I just cut a 30 second commercial for $750.00 and they are fuckin' making changes after changes after changes... They said they wanted it in a week. They have made so many changes and they keep pushing their own deadline back and it's now been 3 weeks.
It's been more that 2 weeks past the agreed upon deadline and I'm only asking to be compensated for one week extra, So I sent in a letter requesting $1500.00
All that aside, they originally agreed to pay $750.00 for 30 seconds of my editing skills. That comes out to $25.00 a second.
When it comes to porn, I'd definitely try to raise my prices from $250.00 per trailer to a fair market price. I've seen some guys on here pushing their editing skills for $50.00 per trailer and less. All they do is fuck it up for everyone else by settling for chump change. Then clients get used to paying nothing for a marketing tool that will make them $$.
To my fellow video editors, I would like to say that we all raise the price to a minimum of $300.00 per trailer. $300 at the very LEAST. But I know that there are still some people that have no business sense and they would rather work and get a few bucks, than to work and earn a living.
It reminds me of a Joke my friend Tony Soprano once told me...
A daddy bull and his son were on a hill looking down at all the cows in the field, and the son says, "Dad, let's run down there and fuck a cow" and the father bull says, "No. Let's walk down there and fuck them all"
If some of those editors weren't in such a hurry to make a quick fast and small dollar, we could all make more money.
It's been more that 2 weeks past the agreed upon deadline and I'm only asking to be compensated for one week extra, So I sent in a letter requesting $1500.00
All that aside, they originally agreed to pay $750.00 for 30 seconds of my editing skills. That comes out to $25.00 a second.
When it comes to porn, I'd definitely try to raise my prices from $250.00 per trailer to a fair market price. I've seen some guys on here pushing their editing skills for $50.00 per trailer and less. All they do is fuck it up for everyone else by settling for chump change. Then clients get used to paying nothing for a marketing tool that will make them $$.
To my fellow video editors, I would like to say that we all raise the price to a minimum of $300.00 per trailer. $300 at the very LEAST. But I know that there are still some people that have no business sense and they would rather work and get a few bucks, than to work and earn a living.
It reminds me of a Joke my friend Tony Soprano once told me...
A daddy bull and his son were on a hill looking down at all the cows in the field, and the son says, "Dad, let's run down there and fuck a cow" and the father bull says, "No. Let's walk down there and fuck them all"
If some of those editors weren't in such a hurry to make a quick fast and small dollar, we could all make more money.
~TheDoc - ICQ7765825
You've got a great product. Don't worry about what people think of your price. Smart people will realize the value. Just realize there's NO editors in adult with your caliber of skills on the market.
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