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Hey — Ryan To here.

In today's edition:

Every brand wants more:

More creators. More content. More reach.

But the ones that actually scale all share the same thing:

Quality content at systematic scale

Here’s the operating system behind scaling creator marketing:

Before building a crowded creator team, the founder (or in-house creator) should spend months posting every day

Not to build a following, to learn what actually converts

They tracked every hook, every angle, every retention metric

That data became the playbook they handed to every creator after

The rule: if you can't tell a creator exactly what works, you're not ready to hire one

The riches are in the niches…

Deeper communities and trust without the bloated rates

A gardening creator with 100K followers gets $500/video because gardening brands don't pay

A finance creator with 100K gets $10K

Same skill. Same quality. Completely different salary.

When I talked to the marketing team at Gamma, they didn't go after AI creators.

Watch my video here

They captured Teachers, Salespeople, and Marketer Creators instead.

This is the part nobody talks about.

When one creator masters the format and starts consistently performing → promote them.

They already know what good looks like

They can train the next wave better than you can because they just lived it

That's how 7 people manage 500.

Your Step 2 hires get trained by your Step 3 managers who were once Step 2 hires themselves

Each cycle produces the people who run the next cycle ↺

The brands scaling creator programs right now aren't the ones with the best creators.

They're the ones who turn anyone to become one.

Have a great day ❤️