0:00

300 bucks an hour as a

0:02

content creator with no audience required.

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Today's guest went from zero to

0:06

over 100 grand a year on

0:08

the side from her day job

0:10

with a unique online business centered

0:12

on UGC. That's user-generated content. This

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is getting paid by brands to

0:17

help them fill their social feeds

0:19

with organic-looking content, even if you're

0:21

not an influencer, even if you're

0:23

not a Mitch expert, and even

0:25

if you don't have any following

0:28

right now. from Megan Collier, ugc.com.

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Megan Collier, welcome to the Side Hustle

0:32

Show. Thanks for having me, Nick. I'm

0:34

excited to be here and chat about UGC.

0:36

This is a new, like an elder

0:38

millennial, so you're going to have to

0:40

break it down for me. But I'm

0:42

excited to learn alongside the audience in

0:45

this one. We're covering. step-by-step how you

0:47

can tap into the UGC gold rush,

0:49

and it absolutely is a gold rush

0:51

that I see going on right now,

0:53

how to approach brands and land your

0:55

first deals, figuring out pricing and production

0:57

side, and how to potentially scale to

0:59

hundreds of dollars an hour, maybe even

1:02

a full-time income stream, just like Megan

1:04

did. So I want to go back.

1:06

So my understanding is you've got a

1:08

young kid at home, you're working full-time,

1:10

and you're going to see this opportunity,

1:12

a thousand bucks a month. That

1:14

would be fantastic. And then you

1:16

land your very first deal, $750.

1:18

You're like, Okay, there's there's something

1:20

to this. Walk me through this

1:22

first deal and how you got

1:24

started. Yeah, that's basically it. You

1:26

know, I was scrolling on Tiktok

1:29

one day randomly, like a lot

1:31

of us do these days. Saw

1:33

somebody talking about UGC. They explained

1:35

it fairly clearly. It made sense

1:37

to me and I already knew

1:39

that brands were, you know, they

1:41

needed content because most brands are

1:43

on social media. So it made

1:45

sense to me. And so I...

1:47

I just kind of jumped right

1:49

in and I yeah, I had

1:51

a goal of a thousand bucks

1:53

a month I thought maybe yeah,

1:55

we could pay our car payments,

1:58

maybe some groceries and yeah I

2:00

Basically, I created a portfolio using

2:02

products around my house that I

2:04

already had, created video examples so

2:07

brands could kind of get to

2:09

know me, my style of content.

2:11

Okay, so this was stuff. I had

2:13

this lying around, I need a portfolio.

2:15

I'm not getting paid to do this,

2:17

but I need something to... Show somebody

2:19

on a media kit type of deal.

2:21

Exactly. Media kit portfolio. You can use

2:23

them simultaneously. Just really one central place.

2:25

And that's what I just saw. I

2:27

kind of pieced together information from people

2:30

I was following on TikTok that I

2:32

saw doing UGC. Okay. So I'm like,

2:34

okay. I clearly need a portfolio. So

2:36

that's what I did. I literally had

2:38

two videos that I did about. the

2:40

cat treats that we give our two

2:42

cats, a toy, a toy kit that

2:44

we gave our, you know, we got

2:46

our son off of Amazon or something.

2:48

Okay. And then a travel fidget spinner,

2:50

I had four videos total when

2:52

I hit publish on my portfolio

2:55

and I just did it on

2:57

Canva. It wasn't like I coded

2:59

a website or built this crazy

3:01

website. It was really, really simple.

3:04

Yeah, four videos hit publish and

3:06

I started reaching reaching out to

3:08

brands. Okay. placeholder as like a

3:10

place to showcase those videos? Yeah,

3:13

just mainly can, but I think I

3:15

probably, I decided to start a new

3:17

TikTok, like taking everyone through my journey,

3:20

I saw other people doing that, and

3:22

like, okay, this would probably keep me

3:24

accountable to continue doing it and sharing

3:26

it, and sharing it, and sharing my

3:29

process, my journey, starting UGC. So I

3:31

started a brand new Tik Talk, and

3:33

I think I posted those video examples

3:36

there, just because I thought that's what

3:38

you should do, two ways. One is

3:40

Instagram DM. I would like literally just

3:43

scroll Instagram, look at the ads that

3:45

I was seeing on Instagram, and then

3:47

go and follow the brand if I

3:49

wasn't already following them, and then I

3:52

would DM them and say, hey, I'm

3:54

Megan, I'm a UGC creator, I've

3:56

been seeing your ads, your product,

3:58

looks like something I could totally

4:00

use myself and I'd love to be

4:02

connected with the person in charge of

4:05

handling partnerships. And I got several responses

4:07

from that. That's why I landed my

4:09

second UGC deal. The first one though

4:11

that you mentioned, the $750 deal, was

4:13

like 10 days into my UGC journey

4:15

and that was with an app company

4:17

that I just ended up emailing cold

4:20

pitching via email. And yeah, they ended

4:22

up hiring me for three videos initially.

4:24

And then I wanted to make more

4:26

money and prove that I could actually

4:28

do this and make a, you know,

4:30

a good chunk of money for my

4:33

first UGC deal. And so I ended

4:35

up, I didn't tell them, but I

4:37

made five total videos for them. And

4:39

I was like, hey, I ended up

4:41

having a ton of like ideas for

4:43

you guys. And I have five videos

4:45

if you want to buy the other

4:48

two. And they were like, oh, my

4:50

gosh, yes, 100. We need all the

4:52

videos that we can all the videos

4:54

that we can get. Step one, create

4:56

the portfolio, step two, start doing the

4:58

brand outreach, and it sounds like I'm

5:00

just going to scroll my feed and

5:03

show who's showing up in the ads,

5:05

like I know they're investing in user

5:07

acquisition and growth marketing, so they might

5:09

be more receptive to this, because my

5:11

approach would have been like, well, what

5:13

are the top 25, 50 brands that

5:16

I already know, like, and trust and

5:18

I use, and I'm going to start

5:20

there, but sounds like, maybe that comes

5:22

down the road. land the deal is

5:24

literally by connecting with brands. So it

5:26

doesn't matter if you're gonna DM, if

5:28

you're gonna email, if you're just gonna

5:31

start with the brands that you already

5:33

like, because that also is super powerful

5:35

because you're coming. to the brand saying,

5:37

hey, I've been using this product for

5:39

X amount of months or X amount

5:41

of years. They've already got that, like,

5:44

it's a bonus for them because they

5:46

have a real customer that's gonna be

5:48

willing to make some really authentic genuine

5:50

content. So yeah, 100% you can start

5:52

with brands you already know, you already

5:54

like, you can quite literally, this is

5:56

what I tell people if they're kind

5:59

of having a block on. to reach

6:01

out to is take a pen and

6:03

piece of paper or take your notes

6:05

up on your phone, go walk around

6:07

your house and look at all the

6:09

products that you have that you've purchased

6:12

that you use on a consistent basis.

6:14

I can almost guarantee most of those

6:16

brands are posting consistently on social media

6:18

and probably a lot of them are

6:20

also working already with UGC creators. Yeah,

6:22

and it's not just, you know, I'm

6:24

thinking of like the closet and shoes

6:26

and clothes and clothes, but also... food

6:29

and snacks and toys and games like all

6:31

sorts of stuff so much and even it

6:33

even software like you said the first deal

6:35

was a was an app company yeah

6:37

I've worked with so many apps

6:39

software companies that I've used for

6:41

years and just you know they

6:43

just hired me to do UGC.

6:45

So whenever people ask me like

6:47

what kind of brands are using

6:49

UGC, creators, it's truly a mix.

6:52

It's across the board. I've worked

6:54

with fashion, like clothing companies, software,

6:56

tech companies, like you as a,

6:58

you doing podcast, like I'm looking

7:00

at your headphones, right? Your mic,

7:02

like whatever you're using as a

7:04

podcaster, so many brands are using,

7:06

you know, user-generated content in their

7:08

marketing strategies. Okay, that's what they're

7:10

getting out of the deal is we're going

7:13

to hire Megan or 100 people like

7:15

Megan to fill out our own content feed.

7:17

Like there's always another day coming

7:19

around, there's always going to be needing

7:21

more stuff to post. And so this

7:24

is a way to kind of crowdsource.

7:26

that in an authentic looking way or,

7:28

you know, from actual users of the

7:30

thing. And so that's their benefit,

7:32

benefit to you is obviously getting

7:34

paid to do it. And so it sounds

7:36

like from your Instagram dams, it's like,

7:39

could you connect me with the, you said,

7:41

the person handling content partnerships? Or is

7:43

like some, is that an official? job

7:45

title that I want to be on

7:48

the lookout for? Yeah, it's going to

7:50

be different for every brand, right? So

7:52

what I like to tell people is,

7:54

you know, typically when you're reaching out

7:56

to medium, you know, from medium to

7:59

large-sized brands, The person that's looking at

8:01

the DMs on the brand's Instagram account

8:03

is not typically a decision maker, right?

8:06

It's going to be a customer service

8:08

person that just wants to answer questions

8:10

quickly. So that's why I say always

8:13

ask to be connected with the brand

8:15

partnerships or it could be an influencer

8:17

manager, it could be a partnerships director,

8:19

it could be a creative director. So

8:22

you could ask it in a specific

8:24

way more like... Can I be connected

8:26

with the person in charge of handling

8:29

partnerships? So you don't have to say

8:31

a specific title, but just whoever's in

8:33

charge of working with content creators. Okay,

8:36

and same thing over email, like is

8:38

through the generic contact form on the

8:40

page. Okay, and same thing over email,

8:43

like this is through the generic contact

8:45

form on the page. It seems like

8:47

half the time, that's just going into

8:50

a black box where maybe it's customer

8:52

service that checks that, or maybe it

8:54

just is into a black hole. Typically

8:56

it's going to be the same. You're

8:59

going to, like with Instagram, DM, you

9:01

know, it's going to be a little

9:03

quicker, shorter text. It's not going to

9:06

be like, hey, I'm Megan, this is

9:08

who I am, this is what I

9:10

love about your products. Like when you

9:13

email somebody, it could be the generic

9:15

email if you literally cannot find the

9:17

email of whoever is in charge or

9:20

a marketing person's. you know, email contact

9:22

info. So it could be and I

9:24

do find that when the generic email

9:26

is the only one that you can

9:29

find and you do send cold outreach

9:31

emails to those, they typically do get

9:33

forwarded to the right person, but you

9:36

know, of course it could go unread

9:38

or could get lost in the mix

9:40

and that's where follow-up can come through

9:43

too. Yeah. I suppose you could look

9:45

on... LinkedIn for somebody who has like

9:47

a you know marketing director partner marketing

9:50

you know something like that in their

9:52

job role and trend reverse engineer you

9:54

know their email like Jay Smith at

9:57

brand name.com you know trying to figure

9:59

out What are the common email structures

10:01

to try and get anything about? Or

10:03

is it said to LinkedIn message too?

10:06

Yes, totally. Yeah, that's totally an option.

10:08

And also, I mean, now, because I'm

10:10

making money with UGC, I've reinvested, so

10:12

I use a software called hunter.io, if

10:15

you've heard of it. Yeah. So that

10:17

makes it way easier. You'll have less

10:19

of a headache, you'll have, you know,

10:21

a way higher chance of actually finding

10:23

the person that is in charge or

10:26

in the marketing department at least. So

10:28

that's like 60-something bucks a month, I

10:30

think. It can be worth it. I

10:32

mean, if you get one brand deal

10:34

from one email a month, it's going to

10:37

pay for it. So hunter.io is a great

10:39

software. What is a typical response

10:41

once you reach that decision maker?

10:44

an immediate yes and the

10:46

rate is $500 like do

10:48

they have a template response or

10:50

something that they're used to paying

10:52

people like what what typically happens

10:54

next? It's kind of a mix back.

10:57

It depends on the brand. A lot

10:59

of brands have an entire process for

11:01

how they work with UGC creators and

11:04

you can even go if you're stocking

11:06

you know if you're stocking brands trying

11:08

to figure out who to the Instagram

11:10

account of a brand and if you

11:13

see a bunch of random faces in

11:15

all their videos they're likely to convince.

11:17

to hire you as a UGC creator, right?

11:19

So if they're already doing it, that's a

11:22

green light. When you get a response from

11:24

a brand, it's gonna be either, hey, thanks

11:26

so much for reaching out. We had to

11:28

look at your portfolio. You look like you'd

11:31

be a great fit to make content for

11:33

us. This is what we currently need. Other

11:35

times they could be, you know, it could

11:38

just be wrong timing, right? So for example,

11:40

I reached out to a supplement company that

11:42

I have used for years and you don't

11:44

have to be a customer of the

11:46

companies you're reaching out to, obviously, but

11:49

it's a good start. So I really

11:51

wanted to make UGC for this supplement

11:53

company because I'm obsessed with them and

11:55

I just am a loyal customer. I've

11:57

spent thousands of dollars on their products.

11:59

And so I reached out to them

12:01

back in August, sent them an email, and

12:04

they said, no, like, we have an agency

12:06

that handles this, like, we're not interested in

12:08

working with you right now. And I was

12:11

a little annoyed because I really wanted to

12:13

make content for them. So I sent them

12:15

a video pitch. So this is another thing

12:18

that you can do, is I use loom,

12:20

loh-oh, lom software. It's a screen recording software.

12:22

I basically screen record my screen, my computer

12:24

screen, my computer screen, and have my little.

12:27

face up there as well, record and just

12:29

kind of introduce myself. So for them, I

12:31

kind of took it a step further because

12:34

I really did want to work with

12:36

them. I sent them a loom video. It's

12:38

probably like six minutes long. I even created

12:40

a Google doc with all like the three

12:42

concepts that I had for them for UGC

12:45

videos, told them why they should hire

12:47

me to create UGC and sent it to

12:49

them, was super confident. And again, they're like,

12:51

sorry, like, no, we just, we're not going

12:54

to work with you. come a month ago,

12:56

they emailed me and they're like, hey

12:58

Megan, we're ready to work with you. Just

13:00

send us your rates and we'll, you know,

13:02

we'll get you set up and I love

13:05

the video concepts that you shared with us

13:07

six months ago, let's do those. I told

13:09

them what I would charge and they hired

13:12

me and paid me and paid me and

13:14

it was great. Well, that's a great

13:16

lead in on one, like staying in touch,

13:18

going above and beyond doing the follow-up and

13:20

just. pitches where it's like well we just

13:23

we just did an episode about that but

13:25

if you come back at six months

13:27

like okay now it's now it's perfect but

13:29

exactly it makes sense on the brand side

13:32

too so they ask well how much you're

13:34

gonna charge sure what's you send me your

13:36

rates and now the the deer in

13:38

the headlights go well what should I charge

13:40

so what do you're saying back to that?

13:43

Yeah for sure so at this point well

13:45

I'll just kind of I think most people

13:47

that are listening maybe don't have any experience

13:50

with this. So I always recommend if you're

13:52

brand new to UGC and you're just starting

13:54

out, the typical beginner rates are going

13:56

to be like... 150 to 200 dollars per

13:58

UGC video. Most brands want multiple UGC videos

14:01

when they're hiring you. So 150 to 200

14:03

that's what I charge at the beginning now

14:05

because obviously like anything else you get

14:07

better you get clients you get you know

14:10

you get results for brands. Now I charge

14:12

you know I could charge well over a

14:14

thousand dollars per UGC video and you can

14:16

also charge usage rights if a brand

14:18

like that supplement brand. And these are super

14:21

short. Yeah. I want to highlight, there's some

14:23

editing required, there's some creative thought, we'll get

14:25

into that. But like, we talk about a

14:28

45 second video, a thousand bucks, you know,

14:30

do the hourly rate on that. Exactly, yeah,

14:32

so for this brand, you know, they, I,

14:34

yeah, I charged them a little over

14:36

a thousand dollars per video and they hired

14:39

me for three videos. So those three videos,

14:41

again, I've been doing this two and a

14:43

two and a half years, it's, you know.

14:46

it's easier to me than just starting

14:48

out, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But those videos

14:50

took me less than two hours. One of

14:52

them I did with my mom, so I

14:54

had her come over to my house, we

14:57

recorded at my house, I edited it

14:59

right after she left, it was very quick,

15:01

very simple. But yeah, that's kind of the

15:03

great thing about UGC, like you're going to

15:06

get better and better, you're going to be

15:08

able to charge more. So your hourly rate

15:10

technically is just truly going to increase to

15:12

a crazy amount. Yeah, each video that you

15:15

do, it adds to the portfolio, makes it

15:17

easy to sell the next job, unless you

15:19

get better at the creative process and doing

15:22

the work, and you improve the processes and

15:24

all the stuff. I definitely see there's some

15:26

economies of scale, and one yes is likely

15:28

two, three, four, five yeses, because they want

15:31

multiple videos, and it's not really worth,

15:33

you know, sending you 150 bucks for the

15:35

one, but if you can do five of

15:37

them, then, okay, now we got, now we're

15:40

talking. More with Megan in just a moment,

15:42

including the platforms and agencies that could

15:44

potentially eliminate this cold outreach from your marketing

15:46

plans, and why you might not need to

15:48

be super creative to come up with new

15:51

video contents. the house all

15:53

the time, coming

15:55

up right after this.

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influence or partnerships or UDC

18:27

partnerships through an agency and now

18:30

it's like well now there's another

18:32

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18:34

do I mean two things obviously you could

18:36

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18:59

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19:03

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19:05

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portfolio almost like you are pitching directly

19:11

to the brand and then just ask

19:13

to be. added to their creator roster.

19:15

If they do have a client coming

19:17

up and you kind of fit who

19:19

they're looking for as a UGC creator.

19:21

Yeah, that seems like a place to

19:23

potentially get matched with a lot of brands

19:25

for a little effort without, you know, having

19:28

to send out hundreds and hundreds

19:30

of cold D. M's where it's just, can

19:32

I get on your preferred vendor list? Your

19:34

roster of creators? And whenever a gig comes

19:37

up, maybe they send it your way or

19:39

say this is something, ask if you'd be

19:41

interested in it be interested in it. Yeah,

19:43

and it's also important to

19:45

note that now because UGC

19:47

is such a popular way

19:49

for brands to keep up

19:52

with their marketing and their

19:54

marketing efforts, there's been so

19:56

many, like not only agencies,

19:58

but apps, platforms, to just

20:00

hop on and you could download an

20:02

app called Below, where there's B-roll, Incense

20:04

app, there's so many apps that you

20:07

can download on your phone and create

20:09

profiles, and then you'll be able to

20:11

connect with brands on those apps. Each

20:13

app is a little bit different how

20:15

it works, the logistics of it, but

20:18

there's also platforms like Brands Meet creators,

20:20

Vidzi, Coley. breakfast.io, which is brkfst.io. There's

20:22

just an insane amount that it could

20:24

be overwhelming to new people, but what

20:26

I always recommend is, you know, dip

20:29

your toes into a couple of them.

20:31

I personally don't use a ton of

20:33

those platforms. or apps because I've been

20:35

doing it for so long that I

20:37

have contacts already. I have repeat customers.

20:40

I have retainer clients, right? So, but

20:42

when you're just starting out, you know,

20:44

join a couple apps, join, join a

20:46

couple platforms, create profiles, and connect with

20:48

brands that way. It's a really good

20:51

way to get started. That makes sense

20:53

to go where they're already used to

20:55

shopping for this type of service. Yeah.

20:57

Stick your flag out and say, I'm

20:59

open for business. Come, come hire me.

21:02

This is a super interesting stuff. Does

21:04

it make sense to transition a little

21:06

bit to the creative process? Because my,

21:08

you know, we joked about this on

21:10

the show in the past, like my

21:13

bread and butter is a 45 minute

21:15

podcast episode, like short form is a

21:17

foreign language to me. And there's a

21:19

skill that goes into making something snappy,

21:22

but still tells a story and ultimately,

21:24

you know, hopefully convinces people that they

21:26

want to buy this product that the

21:28

brand is paying you to promote. You

21:30

know, what do you like is keep

21:33

a rolling dock of different? ideas or

21:35

what's working on that side? Yeah, so

21:37

the good thing about working with brands

21:39

as a UGC creator, even if you're

21:41

new and you're highly intimidated by the

21:44

entire creative process and I get so

21:46

many people reach out to me and

21:48

say, I think I'm going to draw

21:50

a blank, like I'm going to freeze

21:52

when the brand, you know, wants me

21:55

to make a video. Well, what am

21:57

I even going to do? But the

21:59

great news is that it's not typically

22:01

an issue because when a brand is

22:03

hiring you for UGC, 9 times out

22:06

of 10, they're going to have a

22:08

plan for you. So that could look

22:10

different depending on the brand. Most brands

22:12

are going to send you a creative

22:14

brief. So they're going to have, you

22:17

know, they could even send you a

22:19

script, like a full-on script. I had

22:21

a student of mine get a UGC

22:23

deal just literally reading an eight-minute script

22:25

that they sent her and she got

22:28

paid $600 for that. So... It really

22:30

just depends on what the brand is

22:32

looking for. I've had brands that say,

22:34

hey, we love your style. We trust

22:36

you as a UGCA creator in your

22:39

creative process that we'd love for you

22:41

to just like roll with it and

22:43

come up with your own ideas and

22:45

your own script and just have total

22:48

creative freedom. On the other side, though,

22:50

there's so many more brands that send

22:52

you some type of outline, whether it's

22:54

like a bullet point list, a full-on

22:56

script. Hey, here, here are the shots

22:59

that we want you to get. For

23:01

example, like, my mom got a UGC,

23:03

you know, she's in communication with a

23:05

brand, and they sent her a whole

23:07

notion doc that has, hey, here's the

23:10

script that you need to read, and

23:12

then the visual input, like... you know,

23:14

brush your hair with the hairbrush that

23:16

we're sending you while you're saying this

23:18

script. So it can be as detailed

23:21

as that. It can be like, hey,

23:23

here's the videos that have performed super

23:25

well for us in the past when

23:27

we've hired other UGC creators. Maybe you

23:29

can replicate those in your own way

23:32

and then send those to us. Okay,

23:34

it's similar to the world of podcast

23:36

advertising where some brands are like, hey,

23:38

you're a user, say it in your

23:40

own words, we trust you, and others

23:43

are like. This needs to be read

23:45

verbatim. This is, you know, the talking

23:47

points, like, and a spectrum, and everything

23:49

in between, that makes sense, and that's

23:51

actually less, makes it less intimidating, because

23:54

it's like, oh, if you give me

23:56

the outline, or give me some guardrails,

23:58

there's structure around it, as, you know,

24:00

to the... of brushing your hair, not

24:02

that that would be applicable to me,

24:05

but that's helpful in trying to

24:07

come up with something that would

24:09

be compelling. Yeah, yeah, and I think

24:11

that it also, I mean, obviously you've

24:13

got to learn, it's not like you're

24:15

going to read a script every time

24:18

and it's going to be a breeze

24:20

every time and it's going to be

24:22

a breeze every single time, you know,

24:24

so like I always tell people, you

24:26

know, script writing, it's a skill like

24:29

anything else, you'll get better and better

24:31

at it, but it's also helpful to

24:33

know that we now have Chad GBT

24:35

or other AI writing tools that can

24:37

kind of get those creative juices flowing. So

24:40

that's what I tell people, you know, if

24:42

you are totally drawing a blank on what

24:44

to do, feed in some information using AI

24:46

and kind of utilize that tool that we

24:48

have now to kind of get those ideas

24:51

flowing, because that can be a really, really

24:53

great resource, especially for people who are just

24:55

starting out and who are super intimidated by

24:57

the whole process. Yeah, and if you're the

24:59

person who's super intimidated, maybe not the side

25:01

hustle for you, but we got lots of

25:03

other options for you. But if you're like,

25:05

I like making videos, I like watching videos,

25:07

I like brand, you know, I'm a consumer,

25:10

I could go to town with this. So

25:12

you get the first deal and you make

25:14

this effort to go, well, I made you

25:16

a couple extra. Would you like to buy

25:18

those too? And they say, what happens next?

25:20

Like, you're like, I got a bite, I

25:22

got a bite, I'm 10, I'm 10 days,

25:24

I'm 10 days, I'm 10 days, scaling up

25:26

and doing it as a on the side

25:28

from the day job. Yeah, so I was elated when

25:31

I got that deal and I was on

25:33

cloud nine, which I think most UGC creators

25:35

can feel that way, whether it's a hundred

25:37

bucks, whether it's eight hundred bucks, it's just

25:40

a really good feeling because that kind of

25:42

instilled this confidence in me that Okay, I

25:44

reached out to this brand even though I

25:46

said a ton of emails One said yes

25:49

to me. They paid me they liked what

25:51

I did It kind of was like okay.

25:53

I can do this again and again and

25:56

again. So that's what I did. I just

25:58

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plus it adds some stability, kind of

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54:20

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54:22

at least you're. stable and maybe that's

54:24

get to the goal of like I could

54:27

pay my rent I could pay my mortgage

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with like this recurring contract like my day

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know I don't need it anymore it's just

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