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Brand Partnerships Part 3: Reporting, Red Flags, and Contract Rules You Need to Know (Ep. 29) (opens the original)
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Before you sign your next brand deal, watch for these red flags. Most brand partnership advice stops at getting the deal. This episode is what happens after: when to send the numbers, how to frame a renewal conversation, what to put in a contract, and the red flags that tell you a brand is going to be more trouble than it is worth. 0:00 – Intro 2:50 – Two-part performance reporting: one week out and one month out 5:13 – Impressions, saves, sends, and the qualitative callouts that make a report s
LinkedIn Brand Deals Part 2: Pricing, Packages, and Paid Usage Rights (Ep. 28) (opens the original)
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If you do not know what to charge for a sponsored LinkedIn post, this episode gives you a starting point and walks you through an actual brand partnership deck Tas sends to every brand that's resulted in $100k+ in brand deals. This is part 2 of the brand deals series, make sure to check out the others. Tas' Brand partnership Timestamp: 0:00 – Intro 1:02 – Starting out: letting the brand set the rate versus setting your own floor 3:46 – Tim's $1,000 minimum, the three-post bundle, and how he fra
Making $161K in Brand Partnerships from Posting on LinkedIn. Part 1/3 (Ep.27) (opens the original)
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Brand partnerships on LinkedIn are not just for people with massive followings. Tas and Tim started landing them before they were big, and together they have made $161,000 from posts alone. This episode is the playbook, including pricing, pitching, the three-post rule, and small talk that turned into a two-year deal. Timestamps: 0:00 – Intro 0:56 – Why this episode exists and what the $161K number includes 3:22 – Tim's first brand deal: UserGems, three months, $2,500 total 7:12 – The three-post
Nikhil Hunshikatti on Building a Fractional CMO Practice the Right Way (Ep. 26) (opens the original)
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Nikhil Hunshikatti ran a billion-dollar consumer revenue portfolio at Gannett before going fractional. He did not plan to go fractional. He tried three in-house leadership roles first, lost all three to internal candidates, and only then decided to hang his own shingle. Three years in, he has built a model that works, but not without losing 50% of his revenue in one quarter and spending 18 months too heads-down to do any pipeline work. 0:00 – Intro 1:50 – Background: USA Today, Gannett, and runn
How Ademola Adelakun went from Magician to building 14 Different Businesses (Ep. 25) (opens the original)
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Ademola Adelakun is a former professional magician who has started 14 businesses, appeared on Canada's version of Shark Tank completely blindsided, survived 93 days with zero revenue without telling his fiancée, and now runs A2 Media, a conversion-focused video agency doing roughly a million Canadian dollars a year. This episode is the full story. Timestamps 0:00 – Intro 1:28 – Former magician, 14 businesses, now running a media company 3:19 – University of Waterloo, the entrepreneurship culture
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