666: $300/hr as a Content Creator w/ No Audience Required

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What if you could make $300 an hour filming short videos with your phone … and you didn’t need a single follower to get started? That’s the side hustle Megan Collier carved out for herself with UGC (user-generated content). Think of it as getting paid to create authentic-looking social media content for brands, even if you're not an influencer. And she’s not alone. Brands are hungry for this stuff. In just a couple of years, Megan built her side hustle into a six-figure income stream and quit her day job in 2023. Let’s take a look at how she did it, and how you can, too. Tune in to Episode 666 of the Side Hustle Show to learn: how Megan landed her first $750 UGC deal in 10 days. the exact outreach strategies she used to book brand clients. how she scaled to $300/hour and replaced her 9-to-5 income. Full Show Notes: $300/hr as a Content Creator, w/ No Audience Required New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Mint Mobile — Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! OpenPhone — Streamline and scale your customer communications with Open Phone. Get 20% off your first 6 months at www.openphone.com/sidehustle. Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!

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0:00.0	300 bucks an hour as a content creator with no audience required. Today's guest went from
0:06.3	zero to over 100 grand a year on the side from her day job with a unique online business
0:11.5	centered on UGC. That's user generated content. This is getting paid by brands to help them
0:19.1	fill their social feeds with organic looking content,
0:22.7	even if you're not an influencer, even if you're not a niche expert, and even if you don't
0:27.2	have any following right now from Megan Collier, uGC.com.
0:31.6	Megan Collier, welcome to The Side Hustle Show.
0:33.8	Thanks for having me, Nick. I'm excited to be here and chat about UGC.
0:37.0	This is a new, like an elder millennial, so you're going to have to break it down for me.
0:41.6	But I'm excited to learn alongside the audience. In this one, we're covering step by step,
0:46.4	how you can tap into the UGC Gold Rush, and it absolutely is a gold rush that I see going on
0:51.7	right now, how to approach brands and land your first
0:54.9	deals, figuring out pricing and production side, and how to potentially scale to hundreds of
1:00.0	dollars an hour, maybe even a full-time income stream, just like Megan did. So I want to go back.
1:05.4	So my understanding is you've got a young kid at home, you're working full-time, and you've got to
1:09.7	see this opportunity, and the goal is like, if I can just make a thousand bucks a month, you're working full-time, and you kind of see this opportunity, and the
1:10.8	goal is like, if I can just make a thousand bucks a month, that would be fantastic. And then you land
1:15.7	your very first deal, $750. You're like, okay, there's something to this. Walk me through this
1:21.8	first deal and how you got started. Yeah, that's basically, you know, I was scrolling on TikTok one day
1:26.2	randomly, like a lot of us do these
1:28.0	days, saw somebody talking about UGC, they explained it fairly clearly, it made sense to me, and I
1:34.0	already knew that brands were, you know, they needed content because most brands are on social
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