I used to do a whole bunch of stuff, but I'm like, “Man, you really just got to focus on one thing (and I would say a second thing maybe, but it has to still be related to that one thing).” 

When I started doing that, my life got so much easier!

That one client from Creatorland is dope. He came in with like 40%. I was talking to him for a while and he wanted me to do videos for him, but I figured out he actually needed something that was a little bit more valuable than that. Instead of just paying me to do videos, he pays me now to help him get people to create the videos. I help manage, edit, and deliver.

There was one particular third party app called Billo that I got started with…I'm like, “Oh my gosh, people do this? You can get paid to do this?”... They do the marketing to bring people who want my services to me. I just went and applied to whatever brand that I wanted to work for, and then from there, I think the first month I made like $1,200. I was trying to make $500, but I ended up making double that.

Then from there, it was just like 40 videos a month, 50 videos a month, back to back to back to back to back.

I came across another platform called Insense, and that platform paid way more than what I was making on Billo. 

$300 for a video, $500 for a video, $800 for a video, where, like, on Billo, you're getting $70 as a Premium Creator. I'm on Insense and I'm like, “Man, this is crazy!”

My front door looked like an Amazon warehouse. I had packages at my front door every single day!

You start off with a pitch video: You pitch yourself for 15 seconds, and then you grab a product and pitch it. 

So let's say I have this Rick and Morty Pop doll right here. I say, “Hey, if you like Pop dolls, you gotta go check out this Rick and Morty one. If you're a Rick and Morty fan, it's one of my favorite shows…you just go down the list and talk about why it's important to you, then send them the video. 

If you get approved, then when brands find you, they'll see that pitch video. If you already have examples of videos that you've done with other brands, they can see those too.

That’s how they're able to determine if they want to work with you or not.

A lot of people are trying to be on camera - they just have no idea about film or how to bring their own personality and tell their own personal stories. 

At first I was actually doing the, “How to be a UGC creator,” thing and I've had little mini successes from that, but in my experience, I found that it goes deeper than that… People want to make money.

[But I realized that that was] a cure to the symptom, not the disease. When I'm teaching people how to imagine and how to get in that certain mindset and be on camera and tell your story, that's a cure to the overall problem, versus “Oh, I just wanna make a little bit of money being on camera and talking about products,” because not everybody wants to do that.

I think everybody can benefit from telling their story and helping the people behind them come up.

One of the reasons I really wanted to sign up for it was because I know Brian [Creatorland’s founder] wanted to get more brands on the platform. That would give me more access to brands, but it was also going to be really good for me because there's more Creators on there. 

If I am connected with more Creators, then if I'm working with brands and brands have an issue and are like, “Oh, well, we don't know how to solve this issue. We don't have anybody to solve this issue,” they’ll ask: Who's the guy that knows all the Creators?

Cheddar Chez!

And I can solve problems way more effectively and efficiently if I have access to more Creators. Once I figured that out, I'm like, “Yeah, Creatorland is probably where I need to be.”

There's more platforms than just Billo and Insense, by the way. Those are just the two that I use just because I've had the most success with them.

I signed up for a bank for Creators and self-employed entrepreneurs called Novo Banking. Now I primarily invoice my clients through that and they send the money directly to my bank versus going through Stripe, paying the Stripe fees, and then coming to my account….

There was another bank called Nerve and that was a bank specifically made for Creators. It was creative banking, but that company shut down, which was crazy because I almost lost access to all my money!

I think to be honest, dude, going the brand strategy coaching route, I'm just going to do everything through my DMs. I don't know how effective that is for most people, but that's what my business coach told me to do, so I'm just listening to everything he said.