In this video I’m talking straight finances, because I genuinely want you as a videographer to get to financial freedom—not just “get by.” I looked up the average annual salary for freelance filmmakers and saw that most people cap their goal at $63k–$100k. And I’m just being real: 100K a year is not a lot of money in today’s world depending on your life situation. If you’ve got a family, a mortgage, high rent, car payments, and you’re the provider, that number disappears fast. So I’m challenging that “six figures and stop” mindset and showing you how to push past it if you’re actually trying to build long-term wealth. I break down three moves. First: focus on larger-scale productions by partnering with social media marketing agencies and smaller corporations where you can realistically become a retainer. The key is to stop blindly “networking” and instead find the hole in a business’s marketing, then fill it with real value—ideas, strategy, and content that drives sales. Second: increase client interactions through upsells and packages, and make sure you’re speaking to the decision-makers actually running the social pages. Third (and I say this every time): diversify your income, because freelancing is inconsistent and stress will make you hate filmmaking if you don’t build other streams.