When negotiating brand deals, I really try to pitch my value - what I can offer, what sets me apart from other Creators, and why I charge what I charge. I’m also willing to meet them where they're at and create a custom pitch that fits with their marketing goals. 

It’s incredibly informative to be around those Creators and learn from them. I attribute a lot of my negotiation strategies and instincts to being in that Discord server. 

My “Art YouTuber Workbook and Notion Template” bundle is my best selling product by far. It's also, I think, the highest-priced educational resource that I offer. 

Not only is it discounted - if you were to buy all of those products individually, it would cost more - but also there are exclusive things in there that aren’t available individually. 

When someone is trying to start a new project like a YouTube channel, they need advice, guidance, and clarity because they feel overwhelmed…They need some kind of system to ease that anxiety and help them feel more in control and organized. The workbook and Notion template together really offer that. 

They have no idea how the Internet works or how YouTube works, and they want some kind of guidance there. 

I wanted something just for myself, to help me figure out what kind of content I was going to post, what kind of vibe I wanted to have online in my content, and how I wanted to organize everything.

I basically had to figure out some way to make money, and I had made this thing that I thought maybe some people would find valuable. 

I put it out there like, “Hey, I'm making this thing. If you want to test it out and give me some feedback, I'll give it to you for free.” 

Over time, I just kept updating the product every couple of months, and it eventually became the thing that it is today.

They are the top sponsor of my channel, and also just a really great web design platform, genuinely, that I've been using for years. When I was doing freelance web design, I used Squarespace for all of my clients. 

I didn't need the Shopify features, and there's a high learning curve to making a Shopify store that works well for you. 

I have so much experience on Squarespace, and when I first started, I was just selling digital products, which is dead easy to do on Squarespace - they do all the email delivery for you, all you have to do is upload the file and price it. The print-on-demand partners that I work with all integrate with Squarespace, and I haven't felt limited yet. 

They know who abandoned their cart, who bought what. 

They have a bunch of monetization features. I like that all of my newsletters can live in a blog. I like their segmentation. I'm not maximally taking advantage of all the cool stuff you can do right now, but I am hiring some freelancers to help me with that this year. 

FiberArt reached out to me because I have positioned myself as the go-to person for art business on YouTube. 

They’re a small business. They're sustainable, they pay their workers a fair wage. They're now transitioning to an entirely solar powered factory, which is really cool. They make everything here in the US and they are so aligned with my audience. I had so many amazing comments on those videos!

The one downside to theprintspace is that they're based in the UK, so the shipping is prohibitively expensive for US customers, who are about 40% of my audience. 

I think I'm now going to be switching over to FinerWorks, which is a US-based company that offers a bit more affordable, yet really high quality archival giclée prints. 

It's like a drop in the bucket because I just don't focus on it. 

I just live on my content calendar. I have that set up in a calendar view and then I have a couple of kanban board views where I categorize my content. 

All In works with a lot of different Creators. They reached out to me to see if I needed help with my taxes, and I was like, “Yes. Oh, my God, please.” They're really great. 

There’s no fee on the freelancer end because the fees are put onto the clients, which is really nice. 

This year so far, I am editing the bulk of my own content - and I like that. I feel more connected to it now than I did using an editor last year. I feel like the videos are more unique, more in line with my creative vision. 

It was a lot of trial and error in the beginning, a lot of being taken advantage of - but the Partnered YouTube Discord server, I cannot thank enough!