August 25, 2020 at 10:00AM
The other day I received a pretty triggering message on Instagram. Like most digital creators and online influencers (or whatever you want to call us) I receive quite a few DMs and emails daily from brands wanting to “work” together. I put work in quotation marks because it’s more like free labor. While the occasional brand may have a budget and actually pay you fairly for your work, most have the expectation you’ll do XYZ for free product or just because. It’s been a year since I’ve done a sponsored post and shut down that portion of my business so while I typically ignore messages and emails from brands, they often follow up (many times) and occasionally I offer a “no thank you” or “I do not do sponsored work with brands”. While brings us back to that triggering message… After 3 attempts by the brand to “offer” me free labor in return for their “life-changing” supplement I politely declined informing them that I don’t do sponsorship anymore. Their response is what sent me over the edge: “That’s too bad. You can really leverage a lot from an audience your size”. Now I really try to not let this stuff […]
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