Hereās the truth š I would venture to say close to 90% of the people teaching how to get brand deals and travel collabs donāt actually know how to create a sustainable career. Many have gotten a few free trade deals, maybe 1-2 paid gigs and now are an āindustry expertā sharing all their secrets to get paid to travel with no followers. Hereās the problem, itās a pipe dream that not even they could accomplish. Btw when you see stuff like āscored a 3 night 3k collabā most often that means the value of the stay is 3k and they got paid a big fat 0. Idk about you but I canāt pay my bills with a free stay lol. You need skill to make this work. Not just with a camera and editing, but with storytelling, marketing strategy, and much more. Itās not as simple as a phone and laptop connection as many claim, but it can be done. So hereās what you need to knowā¦ 1. Without hard case studies, itās nearly impossible to get paid deals. If you donāt have them that should be your priority #1. If you donāt know how I have tons of videos on my IG and YouTube about it. 2. Itās a numbers game. If you only send 10 emails, chances are you wonāt get a deal. You need to constantly be pitching and eventually build a system around it. 3. You have to love it. If you just want a few free vacations every once in a while this isnāt for you. This is for people that take it seriously and actually want to treat it like a business (cause it is) 4. If brands arenāt willing to pay you, maybe itās because youāre not valuable enough yet. Hard truth but still truth. Work on your skills, create a better offer, gather more proof of results then try again. 5. If you sound like a copycat of everyone else, you have no unique value prop so therefore will likely get ignored. Youāre a creative so be creative in your outreach, offer, sales process, etc. and stand out Like I said, Iām not a guru, but I have been consistently working with the top brands in the travel industry for the past 5 years.
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