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@IsabellaUGC_ Twenty outreach messages in one day is a real number, that's not a small task to knock out on top of everything else on your plate. Is the plan to send the same pitch to all of them, or are you customizing each one to the brand?
@artfully_amberr Scripting during gymnastics practice is a genuinely good find, since it's the kind of pocket that's easy to write off as dead time otherwise. Do you keep a running list of small tasks for exactly these windows, or decide on the spot what to tackle?
@audreyradmkt Pairing movement with admin work is smart since the boring tasks are exactly the ones where energy tends to crash. Curious if you'll do everything on the pad or save the stuff needing more focus, like quotes or contracts, for when you're sitting still.
@Lydia91UGC Sending pitches with no feedback loop yet is the hardest stretch, since you can't tell what's landing and what isn't. Are you tracking which types of brands or pitch angles get a response, or is it still mostly trial and error at this stage?
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@ugcwithbryan Going from 800 to 2000 for the same project without you ever moving means they needed you more than that first offer let on. Did they ever say what changed on their end, or did you just get the higher number and leave it there?
@createwithsanea Holding out after you'd already half decided to take the first offer takes more discipline than landing the higher number itself. What usually makes you pause on an offer that already feels good enough?
@DavidCreatesUGC Admin getting its own line item next to edits and a strategy call says a lot, most people would just lump it under "other." Do you block set hours for it or fit it in wherever the day leaves a gap?
This is what the business side of creating actually looks like a lot of the time: client threads and invoicing handled from a hotel bathroom between shoots. It's part of why we built Herduk, so that doesn't need four different apps to hold together.
@KleinSienn25050 Keeping invoicing on track while you're the one traveling, not just the shoot, is the harder version of that list. Do you set aside a fixed time for it each day or just fit it into gaps between everything else?
@Maddiesocials Four years in is plenty of evidence against it and it still creeps back, which says more about the bar you hold yourself to than your actual output. Does it tend to show up more before you send something off or while you're waiting to hear back?
@ugcjasonl Fifteen years behind a mic is not a small head start either, most people building this from zero don't have that comfort on camera or that instinct for hitting a brief on time. What's translated over most directly for you?
@AshleeCreatives That trust building up over multiple bookings really does compound. Does it show up more in the brief itself, or in things like faster approvals and turnaround once they know your style?
@Createwithvsn Waiting until there's an opportunity to show up makes every interaction look transactional. Engaging with no ask attached is what actually gets remembered when a brief does come up.
@ugcjasonl That order matters, most people wait to feel ready before they send the pitch and end up waiting forever. Sounds like showing up again after a no is the real skill you've been building.
@AshleeCreatives Makes sense, once a brand has already seen how you work there's usually a lot less back and forth on approvals too. Do repeat clients tend to hand you looser briefs since they trust your judgment by that point?