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UGC: Create Content for Brands, a free business course on Tomo

UGC: Create Content for Brands

Like Duolingo, but for UGC: Create Content for Brands. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

21 levels across 3 sections, about 42 minutes end to end, roughly 8 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The UGC Foundation, Building the Business, and Strategy and Scaling. It starts from scratch.

21 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Uggie the Unicorn, the guide who teaches the UGC: Create Content for Brands course
UGC: Create Content for Brands
with Uggie the Unicorn
21
Levels
3
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in UGC: Create Content for Brands

  • UGC is content created for the brand to post on their own channels
  • The creator's personal follower count does not affect the ad's performance
  • The brand uses their own budget to push the content to their target audience
  • The 'relatable' look is a specific style that requires planning to look professional yet casual
  • Scripting ensures key selling points are hit while maintaining a conversational tone
  • Intentional lighting and framing are needed even for 'lo-fi' smartphone videos
  • The distinction between UGC and influencer marketing regarding audience reach
  • The intentionality behind the 'authentic' UGC look
  • Social media users tend to skip content that looks like a polished commercial
  • UGC creators are responsible for scriptwriting and storyboarding
  • UGC blends into a user's feed, making it feel like a recommendation from a friend
  • The creator must handle their own lighting, filming, and sound recording
  • Trust and relatability drive more sales on social platforms than high-end production value
  • Editing the final footage into a ready-to-use ad is the creator's responsibility
  • The multi-faceted role of a UGC creator compared to an influencer
  • UGC is sold as a digital file (an asset) that the brand owns
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives UGC: Create Content for Brands the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

The Power of the Asset

Picture this: You just finished a great video for a coffee brand. Where will that video actually live once you send it off?

Get it right to open this lesson and 20 more in the app.

Course map

Where UGC: Create Content for Brands takes you

Learn how to turn your smartphone into a revenue stream by creating authentic content for brands without needing a massive following.

  1. 1

    The UGC Foundation

    • The UGC Creator Mindset
    • Making Your First High-Quality Video
  2. 2

    Building the Business

    • A Portfolio That Sells
    • Finding and Pitching Brands
    • Negotiating Rates and Rights
  3. 3

    Strategy and Scaling

    • The Science of Conversion
    • Scaling Your Income System

3 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Storyteller

UGC: Create Content for Brands is taught in the The Storyteller style: every lesson is a story. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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