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Glad it helped 🤙

Appreciate the comment, glad it’s been valuable for you 🙏 what else would you be interested in seeing?

@@ScottTakai Ofc I went on such a long binge after I found you initially. One thing I would love for you to talk about if you've dealt with before is problems with work ethic. I feel personally for me that that's the only thing holding me back- I'm good at landing clients and I'd say I meet expectations consistently. I do however also have really severe ADHD thats currently driving my entire business to the ground. Totally understand if this isn't something you struggle with or have experience with, might be a little of a long shot. Either way, the content is all super valuable and I'm looking forward to seeing your next drop.

That’s a great one! I’m curious to learn more in depth about what you’re struggling with. When you get a chance can you dm me on Instagram? @scotttakai it’ll be easier for me to respond faster on there!

Dude!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch the video and leave such a genuinely supportive comment. This made my day. Thank you 🙏

Thanks for the support 🙏 it’s definitely challenging.

That’s awesome man. I don’t have the resources to automate things, so I’m just taking referral jobs as they come and letting myself recalibrate and plan out what I want to do next. What are some of your next plans?

@@ScottTakai Pretty much exactly the same, whilst I'm away no work will be getting done company-wise. I've stopped taking salary from the business in the meantime and I'll try sustain my personal costs with freelance gigs here and there. The income from freelance goes further in my pocket compared to the drop in the ocean it would be in the company. Although I'll see if there's consequences are in a few months haha. Exactly, it's that freedom to recalibrate that is important. Sometimes you have to let the dead wood burn off in order to stop the whole forest from going up in flames. Next plans, I've been really getting into 3D modelling and animation these past few months, so I'm spending as much time as possible just learning and enjoying this. Hopefully get good enough at it to freelance some 3D work. I have no idea how, but I made it happen with video from no experience 7 years ago, so should be possible to do it again for 3D and now with years of experience under my belt. No real plan, just enjoying the chaos.

It is expensive I agree, there's definitely cheaper ways to do it, but not always easy to find. What do you currently do to try and find leads?

100% feel that, appreciate your comment! Life's gotten better not making it my primary source of income and focusing on other ones while the production company operates in the background. What do you do nowadays?

I’m not sure

I’ve got 26 years in web design, 20 years in photoshop, and 30+ years in art, but because of closed minded individuals like this I will never get a job! $60k of college experience and can’t get a job.

@@alynn.art.studio I feel you. I was in Tech. I'm a white college educated woman. No job, not a male or Indian. I wish you the best.

Appreciate your comment! Yeah the goal wasn't to deter people from doing it but to share my personal experience with doing it and shedding some light on the tough realities of this kind of business. What do you feel like is causing your hold up?

@@ScottTakai trying to get traction in general as a new videographer

Can you elaborate on the traction you're not getting? Leads? Opportunities? What do you mean exactly

@@ScottTakai I’m getting opportunities, but from a free to fee kinda standpoint, as I’m literally brand spanking new, creating using CapCut for short form content (loved the stuff you had on your website, it was inspo) I am just trying to figure it all out, wanting some clients, tryna leverage spec work

@@ScottTakai I’m brand new to the industry. Like no prior experience, currently just wanna get some clients, the traction is slow is all…

Appreciate your comment 🤙 I'm glad people are resonating with it. Just curious, what challenges are you personally going through finding a good paying job? Like are you struggling with finding full time work or getting high paying freelance gigs?

@@ScottTakai "I’m currently working full-time at my old job still (which is 1 hour and 40 minutes away because I haven’t found a job local yet lol that’s what I mean finding a job) I’m trying to find a local job so I can explore the city and start spreading my name around the new city, I want to build my network and client base. My plan is to get to know local businesses, restaurants, colleges (including the major one USC Gamecocks), as well as nearby cities like Charlotte and Atlanta. My ultimate goal is to make movies and work on sets. I have a semi-structured three-year plan: start by establishing a solid client base, then transition to part-time work, and eventually go full-time with cinematography and RUclips. While I don’t aspire to own a company, I aim for a flexible schedule that allows me to make a comfortable living while pursuing personal projects. My passion is to work on film sets, learn from others, and eventually direct and shoot my own movies. It’s going to be tough, but I’m ready to put in the effort, work and hope to meet the right people along the way-plus a bit of luck wouldn’t hurt!"

Love that bro, best of luck! Have you started at all with getting your name out locally? Or have you been trying to lock in a local job first?

@@ScottTakai Appreciate that. Trying to do a both.

Thank you appreciate it 🙏

@@ScottTakai no prob bro

Thanks brother 😎

Thanks for watching! 👌 what was your biggest takeaway?

Personal stuff and taking a break from client work at the moment. Haven't renewed the membership

Thank you 🤙

Of course 🙏

Thank you I’ll be sure to make more 🙏 I’m working on the ad stuff currently. I’m doing some market research interviews to get an idea of what people are looking to learn with ads. Would you be down to do a call with me and I could get to know your needs better? There’s no sales pitch, just curious to know what you need help with. Lemme know!

Thank you for the support! What kinds of other content would you be interested in seeing?

Hey Scott, great name 🤣 that’s awesome. I’m actually in the process of making a course about everything I’m doing for getting new clients, I need to do market research though to help me build it out. Would you be down to hop on a call and I could ask you some questions about what you’re looking to learn from ads and getting new clients? No sales pitch. Just want to see what you’re looking to learn. Lemme know!

Thanks for the advice! I’ll definitely try that next time. Since it was my first time cold calling, I was getting different responses that I’m not used to answering so I definitely am open to any tips that more experienced cold callers are willing to offer. Talking through ad leads is definitely more in my comfort zone and I want to expand on that. Sales is really fun to me and even though it’s something I don’t consider myself professional at, it’s exciting to be bad at something and to document my progress on getting better. Again, loved your comment and I appreciate the time you put into it. Is cold calling something you’d be interested in seeing more of from myself? I’m definitely open to doing more, especially since I’m surprised that the video is performing better than my average content

@@ScottTakai A friend of mine shared your video with me. I think you should do more of what you enjoy. What would your audience like to see? is it for tracking or getting cusomers? What is the goal of the channel. Also have a script our a rough outline of a sales script helps a lot. know why you are calling, who you need to talk to and what pain you are solving for the person. have a feeling you know this already with you having your own business and website. Coll calling takes practice man. I didn't see how many you did. I would make 100 plus dials a day so about 2,000 plus a month. I also like leaving Voicemails. That is a personal touch I found helped drive sales. I am getting back in to cold calling as I took sometime off, and was creating a lot of youtube video. Time for me to get some clients myself. And I would be happy to review the whole video and make a video out of it on my page if your cool with that.

Appreciate the feedback! I'm not the best at sales but it's fun to learn and practice, so these videos is just sharing my journey with it. At the moment my goal is to start a coaching business for videographers to grow their business. So a lot of my content will be focused on that to drive traffic to it. I have a sales script that I use when talking to ad leads, but my cold calling one still needs to be refined. Yeah man feel free to review it, I'd love to hear a critique from an experienced cold caller!

Thank you for the kind words 🙏 what other types of content would you want to see from me?

Thank you! What other types of videos would you want to see from me?

Thanks man 🙏 what other types of content would you be interested in seeing?

Yeah it's very different from calls where people are expecting to talk to you 🤣 definitely gotta practice this again

Thanks bro! What kinds of other content do you think other people are not doing?

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Thanks so much for the comment! Glad to hear too that people are in a similar boat. You're right that we're blessed to be able to change course on things more easily than other jobs. Where are you currently in the process of picking back up on youtube?

@@ScottTakai I stopped before I started essentially. I was very into short form editing at the time for clients and thought "if I can do this good for other people, why not do it for myself?" but I was wrong I realized doing time consuming vfx for myself, just to get a few views, was not going to work out for me 😂. So I took a step away and finally came back around with the mindset that I am going to start with a few bulletpoints for a script and see where things go from there. I used to always journal, but now that I am more into film making than any other artform I came up with the idea that I will start with RUclips being a journal in a way, and then see where things go

Haha dude those are literally the same things I went through haha. RUclips for me will be similar to where I'm just sharing journaled thoughts as my content. I made some short form on instagram but I'm over that platform now so gonna focus on youtube. Are you going to be sharing your experiences as a filmmaker for your content?

@@ScottTakai I believe so, I started freelancing during COVID as that was the time I graduated college with a marketing degree and found it impossible to get a job in the field. So if I could summarize my content it would be anything that educates people or inspires them to take the leap into the world of media and freelancing!

Nice! Best of luck

Thanks! Have you ever done something similar?

@@ScottTakai i took a break to reorganize and strategize. ive felt burnout before but burnout is part of the walk. you cant let it stop you.

100% I've been through burnout more times than I can count. What's your strategy looking like right now after having time to reflect?

@@ScottTakai really 2 answers, the first one is just build up a pain tolerance to the whole thing but the other one is talk to your loved ones and be around them more. my girlfriend and my family, i have spent more time with them

Nice! I agree, the family time is definitely important

Thanks! Any suggestions on content you'd be interested in seeing?

Appreciate it 🤙 what other types of content would you be interested in seeing?

Maybe one day 🤘

Thanks pal 🫶

Waow thanks bro