Few months ago, i had a prospect from Linkedin, who told me to charge cheaper because, I’m from a third world country, he called it “the international price” We reached out to this prospect through Linkedin. He was interested. I was spending about 15 hrs of my day editing and doing outreach, as well as my copywriter. This guy picked interest, we set a call for the following week, I missed it. I reached out to him, there was not much enthusiasm, so I did something. I followed him on IG, I took raw footage from it, and spent about 4 hours editing it, then I sent it over to him. He was so shocked and loved the video, he said sure let’s hop on another call. We did, and everything was going great. I explained the process of how I work and the process, and how much time I spent editing videos. So we got to the point of price, At that period my set package was $1,500, but i was desperately in need of that cash, i was still struggling to get one client then, so i told him, I’m willing to charge $1,000 since it was our first time, but subsequent times it would be $1,500 He was like that’s fair, because if he was hiring someone in the states for what I am offering he will be paying $3k to $4k. It was at this point he started to find a way to low ball me, He first said, seems I was using AI to do the edits. He is sure it won’t take more than 30 mins for one video, I didn't know what it was at first. So I explained, saying No. I do this manually and this takes 3-4 hours on 1 video. He said okay, he said how about we do $800 first month, i didn’t like it but i accepted once more. He said, “I’m happy to pay you later on if this works out, you know I’ve got the US DOllars man” I laughed it off as a joke, it was a good though, for real. He said he is coming to me because he wants that “international price” and don’t blame me, i get sarcasm most times, but I’m slow a lot of times also. So I laughed at that, I didn't think deep into it. We finally agreed to $800 and I was about to send the contract when my zoom time expired. SO i went back to Linkedin to finalize since we agreed on $800. Only for him to start asking me, “Let’s do $200 for 4 videos, if these videos work out and i go viral on tiktok, I will sign the $1,000” I tried to explain to him, no social media doesn’t work like that, it requires consistency. This is why I offer my services in packages, because it needs commitment over 30 to 60 days. Because one of the things that comes with my services is me writing the video scripts, i remember on the call, how he tried to say i won’t be able to do the scripts part well also. I said we do our research and we will be working with you, to get bullet points, we can turn into longer words. He said nah, I won’t really get it. I told him to let me think it over, because I was in a desperate situation. It was during this overnight thinking my brain began to boot about the things he was saying on the call, in order to justify why I should charge him less, and I was like. Naturally I wouldn't even want to work with this person, we will have troubles at the end. I needed that money so badly, but I went back the following morning and told him, Seems like we are not a good fit for each other, so I will pass on this offer, if he can’t commit to what was agreed earlier. I was so proud of myself, but I was still broke. So I moved on to the next prospect, doubled down on my work, i was able to close another that week to sort out the issue I had. I’ve learnt that it’s hard not to compromise and sometimes you’re in a sh1tty place where you can’t really avoid some prospects or clients. Most times you have to be able to say No regardless to save yourself a lot of trouble I'm trying to scale my Agency to $10k a month and I'm sharing my journey on the way there, you can follow to see what works and what doesn't. For those who asked about the training to learn shortform editing and TikTok Growth PS: this doesn’t cover how to get clients, just the skill needed bit.ly/growviralagency