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44 days left in 2024. I'm gonna teach you exactly how to land your first paid brand deal before 2025, before the new year, and it does not matter how many followers you have. This is not TikTok shop, it's not being an influencer. I landed my first paid brand deal when I had less than 300 followers and I have since worked with dozens and dozens of brands over the last two years. You can do this no matter your age. I actually have taught like probably 2,500 Gen Xers and Baby Boomers, Generation Jones, how to do this exact same thing, again, without followers. So if you want to learn how to do that, get free products, get paid for content that you create for companies, then this video will help you a lot. And right now is the perfect time because brands are looking for you guys and you maybe don't even know that. Okay, so this is called UGC. It stands for user generated content. Basically, in a nutshell, you get paid to create content for companies of all types. I can tell you examples of the companies I've done this for, but companies of all types who then take that content, typically like short videos, they take the content you create for them and then they use it for their own purposes. So user generated content. So they're gonna send you free products. If it's a physical product, if it's something like an app or maybe like a software or a service, obviously it's not something that they're gonna send you, you're just gonna have access to it. So you create the content, you send it to them, they use it for their own purposes. Now typically what that looks like is they're going to ask you to create like short videos they can post on the brand's Instagram account or TikTok account or a lot of the time they need videos for ads, right? So say that, okay, this is a perfect example. I have a company that just emailed me last week and I just responded to them. We're in a negotiation process right now. It's like a showerhead company, kind of random, but showerhead company. They found me, I think, on social media and they reached out to me. They want to work with me for two videos that they're gonna be running as ads across multiple social media platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, so all those different social media platforms. They want to send me the product for free and then I'm gonna create content for them and I'm gonna charge them a lot of money for that so that they have the usage, they have the rights to run that content I create for them about their product as ads across social media. Hopefully this is making sense. I actually have something that will probably make way more sense than me just like blabbering on and on about this. I have a free UGC checklist that I made for anybody who just wants to like know more about UGC, wrap their head around it, see if it's right for them and like actually get started with this. It's linked to my profile, my Stan store. If you go to my profile by clicking my little face right here or around here. I would save this video first, actually just save this video so you don't lose it because it happens to me all the time. Click my little face right there, go to my profile, it's my Stan store link so there's a blue arrow pointing down to that link. Just click that and then it'll be the second option and it'll say like free UGC checklist. There's been like almost 25,000 people or somewhere around there that have grabbed this checklist. Again it's zero dollars. I have a course. If you like courses, if you're a visual learner and you want like holy crap Megan teach me literally all your ways, that's what my course is for but if you want just a free option to just like get started with this, get the free checklist. I go through steps on what to do to get started like step 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and then I go through actually a video, a 15 minute video lesson going over how to pitch yourself to these companies. Like at the beginning, a lot of companies even if you start, you know, they're not gonna know who you are, right? You have to reach out to them, you have to connect with them. There's so many ways to connect with them but I teach you how to connect with them via email by sending them an email or even a DM on Instagram. That's how I landed my second UGC deal. So stop this video probably, just stop listening to me, go get the free checklist and then maybe come back to this video if you still want more information. Okay so one of the first steps to get started with this if you want to land your first UGC deal before the end of this year. Step one is creating a portfolio. Now I recommend creating a UGC portfolio on Canva. If you don't have a Canva account you'll just create one for free. So Canva, if you never heard of it, it's pretty popular but some people haven't heard of it. Canva, C-A-N-V-A dot com. Create a free account and then look up website portfolio. You want to make sure it's a website not a presentation or anything because then it looks weird when companies go and they click your portfolio and it's like a presentation. So make sure it's a website that you can actually use the Canva free URL like domain or you can buy one. I bought one. But create a free portfolio on Canva. You're gonna want to focus on a few things, right? So obviously put your name, your contact information like your email, links to your socials and everything but underneath your name you're gonna want to put your generation like your age slash generation, right? So for me I'm 34 so I put millennial UGC creator. For a lot of my students inside my course, again I've taught so many people that are 40 and older, they put Gen X UGC creator or they put Baby Boomer UGC creator, Gen Jones UGC creator. Those are keywords that actually will give you a chance to show up on Google search results, believe it or not. I actually have a Gen X student inside my course who put Gen X UGC creator in her portfolio like right below her name I think and then a few days after she hit publish a Canadian agency was looking for mature, they searched mature Gen X UGC creator in Google and her portfolio even though it was a few days old popped up. So that that's like a whole different story almost that I could get into the whole Gen X Baby Boomer thing. I have so many videos about that. But my point is put your generation, put your age, a little bit about you and they're gonna want to focus on your video examples. So you're gonna want to make four or five different video examples using products that you already own that you have around your house. So for me I chose cat treat products that we bought our two cats. I made two little UGC videos about that when I was first getting started over two years ago. We got our son an Amazon toy kit that I also did another video for. And then yeah I think one other like a travel fidget spinner that we also got our son. So don't overthink your videos and like what products you're choosing. Just go look at videos like UGC video examples. Like you can look here on TikTok. You can look at my portfolio if you want. It's just linked in my stand store again the same place where my free checklist is. Focus on the examples and then don't overthink it. Hit publish. You can always change your portfolio. It's not gonna be super duper perfect. Give yourself some grace if you're like brand new to this. And then you're gonna want to hit publish and then that's when you can start connecting with brands. There are so many ways to connect with brands now in 2024 going into 2025 because so many companies are hiring UGC creators. It's just like part of their marketing budget, part of their marketing strategy now is hiring UGC creators. So you're going to connect with brands in various ways, right? So for me, I love pitching to brands. It's just like what I like to do. I like to send even video pitches sometimes. I talk about that inside my course and like how I've made thousands of dollars in brand deals by sending like three to five minute videos to these companies. They love it because nobody else does that. But you can go to apps like Billo, B-roll, Incense, Hashtag Pay. There's Breakfast.io. I call it Breakfast.io but it's B-r-k-f-s-t.io. If you just go there you can create a profile. You can do brands meet creators, join brands. There's so many freaking companies. I get like a new email every single week about a new app or a new platform that somebody's created to connect brands with creators. So my point is maybe try out a few different things. Maybe you want to create a Fiverr, you know, gig on Fiverr and like reach out and like connect with companies that way. So many ways. My point is choose a couple ways. Join a couple apps. Reach out to companies. I actually have a physical therapist. I have a student sign my course that's a physical therapist and she joined my course and she was like what the heck I'm not even gonna create a portfolio yet. I'm just gonna reach out to this medical device company that I use their knee, I think it's knee braces, like every single day. I'm gonna reach out to them and be like hey this is who I am. I'm a physical therapist. I'm also a UGC creator. I use your products all the time. I could create content for you guys. She landed like two UGC like monthly recurring deals right off the bat before ever creating a portfolio. So don't overthink it. There's so many opportunities out there for people of all ages. No matter your followers, no matter your background, you can learn how to create content that brands actually want and need for their own purposes. So I hope this video helped. I've been talking for so long. Go get my free checklist if you have come this far. You clearly are interested in UGC, I think. So go get the free checklist. It would be really really helpful and then put any like questions that you have in the comments. I try to respond to everybody as much as I can. But I hope this helped and I hope we get started with UGC before 2025 is here.