If your intention is to really make a connection and add value to somebody, well then that is going to have to start with you actually

talking to someone.

I am not a proponent of ever giving a rate out

in the beginning because you lose all your negotiation power.

I used to just take gifted products from brands and now the same brand that I was taking gifted products to,

I have 10,000 deals a month and brand deals with them.

Welcome to the Boss Bay Podcast, a place where we share with you the real behind the scenes of

building successful businesses, achieving peak performance and learning how to balance it all.

I'm Natalie Ellis, co-founder and co-ce CEO of Boss Vape and your podcast host for this episode.

This week I am so excited because I am interviewing Julie Solomon and we are diving into the world of partnerships and press.

So many of you DM me and say, hey, I'm an influencer, I'm a blogger, how do I secure those paid brand partnerships?

Maybe you're brand new and you don't have hundreds of thousands of followers

or hits your website, but you have a really small engaged community who really trust your opinion and so that's exactly what we're going to dive into

and get to understand in this episode. Julie was named as one of the top 100 most

influential people in influencer marketing Julie's mission is to empower

her community to create, perform and share their brilliance with the world. She's the creator of the Chart Topping Podcast, The Influencer Podcast,

founder of Pitchit Perfect and the Influencer Academy

and has been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post and People magazine.

As a New York Times best-selling publicist and in-demand Speaker, Julie proudly saves bloggers, entrepreneurs and authors, and in this episode she is sharing with you everything you need to know about securing brand deals and partnerships and gaining press for yourself or your business.

Julie's story is so inspiring and I know you're going to love this episode.

I don't know about you, but I'm just obsessed with hearing stories of people who

move to new cities with no big plan and end up creating so much success really from scratch and so in this episode you'll notice I was getting all the specifics of how she did each thing.

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