Cory Rodriguez | Wizard's Guild

Hey, thanks so much for checking in, Joe.

Um, yeah, I, I have been pretty bad with this one on one coaching.

Um, I had some personal stuff and then like actually my startup has, has, um, Been a lot more work than I thought.

So I was kind of a little bit like head deep in that.

But I actually did put together a list of like 15 brands that I would like love to, to like, um, kind of just like, um, kind of put a plan together on like what might be the best way to approach them, especially for this 4th quarter and for next year.

Um.

I was actually, I was actually gonna reach out to you like next week, so it's funny that you messaged me now.

But uh, yeah, I, I would love to know like, um, at this point, um, I have like pretty much like a lot of like wider brands like for example, like Kia, the car company being being one, and maybe I, I just drop them in here and then we can kind of ballpark like how and like how it might work and what would be the best way to approach them.

Um, and kind of just any questions around that, I think would be a great place to start.

Um, so like let me know what you think and then also like let me know if you think I should be doing this, like, you know, going into, are there certain brands on this list that might be better to go to now and then other brands might be better to go to in January or is that everything is better if it's sooner, so maybe I can just drop them here and we can go from there

Hey, Joe, yeah, sorry for the late response here.

I had a lot of uh personal matters that had come up in the last month or so, so I got kind of pulled off track, but I am, I am back to actually putting in some focus here again.

So when I had left off with Justin, I was making a list of all these companies I wanted to reach out to.

Uh, that I wanted to kind of approach that I had never done before and some of them are kind of like high level and whatnot.

So I'm gonna continue to put together that list of maybe like 10 or 15 companies I'd really love to work with and then maybe we can go through it and um and uh you can let me know what the best plan of action is and what your thoughts are, and if, and if it's feasible, and, and we can kind of go from there.

So awesome, chat soon

Hey, Justin, yeah, great to be in here.

I'm glad I finally was able to sign up.

I'm uh excited to get the ball rolling.

Thanks for the warm welcome.

Um, yeah, let me just uh say firstly, I actually meant to pay monthly, but I didn't realize the yearly was checked off, but then my credit card was hit with that fraud alert like you mentioned anyway, so it worked out fine.

So we're all good to go there.

Uh, I don't have any particular like deals that I'm In need of help with now that I'm working on necessarily.

Um, it's more so that I want like really revamp my entire ecosystem of brand partnerships over like the next year.

Um, and especially over the next like few months, I feel like my following and my engagement has grown to a level where, where, um, not, not only am I lucky enough to kind of receive a lot of inbound, um, requests, but I feel like I could do a much better job, a much more efficient job.

I, I kinda wanna get a little bit pickier in who I work with, um, try to make some of those long-term partnerships.

Uh, right now, I have everything on passion fruit, all my prices and all my analytics and um I know when using that you also can take away the prices and just have the analytics and then discuss that later on when they're interested, but I kind of don't have a real, a real fleshed out system that's worked well enough, but I know you've mentioned that having a, a kind of custom offer built for each um for each like proposal and offer is usually the way to go.

Um, so in, in that case, I'm, I'm kind of hoping to put together, uh, again, a nice like efficient system of How to tackle the incoming brands, um, the price points I'm using, um, how to go after some of the other brands that maybe I haven't, you know, gotten in contact with, um, just kind of like double check all that I'm doing now to again, to maximize revenue, to maximize efficiency.

Um, I, I have gotten myself into conversations with brands before where they're clearly not looking to pay what I'm asking.

But by the time I find that out, like there's been so much exchange of conversation, it ends up kind of being a real waste of time and energy.

So again, really trying to like scoop all that together into a better way of going about things.

Um, like I mentioned, just trying to find out if my prices are reasonable, if I could charge more, if I have to charge less, um.

Uh, but, um, also, I noticed, um, recently in the last deal I I just got an offer for that I've been going back and forth with it actually was a little different, but usually I get offers on like a singular platform.

I kind of want to go and try to get them on multiple platforms to really utilize all my audience.

I also find that um, That trying to to get all of the platforms involved, obviously hikes like the number, uh, but I'm trying to again, uh, work with people at a certain level.

If uh that makes sense.

So, yeah, just, just trying to uh to find a way to go about setting that up kinda correctly.

Um, I also find that I get a lot of brands that were, that reach out to me through agencies for particular campaigns, and it almost doesn't matter how well it goes even for the companies that are really like happy with it.

Um, I'm not talking to the company directly.

I'm talking to the agency, and I feel like that kind of is a, is a little bit of a, of a, a struggle with the long-term partnership request because they're, they're literally only looking to just fill a slot in a particular campaign which also happens as well, which is totally fine, but I also I'm trying to get paid more for those over others.

So yeah, that's just my overall uh set up and ordeal as, as of now