Melissa Gaglione✨

AE @ Deel 🚀 Video Prospecting👸🏻| 100 Powerful Women in Sales ‘23 | Check out my VP Course | Strategic Advisor | Speaker | OneUpClub | Former On-Air News Reporter & School Teacher | Yogi

I built a $200K+ creator side hustle on LinkedIn from 0 to 40K followers in under 2 years. 

Now I help you do the same👇🏼

Most B2B professionals create great content but never get paid for it. 

I change that through Citrine Creator Accelerator and Citrine Talent Agency.



Here's what I do:

✨For aspiring creators:
The Creator Accelerator teaches you to position yourself as a paid creator, create branded content, and land your first $500-$3,000 partnership. After you graduate, you'll have an established portfolio, rate kit, network, and everything you need to land consistent brand partnerships. 


⭐️ For established creators:
Citrine Talent Agency takes over your partnership management. I renegotiate your rates, handle all contracts and payments, and advocate for you with brands using data!

You just create content. 

My team does everything else from content strategy, timeline management and handling all comms. 


❤️ Why creators work with me:
I've been where you are. 
Posting casually about my corporate experience landed me my first brand partnership while I was an Account Executive. That deal funded side projects while I climbed to Head of Sales. 

💵 In under two years, I generated over $200,000+ from LinkedIn brand partnerships, events, and services all while helping 30+ creators land their first deals, and proving that this model works. 

Now I'm scaling what worked for me: a system that trains and develops corporate creators AND represents them professionally.



💫The bigger picture:
B2B creators are becoming the next wave of founders. 

Content creation is one of the most underrated ways to earn $2,000-$5,000+ per month. 
We're still early.



💰Our average creator: 12K followers, $3,000/month in brand income, full-time job intact.

If you're ready to monetize your LinkedIn presence, consider applying to join an agency or accelerator. 



📩 DM me or apply on our website! 

I'll review your application and see if the Creator Accelerator or Talent Agency is the right fit.


melissa@citrinecreators.co

Account Executive

First dedicated Account Executive selling our newest offering. 
Responsible for building sales process and execution. 
Deel helps businesses hire anyone, anywhere. It’s global payroll for employees and contractors from around the world, all in one place.

These 16 Creators are taking over LinkedIn!! 
Here is why you should follow them 👇 

⭐ Emilie Schario - Building Kilo while sharing real life playbooks and her own built apps for work, parenthood and life!

⭐ mike haimowitz - an SDR who shares the real life work behind booking meeting while having sooo much fun! Killer newsletter too! 

⭐ Breanne S. - The B2B sales leader who also teaches women about hormone optimization, fitness, and health after 30. 

⭐ Surina Sandhu - a Digital marketer who shares the campaign frameworks, lessons and hot takes in the b2b world! 

⭐ David Wilkins - Runs the LARGEST SDR Leaders community in the world and is hosting global events! (Next one is in Austin on 3/5)

⭐ Lauren Sharpe - an AE who believes in health-hustle and in sharing her experience as an entrepreneur in her sales journey.

⭐ Meghann Misiak- our sales witch who coaches sales reps on burnout prevention and anti-hustle culture. 

⭐ Jared Wexler - bridges the gap between new product launches and sales education! highly practical and structured process! 

⭐ Morgan (Shelly) Erazo - a Head of Sales documenting the journey of her leap to leadership! 

⭐ Emma Sturtevant - A sales career coach helping women land their dream roles with empowerment, strategy and heart! 

⭐ ⚡️Francisco Oller Garcia, MBA Oller Garcia, MBA - daily inspiration and practical steps to preventing customer churn with intuition and analytics!

⭐ Maclaine Scher - The VP who is transforming her hilariously and practically transforming her dad's "boomer business" into the new age

⭐ Malisa Nguyen - a mental performance coach and paid speaker sharing her original FLOW framework to help sales reps perform! 

⭐ Monica Stewart - coaching founders and sharing the hard truth that founders need to hear about scaling SaaS sales in the $1M -$10M range

⭐ Elena Mita - Ai transformation and user researcher who is educating and helping teams adopt through content + she's helping her mom find her next role! 

⭐ Eric Maida - the VP of Growth and speaker who teaches AI safety and sales strategy! 




These 16 creators are growing rapidly and are part of the Citrine creator accelerator! 

With over 200 applicants, we narrowed it down to these 16 who are taking over LinkedIn in their own unique way... 

Give them a follow!! 
I am betting BIG on these creators!! 

❤️ Who are YOU betting on??? 



PS: Hi i'm Melissa Gaglione ⭐️ and I help linkedin creators get paid to post, monetize their brand and grow together! 

Apply for the March Cohort or Talent Agency here: https://lnkd.in/eRVhk9HE

Melissa Gaglione ⭐️

CEO & Creator 44k+ followers | 50M impressions✨ Founder of Citrine ⭐️ & Content @ ColdIQ 🧠 | Event Speaker

How did I miss this email???? 

Truth is... Gmail is really tough to manage. 

But when you miss an email, you could... 

lose a deal
be seen as unresponsive
miss that big opportunity you dreamed of 


And I know it sounds silly... but when you miss an email..
Sometimes it ruins your entire day! 

Which is why I partnered with Mixmax AI!

I'm a selling CEO who needs to outbound, follow up, and make sure events get on the calendar. 

I work directly with over 40 creators on LinkedIn, multiple brands per creator, and many agencies. 

My inbox gets flooded, and I need a different follow-up strategy for each ICP. 


The truth is... follow-ups suckkkkkkk

But not with Mixmax AI ✨ 

I'm a sales beastttt with it!! 

Closed $25K+ just this week in creator partnerships and I wouldn't have done it without Mixmax AI ❤️ 


✨ What's an email that you missed that HAUNTS you till this day??? 

#mixmaxpartner #ad

Ben Wright

Revenue @ Sendspark - On a campaign to get Americans to say football instead of soccer!

This is the section, where I tell you about how my degree in computer science catapulted me into the world of tech right?

That couldn't be further from the truth,  I did a law degree at the University of Sussex, and realized very quickly that I didn't want to spend anymore time reading case law.

Worked for a large engineering company in London for a while, started moving up the corporate ladder, before deciding to relocate to Salt Lake City ( just to let everyone know there are far less pubs here)

I then found the world of technology and start ups & I haven't looked back.

I am extremely passionate about building relationships and tackling tough problems, specifically in the customer success and partnerships space.

I also have a personal interest in social impact and corporate social responsibility, so much so that I decided to start a business that focuses on B2B charitable gifting (check out Go Give)

VP of Revenue

Fun little side project to help job seekers through the use of ChatGPT! Free for all!

I just bought $300 soccer (football) cleats and it made me realize something wild about AI.

Last week I needed new cleats. 

Started with Claude like any normal person in 2026.

"Best soccer cleats for wide feet under $300"

Got a solid list. 

But here's where it gets interesting.

I didn't buy anything based on the initial recommendations.

Instead, I spent 3 hours on YouTube watching some random guy from Manchester review each cleat. 

Then I hit up r/bootroom on Reddit. 

Only THEN did I pull the trigger on a pair of boots.

Why am I telling you this?

Because everyone's panicking that AI will replace human influence in buying decisions.

It won't.

AI gave me the shortlist. But when it came to buy time? The Youtuber and their affiliate link, that's who got my $300.

I see this pattern everywhere now that I'm in the affiliate space.

People use AI for research. But they buy based on human recommendations.

The guy who wore those cleats in actual matches.
The reviewer who's been testing gear for 5 years.

AI optimizes for efficiency. Humans still buy based on trust.

What's your take - do you trust AI recommendations enough to buy, or do you still need that human validation?

#ai #affiliate #ecom

Revenue @ Levanta - On a campaign to get Americans to say football instead of soccer!

RevOps might be the most underrated hire at a scaling SaaS company.

I'll die on this hill.

Here's why it matters so much from a leadership seat: early-stage startups almost always operate in "growth at all costs" mode. 

The result? A CRM that has a lack of accurate data.

And here's the thing — for your AEs and CSMs, it doesn't feel like a problem. They know their deals. They know their accounts. The chaos lives in their heads and that works fine... for them.

But from the top down, it's a different story entirely.

When your CRM is a mess, two critical things break:

Forecasting becomes guesswork. You're committing numbers to the board based on vibes and pipeline stages that mean different things to different reps. 

You lose the ability to course-correct in real time. Clean data shows you what's actually working. Which sequences are converting. Where deals stall. What's changed in the last 30 days. Without it, you're flying blind — and by the time you spot the problem, you've already missed the quarter.

RevOps isn't a "nice to have when we're bigger" role.

It's the hire that lets you actually see what's happening in your business and move fast enough to do something about it.

If you're a fast-growing startup without a RevOps hire, you're not just disorganized.

You're making guesses about your business, that will come back to bite you later.

#RevOps #SaaS #SalesLeadership

Sco Ducks!

That is all today!

🙏 🦆

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