🧙‍♂️ 1,000,000 Sponsorships by 2032 (I need your help)

Hey there,

I'm stuck and I need your brain.

Last year, I set this massive goal 👇

Justin Moore | Sponsorship Coach @justinmooretfam I am going to help creators big & small land 1,000,000 sponsorships by 2032. 9:28 AM • Jan 22, 2022 7 Retweets 108 Likes Read 13 replies

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The problem is that I have no idea how to track it.

For the last 18 months, I haven't been able to stop thinking about how cool it would be to have a ticker like this with a real-time total of how far along we are as a community toward the goal.

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I actually went so far as to hire a software developer to create a working "leaderboard" of how we could potentially track it.

But before I show you the mockup...

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Alrighty, back to my "1,000,000 Sponsorships" leaderboard mockup...

Here's what it looked like...

The idea was that every time you get a sponsorship you could log in and "add it" to your total.

Ultimately, it became clear there are a bunch of problems with this approach:

• it's too much work
• creators will forget to do it
• there's no real incentive other than personal satisfaction
• overall it kinda benefits me more than you

I toyed with the idea of letting creators "opt-in" where you don't have to do anything other than say you wanted to participate, then in the background our tool would monitor your social accounts for certain keywords like sponsored, #ad, partnering, etc then "add" that to your total.

But that would also be hard to implement without direct API access to the social platforms + entirely miss sponsorships done elsewhere like podcasts, newsletters, etc.

Honestly, I could probably talk for 4 hours about all the reasons this won't work...

But I'm hoping that you'll hit reply and give me a genius idea for how I can make this happen.

Something where creators like you would:

• Get something really valuable in return for participating
• Never forget to add your sponsorships to the tracker
• Want to tell your other creator friends about it

So Dear Creator, what am I missing?