The Soft Hustle Method Free toolkit
Free · works on your phone

Everything you need to pitch, track and get paid for your first brand deal

The First Deal Toolkit is the set of tools I wish I'd had when I started pitching brands eight years ago. It shows you who to pitch, what to write in the subject line, what to offer, and how to keep track of every conversation until the invoice is paid.

  • A deal tracker that sets your follow-up dates for you
  • 30 brands to pitch, with their email addresses
  • An agreement and an invoice that fill themselves in

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It's free. You'll also get emails from me about building a UGC business and about The Soft Hustle Method, and you can unsubscribe any time.

why I made this

Being on camera was never the hard part for me

When I started pitching brands, the filming was the part I enjoyed. What slowed me down was everything around it. I didn't know which brands were actually paying creators, my pitches went out with subject lines nobody opened, and the conversations I did start got lost somewhere between my inbox and my notes app.

Then, when a brand finally said yes, I was writing agreements and invoices from scratch at the kitchen table and guessing what to charge. This toolkit puts the answer to each of those problems in one place.

Not knowing who to pitch

The toolkit gives you 30 brands that work with UGC creators, each with an email address to pitch, so your first list is ready today.

Losing track of conversations

The deal tracker holds every brand you pitch, works out your follow-up dates for you, and shows what you've earned so far.

Paperwork from scratch

You type your details in once, and the toolkit writes a clear agreement and a professional invoice that are ready to send.

what's inside

Six tools, in the order you'll use them

Each tool opens in its own tab, and the Start here tab walks you through them step by step, from choosing your first brands to sending your first invoice.

one

30 brands to pitch

A starting list of brands that hire UGC creators, with the email address to pitch and a button that adds each one to your tracker.

Solves: staring at a blank list
two

20 subject lines

Subject lines written to get a pitch opened, each one ready to copy, so your email stands out in a busy brand inbox.

Solves: pitches that never get opened
three

20 content ideas

Video ideas brands say yes to, so you can offer something specific in your pitch instead of asking what they would like.

Solves: not knowing what to offer
four

Deal tracker

Move each brand from pitched to paid, get follow-up dates set three and seven days out, and watch your earnings total grow.

Solves: forgotten follow-ups
five

Agreement generator

Fill in the deal details and it writes a plain-English agreement covering deliverables, usage, revisions and payment, ready for you to check and send.

Solves: starting a deal on a handshake
six

Invoice generator

Add your details and the brand's, and it lays out a clean, professional invoice that you can copy into a document and save as a PDF.

Solves: chasing payment with a messy email
how it works

From your email to your first pitch in three steps

1

Pop your email in

I'll send you the link to the toolkit straight away, so it's always sitting in your inbox when you need it.

2

Open it and bookmark it

It opens in your browser on your phone or laptop, with nothing to download and no account or password to set up.

3

Follow the Start here tab

Six short steps take you from picking your first brands to sending a pitch, then tracking it through to a paid invoice.

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good to know

What the toolkit does, and what it doesn't

I'd rather you know exactly what you're getting before you pop your email in.

It can

  • Run in any browser on your phone, tablet or laptop
  • Save your tracker automatically on the device you use
  • Copy your tracker into a spreadsheet whenever you like
  • Write your agreement and invoice from the details you type in

It can't

  • Sync between devices, so pick one phone or laptop to use it on
  • Send emails for you, because your pitches go from your own inbox
  • Save straight to PDF on every phone, so copy into a Google Doc instead
  • Give legal advice, so read and edit the agreement before you send it
Tamsyn Wolfe smiling with her arms folded in front of a wall of mood-board photos
Tamsyn WolfeFounder, The Soft Hustle Method
who made this

Hi, I'm Tamsyn

I've been working with brands for eight years, and I've worked on over a hundred brand deals in that time. I started out sharing recipes online, the brands found me, and then I learned to go out and pitch them myself.

When I went back to UGC nine months after my baby was born, I rebuilt the way I work so it fits around motherhood. That became The Soft Hustle Method, my membership for women building a UGC business from their first deal to consistent $10k months. This toolkit is where I'd start if I were landing my first deal today.

8years with brands
100+brand deals
6tools, free
your first deal

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Free, and it works on your phone.

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