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If you've already launched your app, or

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you're about to, you're probably asking

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yourself the same questions every

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founder hits. How do I predictably

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scale? How do I get organic views on

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social media? And more importantly, how

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do I get users? But not just any users,

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paying users. Real users who care, give

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feedback, and actually pay. Finding

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paying users and the right marketing

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strategy can feel impossible. It feels

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like you're shouting into the void,

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posting content, getting no traction,

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and you're wondering if people even care

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or if your product was worth building.

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And believe me, I know because I've been

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there. I've launched apps that got zero

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traction until I found a repeatable

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system. The system that helped me scale

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to over 1 million users and 40K in

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monthly recurring revenue on one app and

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over 80,000 installs and over 150,000

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dollars in recurring monthly revenue on

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another app. And the beautiful thing is,

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I don't do any of the work myself. All

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of the content is created by other

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creators. And this works right now

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because content creators have become the

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most powerful distribution channel. But

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most founders have no idea how to use it

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properly. And on top of that, they have

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no idea how to attribute organic views

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to actual conversions. So, in this

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video, I'm going to show you that exact

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system and how you can start using it

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today for free. So, get out your

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notebooks, get out your crayons, grab a

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snack because if you watch this video

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until the end, I guarantee you will walk

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away with the skills and the knowledge

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to successfully market your product.

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Let's get into it. Real quick, just to

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visualize all of this for you before we

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jump into it, this is going to be the

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cycle that we are going through. We are

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going to find winning formats in your

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niche. We're going to test and post

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content based on these formats at scale.

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Again, you will not have to create any

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of it. Creators will test and post for

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you. We are going to iterate and

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identify on the winners of our test

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posts. And then we're going to scale

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that content in a smart way. We are only

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going to pay creators based on how many

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views they get. We're going to pay a one

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or two dollar CPM and that's how we

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scale smart. And of course, this always

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repeats. You always got to be improving

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your content, always testing, always

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posting, always iterating based on what

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new content is going viral in your

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space.

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And once you get into this rhythm,

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you will succeed. Okay, ladies and

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gentlemen, here it is, the blueprint to

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flood the feed, scale your content and

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users.

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Real quick,

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we need to understand what our goal is.

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Our goal is not to go viral as fast as

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possible, right? Your goal is to find

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one piece of content, one format that

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works and scale it repeatedly. Virality

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is something that comes over time and

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you need to post a lot of content before

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you hit that one viral video. So, it

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will come and you will go viral

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eventually, but you need to be patient

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and you need to give yourself as many

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shots on target as possible. And the way

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we're going to start is by doing market

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research. We're going to show you how to

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do market research, what good content

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looks like versus bad content. We're

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going to show you how to brief creators

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with AI. We're going to show you how to

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get creators and content

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at scale without paying anything up

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front. And then we're going to show you

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how to run the CPM model. You pay

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creators based on performance. This is

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the new way of running paid ads. And

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we're going to show you how to do this

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repeatedly. So, let's jump into it.

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Market research. You need to stop

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creating content randomly. You will

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fail. If you're just new at creating

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content and you're creating yourself,

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you're hiring creators to create content

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for you, if you don't know what is going

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viral in your niche and you're not

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basing every single post off a format

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that has already gone viral, you will

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fail. And there's an easy way to figure

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out what content already works in your

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niche. Quick cheat code here, TikTok

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will literally show you the top

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performing content on TikTok.

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You can go to this website right here.

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By the way, this entire document is

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going to be in the description for you

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for free. I will send you this entire

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document. You go to this website right

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here and you can go United States. You

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can go to apps. You can even break it

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down further by category. Last 30 days,

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objective, app installs or conversions

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or reach or video views. Let's go to app

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installs and boom, we have the highest

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converting content on TikTok right here.

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Absolute cheat code.

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Just got this new hoop thanks to Dave

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and now I can do this.

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So, here's how I took my iPhone from

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messy to aesthetic and organized. Open

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up the brass app and scroll down to the

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You can sort by niche and you can filter

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This website is for ads, right? So, some

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of these may be more salesy than organic

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content that we are looking at, but this

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can be a great place to start when you

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are looking at how to promote your

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product in videos. And what you'll come

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to realize is on a majority of these

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ads, a majority of these viral videos

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that we're going to find, the brand is

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not talking about their product. When

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you are doing this market research, you

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need to understand you should not talk

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about your product.

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If you only talk about your product in

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the content, it will be boring. It will

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be lame. It will feel like an ad. It

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will not win.

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Create content that has the potential to

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go viral, attract your ideal target

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audience, and then add in a subtle CTA

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somewhere in the video. Okay?

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So, you can use all of these different

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sites to find viral videos within your

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niche. You can use the viral ads library

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and you can explore the most viral

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videos for apps out there on Instagram,

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on TikTok. You can go to the Facebook

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ads library. You can go to the Google

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ads library. But still, the best way to

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find viral organic formats in your niche

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is to go on TikTok and do market

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research there. And what we are looking

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for is we are looking for the keywords

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related to our product. We're looking

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for adjacent topics and we are going to

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analyze each video. We're going to save

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every video that we find, every viral

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video that we find, and we're going to

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analyze why they work. So, for example,

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let's look at the keywords for my

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previous app, the one that I scaled to

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45K per month, which is a quit vaping

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app. Let's type in quit vaping

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and boom,

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here we have it. Viral videos from

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within our niche. 1.4 million likes on

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this video. Probably a good video that

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we can get a creator to replicate for

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us.

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Imagine

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this creator plugging in my product

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somewhere in this video. Imagine that

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for your product and the type of content

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that you find when you do market

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research. This is perfect. So, we're

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going to save this

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into a spreadsheet. We're going to call

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this

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market

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research.

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We're going to save this into a

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spreadsheet. We're going to save the

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link. We're going to do the hook,

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the storyline,

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and we're going to understand after a

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little while why each of these videos

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did well.

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We're going to have a nice spreadsheet

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of market research here.

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Let's keep Let's keep going. Do this for

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your product. Storyline, again, boom,

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great video.

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1.2 million likes this has. And there he

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is. He's even promoting a product. And

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you'll see until a few years ago. More

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than 735 days ago to be exact. I

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realized what I was doing to my body and

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>> a product right there. It doesn't feel

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like a promotion. It feels natural. It

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feels organic. This is a perfect video

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that we want to replicate. Instead of

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him holding up this app, didn't quit

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until a few years ago. More than 735

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>> Instead of him holding up that app,

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imagine if he held up your app, your

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product, right? Bang, again, we're

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saving that link. Let's find a different

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angle.

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You can't quit How to actually quit

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nicotine. Amazing video.

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So, we're going to even add another one.

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Uh topic. This was a story time.

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Story time.

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Uh educational.

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Tips.

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Are we sure?

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Shocked

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face whispering, are we sure? until a

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few years ago. More than

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You can't quit nicotine because you're

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trying to quit nicotine.

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Okay, boom. So, now we have three videos

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that we can replicate. We understand

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what the topic is. We understand what

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the hooks were and we understand the

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storyline. This is it. Do this market

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research for your product. This is what

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I did to go viral for my product, right?

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Here we go. Recognize that guy? Yeah,

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that's me. 5.1 million views, 325,000

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views, 1.1 million views. And we got

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other creators to do this for us as

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well. It's kind of crazy that people

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>> Every video that we got created for our

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product was based off market research

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just like this. We created content based

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off market research and then we add a

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sly call to action in the video. That's

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it. So, now we have our market research

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put together. We understand the hooks,

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the problem statement, the overall

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style, and we understand what good

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content looks like. Good content needs

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to feel natural. Don't talk about your

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product. Don't explain your product. You

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don't have to do that. All you need is a

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short call to action showing your

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product in the video

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and you drive that intent to go check

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out your

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app store listing, your e-commerce page,

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whatever it may be. Okay? So, now let's

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move on to how to get creators to

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actually create this content for you.

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The beautiful thing is, we have all of

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our market research here and now we can

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give this to creators at scale to

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recreate these videos while plugging in

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our product. And we want hundreds and

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hundreds of creators to recreate each

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one of these videos for us. We want them

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to recreate these videos at scale, so we

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give ourselves as many chances at going

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viral. We already know what the viral

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formats are. Let's get them created at

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scale. And the best place to do that is

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at postedapp.com.

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What we can do is we can launch a CPM

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campaign where we are only paying

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creators based on how many views they

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get. As you can see here, we launched

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this campaign for our latest mobile app.

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We got 178 unique videos from 109 unique

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creators. We can track our views over

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time, our comments over time, our shares

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over time, and even on top of that, we

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can track our analytics within our

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product, so we can see how this organic

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content

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is affecting our product in real time.

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Here we can see our brief, we can see

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all of our submissions, and we can even

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sort the videos by most views and most

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viral creators. We have full control

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here, we can block creators, we can see

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who's performing the best for us.

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We can see all their submissions, their

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total views, their total likes, their

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total comments, everything is right here

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for us. So,

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we're going to walk through how to set

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up one of these campaigns and how you

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can get creators to work for you on a

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results-only basis.

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So, what we're going to do in Posted is

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we're going to go to CPM campaigns.

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We're going to create a new CPM

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campaign. We already have our market

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research, we've already done the hard

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part, so now we need to build a campaign

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around it. We're going to call this Puff

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Count.

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Choose a topic, health and wellness.

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We're going to add in our website URL,

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which is right here.

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And we're going to describe our product.

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We can choose our demographics. I like

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to keep this worldwide because we want

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as much content as possible, but if you

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only want North America, you can unclick

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these and you will only get creators

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from Canada or the US, etc., right? We

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are going to add in a quick thumbnail

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here.

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And then move to the next step, the most

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important step, the inspiration content.

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We already have the market research

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here, so all we have to do is copy it

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over. Copy it in.

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We're going to copy over our viral

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formats that we found

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and add a quick description here.

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We're going to add each one of these

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viral formats in.

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Boom.

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And now we generate our brief with AI.

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And there we have it.

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>> [clears throat]

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>> AI has taken what it knows about our

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product from our website, it has taken

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our inspiration content, the viral

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market research that we just did,

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and we have created a brief that will

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guide creators to create videos just

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like our viral market research. Just

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like this video.

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Right? So, boom, it explains what our

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product is, it explains what type of

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content we're looking for, and then step

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by step, it tells the creators exactly

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how to recreate these viral formats.

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Document your day, show the emotional

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struggles, use humor or sarcasm to

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lighten the mood.

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Share a specific tip. And then, boom,

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right here at the end, encourage viewers

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to download Puff Count. It even adds the

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call to action that we want in the

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content. Okay? We can set some rules as

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we can

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uh can choose whether or not we want to

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allow or disallow AI content. We don't

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want any AI content, we want real

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creators. And then we can set some rules

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here if we want to. I'm going to say

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content must be in English.

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And now we can go to the next step here.

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We can upload any external files if we

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need to, which we don't. We can go next.

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And here is where we set up our CPM

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structure. We can set a daily budget, we

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can set a $100 budget or a $200 budget

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if we want to.

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Right? And then we can choose our flat

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rate. The flat rate is how much you will

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pay creators per piece of content. This

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is what creators will get paid up front

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as long as they create a piece of

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content that follows your brief exactly.

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So, we can choose our flat rate, we can

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choose $5, we can choose $10, we can

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choose $25. If we want a ton of content,

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we want creators to be super motivated

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in here.

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We're going to go with 10. That will be

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20 posts per day. And then we can choose

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our CPM. We're going to choose a $1 CPM,

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and the max we will ever pay is for 1

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million views.

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Okay? And we are going to launch this

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campaign now.

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And boom, our campaign is live. So, now

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that our campaign is live, we can go

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over to the find creators tab here, and

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we can invite specific creators that we

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want to work with as well.

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The hard work is done. Now, creators,

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without us doing anything, will come to

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our campaign, will submit videos, and we

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will get views on autopilot. You can

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track all of your analytics here. The

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views in the videos will come in on

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autopilot.

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Now that our campaign is live, there are

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some important things you need to keep

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in mind. Volume is key. We need to test

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at scale. We need to let a lot of

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submissions come in, so we have a good

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understanding of what's working and

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what's not. If you only get one or two

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posts and then you shut off the

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campaign, you will have no understanding

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of whether it worked or not. You should

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be going for a minimum of 50 videos per

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week. This is the absolute You need to

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test as much content as possible, so

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your minimum should be 50. You can

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expect a viral hit rate of 5 to 10% as

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long as you did strong market research

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and you are guiding the creators to

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create viral formats. And then you can

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go through and you can pick your

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winners.

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You should look at saves and shares,

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comments, or the traffic conversion on

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your product itself. And the important

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thing to keep in mind here is we can

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change any one of these at any given

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time as we see content start to flow in.

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If we don't like what's coming in, we

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can edit the brief, we can edit the

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rules, we can change the regions, we can

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edit all of this. This is a fluid

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campaign, and you should be judging You

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should be editing the campaign based on

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the results you're seeing on the other

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end. I'm going to show you another

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campaign here. For example, this brand

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went viral in their first 30 posts, they

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got 754,000

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views. So, what you should be doing is

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watching these posts come in, and then

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once a couple go crazy viral for you,

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boom, lean into these formats. 36,000

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views here, 76,000 views here, 203,000

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views here.

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Lean into these formats, continue to

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scale them further. Once you identify

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new winning formats that come in, you

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can adjust your brief to get more of

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this type of content. This is the new

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way to run ads. You let creators do all

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the work for you, and you only pay them

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based on results. So again, once you

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find your format that works, you can

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scale further while controlling the

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cost. You only pay based on performance.

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And a key thing to keep in mind here is

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you are buying distribution. We find

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ideas, we test with creators, and then

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we scale the content on a

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performance-only basis.

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This is the method, and this is how top

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apps are scaling with content creators.

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You can use this rough formula here. If

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you know you can get creators to

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consistently post that format, and that

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format consistently converts for your

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product, you can start to break this

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down into a simple formula. To break

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this down a little bit more clearly,

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again, based on a $1 CPM, we're paying

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$1,000 for 1 million views. Let's assume

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that those formats get you 1,000 users

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on average. A million view video getting

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you 1,000 users is very achievable,

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right? And then let's assume your app or

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your product converts 5% of those users.

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Out of 1,000 downloads, five of them end

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up converting on your paid plan,

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whatever it may be. Let's assume that

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you charge $29 on your paid plan, that

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is 50 users at a $29 price point, that's

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1450 clear profit on our 1 million

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views. This is how you should think

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about scaling creator content. And

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again, you can track all of these

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metrics, you can track the traffic to

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your Google Analytics, you can track

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Superwall RevenueCat Amplitude, you can

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track the individual metrics in your

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product based on the organic views that

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you are getting in your campaign. This

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is it. This is how you get hundreds of

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videos posted without you doing much

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work. All the creators come to you.

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You're not managing these creators,

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you're not nitpicking, you're not a

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daycare babysitter for these creators.

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No, they're coming to you, and they're

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only getting paid based on the results

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that they drive to your product. And

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again, this system never ends. We're

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always finding new formats, always

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testing and posting new formats, always

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iterating, and always scaling further.

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That's the process. Go do your market

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research, go get creators to post en

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masse, and just put more shots on

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target, and you will win. If you have

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any questions, if you want to help

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marketing your product, if you want my

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advice on your campaigns, shoot me a DM

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on steven.builds. I will always get back

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to you there. I'm super active on

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Instagram. And if you watched the video

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this far, you probably liked it, so drop

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a like on the video, and subscribe to

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the channel because I'll be dropping

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valuable videos just like this all the

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time. Catch you on the next one. Peace.

Interactive Summary

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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