Jonathan

Melbourne | Ecom

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

One of the profound lessons from Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, written over 2,500 years ago:

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“The distance between dreams and reality is called discipline.”

— Paulo Coelho

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

[Max @MaxxingDelusion]

Caesar crossed the Rubicon knowing there was no going back. Some decisions have to be final.

[Jonathan @JsmiEcom]

🗿HIRING🚨

Direct-response VSL and video editor for a fast-growing DTC ecommerce brand.

Long-term role. Performance-driven. NO agencies.

The brand is in the pet health / supplement niche, so experience with health, wellness, pets, supplements, or emotionally driven DTC offers is a plus.

I’m looking for one editor, a real person, not a team, to become the creative editing backbone of the brand.

The main focus will be VSLs and direct-response sales videos, with short-form Meta ads, hook variations, UGC edits, AI avatar ads, and animated creative built around that system.

I want someone who treats the brand like it’s their own and actually cares whether the ads perform.

What you’ll be making:

- VSL-style sales videos for paid social
- Short-form direct-response ads for Meta
- Talking-head, UGC, AI avatar, and testimonial edits
- Animated ads, including Pixar-style creative
- Hook variations and fresh iterations from winning ads
- Captions, sound design, b-roll, motion, proof moments, pattern interrupts, and pacing that keeps people watching

Every brief will be clear, but I don’t want someone who just assembles clips.

I want an editor who brings judgment.

You should be strong at:

- Direct-response editing
- VSL pacing and retention
- AI creative tools
- Animation and AI-assisted visual generation
- B-roll sourcing and selection
- Turning a script into a video that sells, not just a video that looks nice

This is for you if:

- You personally edit the work
- You communicate clearly and don’t disappear
- You ask smart questions up front
- You flag problems early
- You take ownership of the edit
- You can bring ideas without ignoring the brief

This is NOT for you if:

- You’re an agency
- You outsource or subcontract edits
- You need every clip and decision handed to you
- You go quiet for days
- You only care about making edits look cool, not making them convert

The deal:

- Pay-per-video, based on complexity
- Consistent volume for the right editor
- Performance bonuses after training, once your edits are driving results
- More upside and volume as you prove yourself

To apply:

Put “VSLGROWTHEDITOR” at the very top of your message.

Then send:

1. 3 to 5 examples you personally edited
2. Any VSL, UGC, talking-head, b-roll, AI, or animated ad work
3. The AI tools you use and what you use them for
4. Your usual turnaround time
5. Your rate per video
6. An honest answer: do you personally edit every video, or do you ever outsource?

Applications from agencies will be ignored.

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a guy makes a non liquid trillion dollars literally with environmentalist technology and furthering human space exploration, while providing the free-est speech platform on the planet, and wifi everywhere and the biggest fucking losers you know are big mad

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The only truly wasted time is time spent wishing you were somewhere else.

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I honestly can’t believe the audacity of these people who enrich themselves without adding a scrap of value to the world to complain like this.

Literally in the back of a chauffeur driven taxpayer funded limo.

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I don't mind living in a society that allows a man who employs more than 110,000 people, pioneered electric cars, and whose rockets we take to the moon, to be the world's first trillionaire.

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Don’t worry about Elon becoming rich with his own money.

Worry about politicians becoming rich with your money.

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Bernie Sanders and AOC haven't created a single millionaire.

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires.

Socialism vs. Capitalism

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Elon employs ~160,000 Americans and in one morning created thousands of millionaires…

You have done nothing for America.

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You have absolutely disgraced yourself publishing this, globe.

We all clearly don’t hate the media enough.

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“People who love all fields of knowledge are the ones who can best spot the patterns that exist across nature.”

― Jeff Bezos

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@nicktheriot_ HOOK

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@ashvinmelwani Can’t have one without the other, although design probably matters a little less than it does compared to copy

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I hate niggas who think like this alexander was groomed from a young age to be leader he had fucking aristotle as a private tutor in one of the most advanced civilizations at the time, he was great but he was MADE great. Your ass goes to a public school with no toilet paper.

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