Show Me the Money
Making Content Creation Profitable
Join us at Disney World in Florida for a 3-day conference on profitable content creation featuring @ashlelnok, Jeannette Kaplun, Courtney Quinn, Keiko Lynn, Warren Carlyle, Abigail Peugh, and Lynsey Kmetz, plus follow-up roundtable discussions on the final day.
Everyone tells us, “Find your passion. Do what you love.” But we also know the saying, passion (love) doesn’t pay the bills. So how do digital content creators find the opportunities that pay them for what they really like to do? Do these things really exist? Join us as we tap into the resources creators have discovered that help put money in their pockets.
It’s an exciting time to be a content creator, and you don’t want to miss this event. We’ll have experts on affiliate marketing, hear how creators have turned into authors with books in stores, and see how visionaries bring their ideas to life.
Since we’ve missed out on hosting FLOCK events in recent years, we decided to make up some of that time with an event that spans three days! We’ll get (re)acquainted at an opening night party on day one. We’ll learn together during our typical full day of presentations on day two. Then we’ll wrap up day three with a half day of roundtable discussions.
Featured speakers
Are you being greeted each day with a friendly, “Hey F*ckers“? We are, and we don’t mind it at all, especially when it’s from @ashlelnok. She’s captured the hearts and funny bones of over 2 million people on TikTok with her own brand of humor and her support of racial equality and women’s and LGBTQ rights. Ashley is the VP of Marketing for a national snack brand. Her experience as a Project & Brand Manager has given her insight she’s used to build her personal online presence on TikTok and Instagram. Ashley will be sharing her combined views as both a creator and a brand manager.
Jeannette Kaplun is an award-winning bilingual journalist, TV personality, mom, speaker and Latina content creator featured on Good Morning America, Today, Despierta América, En Casa Con Telemundo, and other shows. Kaplun is the founder of bilingual lifestyle magazine Hispana Global. She serves as Special Advisor to The Bank of America Institute for Women’s Entrepreneurship at Cornell and was included in the Forbes #Next1000 2021 list. She lives in Miami with her family and Maltese dog, Snoopy.
Courtney Quinn is a quirky New Yorker with an out of the box sense of style obsessed with all things colorful! After growing up in Arizona and earning her MBA in San Francisco, she moved to NYC to pursue a career in fashion, starting Color Me Courtney as a resume booster & creative outlet along the way. After years of working in the corporate world for brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Jonathan Adler, Kate Spade and Coach, Courtney left her role developing handbags to pursue Color Me Courtney full time. When she’s not creating candy colored content here, you’ll find Courtney front row at the latest Broadway show, eating her way through New York or binge-watching bad TV with her fiancé Paris.
Keiko Lynn has been a full time lifestyle content creator for over 14 years, proving that you don’t need to have millions of followers to make a great living in this industry. True to her belief that sometimes the best niche is just being yourself, she is best known for her unique sense of style, beauty tutorials, eclectic home decor, DIYs, and elaborate, self produced shoots. Her well-rounded portfolio includes partnerships with HomeGoods, Disney, Google, YSL Beauty, eBay, and countless others.
As the Co-Founder of Profitable Community Academy, Warren Carlyle is a professional community building strategist who works with purpose-driven brands and influencers to build highly engaged online communities.
He is also Executive Director and Founder of OctoNation® The Largest Octopus Fan Club, a nonprofit organization that inspires wonder of the ocean by educating the world about octopuses. With nearly one million members and hundreds of millions of views on his content, he knows how to grab the attention of the right people, making him a valuable asset to any marketing team or small business looking to grow their brand’s affinity and profits.
Abigail Peugh started her career in User Generated Content long before the shortened “UGC” became cool on TikTok. At the time, she was working as a professional florist and posting flowers on social media. Soon after, she started creating content for other companies, which turned into a full-time role as a UGC creator. On top of brand work, in just 7 months, she’s taught over 1,800 creators about UGC with her step-by-step guide to become a UGC creator! As a stay at home mom to a toddler, she is passionate about teaching others that it’s possible to make a good living and not be chained to a 9-5!
Lynsey Kmetz is the Managing Director at Apogee and oversees affiliate program management, public relations, influencer, and paid advertising. Her collective work as a content creator and experience in the direct sales industry led her to be the focal point of strategy and operations. She has a strong Type-A personality that fuels her passion for helping people create their own financial success while maintaining balance and spending time on what matters most.
Roundtable Leaders
Growing up in Anaheim, California, Ashley Craft could recite the Star Tours ride by heart, navigate Disneyland without a map, and fell asleep to the sound of fireworks each night. Ashley is now one of the leading experts of Disneyland and Walt Disney World. She wrote the best-selling book, The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook and went on to write several more Disney Parks and Universal Parks Cookbooks. Ashley lives in Minnesota with her husband, three kids, and three kitties (Figaro, Strider, and Kelpie).
Roxy Ambler is a lover of all things Disney, from her massive Disney mug collection to her Disney bags and Disney bounds. Her main platform is Tiktok with over 1.2 million followers. Along with her passion for Disney and fashion, Rozy is also a huge advocate for mental health, especially when it comes to being a content creator. Starting her journey on social media, showing people that Disney is for all ages and backgrounds, she is also using her platform to help normalize talking about mental health. She is the owner of the online store Uhaveus.com which is helping spread the message that “Mental Health F*cking Matters”.
Maria is an award-winning author, host of Mom Talk Radio, co-founder of Mom TV, nationally known speaker and the foremost authority on marketing to moms. Her company, BSM Media is a full service marketing and media firm. Maria has published 7 books focused on moms and marketing and contributed to more than a dozen others on topics such as marketing, business development, social media, consumer behaviors and strategy. Her most recent book is Millennial Moms: 202 Facts Marketers Need to Know to Build Brands and Drive Sales.
Laurie is a writer, editor and multimedia storyteller who has built digital and IRL communities for libraries, universities, media conferences, and many, many websites. A founding editor at BlogHer.com — where she was twice awarded Voice of the Year and wrote hundreds of posts covering breaking news, health, travel and pets — she created communications and community for several sold-out Mom 2.0 Summit events, and now consults on editorial and social strategy for clients across industries. She holds Master’s degrees in counseling and multimedia journalism — a handy combination on the internet — and spends her remaining free time managing her puggle Hoover’s Instagram feed. (Come join us @hooverthepuggle. He writes the captions.)
Michelle is the owner and founder of Divas with a Purpose, a lifestyle blog that has opened countless doors within her life and others. Wife, mom, and mental health advocate, she teaches women in business how to find the “right for them” balance between family, life, and work. Her goal is to help female entrepreneurs embrace their inner Diva and become driven, inspiring, victorious and called to action, while learning to make money by consistently showing up. Michelle helps entrepreneurs gain confidence through the MDG Biz Boost Academy. She teaches the necessary skills for success when doing business in the digital world.
Roberto Candelaria is a business coach and profit strategist. For the last 13 years, he’s worked with thousands of business owners to build wildly successful businesses, focusing on platform, partners, and profit. In his 13 years of coaching, Roberto has helped coaches and online entrepreneurs master their profit through partnerships, move into multiple-6 and 7 figures, and finally find the freedom they’d been chasing for way too long. Offline, he keeps it weird in Austin, TX with his husband and two dogs.
Christine started her first blog in 2011 after struggling with the transition to a stay-at-home mom. She found her true passion through the process, helping other moms build their businesses online through content marketing. In 2013, she created The Virtual Collab, a network agency of virtual service providers. She’s helped thousands of brands use blogging and search engine optimization to get more customers, clients, and community members. Chris has been the wizard behind the curtain of a few million pageviews per month websites!
Kim is VP of Marketing at Get Away Today. Kim works directly with content creators, providing all the necessary resources, ensuring they have all they need to be successful with the Get Away Today affiliate program. Kim will leading a discussion about Get Away Today’s top creators and how they have created evergreen content that continues to pull in revenue.
Amanda is a theme park, cruise line, and travel content creator focusing on bringing viewers the best tips and secrets of the most beautiful places on earth through Provost Park Pass. Within three years, the Provosts received the YouTube Silver Play Button. Amanda produces the Provost Park Pass Podcast, which climbed the charts to #1 in Canada and #7 in the United States. She has been featured in numerous TV news shows, podcasts, and is a frequent panelist at comic conventions nationwide. Provost Park Pass is a top sales affiliate for Get Away Today. She loves hearing that viewers had an incredible travel experience thanks to her tips.
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“Retreat to Disney’s ultra-modern Contemporary Resort and discover award-winning dining, spectacular views and dazzling pools. Whether you’re staying in the iconic A-frame Contemporary tower or the nearby Garden Wing, you can walk to Magic Kingdom main gate or catch the Resort Monorail as it breezes through the tower.”
What you can expect
- Learn the different avenues of income as a content creator.
- Learn how to write evergreen content with affiliate marketing.
- Figure out what your passion is and how to turn it into a reality.
- Advance your skills in storytelling to stand out among your peers.
- Understand how your analytics and audience relate to growth on new platforms.
- Gain skills in editing and best practices when capturing audio and video to promote your content.
- Understand what content works best for your audience and how to maximize exposure.
- Learn the best ways to monetize on social media platforms.
- Get the latest tips on how to create newsletters to share your content.
