m.
I wake up at 9:00, 9:30. I don't wake up early. There's nothing about me doing well.
But my brain works at night, so I have to utilize that. I wake up at 9:00, 9:30. I am at the
office at 10:30, 11:00. And So basically, the system is this is my
studio. Upstairs is my office. Uh from 11:30 11:00 to around 7:00, 7:30, I'm in the office.
Finishing the agency stuff, finishing the client requirements, sitting with the team, setting up the culture, and
everything. Uh post 7:30 maximum, I'm in my studio where the brain switches from agency mode to creative mode.
And then I'm doing the creative bits of it. Mhm. And the take on the hustle culture,
but like I know you work a lot, but still you are not exhausted. You are not burned out.
Bro, I am burned out. I am burned out. Okay, then >> I
I am I can't People can spit in my face if I lie. I am I'm I have been burned out for the last
2 years, very honestly. That's the reason I take these creative breaks. Uh I have a very strong uh
belief that What you call it? Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life.
All I don't know what that is. You work. Do you Do you have come up with a plan
for your personal life? But no problem. No problem. You have come up with a plan for your monetary requirements clearly.
Uh but along with that, find something that you like love. Which you're not doing for monetary.
Like for example, content when I create for myself, I don't do for monetary. Monetary comes is a byproduct.
Yeah. That's what helps me cope with the burnout because I'm like I look up to like finishing the work and doing
something. Okay, so that is your like a break. Yeah, that is my break. That is my clear
break, and that is what I I am very much inclined towards. The hustle is everyone for themselves. See, there are a people
here who who can do the same amount of work in 4 hours which other people will do in 8 hours 12 hours, right?
So, hustle is you need to decide. If you know in your mind that you're not the most talented person in the room,
you need to be the most hard-working person in the room. It's It's very simple. It's the It's the
seesaw effect. So, to compensate that, you need to get level this up, right?
Get the hard-working barrier high so that you can still compensate because if you're this talented and you're not
hard-working, so you at least get away from 3/4 of the population of the world.
Mhm. And that is a good advice. I didn't think of it that way. It's It's a seesaw effect.
You'll have to balance it out. Oh, you have to So, I'm very much like I'm I'm I'm telling
you I I in my mind I'm like "Whatever you might be getting now." I don't know how much of Bollywood you watch, but I'm
a very big Bollywood fanatic. Starting with the "Geet's dialogues, may apna may apni too." So, I'm also like that. I'm
may apna favorite too. I consider myself uh you know,
keep whatever task I approach, I'll try to do it to like best. But, I'm also very realistic. I know
sometimes I'm not the best at certain things. So, now I have to be the most hard-working to do it best. Because
I am a little bit like Kiss me. Life may the school may last year I had some may will not not in that
the last year I had some may will You can make it this to do the second
year and I just want to take it. Why I say I want to do content so seriously?
You put in that soul and effort to me last year I had some may will even if I have no or someone else is a little bit
more talented as a lover. Then I'll be the most hard-working till the time I don't beat him.
It's It's It's that game. You have to compensate and then how much ever you're talented after that
we talented when the mega up to fill up my hard-working a booster channel gonna be bigger. You're awesome. You're
unique. You're awesome. You're unique. And then one day you grow wiser. I hope.
I hope. Lovely mom. Glad you found me worthy enough to invite talk to your folks.
Lovely. Um. Um.
He didn't give me any direct advice. But most of the things that you I think I'm not talked about this to you as well. I
didn't get the time and the space. But bro, it has helped me a lot. Uh in the agency business as well. The
one thing that you we talked about recently on uh building an office space and getting
a culture in and come to a house of productive come over. So, I'm considering that as well. But I'm a
little bit confused there how to you know manage that. What I don't know is but I'll figure it out. But I can see
I've sat with my founders and you guys have come here. Online sale offline. Crazy booster productivity.
So, that is just from my end that you have helped me a lot in this year. I'm glad bro. It it has helped a little bit
or sometimes I yap for 2 hours. I hope I I'm glad could help. Because I'm starting from the same place
that you started probably 3 years back. So, it's it's been almost a year that we've
So, it helps to see where I can reach and what are the things that I'm missing out in my journey which I can just plug
and play immediately. Yeah, man. And I I don't know majority of the help that people can also find if
they don't have networking and they're starting their journey, watch good content.
Consume good content because I've been but really put the video. So, do the same thing but just do it
with the but like I'm going to the impact that I would I wouldn't have this impact in my life if I didn't consume
Casey and Peter at the right time. I hope I do the same impact but my only advice to conclude it would be
take a chance on it. What's important? No, no. I'm I'm still very new in this space so I don't know if it would work.
That's their decision to make but they should if they should watch Casey Neistat even today when he just hasn't
uploaded in a long time. They should still watch him. I have bad days and I go back and watch
his content. I I have bad days I'll go back and watch Peter McKinnon. I have bad days I'll go back and
Like one of the one of my favorite channels to go back to is there's this video of Cole Kiernan saying how I
achieved my dreams at the age of 22 and stuff. Very motivating video to watch. Wait, 17 18
minute video. Great video to watch. So, there these then Daniel Sam Kolder's hate him.
Being one of the always inspiring story because that's his life story. So, watch good content when I say this is because
that you won't realize consuming good content has the biggest chances of
not only building your taste but changing your entire life's trajectory. Yeah, I agree with that.
Plus one. But you can watch me if you want to. It's no problem.
Always always always 100k guys come on and watch. Yeah,
but then next year I'll make April, right? Yeah, hoping next March we do. See, Instagram I'll do it for sure very
soon. Like Instagram we did 50k in 2 months. Yeah. Instagram I'll do it. Instagram's
not my favorite platform to create content, but because Instagram very consistent. YouTube I've been able to
upload only one video a month maximum. So, I want to change that. Can you also like say to me you might do Instagram
kind of Instagram is Instagram is Instagram is like a
practice is is is a practice match. Mhm, correct. Like I I can practice every day every day every day I can
practice and then I can do a like a hook shot when I'm ready at the YouTube.
Yeah. Great. I mean, I love the like conversation as well. Perfect. Apart
from all of the freelancing talks, the ending was perfect. For every reason, I think.
So, that's pretty much it, Rishi. Thank you for being here and talking to my audience, and I hope people love his
content. You can go out. You you will, I think. Go out and check him out. Links are in
the description below. See you then. See you, Rishi. See you. Yeah.
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