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I didn't realize how broke I was until...

Happy Thursday,
If you're stuck making $500 per video while watching less talented creators charge $10K+, this might piss you off.
But it needs to be said.
You're not a videographer problem away from success. You have a business problem.
Here's what I mean:
Your videos? Beautiful.
Your technical skills? Solid.
Your pricing? Trash.
Why?
Because to your clients, you're "just the video guy."
You're friendzoned. Order-taker status. Racing to the bottom on price because 20 other videographers in your city will do it cheaper.
You don’t want to stay in that game… You’ll stay poor
Now here’s the reality of you situation if you’re stuck:
- You don't understand your client's customers.
And without that, you're just making pretty videos that don't really do anything for you clients...
If that resonates with you, I know exactly how you feel.
$500 videos. 60-hour weeks. Watching clients hire other videographers because they were $200 cheaper.
I was talking to my friend about this yesterday.
"Remember when I was charging $600 per video?" I said.
He laughed. "Bro, you were basically working for free."
He wasn't wrong.
$600 for 20+ hours of work. By the time I paid for gas, expenses, and taxes? I was making less than minimum wage.
I was a professional videographer... living like an intern.
The crazy part? I thought I was doing well. I had clients. I was "booked." But looking back, I wasn't building a business - I was buying myself a low-paying job with expensive equipment.
That's the trap nobody talks about. You can be talented, busy, and still BROKE.
So I did something crazy: I spent 3 years learning what they don't teach videographers:
Customer psychology
Market research
ICP analysis
Conversion copywriting
Sales frameworks
Basically, all the unsexy business stuff that separates videographers from video marketers.
My 3 years later my income has 10x
But here's what's insane...
I just built an AI system that does ALL of that complexity for you.
Example: When my students land a gym client, they drop the onboarding form into this system.
In 30 minutes, it spits out:
Local market analysis
Customer psychology profiles
Emotional triggers that drive memberships
Hook frameworks that stop the scroll
Scripts that actually convert
What took me 3 years to learn manually, this AI does before lunch.
That's how videographers with zero business experience are hitting $10-30K months.
Not by being better videographers.
By finally understanding the game they're playing. You aren’t in the game of making videos, you’re in the game of scaling businesses - videos just happen to be the vehicle.
If you want a sneak peak into our AI systems, respond back to this email with “Learn More” and I’ll send over something cool
Talk soon,
- Julian