Brand Deals & UGC evidence: 42 quotes from 6 creators

“if you're already working 40 plus hours a week and you're going to be doing UGC for an extra 10 to 15 hours a week, that's fine.”

“you have to put in 20 to 30 hour work weeks in order to achieve $10,000 a month.”

“I was honestly at the most probably just working like 15 maybe 20 hours a week if I had a bunch of projects I was trying to wrap up”

“In Q1, I spent about an average of 8 hours a week doing UGC.”

“Cuz I was having lots of up and downs. Like some were like 3K months and then seven month 7K months.”

“Like, you know, this isn't this isn't guaranteed money. It can go up and down.”

“or like uncapped UGC where you're doing maybe $10 a video, but due to the views you can make anywhere between $10 to up to like thousands of dollars per video.”

“Like one month I had 20K plus month and like I was working four or five hours a day. Um and then the next month I could be making 13K.”

“So it's a it's a bit I would say unpredictable, but there definitely is um opportunity there to increase the amount of money that you are making with those deals”

“a lot of our creators are making 20, 30K, made 100 videos for a brand and didn't make a dollar.”

“That covered my $30 fee I had from Bento before I canceled them the next month cuz I didn't need them anymore. $30 or $60 now.”

“There's a lot of stuff you can do on the side while you're working full-time.”

“So, college students have such an advantage in UGC.”

“I did it in college working a 9 to5 as well and still made time to to hang out with family and friends.”

“Like if you have a full-time job, do it in the morning, do it at night.”

“Plus, I don't have to like clock in. I can work for myself.”

“when you first start, you can definitely fit it into the cracks of your life.”

“With UGC to just be able to travel around, have no boss, you really integrate work and life”

“building a second business in being UGC is that you can really just pour into it when you want”

“I remember I got my first brand deal at the end of my first month”

“I'd say after my first month, I had my first deal where I made 2.5K off of it, posting two times a day on text on screen”

“And now I work for like apps, I make content for apps like from anywhere in the world.”

“You can you can spin up 5 to 10 to 15k a month from your home.”

“So that's why I love this because you're just working off apps and websites off your phone.”

“you just make simple videos for them and then you can go travel and buy the hotel.”

“And then you don't have physical products, and you can do that wherever, literally anywhere in the world.”

“she was making really strong hourly rates from doing this 100, $200, $300 an hour and uh and up.”

“she was making really strong hourly rates from doing this under it to under $300 an hour and and up.”

“Again, working about 8 hours a week on UGC. So if we do that math, it comes out to about $110 an hour doing UGC.”

“And I mean 5 to 10k a month for a college student is amazing.”

“Yes, I make about 3K per month with UGC consistently for the past like”

“He still works a 9 to5 and does 10k a month on top of that.”

“Yeah, get the mic, and the light, and the tripod, you spend 100 bucks, and you're you're in the game.”

“That covered my $30 fee I had from Bento before I canceled them the next month cuz I didn't need them anymore. $30 or $60 now.”

“I remember I got my first brand deal at the end of my first month”

“I'd say after my first month, I had my first deal where I made 2.5K off of it, posting two times a day on text on screen”

“In Q1, I spent about an average of 8 hours a week doing UGC.”

“I was honestly at the most probably just working like 15 maybe 20 hours a week if I had a bunch of projects I was trying to wrap up”

“if you're already working 40 plus hours a week and you're going to be doing UGC for an extra 10 to 15 hours a week, that's fine.”

“the only reason they didn't catch it is because they didn't watch the entire video back”

“When you're generic, it's very hard to capture the attention of a certain brand because a lot of brands have similar pain points”

“This is all CPM video style where it's like $10 a video. So, no wonder why brands ghost you because your videos are not created for these companies”