What if the skills you already have are exactly what you need to build a UGC business, you just haven't connected the dots yet?

Host Nate Flake sits down with Olivia Castriota to break down how she went from being new to UGC to consistently making $20,000 a month by leveraging skills she already had.

She didn't start as a UGC creator. She was a musician writing songs for TV shows, stuck in an industry where getting paid took eight months or longer.

When she saw a TikTok about UGC, she realized her years of making music videos had already taught her everything she needed: how to be comfortable on camera, understand lighting, and tell a story visually.

Within two weeks, she bought a course, set up her Fiverr gigs, and started landing clients at $20 a video.

Chapters:
00:04:45 - The Fiverr Switch That Skyrocketed Orders
00:05:32 - 100 Reviews in 2 Months
00:06:00 - The $20 to $125 Rate Jump Panic
00:06:31 - Ad Fees Changed Everything
00:09:19 - The “Pitch 10 Brands” Myth Gets Called Out
00:15:34 - Fiverr’s Biggest Problem: Zero Search, Too Much Chaos
00:18:18 - Scam Reality Check and Why New Sellers Get Targeted
00:24:38 - Camera Confidence
00:34:05 - Why X Became Her Best Lead Source
00:42:19 - Worst Gig vs Best Gig

She doesn't sugarcoat it. She talks about doing a hundred videos in two months to build reviews, raising her rates even when it felt terrifying, and why your first three months are basically paid training.

Olivia shares the production secrets most creators never think about like how matching your clothing to both the product and your skin tone can make or break a video, or why breaking a script into single-line takes with action beats makes everything easier.

Press play and learn how tiny shifts that separate okay content from work that brands want to pay for again and again.

Course she took (Use code OLIVIA for $100 off): https://freelancebigsis.com/ugcfiverracademy-1220?am_id=olivia2330

Olivia's music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5VdTraeHBTaJhW9OZPnrPm?si=yXo-BLoORYCqP5snb-qOxg

Olivia's portfolio: https://oliviacastriota.my.canva.site/

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