RedShoe

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.

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