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Hey everyone,

I'm currently working as a freelance video editor, and I'm trying to make my client process more professional and move from Upwork to cold emails.

A few questions:

1. **From the initial sales call onwards, what does your process look like?**
2. * Do you send the contract after the call, or do you go through it together during the call?
3. * Do you send an invoice immediately after they agree?
4. **How do you handle payment?**
5. * 100% upfront?
6. * 50% upfront and 50% on delivery?
7. * Monthly retainer paid in advance?
8. * Something else?
9. **How do you deliver work while protecting yourself?**
10. * Do you send watermarked versions before final payment?
11. * If it's a monthly retainer, do you just trust the client, or do you have safeguards in place?
12. **How do retainers work when your service isn't just editing?** For example, if you're also providing: How do you structure the scope so clients don't keep asking for "just one more thing"?
13. * Thumbnail design
14. * Thumbnail strategy
15. * Content strategy
16. * Posting/scheduling
17. * Analytics and feedback
18. **How do you avoid being taken advantage of?**
19. * Do you limit revisions?
20. * Define deliverables very clearly?
21. * Have specific clauses in your contract?
22. * Any lessons you've learned the hard way?
23. **For those offering Alex Hormozi-style guarantees, how do you make them work without clients abusing them?** I'd love to know what kinds of guarantees you've successfully offered and what boundaries you put in place.
24. **For agencies charging $1,500–$3,000+ per month, what does your retainer actually include?**
25. * How many long-form videos?
26. * How many shorts?
27. * Thumbnails?
28. * Strategy calls?
29. * Posting?
30. * Anything else?

I'm less interested in theory and more interested in hearing your actual systems and workflows. If you're running an agency or freelancing full-time, I'd really appreciate you sharing how you do it.

Hey everyone,

I'm currently working as a freelance video editor, and I'm trying to make my client process more professional and move from Upwork to cold emails.

A few questions:

1. **From the initial sales call onwards, what does your process look like?**
   * Do you send the contract after the call, or do you go through it together during the call?
   * Do you send an invoice immediately after they agree?
2. **How do you handle payment?**
   * 100% upfront?
   * 50% upfront and 50% on delivery?
   * Monthly retainer paid in advance?
   * Something else?
3. **How do you deliver work while protecting yourself?**
   * Do you send watermarked versions before final payment?
   * If it's a monthly retainer, do you just trust the client, or do you have safeguards in place?
4. **How do retainers work when your service isn't just editing?** For example, if you're also providing: How do you structure the scope so clients don't keep asking for "just one more thing"?
   * Thumbnail design
   * Thumbnail strategy
   * Content strategy
   * Posting/scheduling
   * Analytics and feedback
5. **How do you avoid being taken advantage of?**
   * Do you limit revisions?
   * Define deliverables very clearly?
   * Have specific clauses in your contract?
   * Any lessons you've learned the hard way?
6. **For those offering Alex Hormozi-style guarantees, how do you make them work without clients abusing them?** I'd love to know what kinds of guarantees you've successfully offered and what boundaries you put in place.
7. **For agencies charging $1,500–$3,000+ per month, what does your retainer actually include?**
   * How many long-form videos?
   * How many shorts?
   * Thumbnails?
   * Strategy calls?
   * Posting?
   * Anything else?

I'm less interested in theory and more interested in hearing your actual systems and workflows. If you're running an agency or freelancing full-time, I'd really appreciate you sharing how you do it.

Hey everyone,

I'm currently working as a freelance video editor, and I'm trying to make my client process more professional.

For those of you who freelance or run small video editing services, how do you usually handle the workflow from sales call to delivery?

A few questions:

1. From the initial sales call onwards, what does your process look like?
   • Do you send the contract after the call, or do you go through it together during the call?
   • Do you send an invoice immediately after they agree?
2. How do you handle payment?
   • 100% upfront?
   • 50% upfront and 50% on delivery?
   • Monthly retainer paid in advance?
   • Something else?
3. How do you deliver work while protecting yourself?
   • Do you send watermarked versions before final payment?
   • If it's a monthly retainer, do you just trust the client, or do you have safeguards in place?
4. How do retainers work when your service isn't just editing? For example, if you're also providing: How do you structure the scope so clients don't keep asking for "just one more thing"?
   • Thumbnail design
   • Thumbnail strategy
   • Content strategy
   • Posting/scheduling
   • Analytics and feedback
5. How do you avoid being taken advantage of?
   • Do you limit revisions?
   • Define deliverables very clearly?
   • Have specific clauses in your contract?
   • Any lessons you've learned the hard way?
6. For those offering Alex Hormozi-style guarantees, how do you make them work without clients abusing them? I'd love to know what kinds of guarantees you've successfully offered and what boundaries you put in place.
7. For agencies charging $1,500–$3,000+ per month, what does your retainer actually include?
   • How many long-form videos?
   • How many shorts?
   • Thumbnails?
   • Strategy calls?
   • Posting?
   • Anything else?

I'm less interested in theory and more interested in hearing your actual systems and workflows. If you're running an agency or freelancing full-time, I'd really appreciate you sharing how you do it.

Hey everyone,

I'm currently working as a freelance video editor, and I'm trying to make my client process more professional and move from Upwork to cold emails.

A few questions:

1. From the initial sales call onwards, what does your process look like?
   • Do you send the contract after the call, or do you go through it together during the call?
   • Do you send an invoice immediately after they agree?
2. How do you handle payment?
   • 100% upfront?
   • 50% upfront and 50% on delivery?
   • Monthly retainer paid in advance?
   • Something else?
3. How do you deliver work while protecting yourself?
   • Do you send watermarked versions before final payment?
   • If it's a monthly retainer, do you just trust the client, or do you have safeguards in place?
4. How do retainers work when your service isn't just editing? For example, if you're also providing: How do you structure the scope so clients don't keep asking for "just one more thing"?
   • Thumbnail design
   • Thumbnail strategy
   • Content strategy
   • Posting/scheduling
   • Analytics and feedback
5. How do you avoid being taken advantage of?
   • Do you limit revisions?
   • Define deliverables very clearly?
   • Have specific clauses in your contract?
   • Any lessons you've learned the hard way?
6. For those offering Alex Hormozi-style guarantees, how do you make them work without clients abusing them? I'd love to know what kinds of guarantees you've successfully offered and what boundaries you put in place.
7. For agencies charging $1,500–$3,000+ per month, what does your retainer actually include?
   • How many long-form videos?
   • How many shorts?
   • Thumbnails?
   • Strategy calls?
   • Posting?
   • Anything else?

I'm less interested in theory and more interested in hearing your actual systems and workflows. If you're running an agency or freelancing full-time, I'd really appreciate you sharing how you do it.

For Nepali freelancers earning through Upwork and withdrawing through Payoneer to a Nepali bank account:

• How do you legally report this income to IRD?
• Does the bank automatically report it under your PAN or deduct any tax?
• Do you need a Business PAN or is a Personal PAN enough?
• At what income level should someone register a sole proprietorship?
• What documents should be kept as proof of income?
• Is it better to withdraw through Payoneer or directly into a Nepali bank account?
• Has anyone successfully received tax clearance based on Upwork freelance income?

I would appreciate answers from freelancers who have gone through this process or from CAs/accountants familiar with foreign freelance income in Nepal.

https://reddit.com/link/1ui09ha/video/lspygnmmk1ah1/player

I recently watched this video where the creator said you should never sell using guarantees or refunds because clients can take advantage of them.

But from what I understood after reading Alex Hormozi’s $100M Offers, risk reversal is one of the most important parts of converting a cold prospect. If someone does not know or trust you yet, a strong guarantee can reduce their fear and make the offer easier to accept.

So I’m curious about people’s real-world experiences:

Have guarantees helped you close clients, especially through cold outreach?

What type of guarantee did you offer?

How did you prevent clients from abusing it or demanding refunds unfairly?

What conditions, qualifications or exclusions should be included?

I would like to use a guarantee because I understand why it improves conversions, but I also do not want to attract bad-fit clients who expect results without doing their part.

Is the best approach to guarantee the work, deliverables or process instead of guaranteeing revenue or results?

I’d appreciate hearing from people who have actually used guarantees in a service business. What worked, what went wrong, and what would you avoid?

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are you guys having similar problem ?

I just finished Alex Hormozi’s $100M Offers and I’m trying to apply it to my service, but a few things aren’t clicking for content/video specifically. Hoping people who actually run service businesses can sanity-check me.
For context: I produce and manage content for founders and creators. Building their content funnel, making and editing videos, repurposing their podcast, basically running their content top to bottom.

1. The guarantee problem Hormozi pushes big, bold revenue guarantees. But: How do you guarantee a revenue boost when you don’t even know what they currently make?

How are you so sure they’ll actually get that increase?

How do you measure their income in the first place, especially if you have no access to their numbers?

2. The getting-paid problem
Say I make the offer and do the work. What stops them from just not paying?

Are people signing contracts to lock in payment certainty? What does that look like for a service like this?

If I’m not getting paid upfront, doesn’t that create cash flow problems while I’m carrying the work?

3. The attribution problem (this is the big one for content)

Lead gen and ads are easy to track. Content is murky.
If I build someone a great content system and it all performs, how do I prove my content is what made them money?

How is that revenue even tracked back to the content?

Views I can sort of measure, but revenue? How do you attribute a sale to a video someone watched three weeks ago?

How are you all handling this in real life? Genuinely trying to figure out if a performance-based offer even makes sense for content, or if I’m forcing a framework where it doesn’t fit.

A few weeks ago I landed my first real ongoing client, an online education business that uses a free course as a lead magnet. They basically told me to "take care of the whole content workflow." Right now I'm on Upwork hourly at $18/hr. They seem happy, haven't mentioned a budget at all.

What they want weekly:

- 1 longform highlight/recap video (~10 min)

- ~5 course lesson videos (5-10 min each)

- maybe 1 extra evergreen video

- 2-4 shorts cut from each longform

- thumbnails, uploading/cross-posting, titles

On top of that there's a ~40-video course they want finished in about 2 months. Pretty heavy tbh

Realistically the full weekly load is ~25-27 hrs/week. At $18/hr that's about $2,000/month.

Where I'm stuck:

Hourly - Pros: I get paid for revisions, and honestly I don't know yet how long each video actually takes to edit, so hourly feels "safe" while I'm still figuring that out. -

Cons: time tracking is tiring. Some of my AI animation stuff takes forever to render, so I'm stuck at my desk waiting on it while the clock runs. And the faster I get, the less I make, which feels backwards.

Flat pricing (monthly retainer / per video / one price for the course)? maybe I dont know which will be benificial and how much to charge

Questions:

- Monthly retainer, per-video, or a fixed project price for the course? or just hourly ?

- How to communicate and make this smooth?

- how much to charge ?

TL;DR: first client, $18/hr, they want me to run their whole content operation plus a 40-video course in 2 months.

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Hi guys, I would want some feedback for my profile and how to make it better. tbh you can roast it i might get some value out of it. thankyou :)

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Hey guys, I know you can’t share my personal contact in cover letter or text before the contacts but the client often says add links or show work ? How am I supposed to send them my links. I do use portfolio but sometimes it’s not enough for the client nor specific for them.

Please tell me what you guys do and if someone from work can help ?

👋 Hey everyone is there anyone here who’s good with sales and lead generation? Maybe has some basic to intermediate AI knowledge too?

I’m building an agency starting with freelancing and eventually moving into the full agency model. I might need a partner for this because I’d rather build it right than try to do everything alone.

Happy to share more details on where I’m at and what the plan looks like.

What I bring:

•	3+ years in marketing and social media  
•	Basic to intermediate AI knowledge  
•	I get things done — and I’ll push us both to hit our goals

If you’re passionate about service-based businesses and this sounds interesting, let me know. Would love to connect. 🤝

Target audience : The West and high income communities/ founders