The 1000 \| Video Editing

The 1000 \| Video Editing is for creators shipping content that grows audiences.

Why you should join: Public price is $9 a month. Get peer support, practical playbooks and live rooms inside Skool.

The one-liner

A $9 community teaching video editors how to land high-ticket clients.

What they actually sell

Benjamin Ewert runs The 1000 for editors who already make money but hate cheap clients. For $9 a month you get offer-building, personal branding, a client acquisition framework, sales-call coaching, and a 90-Day Locked-In Challenge with portfolio feedback. Seventeen courses and 69 modules sit behind the pitch. He is explicit that beginners who have not earned editing income yet should wait. The about page does not spell out a free trial.

Who pays and why

Working video editors stuck on lowball gigs who want $5k to $10k months without stacking more cheap work. The fear is staying the invisible freelancer forever. They pay for premium positioning and outreach that makes better clients come to them.

Where the members come from

Ben's YouTube at @bensadvice and Instagram at @thebenbranding. His bio leans on editing thousands of ads for Skool and work linked to Alex Hormozi's team, so the community reads as the paid back end of that editor-facing brand.

What's holding it back

At $9 the room can fill with lurkers who never run the outreach. If the high-ticket promise outruns the feedback capacity on portfolios and sales calls, serious editors will feel the challenge is thin. Portfolio feedback capacity is the quiet bottleneck behind the cheap monthly.

Steal this

Gate a cheap monthly with a clear not-for-beginners line, then run a timed challenge that forces portfolio and outreach work.

Would this work in another niche?

Yes for other skilled freelancers tired of cheap clients, such as motion designers or podcast editors. Weak for absolute beginner tool tutorials with no client goal.