For video editing educators and creators
I turn your expertise into a 5-day educational email course that teaches something useful, builds trust with your audience, and gives the right readers a natural next step towards your paid program.
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You bring the expertise, audience and offer. I handle the research, strategy and writing — in your voice. No inflated promises. Just a course built to earn attention and trust.
Subject line is a scene, not a summary. Curiosity without a trick.
Most editors who write to me have already lowered their rate once to keep a client.
Opens inside a moment the reader has actually had this month. No greeting, no throat-clearing.
They typed “I can make it work” at the bottom of the email. Then the project doubled, the revisions tripled, and the lower number quietly became the number. Not because they undervalue themselves. Because nobody ever showed them a rate that survives a client saying “that's a lot.”
Here's what I've stopped believing about pricing, and what I check instead.
Ends owing the reader something. The next email is already opened.
Spec work. Written to show method — not a client project, and no results are being claimed.
The situation
Tuesday night you take one idea and spend two hours making it land. It does. Saves, shares, a handful of replies that all say some version of this is exactly where I am right now.
Thursday morning the same idea goes out to the same people by email. More room to say it, no algorithm in the way. And it reads like a note slipped under the door of an empty house.
Nothing is broken. The writing is fine. It's just that nothing in the email asks the reader to move — so they read it, agree with it, feel briefly informed, and go back to their day exactly as far from buying as they were before.
The offer
I take one valuable part of your expertise and shape it into a short email course your audience can follow from day one to day five. Each email has a specific teaching point and a strategic role in building understanding, trust and interest in your paid offer.
Not sure where to start? Apply and we'll work it out.
I focus on the course itself: the research, strategy and writing. You bring the audience, the email platform and the offer. Distribution, list setup and automation are not included unless agreed separately.
Selected work
The first example is a 5-day educational course concept for a video editing educator. The others show the sequences that can follow it. All are fictional spec work, not client projects, and no results are being claimed. Open an example to see its structure and a full email.
Spec brief. A video editing educator whose audience of freelance editors has watched every "AI edits it all now" tutorial and is quietly wondering whether their rate is about to be undercut. They don't need another tool walkthrough. They need a different explanation of what a client is actually paying them for.
The rough cut comes back in four minutes. You scrub through it at 2x, nothing jumps out, and you send it. Some quiet part of you knows you never listened to a single join.
Here's why it reads fine and plays wrong. An AI model builds that cut from the transcript. It sees the words, a few still frames and a timestamp. It doesn't watch the footage or hear the audio. It has never heard the half-second of room tone before a line, or the breath that makes a cut feel like a cut.
So on paper the cut is correct: fillers gone, retakes dropped, every sentence in order. And it still lurches, because a transcript has no pacing in it. Everything a viewer feels about a cut lives in what the transcript left out.
That's the part a client is paying you for, and it's the part the "fully automated" tutorials never show anyone checking.
Tomorrow: what I hand to AI without a second thought, and the one thing I never do. The split is simpler than you'd expect, and it's why "can't AI just do this?" doesn't worry me anymore.
One job: change what the reader believes they're selling. Nothing is pitched, and the next email is already owed.
Spec brief. New subscribers downloaded a free pricing guide for freelance editors. They have a PDF and no idea who wrote it. Six emails to turn a download into someone who understands the educator's whole position and wants the next step.
The client's message lands at 10:52. “Small tweak, can we try the intro a different way?” You've already exported twice tonight. You type “Of course!” with an exclamation mark you don't feel.
It isn't the tweak. It's that you said yes before you checked whether you wanted to, and you've done it for so long it feels like professionalism.
You're not bad at saying no. You've just never had a reason you believed.
You downloaded the guide for the numbers. This is the part it doesn't cover. Tomorrow I'll show you where that reflex comes from, and it isn't where you think.
One job: make the reader feel seen in a moment they've never told anyone about. No lesson, no pitch. It earns the next open and nothing more.
Spec brief. The audience believes they're underpaid because they aren't good enough yet, so they keep buying skill courses. Until that belief moves, any offer about the business side gets measured against “I just need to improve first.” Five emails to dismantle it without telling anyone they're stupid.
You've finished the colour grading course. You've rebuilt your transition pack twice. Your reel is the best it's ever been, and the client you pitched last week still countered at half your rate.
Before you buy the next course, try this. Open your last five client messages and underline every time someone mentioned the editing itself: the cuts, the grade, the sound. Guess the count first. Mine would be close to none.
They wrote about the deadline, the upload schedule, whether you'd still be around next month.
Clients rarely pay more for a better transition. They pay for fewer things to worry about.
Which means the skill you keep upgrading is the one thing they've already stopped questioning.
Tomorrow: why this is almost impossible to see from inside the timeline, and what “getting better” has been protecting you from.
One job: replace the diagnosis. The reader runs the test themselves, which is why it sticks. The tension is left open on purpose.
Spec brief. An eight-day cart to editors who've been nurtured for two months and already accept the argument: the money is in the decisions, not the cuts. The price is the biggest stall, so the sequence meets it head-on instead of around it.
The cohort page has been open in a tab for three days. You've opened the payment screen twice and closed it, and both times the number you were really looking at wasn't the price. It was the one on your last invoice.
So let's say the objection out loud: “I'm an editor. Who pays that much to learn the business side?”
Here's the arithmetic, not the pep talk. The cohort is $1,200. One retainer client at $800 a month is $9,600 a year. The program doesn't promise you one. It's built around the decisions that decide whether you ever get one: what you pitch, who you pitch, and what you say when they counter at half.
The question isn't whether $1,200 is a lot. It's what another year at the rate you have now is costing you.
If the money would genuinely hurt, skip this round. I mean it. There will be another.
Otherwise, tomorrow I'll add up that year.
One job: say the price objection out loud before the reader does, then answer it with arithmetic. Letting someone walk away honestly makes everything else more believable.
From clients
How I think about an email
Information doesn't sell. Movement does. Before anyone buys, they travel a distance — and each email is responsible for one leg of it.
Most creator emails live on the first two rungs and quietly hope the rest happens on its own. It rarely does, and the list gets blamed for it.
What the work actually is
Adding a call to action to a weak email gives you a weak email with a call to action. Making it longer gives you more of it. Persuasion tactics stacked on top of an argument the reader hasn't accepted just make the seams visible.
Nothing on the page moves until something in the reader's head moves first. So every email starts as a set of questions about the person receiving it, and only becomes writing once those have answers.
That's the difference, and it's most of the work. The writing is the last and shortest part.
Process
I go through your content, your offer, your replies and DMs if you'll share them, and the way you actually talk. Before I write a line, I should be able to argue your position better than most of your audience can.
We pull the raw material: client transformations, the beliefs you've changed your mind about, the objection you hear every single week, the mechanism behind your method. Most of it already exists in your head and has never been written down.
The sequence gets a shape. Every email is assigned one job — one belief to shift, one objection to dissolve, one story to land — and a specific reason the next one gets opened.
Drafted in your voice: your vocabulary, your rhythm, your opinions, your way of being wrong about things. If your audience can tell someone else wrote it, I've done it wrong.
You read it and mark what doesn't sound like you. I sharpen, cut, and send it back. This round is usually where the sequence stops being good and starts being yours.
Final sequence, formatted and ready to load into your platform, with a short note on send timing and what's worth watching once it's live.
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Tell me what you teach, who you teach, and the paid program your course should lead towards. If it's a fit, we'll talk properly. If it isn't, I'll say so — and usually tell you what I'd do instead.
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