Get Brand Partnerships and Accelerate Your Creative Career
Learn the fundamentals of working with brands without having a huge audience or feeling like you're selling out. You're already great at creating content, we'll teach you how to work with brands and accelerate your growth.
The Partnership Accelerator for Podcasters is a 2-week online program that helps podcasters with the mindsets, frameworks, and skills they need to get brand partnerships and grow their business sustainably.
Brands are increasingly spending money to sponsor podcasters and creators. Podcast advertising revenue is expected to pass $1 billion by 2021 while influencer spend is expected to grow to $13.8 billion. During the program, you will learn the mindsets, frameworks, and skills to partner with these brands.
See What People Are Saying
"PSA for podcasters: Learn everything you can from Sachit. His advice on seeking and getting sponsorships is spot on."
Kintan Brahmbhatt
General Manager, Podcasts at Amazon
"There are few people I know with more expertise on podcasting than Sachit. So much gold in this for podcasters and creators. It’s going to be so helpful to so many creators who want to level up, love it!"
Dave Nemetz
Founder, Bleacher Report
Before working together, Tessa had a solid foundation through content that resonated with her audience. But she was struggling to figure out the best way to monetize and work with sponsors. Within 6 weeks, Tessa completely changed her mindset on how to work with sponsors, quadrupled her rates and closed her biggest sponsorship deal.
Mixergy was missing out on sponsorship opportunities and the advertising side of the business wasn’t working well, ads weren’t producing much revenue to the point where they wanted to shut ads down altogether. Over 5 years, we helped Mixergy grow sponsorship revenue 10x while reducing workload and helping the team partner with amazing companies.
Here's What You'll Learn
We’ll go in-depth on the following concepts →
🔍 The 3M Method: Uncover your niche and create your positioning so you understand your audience better than they know themselves
🛣️ How to find your revenue roadmap and chart a path to 6-figures/year
⚙️ How to find ideal partners and understand what brands are looking for and build your sponsor pipeline
💰 How to sell without feeling salesy - mastering the 3Cs (curiosity, care and connection)
🙌 How to find the right decision-makers and evaluate if a brand is a good fit for your audience
💲 How to price and what to offer sponsors so you can move beyond traditional CPMs
🤝 Getting and closing sponsors (including the step-by-step strategy I used to 10x Mixergy sponsorship revenue)
🏆 How to do the sales calls and get results so keep sponsors coming back
🚀 How to manage renewals and and put all of this into action with specific templates responsible for millions in ad sales
🧠 The common mindsets and habits that separates the good from the greats
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Program Dates for Cohort 2:
February 2022
Application Deadline:
February 4, 2022
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We'll have live calls every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. All lessons will be recorded and replays will be available so you can get the best of both worlds.
Who's this for → are you at one of these creator levels?
You know how to create great content and already have an audience. But you need a better understanding of what and how to sell and get sponsors. It's time to get paid!
You create content consistently and have made at least $10,000 in partnerships. But you’re at a plateau and ready to hit the $100k milestone in the next year... or sooner.
You’re a veteran at creating content and making money from partnerships. But it's time to blow past $100k and double or triple revenue.
Meet Your Instructor: Sachit Gupta
Sachit is the Founder of Platforms Media. Over the last 10+ years, he’s helped 100+ creators drive millions in revenue and subscribers.
Sachit started his career supporting creators leading special projects for Andrew Warner, host of the Mixergy podcast.
He then expanded to help creators across audience growth and monetization, including top podcasters, #1 NYT bestselling authors and international sports stars. Clients include Rohit Sharma, Tim Ferriss and Seth Godins’ altMBA (most of that work remains unattributed).
Sachit's helped podcasters and influencers create millions in sponsorship revenue in niches ranging from business, entrepreneurship, health and baking.
Most recently, Sachit built and ran the On Deck Podcaster Fellowship, where podcasters from around the world came together to learn from the best and hone their craft.
Sachit also hosts the Conscious Creators Show. Season one debuted at #1 in entrepreneurship, #2 in business and #25 across the US within 30 days of launch.
How does it work?
Once you sign up, you'll join an intimate 3-week program with the person who's worked with #1 podcasters, #1 NYT bestselling authors and helped 100+ creators collectively drive millions in revenue and subscribers.
Pricing
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FAQ
Live sessions will be held every Monday and Wednesday along with weekly Q&A sessions on Friday.
Yes! We've created a private community space for students of the CreatorsMBA course. There you can share your progress, get feedback, ask for help, and more.
It's okay if you have to miss a workshop or two. We record every live workshop with our instructors and make it available for you to replay, at your convenience. With that said, we strongly recommend you make time for them so you can ask questions directly to Sachit and join productive breakout discussions.
Absolutely. All students will get recordings of the sessions. But try no to miss them because the real value is in the participation. If you really can't make it try to find a substitute for you.
Yes! This course was built for full-time professionals. Sachit will lead Zoom workshops and Q&A sessions every week. Outside of that, expect curated reading, projects, and virtual events to meet your fellow peers building in the creator economy. In total, you'll commit 3-6 hours a week on this course.
Good question. If you're just starting out, I'd recommend focusing on the craft of being a creator and building a small audience where you have resonance and affinity before joining the CreatorsMBA. Check out the resources at the bottom of the page to get started!
Not at all. Any audience size is good enough to get tangible value from this course, especially if you've demonstrated an ability to create content. What matters more is your affinity and resonance with your audience. For example, check out Mark Podolsky's case study above. During the program, we show you step by step how to build your business regardless of audience size. While I can't guarantee a specific revenue increase, every client I've taken through this teaching in the past has seen a drastic increase in their sales.
If you're looking for just content that you want to consume passively, you can find that online... you'll just have to sift through hundreds of experiments. Our goal with the CreatorsMBA is to accelerate your path to getting paid, and help you make much more than what you invest into the program (as evidenced through all the case studies on the page).
Our mission is to help creators from all backgrounds and life situations so we offer partial scholarships for a set number of people every cohort. Please let us know about your scholarship needs once accepted into the program.
While most of the content has been created with podcasters in mind, we've had creators ranging from YouTubers to Instagramers to other influencers who've used it to make more in partnerships revenue.
Great question. We've had clients use the same frameworks and strategies to get clients instead. Please see the following case studies.
Before the program, Mark wanted to experiment with paid media and getting sponsors. Instead, we helped him focus on doing a few things right. Within 2 months, Mark created a new product for his existing audience and added $200,000 in revenue. Since then, he's gone beyond 7-figures. Mark's story is a great example of how you don't need a big audience to be successful.
Prior to the program, Sonja was trying to grow her business but struggling with funnels, webinars, random technology that didn’t result in any sales. She kept buying other courses but it just made things more complicated. Within a few months of joining the program, she was able to get clarity, focus on the essential but the hard stuff, bring in new clients and $30,000 in coaching revenue.