hiii everyone!!!!! 🎉 so i think i just did something i genuinely have not seen anyone do on the history of youtube.... i just released a 2 HOUR LONG A-Z tutorial going over EXACTLY how i create UGC!!! and i cover EVERYTHING!!! the competitor research, the viral video strategy, the scripting, the creative strategy, the editing and delivery (and i may or may not reveal exactly how I landed then and retain them to be beyond a $2,500 deallll) hehe. EEEKK!! i filmed my ENTIRE process for a $2,500/month brand deal. start to finish. nothing cut out. and i don't mean another "here's how i landed a brand deal" basic video. i mean the actual work. me sitting there doing competitor research (studying what content is already working for similar brands), viral research (finding the hooks and formats performing right now), scripting, creative strategy, filming, editing, and delivering the final files to the client. Beware, when I literally filmed myself editing for an 1 hour and 30 mins STRAIGHT speaking out loud how I created content so you can learn from the way that I do it!!! 😌 (green screen editing trick, capcut hacks, and the foundations to editing a video a brand actually likes, is included)!!! the tech company called AI APPLY is paying me $2,500 a month on retainer (retainer just means they pay me monthly on an ongoing basis instead of one payment for one video). my videos get posted on youtube and run as ads for them!! and this si the first time im doing this but i legit exposed my ENTIRE UGC process on how i deliver high performing videos cause I've been getting so many requests on how I edit and actually deliver videos, so I filmed a full tutorial for youuuuu (and also, I didn't really see anyone else doing this, so I wanted to be the first whahaha!!) if u could drop a like and comment on the video that would mean the world, to boost out to more people and see if u actually enjoy this type of content 💜 enjoy! https://youtu.be/UzNMWE3eOhc

okay i have to brag about @Annalise Hardman for a second because she deserves every bit of this 🤍 this girl built her UGC business to £7,500 a month which is right around $10,000 for my american friends. under 1,000 followers on instagram. she built skill, had consistency, and showed up for her clients so well that they kept coming back on their own!! I remember I had a call with her six months ago, and she was just feeling so defeated, like she couldn't move forward... "so many other people who started before me that are now more successful than me".. what gets me about her story is how real she isss for going alll innnn and defeating that mindset. she did this all while working a full time job and then working her way out (SHE'S UNEMPLOYED NOWWWW HAHA), going to college, AND still finding time to spend time with fam and friends. she just learned the skill properly, built her systems, delivered great work, and let the compound effect do its thing. and the results speak for themselvessss!!! and now thx to UGC, she gets paid to take her mum to lunch as part of content shoots. she is traveling to indonesia without asking a SINGLEEE person for time off (EEEK). and she now has more time to do what she loves to do, which is write books!!! she is 22 and she is just quietly just building the life she actually wants completely on her own terms. we sat down and recorded a full podcast episode together and she dropped so many gems. how she landed Meta as her very first client. how she scaled without a following. the mindset shift that changed everything for her. and what she would tell any girl sitting on the fence wondering if this is actually possible for someone like her (don'tttt miss her golden nuggetsss) go bingeee and drop a comment to support annalise, she shared her whole journey for us all, and she didn't have to!!! 🔥💜 https://youtu.be/OotkSHYKufk

i want to share something about one of our students because i think it needs to be said out loud in this community... a few months ago @Stacy Parks was a stay at home mom of three in northern arizona, homeschooling her kids, supporting her husband, and quietly carrying the weight of feeling like she needed to do something more. she had spent a full year in digital marketing through network marketing and made absolutely nothing. and when you pour that much of yourself into something and see zero return it does something to your belief system. it makes you start to wonder if maybe you are just not cut out for this kind of thing.... she almost let that stop her. but she stayed open. and that is the only reason i am writing this post right now. she found UGC. she found this community. and she just did it. she started in april's UGC Games with no expectations. just a willingness to figure it out one week at a time around her kids, around her family schedule, around everything she was already carrying. and in June she made just under $5,000 from one brand!!! her husband watched the earnings go up on the platform every single day. he would look at the screen and just say... wow. because they both knew what it took to get here and they both knew what it meant for their family! the UGC games were a massive part of this. going through that challenge pushed her to show up in a way she would not have pushed herself to do alone. the competition, the accountability, the community energy. it cracked something open in her and she came out the other side knowing she could actually do this for real, which is EXACTLY why we host it. she joined the UGC games, put her absolute all in, and won. and she deserved every bit of that recognition. so if you are a mom sitting here right now wondering if this is for you. if you have tried other things and failed and you are starting to believe the story that you are just not the type of person who gets to win at something like this...

I've heard ugc creators being rejected because they don't have a media kit or a big enough following count or number, but then ugc is said to be accessible for people who have 0 following. How is everyone finding this when it comes to pitching? Do you thinking building a social following is important?

heyooo fellow creators, davee here! I just downloaded tiktok again for the first time in 6 months and sawwww an unbeleivable amount of negativity in the creator space, a bunch of creators fearmongering over how AI will take over the industry, how its too saturated, a bunch of limiting beliefs that gen xers can't do it. . . blah blah blah. wanted to just come into here and say this past month in July, I was able to book over $20k in brand gigs and an $10k for next month already secured for august, whilst working half the day , surfing with my son pretty much daily . i landed a 5 figure brand partnership with carnival crusie line, where i pretty much get paid to do ugc on their crusie, and ON TOP of that, me and my family get a free cruise around Mexico. my son (16), just got back from a regional soccer tournament and this july, he hit $5k with ugc, and now aiming to do a $10k month before his senior year of HS! i say this because in my approach, there's really never been a better time to start as a creator, whether ur 52 lke me, or a teenager like my son reading this post right now. ive always had that approach since i started ugc 4 years ago, and i have that approach 4 years later, and stil serves me to do this day. heck, i had this attitude still even after losing my entire life savings, and going $50,000 in debt, after the 2008 real estate crash. and no it wasn't always sunshine and rainbows either, i've been decently "well-off", and made a good fortune, then lost it all BIG TIME, and got completely humbled by the 2008 real estate crash , losing all of my life savings + putting me into $50,000 in debt ( that i worked to repay for 10+ years) I was the "guy" who went from "having it all" to couldn't even being able to afford for my sons field trips and being that "father" i promised i never would become. the lowest of the low was when I literally was not able to sleep at nights because of how much guilt i felt that my wife was doing hundreds of job applications daily, just so we could keep us with the mortgage, and i was missing family events like my sons just because of how badly i needed the money.