Eric Deeran advises filmmakers to lock in retainer contracts with businesses for steady income, then use that money to hire a team and make time for passion projects. Build the boring business foundation first.
If you want more money, more time to work on more passion projects and do things that are more creatively fulfilling, here's what you actually need to do. And this may not be the most popular advice, but this is the best advice, in my opinion, that we've used to help people work on more passion projects. Number one, you need to get retainers in place with businesses doing work that maybe isn't the most exciting thing for you. These retainers build consistency and revenue. You hire a team to do that and then now you have money and time to work on the things you really want to work on. And this is how you can work on more passion projects. You have to build the boring business foundations first before you can do that. Otherwise you're working a job that's completely unrelated to video and you're having to do these things on the side. And I know this because this was me. So if you want to learn how to get businesses on retainer, doing content and getting paid consistently, comment the word workshop below. I'll send you a free training going over exactly how you can start doing this.
