i want to share something about one of our students because i think it needs to be said out loud in this community... a few months ago @Stacy Parks was a stay at home mom of three in northern arizona, homeschooling her kids, supporting her husband, and quietly carrying the weight of feeling like she needed to do something more. she had spent a full year in digital marketing through network marketing and made absolutely nothing. and when you pour that much of yourself into something and see zero return it does something to your belief system. it makes you start to wonder if maybe you are just not cut out for this kind of thing.... she almost let that stop her. but she stayed open. and that is the only reason i am writing this post right now. she found UGC. she found this community. and she just did it. she started in april's UGC Games with no expectations. just a willingness to figure it out one week at a time around her kids, around her family schedule, around everything she was already carrying. and in June she made just under $5,000 from one brand!!! her husband watched the earnings go up on the platform every single day. he would look at the screen and just say... wow. because they both knew what it took to get here and they both knew what it meant for their family! the UGC games were a massive part of this. going through that challenge pushed her to show up in a way she would not have pushed herself to do alone. the competition, the accountability, the community energy. it cracked something open in her and she came out the other side knowing she could actually do this for real, which is EXACTLY why we host it. she joined the UGC games, put her absolute all in, and won. and she deserved every bit of that recognition. so if you are a mom sitting here right now wondering if this is for you. if you have tried other things and failed and you are starting to believe the story that you are just not the type of person who gets to win at something like this...

most creators sell backwards, and it's why they keep getting squeezed on price. they show up with "here's my portfolio, here's my rate, want to hire me to make a video?" and in that framing you're a body pointing a camera. a video vending machine. put money in, get a clip out. and vending machines compete on price, so you get haggled down. flip it. don't sell the video. sell the idea. before you pitch, spend twenty minutes the other creators won't. look at the brand's actual ads. find what's not working. then bring them a specific concept built for their problem, not a resume. something like: "here's a three-part video idea. the first one, I never show the product, I just talk about the frustration your customer has at 11pm. the last one is the reveal. want me to build it?" watch what that does to price. once a brand falls for the IDEA, your rate becomes an afterthought, because no other creator brought them one. you're not being compared on price anymore. you're the only option in the room. the video is a commodity. anyone with a phone can film. the idea of WHAT to film, aimed at their specific problem, is rare. rare gets paid. you're not a person who films videos. you're a person who solves their content problem. charge for the thinking. the filming is the easy part they could get anywhere.

here's the exact pitch I send. steal it word for word, it's yours. "Hi [name]. I watched your last few ads. they're clean, but they all look like ads, and people scroll past ads. I want to send you one short video that looks like a real customer talking instead. no charge to see it, no obligation. can I shoot one this week?" that's the whole thing. now here's why every line is built the way it is, so you can adapt it instead of copying it blind. line one names a real, specific observation about THEM. it proves in one sentence you're not blasting the same template to 500 brands. you looked. people reply to people who looked. line two is an opinion about why their current stuff isn't working, framed around their money, not your service. you're not asking "do you want to hire a creator." you're pointing at a leak they didn't know they had. line three removes the risk and asks for something tiny. not a contract. not a call. one video, free to look at. the ask is so small that no is almost more effort than yes. what this pitch does NOT have: your life story, your rate card, your list of past brands, "I'd love to work with you." all the stuff beginners cram in that hands the brand a reason to say no. one observation. one opinion. one tiny ask. send it 5 times today.