$218,550 in sponsorships.
Under a year. Every deal in writing.
I sell sponsorships for one of the top business podcasts in the world.
If yours are getting lowballed, or brands reply once and disappear, I'll rebuild the whole thing.
CAME BACK
The only thing
that changed
was how I sold.
My first month, I closed nothing.
Then $1,800.
The month after that, $21,500.
Same podcast.
Same audience.
Same download numbers.
Same inbox.
That's what you're buying.
Not my audience.
Not my relationships.
Not luck.
A sponsorship system that increased revenue without adding a single new listener.
Your audience might not be the problem.
Your sales process probably is.
Brands don’t tell you
why they passed.
They just stop replying. So you guess, and most creators guess wrong.
I know these mistakes because I’ve made them myself, with someone else’s revenue depending on getting them right.
Wrong target.
You pitched someone with no budget. No campaign, no line item, no history of paying creators. Your pitch was fine. Your target was wrong.
Weak opening.
A brand reads two lines and decides. If those lines ask them to figure out who you are, they stop.
Pricing confusion.
Too low reads as inexperienced. Too high with no reasoning reads as random. Both kill the thread.
Follow-up failed.
Two messages, then silence. Most of my closed deals took four or more touches across several weeks.
Creator Revenue Audit
You stop guessing why brands go quiet.
You send me your pitch, your rates, your media kit and the threads that died. I read all of it, then rebuild it.
Your pitch, rewritten, with the reasoning behind every line
Your pricing, restructured against what brands are paying right now
Your outreach, redone, built to get answered
A follow-up sequence that holds when a brand goes quiet
A target list: which brands to approach and the angle for each one
A written breakdown of what was costing you deals, in order of what it cost you
Ready for your next pitch.
I turn people down.
This is for you if: you’re already making sponsorship money, you’ve pitched real brands, and you’ve watched deals stall or close low.
This isn’t for you if: you’ve never pitched anyone, you want someone to run your outreach, or you want a guarantee that you’ll land a sponsor.
I do every audit myself and I don’t outsource any part of it, which is why there are only four a month.
If you don’t fit, I’ll tell you when you apply and I won’t take your money.
Darlene McClintock
I sell sponsorships for a living. Not as a side project. As my job, today, for the Success Story Podcast by Scott D. Clary.
I started with a one-line cold message on LinkedIn, no sales background, and nothing to lose.
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What I learned
closing 34 sponsorship
deals.
Written from the seller's chair. What gets a reply, what gets deleted, and what I got wrong this week.
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