The $150K/Month Marketing Strategy (Works For Every App)
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If you've already launched your app, or
you're about to, you're probably asking
yourself the same questions every
founder hits. How do I predictably
scale? How do I get organic views on
social media? And more importantly, how
do I get users? But not just any users,
paying users. Real users who care, give
feedback, and actually pay. Finding
paying users and the right marketing
strategy can feel impossible. It feels
like you're shouting into the void,
posting content, getting no traction,
and you're wondering if people even care
or if your product was worth building.
And believe me, I know because I've been
there. I've launched apps that got zero
traction until I found a repeatable
system. The system that helped me scale
to over 1 million users and 40K in
monthly recurring revenue on one app and
over 80,000 installs and over 150,000
dollars in recurring monthly revenue on
another app. And the beautiful thing is,
I don't do any of the work myself. All
of the content is created by other
creators. And this works right now
because content creators have become the
most powerful distribution channel. But
most founders have no idea how to use it
properly. And on top of that, they have
no idea how to attribute organic views
to actual conversions. So, in this
video, I'm going to show you that exact
system and how you can start using it
today for free. So, get out your
notebooks, get out your crayons, grab a
snack because if you watch this video
until the end, I guarantee you will walk
away with the skills and the knowledge
to successfully market your product.
Let's get into it. Real quick, just to
visualize all of this for you before we
jump into it, this is going to be the
cycle that we are going through. We are
going to find winning formats in your
niche. We're going to test and post
content based on these formats at scale.
Again, you will not have to create any
of it. Creators will test and post for
you. We are going to iterate and
identify on the winners of our test
posts. And then we're going to scale
that content in a smart way. We are only
going to pay creators based on how many
views they get. We're going to pay a one
or two dollar CPM and that's how we
scale smart. And of course, this always
repeats. You always got to be improving
your content, always testing, always
posting, always iterating based on what
new content is going viral in your
space.
And once you get into this rhythm,
you will succeed. Okay, ladies and
gentlemen, here it is, the blueprint to
flood the feed, scale your content and
users.
Real quick,
we need to understand what our goal is.
Our goal is not to go viral as fast as
possible, right? Your goal is to find
one piece of content, one format that
works and scale it repeatedly. Virality
is something that comes over time and
you need to post a lot of content before
you hit that one viral video. So, it
will come and you will go viral
eventually, but you need to be patient
and you need to give yourself as many
shots on target as possible. And the way
we're going to start is by doing market
research. We're going to show you how to
do market research, what good content
looks like versus bad content. We're
going to show you how to brief creators
with AI. We're going to show you how to
get creators and content
at scale without paying anything up
front. And then we're going to show you
how to run the CPM model. You pay
creators based on performance. This is
the new way of running paid ads. And
we're going to show you how to do this
repeatedly. So, let's jump into it.
Market research. You need to stop
creating content randomly. You will
fail. If you're just new at creating
content and you're creating yourself,
you're hiring creators to create content
for you, if you don't know what is going
viral in your niche and you're not
basing every single post off a format
that has already gone viral, you will
fail. And there's an easy way to figure
out what content already works in your
niche. Quick cheat code here, TikTok
will literally show you the top
performing content on TikTok.
You can go to this website right here.
By the way, this entire document is
going to be in the description for you
for free. I will send you this entire
document. You go to this website right
here and you can go United States. You
can go to apps. You can even break it
down further by category. Last 30 days,
objective, app installs or conversions
or reach or video views. Let's go to app
installs and boom, we have the highest
converting content on TikTok right here.
Absolute cheat code.
Just got this new hoop thanks to Dave
and now I can do this.
So, here's how I took my iPhone from
messy to aesthetic and organized. Open
up the brass app and scroll down to the
You can sort by niche and you can filter
This website is for ads, right? So, some
of these may be more salesy than organic
content that we are looking at, but this
can be a great place to start when you
are looking at how to promote your
product in videos. And what you'll come
to realize is on a majority of these
ads, a majority of these viral videos
that we're going to find, the brand is
not talking about their product. When
you are doing this market research, you
need to understand you should not talk
about your product.
If you only talk about your product in
the content, it will be boring. It will
be lame. It will feel like an ad. It
will not win.
Create content that has the potential to
go viral, attract your ideal target
audience, and then add in a subtle CTA
somewhere in the video. Okay?
So, you can use all of these different
sites to find viral videos within your
niche. You can use the viral ads library
and you can explore the most viral
videos for apps out there on Instagram,
on TikTok. You can go to the Facebook
ads library. You can go to the Google
ads library. But still, the best way to
find viral organic formats in your niche
is to go on TikTok and do market
research there. And what we are looking
for is we are looking for the keywords
related to our product. We're looking
for adjacent topics and we are going to
analyze each video. We're going to save
every video that we find, every viral
video that we find, and we're going to
analyze why they work. So, for example,
let's look at the keywords for my
previous app, the one that I scaled to
45K per month, which is a quit vaping
app. Let's type in quit vaping
and boom,
here we have it. Viral videos from
within our niche. 1.4 million likes on
this video. Probably a good video that
we can get a creator to replicate for
us.
Imagine
this creator plugging in my product
somewhere in this video. Imagine that
for your product and the type of content
that you find when you do market
research. This is perfect. So, we're
going to save this
into a spreadsheet. We're going to call
this
market
research.
We're going to save this into a
spreadsheet. We're going to save the
link. We're going to do the hook,
the storyline,
and we're going to understand after a
little while why each of these videos
did well.
We're going to have a nice spreadsheet
of market research here.
Let's keep Let's keep going. Do this for
your product. Storyline, again, boom,
great video.
1.2 million likes this has. And there he
is. He's even promoting a product. And
you'll see until a few years ago. More
than 735 days ago to be exact. I
realized what I was doing to my body and
>> a product right there. It doesn't feel
like a promotion. It feels natural. It
feels organic. This is a perfect video
that we want to replicate. Instead of
him holding up this app, didn't quit
until a few years ago. More than 735
>> Instead of him holding up that app,
imagine if he held up your app, your
product, right? Bang, again, we're
saving that link. Let's find a different
angle.
You can't quit How to actually quit
nicotine. Amazing video.
So, we're going to even add another one.
Uh topic. This was a story time.
Story time.
Uh educational.
Tips.
Are we sure?
Shocked
face whispering, are we sure? until a
few years ago. More than
You can't quit nicotine because you're
trying to quit nicotine.
Okay, boom. So, now we have three videos
that we can replicate. We understand
what the topic is. We understand what
the hooks were and we understand the
storyline. This is it. Do this market
research for your product. This is what
I did to go viral for my product, right?
Here we go. Recognize that guy? Yeah,
that's me. 5.1 million views, 325,000
views, 1.1 million views. And we got
other creators to do this for us as
well. It's kind of crazy that people
>> Every video that we got created for our
product was based off market research
just like this. We created content based
off market research and then we add a
sly call to action in the video. That's
it. So, now we have our market research
put together. We understand the hooks,
the problem statement, the overall
style, and we understand what good
content looks like. Good content needs
to feel natural. Don't talk about your
product. Don't explain your product. You
don't have to do that. All you need is a
short call to action showing your
product in the video
and you drive that intent to go check
out your
app store listing, your e-commerce page,
whatever it may be. Okay? So, now let's
move on to how to get creators to
actually create this content for you.
The beautiful thing is, we have all of
our market research here and now we can
give this to creators at scale to
recreate these videos while plugging in
our product. And we want hundreds and
hundreds of creators to recreate each
one of these videos for us. We want them
to recreate these videos at scale, so we
give ourselves as many chances at going
viral. We already know what the viral
formats are. Let's get them created at
scale. And the best place to do that is
at postedapp.com.
What we can do is we can launch a CPM
campaign where we are only paying
creators based on how many views they
get. As you can see here, we launched
this campaign for our latest mobile app.
We got 178 unique videos from 109 unique
creators. We can track our views over
time, our comments over time, our shares
over time, and even on top of that, we
can track our analytics within our
product, so we can see how this organic
content
is affecting our product in real time.
Here we can see our brief, we can see
all of our submissions, and we can even
sort the videos by most views and most
viral creators. We have full control
here, we can block creators, we can see
who's performing the best for us.
We can see all their submissions, their
total views, their total likes, their
total comments, everything is right here
for us. So,
we're going to walk through how to set
up one of these campaigns and how you
can get creators to work for you on a
results-only basis.
So, what we're going to do in Posted is
we're going to go to CPM campaigns.
We're going to create a new CPM
campaign. We already have our market
research, we've already done the hard
part, so now we need to build a campaign
around it. We're going to call this Puff
Count.
Choose a topic, health and wellness.
We're going to add in our website URL,
which is right here.
And we're going to describe our product.
We can choose our demographics. I like
to keep this worldwide because we want
as much content as possible, but if you
only want North America, you can unclick
these and you will only get creators
from Canada or the US, etc., right? We
are going to add in a quick thumbnail
here.
And then move to the next step, the most
important step, the inspiration content.
We already have the market research
here, so all we have to do is copy it
over. Copy it in.
We're going to copy over our viral
formats that we found
and add a quick description here.
We're going to add each one of these
viral formats in.
Boom.
And now we generate our brief with AI.
And there we have it.
>> [clears throat]
>> AI has taken what it knows about our
product from our website, it has taken
our inspiration content, the viral
market research that we just did,
and we have created a brief that will
guide creators to create videos just
like our viral market research. Just
like this video.
Right? So, boom, it explains what our
product is, it explains what type of
content we're looking for, and then step
by step, it tells the creators exactly
how to recreate these viral formats.
Document your day, show the emotional
struggles, use humor or sarcasm to
lighten the mood.
Share a specific tip. And then, boom,
right here at the end, encourage viewers
to download Puff Count. It even adds the
call to action that we want in the
content. Okay? We can set some rules as
we can
uh can choose whether or not we want to
allow or disallow AI content. We don't
want any AI content, we want real
creators. And then we can set some rules
here if we want to. I'm going to say
content must be in English.
And now we can go to the next step here.
We can upload any external files if we
need to, which we don't. We can go next.
And here is where we set up our CPM
structure. We can set a daily budget, we
can set a $100 budget or a $200 budget
if we want to.
Right? And then we can choose our flat
rate. The flat rate is how much you will
pay creators per piece of content. This
is what creators will get paid up front
as long as they create a piece of
content that follows your brief exactly.
So, we can choose our flat rate, we can
choose $5, we can choose $10, we can
choose $25. If we want a ton of content,
we want creators to be super motivated
in here.
We're going to go with 10. That will be
20 posts per day. And then we can choose
our CPM. We're going to choose a $1 CPM,
and the max we will ever pay is for 1
million views.
Okay? And we are going to launch this
campaign now.
And boom, our campaign is live. So, now
that our campaign is live, we can go
over to the find creators tab here, and
we can invite specific creators that we
want to work with as well.
The hard work is done. Now, creators,
without us doing anything, will come to
our campaign, will submit videos, and we
will get views on autopilot. You can
track all of your analytics here. The
views in the videos will come in on
autopilot.
Now that our campaign is live, there are
some important things you need to keep
in mind. Volume is key. We need to test
at scale. We need to let a lot of
submissions come in, so we have a good
understanding of what's working and
what's not. If you only get one or two
posts and then you shut off the
campaign, you will have no understanding
of whether it worked or not. You should
be going for a minimum of 50 videos per
week. This is the absolute You need to
test as much content as possible, so
your minimum should be 50. You can
expect a viral hit rate of 5 to 10% as
long as you did strong market research
and you are guiding the creators to
create viral formats. And then you can
go through and you can pick your
winners.
You should look at saves and shares,
comments, or the traffic conversion on
your product itself. And the important
thing to keep in mind here is we can
change any one of these at any given
time as we see content start to flow in.
If we don't like what's coming in, we
can edit the brief, we can edit the
rules, we can change the regions, we can
edit all of this. This is a fluid
campaign, and you should be judging You
should be editing the campaign based on
the results you're seeing on the other
end. I'm going to show you another
campaign here. For example, this brand
went viral in their first 30 posts, they
got 754,000
views. So, what you should be doing is
watching these posts come in, and then
once a couple go crazy viral for you,
boom, lean into these formats. 36,000
views here, 76,000 views here, 203,000
views here.
Lean into these formats, continue to
scale them further. Once you identify
new winning formats that come in, you
can adjust your brief to get more of
this type of content. This is the new
way to run ads. You let creators do all
the work for you, and you only pay them
based on results. So again, once you
find your format that works, you can
scale further while controlling the
cost. You only pay based on performance.
And a key thing to keep in mind here is
you are buying distribution. We find
ideas, we test with creators, and then
we scale the content on a
performance-only basis.
This is the method, and this is how top
apps are scaling with content creators.
You can use this rough formula here. If
you know you can get creators to
consistently post that format, and that
format consistently converts for your
product, you can start to break this
down into a simple formula. To break
this down a little bit more clearly,
again, based on a $1 CPM, we're paying
$1,000 for 1 million views. Let's assume
that those formats get you 1,000 users
on average. A million view video getting
you 1,000 users is very achievable,
right? And then let's assume your app or
your product converts 5% of those users.
Out of 1,000 downloads, five of them end
up converting on your paid plan,
whatever it may be. Let's assume that
you charge $29 on your paid plan, that
is 50 users at a $29 price point, that's
1450 clear profit on our 1 million
views. This is how you should think
about scaling creator content. And
again, you can track all of these
metrics, you can track the traffic to
your Google Analytics, you can track
Superwall RevenueCat Amplitude, you can
track the individual metrics in your
product based on the organic views that
you are getting in your campaign. This
is it. This is how you get hundreds of
videos posted without you doing much
work. All the creators come to you.
You're not managing these creators,
you're not nitpicking, you're not a
daycare babysitter for these creators.
No, they're coming to you, and they're
only getting paid based on the results
that they drive to your product. And
again, this system never ends. We're
always finding new formats, always
testing and posting new formats, always
iterating, and always scaling further.
That's the process. Go do your market
research, go get creators to post en
masse, and just put more shots on
target, and you will win. If you have
any questions, if you want to help
marketing your product, if you want my
advice on your campaigns, shoot me a DM
on steven.builds. I will always get back
to you there. I'm super active on
Instagram. And if you watched the video
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time. Catch you on the next one. Peace.
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Este video presenta un sistema para escalar la adquisición de usuarios de una aplicación utilizando creadores de contenido bajo un modelo de pago basado en resultados (CPM). El autor explica cómo realizar una investigación de mercado efectiva para identificar formatos virales, crear briefs detallados con IA para los creadores y gestionar campañas automatizadas que permiten probar contenido a gran escala sin necesidad de que el fundador realice la creación del mismo.
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