PSA: never ever EVERRR agree to any influencer or affiliate program without reading the fineprint!!!

Sweetgreen, I love you. But we need to have a talk. And if you're a content creator, watching this, or an aspiring content creator, anyone who wants to make money on the internet, you need to listen to this because if you don't read the fine print, you could end up in predatory situations. Always, always, always read the fine print. Check any affiliate thing, do not check any boxes, do not sign up for anything until you actually read what you're signing. That is business managed advice number one. I get an email basically with an invitation asking to join their affiliate community. From the link I was directed to, it basically doesn't outline any posting requirements, but it says it gives you, you know, a stipend that you can use for food and then of course they want you to post. That's the point. So I was like, sure, I'll do that. I actually love Sweetgreen. The thing though, when you go to the Google form, it says click here to agree to the terms. I'm a lawyer's daughter, so I actually clicked it. And sure enough, one of the things that you're clicking on, agree to this is marketing and promotional content usage rights. I've talked about this before, content usage is one of the best ways for creators to make money for creators. Your likeness, your content, brands giving brands permission to use it. And you never want to agree to anything perpetual because if you're you now, but then in six months, you blow up, have 10 million followers, your rates go up. If you give someone usage perpetually, they don't owe you another dollar. Like that's bad business. And by the way, you know, I love to talk about this because the influencer economy is one of the only industries where women out perform men. It's so important to talk about the financial and transparency side of it. So women and everyone earns more and earns their value. Okay, problematic content usage rights. You hereby grant the company a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, distribute, display, modify, edit, and create derivative works from any content you create that promotes the products for organic marketing purposes across all media and platforms. This includes the right to repost, share, and incorporate influencer content into company's organic social media, websites, and marketing materials. That's literally, you get a $75 gift card or buy a $14 bowl, you post a video of it, because they could use your video as an ad, they don't care. You basically clicked your rights away. That just shouldn't be in there. I would love to work with you Sweetgreen. I would love to post about you organic and fee cannot check a box that $75 gives my potential earning potential away as a full-time self-managed creator. I share this because it's a PSA for other creators. Read before you agree to affiliate programs because this is not the first brand I've seen that's in there. Assuming best intent, that people might not even know what's in there, but that clause shouldn't be. They say they need it for some organic time, limited to organic time. The more you watch the end of this, I talk about the self-employment and business aspect side of being a full-time content creator. Okay, bye.