If you’re close to hitting Level 2 in this group, you’ll unlock my FREE Basic UGC Portfolio Template. 🙌 But if you don’t want to wait… I just launched something even better 👇 ✨ The PRO UGC Luxe Template ✨ This portfolio template was built to give you that premium, neutral, polished look that instantly attracts brands and agencies. It’s fully optimized for both desktop and mobile (no broken layouts here 👊) and comes ready with clickable email buttons so brands can reach out in one tap. Here’s the truth: a messy, DIY portfolio can cost you months of deals. This one investment of $24 can literally pay you back hundreds—if not thousands—over and over again. One deal more than covers the cost. 🪄 Features you’ll love: - Clean, minimalist bio section (no fluff) - Drag-and-drop video + photo frames - Effortlessly duplicatable pages to expand as you grow - Professional layout proven to match what brands want - Fully customizable fonts, colors, and backgrounds - Designed in the exact order agencies expect to see 💡 This template will save you 6+ hours of trying to reinvent the wheel—and instead, you’ll have a portfolio that’s plug-and-play ready to start landing collaborations right away. 👉 Grab it now under the CLASSROOM tab for just $24 and start turning that into months and months of deals. Your future self (and your bank account) will thank you.

Share something from this week or month that was a huge win for you in your UGC business! Even if you just made a small step towards getting started—post it below! Remember, engaging boosts your level into unlocking more resources in this group! My win of the month: >>Booking my first high ticket retainer doing social media management and content creation as a partial face of the brand for a Moroccan beauty brand. I met the client on UpWork where my profile is top rated for UGC. I had a profile for product photography as well. She bought a package needing Amazon product photography, a UGC ad bundle, and social media photos. That relationship turned into her hiring me to be her full time social media manager, but with a more complex role— creating content with my face and likeness to fill her feed, which you can charge more for. It’s not just being a SMM, it’s being a Social Brand Manager & Primary UGC creator. This gig allows me to stop chasing lots of tiny UGC deals. Now I focus on UGC deals that are “worth my time” (about $250+ per collaboration). I know it’s not for everyone, but I happen to love to create content and make things look aesthetic so curating social platforms for a brand that I’m interested in is a huge win for me. It allows me to use my passions in photography, videography, graphic design, and UGC all combined. I recommend anyone who has an interest in being a social media manager to build relationships with their UGC clients especially the ones that aren’t using an agency to hire their UGC creators. I’ve met a lot of these kinds of brand owners on UpWork. I’ve been collecting Moroccan decor so I can bring in local friends to model and help create UGC. I posted on FB to find local people wanting to model / create content. I got so many responses. I’ll be working on growing this brand, increasing their sales, and hopefully building out a full UGC team that will eventually pay standard UGC rates! Can’t wait to hear your wins!

It is so important that you nail it the first time when a new agency inbounds you and hires you for a campaign. When you crush it, they are more likely to send you more work down the road if they like what you did for the first brand they hired you for. I worked my butt off filming in the hot heat of my car, redoing takes until my UGC sounded effortless, natural, and “off the cuff”. I could tell their brief wanted raw/unhinged humor. That’s what goes viral nowadays. People want content that doesn’t look like ads. They wanted raw—I gave them raw. I threw in jokes, ad libs, and I played up the hot mess mom in a car vibe. Nicolle loved it and said she’ll be reaching out with more campaigns. Don’t worry— this comes about halfway into your first year and then dramatically after you’ve been doing UGC at least a year solid. This is what you have to look forward to!

Happy Sunday everyone! Over in the Classroom tab you'll see a new course where I'll be loading all the Live Trainings & Q+A calls. Today I had the pleasure of auditing Breanna's portfolio and I gave her a solid structure on exactly what to put in a UGC portfolio. This live training module includes a PDF checklist + a FREE CANVA Template. You'll unlock this course when you become a Level 2 in the SKOOL community, so keep engaging. To level up you can comment, post an introduction post, respond to others, and engage! Happy portfolio building! -Jackie

Hey y'all! I'm just so stoked you're all here. I just wanted to tell you guys that I am chugging away so hard at the FREE UGC Beginner's course and it's gonna be done in a matter of days or weeks. As I create this I'm like WOW. I wish I had a free guide when I started out. So... I'm really dying to know where you guys are in your UGC / content / freelancing journey? Who is brand new to UGC? Who is a seasoned creator? Go to the welcome post and tell me! I want to hear from you :)