Journey TO 10K🤑 A Month · Synthesizer School

Jul '23 in Other

Journey TO 10K🤑 A Month

Hey guys my name is Dane Nelson Aka Dane Visuals and I'm a content creator from Jamaica who's been doing videography for over 8 years. I now make youtube videos teaching people how to fly their drones and I plan to eventually move over into general camera tutorials and cinematic videos. Originally my primary focus was making content for medium and small-sized businesses as well as for corporate and major brands and I was able to open up a lot of opportunities for myself but over time I started feeling very unfulfilled with the industry, clients weren't giving me much creative freedom, I felt stressed out from constantly having to haggle for fair compensation and the industry felt very time-consuming and unappreciative, whenever I did a project it had no long term sustenance, I had to immediately start thinking about the next project, there was no security and I had always had a dream of traveling the world but whenever I was able to travel for a bit, I would go into a panic as I would make no money while away from my home. I realized that I was building other persons brand but not making any time for my own, as someone who had already amassed years' worth of experience with videography and photography I decided to turn to Youtube as a way to build my personal brand and create long term sustenance so that I could earn wherever I was. Youtube was my original teacher, I had no formal education in photography or videography I learnt everything through Youtube and a few creators who I hold very dearly. I started shooting content for myself in 2017 and I was met with a rude awakening, shooting yourself is hard, as an entrepreneur whenever I take on a client project I give it a 100% but it is very hard sometimes to put that same level of energy into a personal project as there is no one over you but yourself, I also learnt that even if I made visually stunning videos it did not guarantee views, I was hurt many times when I saw persons get more views than me even though I thought I had better videos (sadly this wasn't the case), it was a very humbling experience as you would think it would be easy for a videography to blow up on Youtube but trust me it's more than just making visually appealing videos fast forward many years of inconsistent efforts and I now have around 1700 subscriberS and I am monetized but thank god I was able to take lessons from a few creators that helped change my perspectives I was lucky to take part in creator now with Airack and I also did a Cohort with Jake Thomas a youtube title master. So the main point of this post is that I love the fact that I'm now in a community of people that have similar goals and stories like mine, let's start working together guys, let's share tips and tricks, and let's share our wins and our losses. I plan to make Youtube my full-time earner next year and I hope to make some friends with the same goals as well. This is my Journey to 10k/mo thread ( Im currently making around $20 lol) where ill share my occasional progress with anyone whos interested and hopefully meet some friends who'd want to attend vid summit with me in October 😁. Also major thanks to

@Andrew Kirby

for this community man, I stay synthesizing everyday man 🤝

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