Creator Money Week Day 5: Overcome your fears and Ask to be Paid

The purpose of Creator Money Week is to set influencers/content creators up to be paid. We are on our final day of Creator Money Week and we’re discussing how to overcome your fears of asking to be paid.

If you’re a creator who is experiencing the fear of asking to be paid, here are 6 tips to help you overcome your fears:

  1. Recognize and accept your worth

Before you ask a brand for their budget, you have to take a step back and accept you are worth it. I’ve heard a lot of bloggers say, “I should be grateful that this brand wants to work with me”. While most of us are already grateful of the brand opportunities, you should also accept your worth.

If a brand is reaching out to you, they’ve probably recognized that you:

·      Have an established audience that you’ve built 

·      Or you create great content 

·      Or you come from a unique point of view or aesthetic.

Brands wouldn’t reach out to you unless they saw something valuable in you

  2.  Create the worst case scenario and resolve it 

One thing I feared when I first started asking for payment was that brands would get angry with me for asking. I also feared that brands would turn around and say they didn’t want to work with me again.

If you’re experiencing fear of asking to be paid, write out the worst case scenario and then resolve it. For example, if the brand says no and they get angry, you probably didn’t want to work with that type of brand partner anyway. Brand collaborations are collaborative – where both the blogger and the brand work together to produce content/deliverables that align with their goals and audiences.

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