Short advice from a filmmaker (Eric Deeran) recommending that creators secure business retainers—produce consistent content for paying business clients, scale by hiring shooters, and use retained income/time to fund passion projects. Ends with a call-to-action to a "Word Workshop" for more instruction.
If you want to be able to fund more passion projects and actually work on video projects that you're really, really excited about, you need to be focusing on getting businesses on retainer. Now, I know you may be wondering, well, what does that have to do with passion projects? Here's what you do. Number one, you get businesses on retainer. You create content for them consistently. They pay you every month, and you build an actual business. Then you hire other people to shoot that content. And now you have money and time from those businesses and retainers to actually shoot more passion projects. If you want to learn how, come at the Word Workshop below and.
