Get Rich or Reply Trying: If your love language is gifting (and you're open to gifting from brands), do this one thing on Beacons today. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

For anyone keeping track, it's our silver anniversary 🩶 This is the 25th edition of Get Rich or Reply Trying!

They say a relationship goes two ways, so if you're reading this right now, thank you for tuning in each week to this newsletter and the goings-on at Beacons. We love to keep building for the creators like you who inspire us. You make me happier than Victoria Ratliff, before she (*spoiler alert*) realizes her entire bottle of pills is missing.

And speaking of being inspired...

The Beacons team in NYC had a very "pinch me" moment this week. We co-hosted an event with the TikTok Live team at their New York office in Times Square!

This event was specifically for talent management agencies. We had a packed room with 67 creator agencies represented—including agency founders and managers who flew in just for this event!

It was incredible to chat with talent managers like Claudia Rodriguez of Suave Management, Mc Lee Warrens of Wawa Productions, and Jordan Wallace of Jexy Agency. They've all been long-time users of Beacons for Managers and raved about how much it has helped them scale their businesses 🥹

(For anyone who doesn't know: Beacons for Managers allows talent managers to manage all of their creators' media kits, Link in Bio pages, and pitch materials from one central login. They get auto-updating stats for all of their media kits and can pitch and track campaigns through the entire campaign lifecycle. Pretty sick!)

In addition to hearing from the TikTok Live team, our product manager Lancy gave an exciting presentation on new monetization opportunities that managers can use to help their creators grow.

This included a demo of a new AI feature that's still in beta, but is being announced very soon 👀

Okay, I won't make you beg. I can give a hint as to what it is—it's going to help brands and Beacons creators connect in a new, more direct way to work together and form long-term partnerships.

If you can't wait and want to make your profile as ready as possible to wow brands when this feature is live, don't fret. There's something you can do today.

I always think it's funny when people say their love language is gifts. Like yeah, same... whose isn't?

You love gifts. We all love gifts. And you can do this one thing TODAY on Beacons to start connecting with brands for gifting opportunities!

Just fill out your Brand Deal Profile in your Beacons account to make yourself eligible to connect with brands. You can find it here, or navigate to it by clicking into Brand Collabs -> Brand Deal Profile in your Beacons account.

The more info you fill out in your Brand Deal Profile, the better. This helps you match with brands who are looking for creators like YOU.

But make sure you don't skip this Brand Deal Preferences section, where you can select what kinds of partnerships you're interested in. If you're open to gifting campaigns, make sure to check this box!

What have been some of your favorite gifting campaigns that you've received or seen recently? Let me know—I'll make sure that Beacons is working with those brands, too!

👉 Btw, have you check out our Canny feedback form? You can submit feature requests for us to build here directly. We look at this every day!

Hot take: I want to get more emails.

If your email inbox is a digital wasteland where productivity goes to die, you might not be inclined to agree with me off the bat. But let me specify.

I want more emails from creators I follow, recapping highlights from their recent content.

Many of the creators I follow in the fashion, beauty, and lifestyle spaces share affiliate links with their followers with the exact items they wear in their posts. And as a fan, you better believe I click.

But here's what I think more creators should do. Share these affiliate links in an email newsletter to your subscribers!

By doing this, you give your most dedicated fans another opportunity to discover your affiliate links, driving more engagement and more clicks. And if I think about this from a fan's perspective, it's super helpful! I would love to get a roundup of links tied up in a bow and delivered to my inbox from the creators I follow, because I usually scour through Instagram stories to find them, anyway.

Here's the good news: it's easy for you to do this on Beacons.

If you share affiliate links with your audience, you can simply send these same links out to your email subscribers by sending an email broadcast on Beacons.

This ensures that your most engaged fans get another chance to see your links, and gives you another way to provide a point of contact and deliver value to your followers.

And if you are an avid affiliate linker, reply here and hit me up. We have something special coming for you 😇

It's one thing to talk about the new AI-powered partnership features that Beacons is launching. It's another to actually build them.

When Rachael, a staff software engineer at Beacons, demo'ed the new feature that we're soon releasing for brands, I experienced the elusive "magic moment" that tech people like to talk about.

It made me so excited to get to share it with everyone in a few weeks. And so grateful for the engineers like Rachael who bring these ideas to life and actually build products that feel like magic.

Since I can't share exactly what the feature is just yet, instead I'll share this slide from our presentation deck that is more mystical than it is literal, but evokes the same feeling as my magic moment. Get excited.

Shoutout Rachael—you've taken our team to the next level!

For anyone following along, I received a reply to last week's email letting me know that I needed to butter the pan to avoid burning the slice and bake cookies. Figured I'd pass the advice along so we can all benefit 🫡

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