#2710 - Q&A: “A brand wants to pay me for a sponsored post!”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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In this episode, we help a college student and aspiring influencer navigate her first brand partnership on Instagram. How can she negotiate rates and build successful relationships with brands while staying true to her audience?
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode we help a college student and aspiring influencer, navigate her first brand partnership on |
| 0:15.3 | Instagram. |
| 0:16.9 | Welcome to Side Hustle School, welcome to what we might call the Side Hustle Spotlight, where |
| 0:21.6 | we explore the world of entrepreneurship or |
| 0:24.3 | micro entrepreneurship just helping somebody make extra money without |
| 0:27.3 | quitting their job perhaps turn it into something that goes far beyond just |
| 0:31.5 | that extra money not that there's anything wrong with extra money. |
| 0:34.6 | And this question is going to come to us from Sarah. |
| 0:36.4 | She is a college student from Los Angeles. |
| 0:38.7 | She has been working on this Instagram account |
| 0:41.1 | and her hard work has paid off. |
| 0:43.0 | She's caught the attention of a brand who's interested in partnering with her for a |
| 0:47.2 | sponsored post and so she's like well this is cool but what do I do? |
| 0:51.0 | Like what do I do next? How do I enter into that partnership? How do I |
| 0:56.1 | understand that I'm getting paid a fair compensation? How do I disclose what |
| 1:01.5 | that sponsored content is and stay true to my brand? |
| 1:04.4 | Because ultimately, the brand that wants to sponsor her post, well, they're going to be there |
| 1:08.4 | and they're going to go away, but it's her account. |
| 1:10.4 | It's her brand that she's building. |
| 1:11.9 | So how does she manage all this? Let's talk about |
| 1:13.9 | how to build this successful and authentic partnership as a new influencer. |
| 1:18.0 | Sarah's question coming up after this quick shout out to our sponsor. |
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