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Hello business class.
My name is Ashley Villa and I am attorney
and manager to digital talent.
There's a lot of reasons why brands want
to engage in digital talent and you know some of them being brand recognition
other because they would like to get a couple talking points to their audience
or show their customer how to use their products.
Lots of different reasons.
But today, I've heard that some of the
main questions that you have is how to actually work with digital influencers,
how to engage them, how to form relationships.
And so that's kind of what we're going to go through today.
So this is kind of an overview of what we're going to be talking about today.
I'm going to give you the broad strokes of what a potential team might look like.
So as a brand, you're not confused as you're getting thrown into all these
different parties as you try to, you know, start discussions in terms of
potential paid work or even gifting.
I'm going to tell you what a good email
looks like when you're reaching out to talent and the representation, how you
even decide what what talent you might want to work with as you form your your
influence influencer campaigns.
Various analytics that myself as a talent
manager gets asked to see of my clients quite a bit from brands.
So maybe you can learn from other brands in terms of what they're asking for, how
to actually build relationships with talent.
And I'm going to flow through what I believe to be an organized branded
campaign between a brand and an influencer, I'm going to lightly touch
on. My feelings on good contracts and what
material terms you should be looking for.
And then if you're an influencer, a
couple tips on how to get the most out of your management just as a little bonus at
the end.
Okay, first of all, a little bit about my
company, rare global.
I'm the CEO and founder of Rare Global
and we are one of the, if not the premier.
Talent management companies in digital, we truly represent the best of the best
in terms of digital talent, usually focused in YouTube, Instagram, tik tok
and with the pillars of focus being beauty, fashion, lifestyle and a lot of
Wellness these days.
So that's a little bit about us as a
company we. Focus a lot of our work in terms of who
we represent and we only represent at this point around I think, 17 talent.
That's not including our rare creative side, which represents photographers,
videographers, makeup artists, hair stylists and that type of talent who
usually also have digital platforms.
But our focus is the influencer on the
rare global side.
I myself, I'm a lawyer.
And that was kind of where I built my initial career.
I worked at Lionsgate.
I worked at a film sales agency and
eventually was in House counsel at Style Hall, which was one of the first digital
media management companies.
It was called a multichannel network, and
that was also with the focus and fashion beauty.
And I learned a lot there about the ins and outs of the digital world and then
thereafter launched. My own management company and we've been
around for about, I think this November will be our sixth year.
So yeah, maybe one of the oldest around at this point.
Here's a list of some of our talent, some amazing content creators, all of our
clients. Create their own content.
That's the main reason why they wouldn't want to work with an influencer.
They actually can create any of their own content.
And you know what? They know how to speak to their audience
better than anyone else.
They are very, very in tune with their
audience and they're on the forefront of what's cool.
So I mean, that's truly what makes you an influencer, knowing the coolest stuff.
And so we make sure as well that we're getting our clients the coolest stuff all
the time so that they can have the best and the most forefront opinions.
Yeah, we got Jenny and Michelle Fawn, one of the o g 's on YouTube, art and Cho,
actress Bria Jones amazing up and coming.
Tik toker. Yeah, just to name a few.
All right.
So as a brand, you're going to want to
reach out to the influencers team.
That's usually what you'll do.
You'll go on to their Instagram, you'll get their little email, and it'll say
Chloe at rare.
Dot global.
Now, that email is most likely not going to actually going to go to Cloy Morello.
It's going to go to someone on her team.
And so you should kind of have an idea as
to who these various characters might be when you reach out.
I do believe that as a digital content creator, you can manage yourself up until
a point.
You will continue to manage yourself.
You will field your emails as talent, and I actually recommend that as talent.
You continue doing so for as long as you can.
You know, focus on building your own business before you bring on outside
help. Once you are hoping to get outside help
because you're really at that place where there's not enough time to answer emails
and also create all the content that you can make.
I think the first step is finding in in the digital world and it's different in
the traditional world, but in the digital world it's important to first find a
manager. Now in digital a manager is someone who.
I think has a longterm strategy, but also has a shortterm strategy in terms of what
your content looks like, what kind of sponsorships you might want to do, what
kind of platforms you want to be on.
And the manager truly is someone who's
supposed to be helping with creating all the different types of relationships, and
that's where this little manager icon is here.
The manager should also be helping you find a good attorney.
Managers, some of them can do contracts, the ones who are lawyers.
I myself being included, but a lot of times we still hire an outside attorney
just because of the high volume of contracts that do come through.
And as compared to traditional talent, digital talent has a lot of deals coming
in. At any given time there might be 3 or 4
different Instagram campaigns with.
Different brands.
You could have two YouTube videos coming out for, say, Dyson vacuum and also Le
Maire. There's lots of different types of
campaigns that can be happening at any time.
So when you're ready to get a manager, you're most likely also ready to get an
attorney. And at some point your business will get
so big that as talent, you also will need to get an agent.
Now, why have an agent and a manager? Well, an agent is really, truly someone
who's out there pitching you.
They're sending out.
A lot of emails, outgoing phone calls, daily to get you new work, and a lot of
times those larger campaigns that are year long, managers can get those deals
too, but agents are really out and about trying to procure lots of extra work.
So when you bring an agent on, they'll be bringing on an extra added amount of of
opportunities, but also for example, if you want to launch a book.
An agent might help with that, could do it with a manager as well.
But having extra hands on your team can really help when your business gets to
that place. So as a brand, don't be surprised if
sometimes when you're working with the macro talent, macro in my opinion being
maybe 1000000 or more on YouTube, that they have not only a manager but also an
agent, okay. And then at some point say you do launch
your book and you're going on tour.
You just launched your makeup line as
talent. You might also need to bring on a
publicist to help you as you form relationships with various press outlets,
and they're the ones who can really bring on those extra relationships.
In terms of events as a brand, you'll probably just deal with the manager,
coordinating events, coordinating gifting.
That's usually something that the manager does when it becomes a paid opportunity.
You might speak with a manager and agent.
Very rarely will you usually speak to a
publicist about these types of branded opportunities.
So, and very rarely I think, will the attorney be negotiating.
But just be kind of aware that you might be speaking with an agent or manager in
terms of negotiating.
You might be speaking with talent.
Sometimes I tell the talent to pretend they have an assistant so they can have
that third party.
They're still helping you negotiate, but
I would let the talent lead in terms of who you'll be negotiating with.
And just ask your questions to the broad group if you're unsure or even ask who
you should be negotiating with if you're unsure at that point.
All right, so let's start from the beginning.
So you're an up and coming brand.
You want to start engaging with various
talent. You have about 20 people on your list.
I'm going to give you some top tips for what that email should look like in terms
of that initial outreach to talent.
Because here's the thing.
As a small up and coming brand, even big ones.
Perhaps it's hard to get in the door if you're unrecognizable or you still have a
small Instagram.
Maybe that Rep doesn't even respond.
Maybe you've got to be a little more tenacious.
Whatever you got to do to get in front of that talent.
Maybe you even DM them.
But I would recommend starting with an
email to the representative.
And see if you can speak to the talent,
perhaps, perhaps send them the product.
That's where I would start.
So let's start with just saying that the talent doesn't have your product.
They've never seen it before.
Here's what your email should look like
so that it's very clear what you would like to happen and what you would like
from that representative.
So First off.
A clean subject line.
Number one, make sure that you say the
name of your brand in the subject line clearly say what the product might be.
And it doesn't help either if you write potential collaboration or something like
that so that it doesn't look like spam.
Because actually in these emails and we
check our clients emails every day, there's a lot of spam that comes into
those emails. So just having a clean subject line so
that it's even clear.
What you're trying to get at is really
helpful. So instead of sending, you know, very
general emails, if I was a brand and I wanted to get in front of a talent that
they've never heard of me before, I would make sure that they knew that I knew who
they were. So I would say, hey, we're honey skin.
We're launching a new serum.
I watch your YouTube channel.
I know that you love things that smell like honey.
And it's an anti aging product that I know you would love and maybe even get
some details as to specifically why if I was an up and coming brand I would start
there because I need to actually know if the the talent is even the content
creator is even going to like my product as a small brand.
I want to just work with talent that actually likes the product to start with.
Sometimes just paying people.
Haphazardly here and there, it doesn't
always get you what you want because they'll take the money and then you'll
never hear from them again.
And that's kind of not truly the point in
my opinion of of working with with content creators.
It's kind of to harness these relationships.
So I would first try to get them the product, get the product in their hand
and then if that's possible, I would then move to sending potentially campaign
details hi. Tamra, I know that you love our product.
Can you consider doing a paid campaign with us?
And then in that email, I'd be very specific about the type of content that
you'd like them to create.
For example, I noticed that you have an
amazing IGTV series on your favorite skin care.
Can we be a part of that since, you know, honey skin is now one of your favorite
products? And just as a note, I mean as a
professional person. I would always have like a very clear
email signature so that if anyone did need to get in contact with you, they
could reach you.
But also on the flip side, when you're a
new brand, it really does help to have a complete email signature because then we
kind of know that you're a real person coming from a real brand and that true
signature line really helps.
You wouldn't even believe how many emails
we've received where there's no signature line at all and it just says contact at
such and such brand.
Like, is that a real brand or is it spam?
We're really never unsure, and sometimes you can't really tell from even a
website, so I'm having a really great signature line is great as well.
Ok so another step as a brand that you really need to run through before you
start sending out every which email here and there is deciding who you want to
actually work with.
So there's lots of ways that you can
calculate how you'd like to work with various talent.
Here's all the different ways that we've seen brands calculate it.
And I'm not going to lie, I've never actually been on the brand side.
I've always been a talent manager.
So the perspective that I'm giving you
here is what we've seen in terms of questions.
Interestingly enough, a lot of questions that we get especially from smaller,
newer brands is how can we guarantee that your client will have will.
Will have sales for us, you want, I can't guarantee that.
I can't even guarantee views on any of the stuff, on any of the the content.
But what I can guarantee is that if the the client actually likes the product,
they're definitely going to get some traction with their community if they
actually like the product.
So even if you can consider all these
different things, that doesn't guarantee success on any branded campaign, but you
can look at the talents.
Engagement, you can see how many people
are commenting on their on their content, whether it's on YouTube or Instagram and
on even further than that you can ask them for analytics.
So a lot of times savvy brands will ask us for screenshots.
And so at Rare global, we do have case studies for all of our clients.
So we can send some broad information.
We can't give too much information in
terms of specific branded campaigns because those are confidential and they
all lie under confidentiality with each brand.
Just like I wouldn't share information from one brand to another, I wouldn't
share that. However, we can give information in terms
of sponsored content that's that's clear and in the public view, so for example,
for best dressed.
We can look at some of her sponsored
content and see that it does very well, has very high engagement, she gets very
high interactions. She we kind of can give an idea of some
top performing brands.
We send this as a case study so brands
can get a feel and again cannot guarantee actual sales.
And in fact I want to note as well that a lot of times brands will give us a swipe
up link so that during sponsored content.
We will have a swipe up link in the
content so that the brand can track how the link clicks go and then sometimes
even can can track how sales go.
But to be honest, a lot of times they
don't share that information with us.
They don't want to know how well it does.
So as a brand kind of your choice to whether you want to disclose that or not.
But a lot of times I don't actually have that information.
So when brands even ask me, you know how did the last.
Branded campaign go with such and such brand, I actually don't know, but we can
generally say how you know content and interaction goes in terms of broad
strokes for various categories in our case study.
And also as a brand, you might want to ask for you know the last week's
clickthroughs, we usually tell our clients to make sure that they're doing
swipe ups weekly so that we can make sure that we're capturing that data.
And then also in terms of general insights like what are the top cities,
are they US based talent, how many impressions are they getting in the last
30 days, how many followers do they have, how many people are going on their
profile daily. So you can ask for specific analytics
that the talent is able to screenshot from their Instagram and we will share
that with you.
So as a brand, you know we've been
talking a little bit about figuring out who you want to work with, how that
initial. Relationship starts, but the most
important thing is a brand, in my opinion, and also as a manager who
represents talent isn't just getting brand deals.
It's about forming relationships so that we can start to work together and have a
symbiotic relationship. You're helping us.
Because we're creating content and we're getting compensated for that content for
a brand that we actually like.
And then you're getting content that
you're able to share with your community as well.
And in that kind of relationship, it, it truly starts with, in my opinion,
gifting. You're needing to get your your product
into the hands of that influencer and they need to actually love that product
in order to be an authentic relationship.
I know that word authentic is thrown
around a lot, but it's kind of, it's, it's true, we don't want our clients to
be working with brands or platforms or anyone that they actually don't like or
potentially don't even agree with their morals or as a brand.
You know brands have opinions too.
So you kind of have to find brands that
vibe with your personal brand.
Simply because you reach out and have
money doesn't mean that our clients willing to promote your product.
Truly, truly at Rare Global, we as a talent management company, that's why it
sometimes helps to get me the product to see if I even like it, getting the
product to the talent to make sure they like it.
A lot of times our clients ask us as managers, is this a brand that I want to
work with? Can you do some research?
What's their background outside of that? Finding creative ways and aesthetic ways
to get the product in front of the talent.
So one note here is I wouldn't have a lot of waste back in the day it was it was a
huge thing to just send huge, big packages, as big as you can get the
biggest attention. These days our clients are getting so
much product and they're filtering through so much product and they're
actually not accepting any product unless I've asked each and every time.
So also don't just get the email get the, address somehow and send the product
first. Make sure you ask and see if the talent
even wants the product.
Confirm the the address.
Send the product, get them the tracking.
Follow up to see if they got the product.
Follow up two weeks later to see if they like the product.
On top of that, don't send wasteful packaging.
I wouldn't recommend sending huge packages anymore.
Be eco friendly.
Think about the environment.
How is it easy to open? You know, as someone who also receives PR
from brands when they're wanting us to try new things, you don't want to get a
lot of waste.
Please don't use the little bubble, the
little those little bubbles that they don't, they don't decompose very well.
They stay in our environment for 20 years.
Like no one wants to see that anymore.
So be really thoughtful about the
environment as well as our talent is also being thoughtful about that too and not
being really wasteful, you know? Perhaps we, we nixed those huge boxes
with extra size, extra large sized everything.
So that's a little note as well in terms of an insider tip on how to make sure
that you're starting with a great relationship.
Okay, so say you're moving into paid campaigns, you form that great
relationship. They really like your product.
Now you're reaching out again and in that email that i had the email tips I had
mentioned earlier, you want to be very clear about what.
Deliverables you want.
Because here's the thing, as a brand, you
can't really get what you want if you don't know what you want.
Wait, you can't? Yeah, that's that's it.
You can't get what you want if you don't know what you want.
So make sure that you actually figure out what deliverables work for you as a
brand. You know you have your own social media.
You know what content as well in your social media.
So figure that out and then find ways to get that talent.
That content creator to make good content for you.
So that involves some usage, right.
So they're going to post on theirs, most
likely that talent gonna post on their, their social media and then also you're
going to want to post that content on your social media.
So you're going to make sure that you're going to want to to delineate in the
contract that both of things need to happen.
And so here's kind of what I think it looks like from the brand side and it's
very fluid and sometimes some things happen before others.
But I would say that this is generally how a well structured campaign should go.
So as a brand you develop your campaign concept.
Say you have a launch honey skins launching, it's it's new blush and it's a
it's a blush that smells like honey.
There's a bumblebee element and do you
want to make sure that the talent.
Mentions all the new talking points about
the new product, which is antiaging and and also has actual beeswax in it, let's
say. So those are the two talking points.
So you're going to outreach your talent, get them that product, you're going to
send them the offer, confirm that the talent even wants to do it.
There's going to be some back and forth here because you're going to have to
figure out what that talent wants to charge.
So you know, there's going to be some negotiation.
You have a budget, you have a set budget.
You need to ask if and find out if the
town's willing to create the content for the budget that you have.
So once that's confirmed, you'll send the contract.
There'll be further negotiation on the contract once you close the contract.
In the meantime, I would make sure that you're establishing a timeline.
So say you do have a launch, I would mention that launch plan and that launch
timeline and give yourself ample time to make sure that you can get those
deliverables. And that content during that campaign
timeline, because worst thing that can happen is you close the contract on
Friday and you want them to upload the content that Saturday.
Now that's probably not going to happen.
So if you do need that content up on
Saturday being very clear so that everyone's working as quickly as they can
to close that contract and you're not missing your launch confirming the
creative as a brand, here's another tip I would try to get a feel of what?
The talent is hoping to make I would ask for a short campaign summary and just a
short content summary.
What are you thinking?
And you know, have it be a discussion.
I wouldn't say that you should send over
what you want them to make creatively i could send guidelines, but I wouldn't try
to delineate an entire YouTube video for them.
I would say, what content do you think this would look great in?
Leave it to the talent to figure out, because here's the thing.
They're going to want to make sure that they do a good job for you as a brand,
because if they actually really like the product, they're going to want to work
with you more.
So we really want to make brands happy
and make sure that we continue that relationship.
So if we're all open in the forefront about what that content's going to look
like, everyone else is going to be happier at the end.
So after all the contents confirmed, give them some time to create the content.
And then once you receive the content, you'll do a final approval.
And that's when you'll watch it and start tracking and seeing how it goes.
I gave you a kind of like a couple little sample campaigns here.
You know, usually like a YouTube campaign for a launch might be 1 YouTube video in
a makeup tutorial where they mentioned the product and then one round of social
media that supports the YouTube video so they'll post an actual Instagram photo
that might show the product.
In some way.
And also say go watch my full YouTube video.
On the flip side, there's also a world where you might just want them to attend
your launch event, and that's a whole different scenario that hasn't honestly
happened much lately.
I used to see it a lot more and maybe
that that talent would cover.
The YouTube the launch event in a YouTube
video. But you know, as I said, with what's been
going on with COVID, the events haven't been happening as much lately.
They've been happening more, but that's something that I hope to see more in the
coming months okay so here's some campaign tips, just some top level things
I've learned over the years as we've done lots and lots of brand campaigns.
As a brand, provide all the information about the product, about the campaign
upfront. Nothing is worse than having all your
ducks in a row as a manager.
And then all of a sudden the brand goes,
oh wait, but we actually wanted a different thing completely.
Oh, can she also say this? I I forgot to mention that we wanted her
to say that it's already shot.
It's going to be too late.
So what I also would recommend is if you decide to send a.
Three page summary about the product because you know most brands are very
excited about any launch and they want to give you all the information.
As managers, we have a protocol where we always ask for what are the two to three
main talking points that you would die not to have in the content.
So please send that over and we want to make sure and we have to tell our clients
to make sure that they say those two to three just so that we're no one's ever
disappointed and we can make sure that even amidst 30 talking points that were
sent over at least the main ones are hit.
I always love to include a call to action
because it really helps, you know.
Click here, try it here.
As a brand, I would always make sure that any content that I'm requesting from a
content creator includes that call to action.
It's great to give information, but it really, really sets the tone and actually
makes the viewer go and do whatever that call to action is.
Or maybe it's go to an event.
Sign up here.
Do this giveaway.
There's lots of different call to
actions, but it's also a great way to to have some analytics and metrics to to
define how well the campaign did.
And I know that's on the brand side, that
can be very important.
You might also want to send a mood board
just to give some ideas.
A lot of times content creators, they
love to get outside ideas and love to get a mood board.
So say you're launching a red lipstick, give some various amazing red lipstick
previous past content that you've had as a brand or maybe.
Find some inspo.
But yeah, go ahead and send that over in
a mood board.
We'd love to get any extra inspo that we
can share with our clients.
Okay, contracts.
Wow, what a huge piece of my day just reading contracts.
There's so many contracts in digital.
I mean, if you think about it, for
example, a celebrity, they might do 3 movies a year.
As a content creator, you might do.
50 deals a year.
Think about the volume of contracts I used to negotiate.
For example, actor deals.
We'd have maybe two or three weeks to
turn an actor deal.
The movie wasn't getting shot till the
next year. You know, in digital we have a 24 hour
turnaround at very global and that's quite fast and that's because a lot of
times the campaigns from brands happen very quickly and we don't want to
disappoint. On the flip side, if we're not able to
get the content that quickly, we'll be very clear about it.
But contracts is very important.
It's where you define all the important
information about the deal.
You might have said, I had so many
conversations in that in an email, chain but the contract is where the actual deal
will lie.
We're back to honey skin.
I wanted to point out just a couple things that are very important in terms
of contracts as a brand.
You know, more is not more.
Have a contract I I like, I like using Deal memo style like kind of like this.
Have a contract that's very clear, that's not too long you know makes it easy for
the talent to read in fact.
Especially if you're working with smaller
talent who might not have availability for legal, which everyone should have
legal. But sometimes when you're up and coming
you can't get a lawyer, you know, so have a contract that's actually readable.
Let's start at the top.
Make sure that you're stating both of the
parties and the entities in which they're entering into the contract.
For example, here it's Honey Skin LLC Most talent, they have something called a
loan out, so it'll be like Jane Doe Inc or something like that, that they'll be
entering into. Make sure that your contract has the fee
and correctly written.
I've seen a contract that didn't even
have the fee in it said, OK So what are we doing here if no one's getting paid
and you don't exactly know what's going on?
You know? So have the fee, have the payment terms,
make sure that you're saying when you're even able to pay.
Another important thing is making sure that the deliverables are clearly stated
here we're dealing with one Instagram main feed post saying exactly what
they'll need to do in terms of that post.
And then the usage here is very important
here. We've delineated that the talent's going
to be uploading the Instagram photo, but also the brand will be able to repost
that photo on their own social media.
There's lots of additional terms.
Maybe we'll have to ask Sophia to do a whole different digital media contract
class, but. Choice of law, California versus New
York, arbitration clauses, indemnification, lots of other types of
details, but name things, usage, exclusivity and fee, okay, so I didn't
touch an exclusivity.
This is a choice that you want to make
whether or not you want to pay as a brand.
So we've covered usage, what you get to do with the content.
We've covered the fee, what you're going to pay.
Exclusivity has to deal with whether or not.
You're going to let that talent promote other similar products anytime soon.
So in terms of Excessivity as a brand, you're going to need to decide whether or
not you want that talent to be able to post for similar brands.
So for example, with toilet paper, say you're Charmin, do you want that talent
after they promote Charlotte Charmin to be able to promote?
Other types of toilet paper say you are a brand like smart water.
Do you want that talent to be able to promote Crystal Geyser?
So when you're asking for excessivity, you need to decide whether or not you
want to pay for it.
Because if you're going to be asking for
this extra excessivity, most likely that representative is going to ask you to pay
to take that talent out of that category.
So that's kind of a decision that you
need to make.
If I was a.
Company for skin care and I was launching a serum.
I would probably specifically ask that talent not to represent another serum or
or promote another serum for at least another week or two.
I don't think that's unreasonable to ask.
You know, when you're being that
specific, asking them to be out of the entire skin care category for a month
probably have to pay for that.
But that's kind of decision that you'll
have to make as a brand.
All right.
So we're getting towards the end of our presentation here and here's a couple
tips for influencers.
You know, a lot of influencers these
days, they have their own brand and maybe a lot of founders themselves have have
representatives, they have their own social media.
For example, Sophia, she has an agent.
How to get the most out of your agent or
management as an influencer can be very important on lots of different levels.
And so here's some tips that I think I would love.
My talent to always remember very clearly states to me what goals you have.
For example, if you want to launch a podcast, if you would love to launch that
that cookbook by the end of the year, say that out loud.
You know you can only achieve your goals if you know what they are, so sharing
that with your team is very important.
We love to quarterly get lists of brands
that our clients love.
I want to know what's top of mind for our
clients, keep them updated.
For example, we just signed Kristin
Dominique and we had an onboarding meeting and she is going to start doing
more vlogs. So she's going to keep us updated with
how that's going communicate daily.
Don't ghost your management for for for
days on end.
You know they need to communicate with
you because honestly when you work with us you're going to be working a lot.
So making sure that you're constantly staying in the know with what your work
is. It's a fulltime job.
It's not a joke, you know.
So making sure you're staying in the know
with the people that you work with, which is your management, have a reputation for
timeliness. You know it.
This is a business so constantly being late isn't really acceptable and so
making sure that.
If you think you can make a timeline and
you set a deadline for yourself keeping that deadline and being realistic.
If you don't think you can make a deadline, being honest about it just
generally being nice to work with.
We only like to work with clients that
are cool people, you know? It's like we get to choose we want to
work with daily so why not have those people be enjoyable?
Last little tip for talent these days is if you want to maximize on working with
brands. Create a content series.
My sister Stephanie soothing sister is an amazing example of this.
She has a series called Sex Smarts in which she talks about just the
normalization of women's issues.
She talks about tampons, she talks about
sex toys. And guess what?
A lot of tampons and sex toy brands are now reaching out and pretty much every
one of her sex smarts content series YouTube videos are sponsored.
And why not? Because they're helping to fund that
content and get that information out into the world.
And so if you're truly interested in a category and you want to work with
certain types of brands, create a series around it.
And I guarantee you that that those brand relationships will follow.
And as a brand, you will search out those specialists who are creating content
around your special type of product.
So yeah, that's the end of the
presentation today and I hope everyone enjoyed it.
Thank you so much, Sophia, for having me and I hope to see everyone soon bye.
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