How to work with hotels (as a content creator)
Sharing how to pitch and collaborate with hotels and Airbnbs around the world as a content creator. This is how I've stayed at some of the most beautiful luxury hotels around the world during my travels for FREE! And here is your guide on how you can too, regardless of how many followers you have.
If you have any questions, drop them in the comments and I'll be sure to answer 🤍
🏔 Hotels Featured in Video 🏔
Mountain Lodge Telluride: www.mountainlo...
Mt. Baker Glacier Chalet: / mtbakerglacierchalet
Hotel Villa Honegg (Thumbnail): villa-honegg.c...
✨Table of Contents✨
00:00 Intro
01:46 Find hotels to work with
04:32 How to pitch
10:00 Suggested deliverables
12:38 Tips for your stay
14:24 Sample content deadlines
15:35 Photography examples
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Hope this video is helpful for you guys! Let me know what dream hotel you can't wait to stay at, let's✨manifest✨ it together hehe ;)
Wow such a great video with lots of useful information, I’m very glad YT recommend this to me, hope to see more videos like this 😊
i just wanted to let you know that i learned a lot how to communicate better through email about collaboration, thank you! :) I just landed one in Thailand 🥰
This is suuuuper helpful Kelsey! I’ve been trying to up my pitch game and remembered you had posted a video all about it hahaha. Great info here 😊
Very honest and truly very helpful video❤❤
Great ideas! Always so educational and motivating! 😁
Thank you for giving us so much information. Your work and you inspire me sooo much ❤
@heykelseyj
Жыл бұрын
So glad it was helpful to you! Thanks for watching :)
Great info, Kelsey! I came over from Instagram as well. Providing a suggested content package is very professional and helps the hotel decide more quickly if they want to work with you. It shows that you have your stuff together and aren’t just an influencer looking for a free stay with no plan. I’m not sure which mic you’re using, you can get a corded Lavalier mic to clip on if you want a more discreet look. You can run the cord under and behind clothing so you don’t have to wear the entire pack on the front. Totally up to what works for you, though!
@heykelseyj
11 ай бұрын
Thank you so much and for watching! And I'm currently testing out a few different mic set ups ;)
Came from Instagram :) But this is super helpful!! Thank you for sharing! Hopefully I'll get some collabs now haha
@heykelseyj
11 ай бұрын
Haha good luck!! You got this!
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Kelsey, thank you for sharing all the details about creating content for hotels. I just wanted to ask if possible what made you ask for a trade instead of getting paid? Because you have a large following and I would think hotels would pay for you to stay and for usage rights
Great video!
This video is so educational and more detailed than most other videos I've found so far! Thank you so much for sharing. What would you suggest for content creators specifically, not necessarily influencers? I only have a few hundred followers on ig (and no other platform right now), but I've seen/heard people on here encouraging people who are just starting out and have a small following to already start pitching to hotels, etc because "numbers don't matter, really". However, in your video it was a lot about your big follower count and free stay in exchange of promotion to your followers. Sorry, I overexplained it a bit 😅 But what do you think of this?
thank you for this video
This is amazing thank you so much for sharing! I have a silly question- what program/software do you use to deliver photos in bulk form to a client? Thanks Kelsey! Love your work!
@heykelseyj
10 ай бұрын
Hi! Not a dumb question! If they are picking selects, I first share a gallery on Pixieset, and then when I deliver photos I just use Google Drive. Hope that helps :)
@rachelwasser
10 ай бұрын
@@heykelseyj Awesome, thank you!
Hi hi! Loved the video, such useful info! About how early do you reach out to brand about staying with them?
@heykelseyj
11 ай бұрын
Hi! There isn’t an exact timeline honestly but ideally at least a month before your trip to have some lead time!
I have an account with 1k follower. I wasn't active for a long time. Should i be more active and THEN try to contact companies? Or do i need more follower?
Hey Kelsey, thanks for this video. I'm curious to where you draw the line on free/exchange collaborations and paid work? As a full-time photographer myself, it can be challenging to compete at times against the influences who just want to partner for a free stay for content. Would love to hear your thoughts.
@heykelseyj
11 ай бұрын
Hey! I love this question...I actually filmed five minutes talking about it and then realized the video was way too long and cut it haha. I think it all comes down to what you offer. If you specialize in working with properties, then you're offering them a very high quality full content package getting them exactly what they want. A full shot list, models, working with them closely on a produced shoot, etc. I think that looks very different than casually getting a bit of content during a free stay, so I think you can differentiate yourself. I hope that makes sense!