PAID

Nobody is coming to discover you.

Brands are not searching for you. They are drowning in a hundred inboxes, and they buy from whoever made it easy.

Most creator planners help you make more content. This one helps you get paid for the content you are already making — properly, on time, and for the right amount.

Pitch · Shoot · Deliver · Invoice

• The Job. What UGC actually is, and why you do not need a following to do it. Who actually pays — and the five kinds of buyer, which behave completely differently. The ladder, and where you honestly are on it. The portfolio, before your first client. The media kit. And the six things a brand is really buying — because the video is the smallest of them.

• The Rate Card. How to price from nothing. Your floor, written down before somebody charming asks. Usage rights — the most valuable thing you own and the thing almost everybody gives away free. Exclusivity, priced properly. Whitelisting. Rush fees. Retainers. And how to raise your rate without announcing it.

• The Pitch. Where to find brands. The twenty-brand list. The template — word for word. The subject lines. The three follow-ups, spaced a week apart, that win most of the deals. A twenty-row pitch tracker. And the arithmetic that turns rejection into a conversion rate.

• Twelve months, six pages each. The month. The pipeline, marked LIVE / WARM / DEAD. The shoot schedule. Delivered. Invoiced and paid — two different columns, never the same one. Then the month read.

• The Deal. The brief. Twelve questions to ask before you say yes. What must be in writing. The concept, the script, the hooks, the shot list, the shoot day. Revisions — two, and how to charge for the third without a cross word. The handover. And how to turn one job into a retainer.

• The Money. The invoice, and the nine things it must contain. Payment terms. The chaser, word for word — day thirty, day thirty-seven, day forty-five. What to do when they will not pay. Expenses. Setting money aside. The year in money.

• When It Breaks. They have gone quiet. They want it free. They want it cheap. The brief keeps changing. They have not paid. They want to own it forever. Plus the dry spell, imposter feeling, and burnout — which is nearly always one bad client, not the work.

The scripts are the point. Every difficult email in this trade, written out for you: the cold pitch, the three follow-ups, the rate reply, the negotiation, the rush fee, saying no, the retainer proposal, and all three chasers. Copy them. Change the names. Send them.

9,618 working hyperlinks. Eighteen tabs down the side of every page. Never scroll.

Three sizes, six files. A5, A4 and US Letter — hyperlinked digital plus clean printable.

Undated. Start in any month, in any year.

Free bonus: THE FIRST TEN PITCHES — ten brands, ten emails, one week. The whole business, in a five-page workbook.

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Instant download. A planning tool — not legal, financial or tax advice, and not a guarantee of income.