Paid brand deals are one of the easiest ways to monetize your Influencer business. I recommend picking multiple revenue streams for your business and brand deals can and should be a vital part of your income strategy.
In this guide, I’m going to be helping you land paid brand deals in a few easy steps. And at the end of this post, I’m going to share an incredible free resource that’s going to change the way you pitch and work with brands. YUP. I’m giving away my exact Pitch Deck Template so that you can start standing out in your pitches right away.
How to get paid brand deals
When you’re starting to look for paid brand deals, you’ll first make a list of all the brands that you have around your house, that you already use and love. Whenever you’re selling something to your audience, you want it to come across authentically. You’ve spent time building up trust with your audience, so make sure that you’re not losing that trust by promoting products that your audience won’t use and love.
What I mean is, don’t sell your soul and your trust with your audience for every fab, fit, fun box and skinny tea that’s willing to throw $25 or worse, A GIFT CARD your way.
Instead, finding brands you already love and use every day is the perfect way to start landing paid brand deals. Once you know what brands you love and use every day, pitch them!
Pitching brands you already know, use, and love
What I recommend is to create a spreadsheet with all of the brands you have at home that you’d love to work with. Then start digging. You need to find a contact for that brand that you can reach out to. Maybe that’s someone who’s in charge of Influencer Marketing, or maybe the brand has a PR team. You can dig through their website, contact pages, and LinkedIn pages for the brand.
Once you have the name and email of the person you want to contact, add that information to the spreadsheet. Then you’re going to do a little bit more research and find out if those brands have worked with any influencers in the past. You can get inspiration from content and campaigns they’ve collaborated with in the past.
By finding the influencers that they’ve worked with in the past, you can also see what other brands those influencers have worked with, and start to build a list of possible collaborations bigger than what you already use and love. This will give you an idea of what similar brands your audience might like to see from you.
Ready to learn more about how to land paid brand deals
Paid sponsorship on Instagram
Once you have the list of brands that you want to work with, you can get ready to start pitching them. You’ll be pitching these brands for paid sponsorships on Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, or your blog. For now, let’s specifically talk about paid sponsorships on Instagram here.
There are plenty of ways that you can promote a paid brand deal on Instagram. You can talk about the product in stories and share that to a story highlight for higher impact. Or you can create a Reel or Infeed post that shares more about the brand either in the video or the caption.
Sharing about a product on stories is something that lasts 24 hours on your page. Turning that story into a story highlight is something that lasts forever. As do Reels and Infeed posts. Keep this in mind when you’re pricing your brand deals. To learn more about how much to charge as an influencer, read this.
Do you want to know my secret to landing paid brand deals? I always use a pitch deck! Make sure that you’re using a pitch deck to stand OUT in conversations with brands and potential collaboration emails.
What does pitch deck mean?
Now that you have a better idea of how to pitch and land paid brand deals, let’s talk about your pitch deck. A pitch deck is a document that you’re going to send to a brand when they want to know more about your ideas for a collaboration. It’s a brand-specific document that will outline your ideas for their campaign, along with prices and campaign examples.
Learn how to pitch a brand using a pitch deck here.
And before you go, make sure to download my exact pitch deck template that I use to pitch and work with National Brands in my Influencer business every month. Save yourself hours trying to design and build a pitch deck, and with that saved time, start pitching more brands!
What questions do you have about landing paid brand deals? Come chat over on Instagram. You’ll find there I answer your questions all the time on my stories and in reels! Let’s hang out → @taradcarr.
