{"id":8390,"date":"2026-04-05T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=8390"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:44:03","slug":"how-corporate-natalie-turned-a-500-brand-deal-into-a-creator-empire-and-her-own-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=8390","title":{"rendered":"How Corporate Natalie turned a $500 brand deal into a creator empire\u2014and her own agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Natalie Marshall, better known as <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.corporatenatalie.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corporatenatalie.com\/\">Corporate Natalie<\/a>, landed her first brand deal (a sponsored post for Twisted Tea), she made $500 and felt invincible.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI was like, I am the richest woman in the world,\u201d she told <em>Fortune<\/em>. The then-nascent content creator took her friends out to the nicest sushi restaurant she could find in San Francisco (but was really a \u201chole in the wall place,\u201d she said) and bought everyone dinner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marshall, a Notre Dame alum and former Deloitte consultant, started Corporate Natalie as a side project. <span style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px\">Over the past six years, she\u2019s\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/corporatenatalie\/\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/corporatenatalie\/\" rel=\"noopener\">developed a character<\/a>\u00a0built around the absurdities of office life, from passive-aggressive Slack messages to buzzword-heavy all-hands meetings.<\/span> The skits resonated. She now has 1.4 million followers on Instagram, 827,000 on <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@corporatenatalie\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@corporatenatalie\">TikTok<\/a>, and 276,000 on LinkedIn\u2014numbers that have attracted brand partners ranging from major tech firms to consumer goods companies.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty soon after Marshall <span style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px\">started making content, she<\/span> realized she could\u00a0make real money from content creation. To build rapport and the illusion that she was already a well-established creator, she created a fake assistant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made an assistant who was actually just me, operating on my other email alias, looping in my assistant to handle this brand deal,\u201d Marshall said. \u201cSo it seemed like I had this whole business and this world around me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She may have been orchestrating somewhat of an illusion then, but it worked. Now, Marshall has an entire brand and character in which she parodies office culture across TikTok, Instagram, and LinkedIn, and has three full-time employees working for her. She was also recognized as a <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/corporatenatalie\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/corporatenatalie\/\">2023 LinkedIn Top Voice<\/a> and appeared on the <em>Forbes <\/em>30 Under 30 list and <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/adage.com\/article\/marketing-news-strategy\/see-dunkins-ads-will-arnett-corporate-natalie-joey-fatone\/2565806\/\" href=\"https:\/\/adage.com\/article\/marketing-news-strategy\/see-dunkins-ads-will-arnett-corporate-natalie-joey-fatone\/2565806\/\">appeared<\/a> in a Dunkin\u2019 Donuts commercial with Will Arnett and on a Roku <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/therokuchannel.roku.com\/watch\/1496da7449c5b3b259d418ce8f81767e\/the-charlie-puth-show\" href=\"https:\/\/therokuchannel.roku.com\/watch\/1496da7449c5b3b259d418ce8f81767e\/the-charlie-puth-show\">series<\/a> in a Kris Jenner wig playing Charlie Puth\u2019s \u201cmomager.\u201d Marshall, 29, also previously produced a podcast, <em>Demoted<\/em>, with fellow B2B creator Ross Pomerantz, known as Corporate Bro. She declined to share revenue or income with <em>Fortune<\/em>, and influencer income can <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.influize.com\/blog\/how-much-do-influencers-make\" href=\"https:\/\/www.influize.com\/blog\/how-much-do-influencers-make\">vary greatly<\/a> between follower count, content type, and platform\u2014but some content creators have been known to bring in millions of dollars per year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px\">Corporate Natalie has gained such a following and been such a success that she\u2019s launching\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/expandcolab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/expandcolab.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Expand Co-Lab<\/a>, a creator-led influencer marketing agency, which she believes can overhaul a system she says is fundamentally broken.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrands pay massive amounts of money for one singular video to creators, and they often never meet them or talk to them,\u201d Marshall said. \u201cAgencies play this intermediary role that creates separation between the creator and the brand. I sat with that with my team, and we decided we wanted to launch [a] creator led influencer marketing agency.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The influencer marketing industry<\/h2>\n<p>The timing of Marshall\u2019s Expand Co-Lab comes at an inflection point for the global influencer marketing industry, which is estimated to reach $32.55 billion in 2025, up 35% from 2024, according to <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/influencer-marketing-benchmark-report\/\" href=\"https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/influencer-marketing-benchmark-report\/\">Influencer Marketing Hub<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brands are increasingly pouring those dollars into B2B channels. According to <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.toprankmarketing.com\/blog\/b2b-influencer-marketing-statistics-trends\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toprankmarketing.com\/blog\/b2b-influencer-marketing-statistics-trends\/\">TopRank Marketing\u2019s 2025 B2B Influencer Marketing Report<\/a>, 99% of B2B marketers using an always-on influencer strategy rate their programs as effective, and 72% of the most advanced teams have a dedicated influencer budget they expect to grow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But for Marshall, more money doesn\u2019t always equate to better outcomes. She argues it\u2019s actually made influencer marketing less efficient.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re a creator, Marshall explained, a brand or agency will reach out to you and offer a certain amount of money to talk about certain topics on their channel, and they\u2019re given a creative brief. But \u201coftentimes these briefs are written by copywriters, not creators,\u201d which means there can sometimes be several calls to action, many text overlays, and requests for making brand points that have all been approved by their legal teams, she said. She\u2019s rewritten scripts up to 10 times to satisfy briefs that were never built for the type of content she makes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand that there\u2019s things you have to do to get your message across, but it\u2019s often really difficult, because me, as a comedy creator\u2026 how am I supposed to make a joke but also mention all of these things?\u201d Marshall said. \u201cI think the sweet spot that really makes incredible content is when I meet with the brand directly, and we talk through [the] main problem point [they\u2019re] trying to solve.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Corporate Natalie\u2019s solution to influencer marketing friction<\/h2>\n<p>Expand Co-Lab\u2019s premise is simple: Bring creators into the room earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rather than handing off a 60-slide deck, the agency facilitates direct conversations between brands and creators during the briefing process. This helps everyone focus on what Marshall calls the \u201cone hero moment or message\u201d a brand actually needs. Plus, many content creators almost never get feedback on their work from the brands they work with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how the campaign performed. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever speak to them again. Were they happy? Were they sad? I don\u2019t know,\u201d Marshall said. \u201cThere\u2019s no communication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Expand Co-Lab doesn\u2019t represent talent or take commissions from creators. Instead, it works with a collective of creators interested in the consulting and ideation aspects of the process. Some of the creators Expand Co-Lab works with include <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brandonsmithwrick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brandonsmithwrick\/\">Brandon Smithwrick<\/a>, <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the_varunrana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the_varunrana\/\">Varun Rana<\/a>, <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/saraplowman\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/saraplowman\/\">Sara Uy<\/a>, <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/corporate.bro\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/corporate.bro\/\">Corporate Bro<\/a>, <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/racheltokar_\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/racheltokar_\/\">Rachel Tokar<\/a>, <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gaycousinmatt\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gaycousinmatt\/\">Matthew Kearney<\/a>, and <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/itsmorganyoung\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/itsmorganyoung\/\">Morgan Young<\/a>. Marshall said she\u2019s meeting with dozens of new creators weekly to build out the collective. The B2B space is where Marshall sees the biggest white space and where she\u2019s staking her claim.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall has spent six years operating at the intersection of creator culture and the professional world, so she knows both how brands think and how creators work. But even as Marshall continues to expand her business ventures, she\u2019s careful not to make it seem as if everyone can or should be a content creator, no matter how fun or fulfilling the job may be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think everyone needs to be a content creator. If you love filming yourself and you love filming videos, absolutely\u2014stick with it,\u201d she said. \u201cFind the thing that makes you uniquely you\u2026 that single point of failure. 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