⏱️ $10

how much is your time worth?

Author

Shawna Newman
May 31, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

At the start of the week, I asked you if I’m a real YouTuber now since I had an inbound request to sponsor one of my videos.

I was asked in the email if I was interested and to send over my rate card.

I don’t have a rate card, duh.

So, I just asked for more info on the opportunity.

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Consider Me Insulted

The response I got back let me know that they’d give me a free account (the lowest level)…though no details on how long that account would be free. And they let me know of their generous 30% affiliate program. Again, they asked my rate.

I should have taken the mention of the generous affiliate program as a sign.

I was all set to ask for $100, but after seeing the free account offer, I decided that I’d request $50 and offer to also mention the company in this very newsletter.

This is the reply I got -

If I value my time at $60 (I don’t), I can’t even edit a video in 10 minutes ($10 worth of my time), much less record a whole ass video on a tool.

Nor do I want to.

This dude is tripping. A video lives on forever. Not to mention the time it would take to record, edit, & upload it.

And I don’t fall for the potential of the affiliate program 🤡

No doubt this $10 is paid out via PayPal where I would be on the hook for the PayPal fee.

I thought about accepting it and then giving him $10 worth of value. But I don’t want a shitty video on my channel.

Anyways, I sent him this reply -

What I may end up doing is recording a video of alternatives to this tool….just for spite.

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Coming up…

More on what I’m working on and how it’s going.

Stay awesome,

Shawna

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