​​

• Practice influencing something you love! 

  • Pick 3 products to practice promoting and give yourself a fake brief with mandatory mentionables.  Ex. Must mention that the candle is inspired by hotels, has 300 hours of burn time, and the coupon code.  

​

• Make a Media Kit/Rate Card on Canva (search media kit and use a template or make one from scratch!) 

  • I have a video in the Bonus section of this page that tells you what should be included on your media kit, as well as learning how to price yourself for certain collaborations!

  • Save it in a folder so you can access it easily!

​

• Round up 10 brands that you want to work with – should be a good mix of larger brands and smaller brands.  Here’s a link to a list of brands that have worked with small creators (on a gifting and paid basis)

  • Mejuri

  • Gisou

  • PepperMayo

  • Sabo Skirt

  • Gem and Co

  • Lounge

  • Motel Rocks

  • Petal & Pup

  • Charcoal Clothing

  • Ana Luisa

  • Glamnetic

  • Beginning Boutique

  • Miss Lola

​

• Send each brand you've picked an email + DM with your pitch (email templates are in the bonus section).

​

• Apply to influencer platforms (google these names to find the exact websites).  Some have collabs you can manually apply to and some will alert you if a brand wants to collab. 

• *2023 updated list

  • Cohley

  • AspireIQ

  • Popular Pays

  • Palm Creator

  • Activate

  • #Paid

  • Octoly (gifted campaigns, a greatttt place to start!)

​

• Apply to become an Amazon affiliate (google amazon affiliate and sign up that way)

• 2023 edit: amazon now has an influencer program where you can create a storefront! Sign up here.

​

• Think of stores you shop at OFTEN and apply to their affiliate programs if they have one

  • their affiliate program will be linked at the bottom of their website​

• 2023 update: most brands are on LTK nowadays! Sign up for the platform here to start the application process.

​

• Plan your content for the week, including shooting/filming days, editing days, and upload days

  • plans change, so don’t beat yourself up if you can’t stick to it, just try your best! It's time to set yourself up for consistency with what you've learned from here on out!

​

• Stay on top of your content calendar! Remember to set aside days for taking content, editing the content, posting the content, etc.

​

• Look up hashtags and engage with accounts within your niche like you did last week - this should become a daily habit to stay relevant with the algorithm in Instagram + TikTok 

​

• Watch all of the bonus videos for Week 5.