So recently I helped one creator go from $0 to around $10,000 in 6 months.

I am not saying this is some magic formula or that everyone will make $10K if they follow the same thing. But I noticed there are some things which worked really well and I thought I will share it here.

If I was starting as a creator today, this is what I would do.

1. First finalize your niche

This is very important.

Don't try to become a creator for everyone. Pick one proper niche.

Beauty, skincare, fitness, pets, travel, lifestyle, food etc.

When you have a clear niche, it becomes much easier to find brands who are actually relevant for you.

Also, Skincare and beauty is highly cluttered, better go for some niche, where there is less competition.

2. Find as many brands as possible in your niche

Once you decide your niche, start making a list of brands that needs creators like you.

You can find them using:

Google
ChatGPT
Claude
Meta Ad Library
Looking at other creators in your niche and seeing which brands they are working with
Influencer marketing platforms

I also use Aveoreach for this because you can find a lot of brands based on different categories and niches.

Don't just find 10 or 20 brands and stop. Make a proper list of atleast 100. For outreaching them, i will explain in later part.

3. Don't forget agencies

This is another thing which creators ignore.

There are many influencer marketing agencies and social media agencies which are managing campaigns for brands.

Search things like:

"Influencer marketing agency in California"

"Social media agency in my city"

"Top Influencer marketing agencies in USA"

etc.

These agencies are working with both big and small brands and if you build a relationship with them, you can get multiple opportunities from the same agency. But how can you build relationship. Find their LinkedIn, start following them and start commenting on their posts and after a few conversation on comments send them a friend request.

4. Make yourself searchable on Google

I think this is becoming more important now.

If you are a pet creator, fitness creator, beauty creator etc, you should have your own website or at least a proper webpage about you.

Put your name, niche, location, social media profiles, previous collaborations, portfolio and contact details there.

The reason is simple.

People are not only searching on Instagram or tiktok anymore.

Brands and agencies are also searching Google and even asking ChatGPT or Claude things like:

"Give me 20 pet influencers in USA"

"Find fitness creators in USA"

"Best beauty influencers in Canada"

If your profile is nowhere on Google, you are probably going to miss these opportunities.

You need good SEO and also GEO so that your profile has a chance of showing up.

I use Pilotdeck .co which can help automates this SEO/GEO work and create content around my profile and helps me mentioning in AI answers.

If you are damn serious, go for a proper website with super good SEO and GEO

5. Start contacting brands directly

Once you have a decent profile and some portfolio, start reaching out to brands.

You can DM them on Instagram, email them, contact them on LinkedIn etc.

But don't start sending 200 random DMs every day.

Instagram can see this kind of activity as spam and your messages can also get filtered. and might harm your account.

Instead, try to personalize the message.

Don't just say:

"Hi, I am an influencer. Do you want to collaborate?"

Start engaging with the brands you actually want to work with.

Turn on notifications for important brands if you want. Comment on their reels, engage with their posts etc. Sooner or later the brand team will contact you.

But don't fake engagement just for getting a collaboration.

6. Email outreach is very important

Once you have a good profile and portfolio, start emailing brands directly.

This is where tools can help you find the right brand contacts.

I have used platforms like Onbento and Aveoreach for finding brand contacts.

Onbento is quite expensive from what I have seen and I have also seen people complaining about the data.

Aveoreach is cheaper and I have found the brand data pretty useful.

They have a plan where you get 300 emails per month, so you can use those contacts for direct outreach.

But again, don't just blast the same email to everybody.

Try to make it relevant to the brand.

Out of 300 emails every month, you can easily convert 5-10 brand deals. Some paid but some gifted. But it's a good start.

7. Find where people are already looking for creators

This is one of my favorite tricks.

Go to Google and search:

"10 best pet influencers in USA"

"Best fitness influencers in USA"

"Top beauty creators in UK"

See which websites are appearing on the first page.

If you are not included there, contact those websites.

Ask them if they accept creator submissions or if they can consider adding you. Ask them to provide your website a backlink to your website and also you can help the website to create some content in return. make some barter deal with those top ranking website of your niche.

Some websites may have paid placements also. That's fine, but just understand if it is a sponsored placement or an actual editorial feature.

The point is to be present in places where brands are already searching.

8. And obviously, content is still king

All of this is useless if your content is not good.

Keep checking what other creators in your niche are doing.

See what type of reels are getting views.

See what kind of hooks are working.

See what content is getting shared.

Then make your own version of it.

I would personally try to post 3 or 4 good pieces of content every week.

You need a decent camera quality phone.

Good lighting, audio, editing and the idea behind the video is much more important. we all know many editing tools so wont go in detail. but use quality captions tools like "captions", which makes the video very attractive.

Of course, if you can shoot in 4K and have good production quality, even better.

So basically this is the whole process

Pick a niche.

Find brands.

Find agencies.

Build your own website.

Work on SEO and GEO.

Start emailing brands.

Build relationships.

Get yourself featured in places where brands are searching.

And keep creating content.

The creator I worked with didn't suddenly get $10K in one month.

It was a lot of outreach, rejection, content creation and just being consistent.

It took around 6 months to reach that level.

So if you are a creator and you are currently sitting there thinking "I have good followers but no brands are contacting me", maybe don't just wait for brands to find you.

Go find them yourself.

That was honestly the biggest lesson I learned from this.

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