How do you talk to a client respectfully without making it sound like you're a cheap editor? , specially when it's via text

I have tutorials about raising prices from malice but i don't know what to actually say to the client. i have a client that i have edited videos for. it's in the finance niche and he pays me around $30 for a 6 min video. i have edited about 3 videos for him which impressed him. now i want to raise my prices but don't know what to actually say to him.

What do you respond if the "prospect" is asking my rates? Should I answer it directly, if yes then what's the best way to answer it without getting lowballed.

yooo sup guys, don't know if this is a dumb question or not, but as a newer editor (editing for 2 years, but recently became more serious), is it good to watch random tutorials about certain fx and and stuff just to add more in my editing skills, or is that a waste of time? Thanks for any advice given! 🫡

I am doing outreach for a while and I am now running out of potential clients accounts to outreach. My first source was twitter where I would search “looking for editors” kind of post where I get some editors post, clients looking for shorts and clients looking for finance niche and just few opportunities of content what I am editing. My portfolio is centred towards entertainment content like gaming, reacts, smooth animations so I don’t know where to outreach for specific niche clients. If you say just go on youtube and find Channels, then what I get is mostly high subscribers and bigger channels but I don’t have any social proof so there is little to no chance that it would work. Also please let me know how do I find youtube channels that are just starting out or has low subscribers count and view count so that I can help them with editing. For example if I need a youtube channel with less than 50k in reaction content, how do I find it? Apart from these I also outreach using ytjobs post and discord servers job post. I am aiming for 20 outreaches a day hut fall short of accounts to outreach. Please drop your suggestions.