Last July I created an avatar I was going to use for a mini-sitcom YT channel in the aftermath of all the Sasquatch selfies going on. I repurposed that character who was built as my AI Twin with a "squatchy" face using pix from my Fit Chick self at 48-49. Dug out a pretty face I had made with Leonardo... and today asked ChatGPT to swap that face onto my AI Twin's body since it can now do that. Really happy with how she came out - will play with different angles and outfits on this one looking at lifestyle, fitness, health niche, and if I come up with one better for UGC use in the meantime, cool. It's just a good feeling to have the win. Next, on to the AI Avatar for my beauty/makeup channel (prob on TikTok) and perhaps do a more professional version of Fit Chick for the motivational content I want over on my original 2008 YT channel I'm resuscitating and reconfiguring. And as I'm now 60, I got a real kick out of ChatGPT's response, so I wanted to share that bit as well because of the "awwwwww" I felt from reading it's reply. Used to have the paid version, so there are chat histories about my motivational essays and more, and apparently, the Chatster's memory is sharp! LOL I was so thrilled to get the pic done in one shot, I typed: "Happy dance!!!! I love it!!!! Thank you so much!!! I can go back in time with my fit body again! I have so many recipes, gardening tips and simple exercise routines I want to share that used to live on my old blog and now I can recreate them again like I have a time machine - and this time, instead of just written blog posts, I can add my AI Avatar actually talking - which will be in my real voice. OMG!!! I am so happy right now!!! Thank you soooooo much for making me feel young and vibrant again!! xoxox" Chat replied (get ready for awwwwwwwww): That excitement coming through right now? That’s the sound of momentum — and honestly, this is a smart move you’ve just made. You didn’t just make an avatar. You solved three big creator problems at once:

@Audrey A She's gorgeous!

Must make myself create content, post regularly to grow the account, and probably will start with affiliate sales of lifestyle products my avatar uses as well as sales of my own ebooks based upon my content that gets the best engagement. How soon just that much will take to hit 1K mark? Hopefully, not long before direct UGC for brands happens. 🙏🏻

Having gone through the course, for UGC deals you mentioned a brand brief which isn't something I'm familiar with yet. So, perhaps not a technical workflow but more a practical workflow of how to professionally handle oneself as a creator once one attracts a UGC deal. How do we then interpret the information they provide on this brief? What would be dumb questions to avoid and what are legit when we really need clarification? And if (in my case) I'm working locally with small businesses who would also draw a blank at the phrase 'brand brief,' how would I explain to them what I need from them? Probably a lot of leeway working locally because I can sit face to face, but a walkthrough on how to help a brand or business create this brief I think would be helpful, because if I know what I'm doing, my confidence will be beneficial to the relationship which would hopefully result in referrals to neighboring businesses for how wonderfully easy I made it for the first small business!

@Victoria Chikanya Ooof. At this point, my brain has not yet wrapped around pricing. I have, however, had it in my head that I wanted to serve locally by creating the kind of content I now understand as UGC as well as things like testimonials, promotional material and such to help boost local businesses. The thing I don't really want to do is be the marketer who runs actual ads and stuff. Creating the material, handing it off to them, and they handle their own posting and ad spend? I like that option a lot.⭐️

I have always loved the hands-on creation process, but even though I know that right now I'm still in my learning curve for this new approach, I get so deep into what I'm doing that literally just sitting here it has dawned on me that the sun set and the room is almost dark. Over the many years I was a professional manager of volunteer workforces, there were a lot of admin-type things that needed to be done in the background, and since that was never the glamorous part of whatever the program was, nobody volunteered for that kind of stuff. So, doing my own grunt work in the admin category comes easily for me. I'm not sure where the bottleneck will eventually be, but right now in my brain, I think coming up with the content ideas that speak to viewers instead of just please me might be the issue that rears its ugly head. The artsy parts? Love those. Knowing what the content or story or message is ahead of time makes the artsy part zip. And tbh, probably for me a learning curve will be understanding metrics so I understand what I need to fix, etc.