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If you've clicked on this video, you're

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probably struggling with getting

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attention for your brand. You might have

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an awesome app or an awesome product,

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but no one's talking about it. No

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traffic, no buzz, no growth. And look,

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I've been there, too. I spent countless

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[music] hours making content by myself

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and reaching out to creators in mass,

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wasting so much of my time, getting no

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results. And using the strategy I'm

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going to share with you in this video, I

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was able to get hundreds of content

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creators to create content for my brand

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for [music] free. And this content drove

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real results and real customers to my

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product. No cold DMs, no begging

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influencers, no paying $20,000 per post,

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[music]

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just a streamlined system that drives

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results. And look, this is the exact

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method that I used to scale my previous

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app, PuffCount, to $44,000 per month in

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monthly recurring revenue. And if you

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watch until the end of this video, you

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will have a proven strategy to get

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content creators talking about your

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brand in like less than 30 minutes. Here

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we have it. The blueprint to get content

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creators to post about your brand in

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mass without you paying upfront for the

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content. Let's be honest, traditional

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influencer marketing is so broken.

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Everybody's going through the super

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distortive approach to get in touch with

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content creators. You have to email a

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thousand of them. You have to wait weeks

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for a reply. Maybe you get one and then

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the price that they give you is absurd.

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And you're not paying for results.

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You're paying hoping that the content is

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actually good. And this way of working

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with creators does not scale. you'll

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have to end up hiring someone to manage

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these creators or VAS and the creators

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themselves become like employees. We

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don't want that. We want the easiest way

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to work with creators today and only pay

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for results. So, that's where Posted

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comes in. Posted is a unique content

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creator platform that is reversed to

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what you've probably used in the past.

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Other platforms out there use the same

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method. You have to pay upfront and then

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the creators make the content for you.

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Posted completely reverses that.

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Creators will submit videos for your

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brand and you only have to pay for what

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you love. So, it's very easy to set up.

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All you have to do is go to

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postitapp.com and you can get started

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for free. And spoiler alert, this is my

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product. I built it because I had this

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problem. But we are going to use it

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completely for free. And again, in this

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video, we are going to be building a

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campaign. We're going to be getting

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posts from creators and I'm going to

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show you my real live results of using

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this platform. So, if you don't trust me

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yet, just watch until the end of the

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video, and I guarantee the results will

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blow your mind, and you'll know exactly

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how to leverage this platform to the

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max. So, it is very, very simple. On

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posted, we are going to be leveraging

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the deals feature. And this is how we

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can get riskfree content. Creators are

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going to submit custom videos for our

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brief. We will get to watch those videos

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and then we only pay for the videos that

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we love. And I'm going to show you how

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cheap it is to get content on posted.

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It's like the stock market of content

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creation. And I'm going to show you

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exactly how to set up a deal for

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success. So deal title is simply going

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to be our brand name. We are going to be

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promoting my mobile app posted. So,

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we're going to be using the platform to

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grow the platform, and we're going to

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see how many installs we can get by the

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end of this. So, boom. Title, great.

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Technology, financial, great. We're

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going to upload a quick thumbnail here.

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Boom. Nice little graphic there. We can

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choose our regions. So, we can only

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choose American creators if we want to.

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I'm cool with having global creators

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because again, we are going to be

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leveraging this content for maximum

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results. I'm going to show you exactly

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how to set set up a campaign, write a

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killer brief, pick the right content,

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filter the creator database. We have

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over 40,000 creators on this platform

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and you can pick and choose which ones

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you want to work with and invite to your

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campaign. And the most important part,

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not only is this content going to get

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views organically, but we're going to

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leverage this content on paid ads on Tik

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Tok on meta ads to run profitable paid

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ad campaigns. But I'm getting ahead of

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myself. Let's let's finish off the brief

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first. So, here we go. And for the

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product overview and the rules, this is

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probably the most important part, but

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we're going to keep it very simple. And

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we have tutorials here if you want to

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watch this video. We show you exactly

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how to set up a brief. We're going to

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keep it very, very simple, though. We're

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going to tell the creators, posted is

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the app you're using right now. You can

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describe your product briefly. And we

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want the creators to show other creators

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how they are making money with the app.

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We're going to explain briefly how the

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app works. We want the creators to

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follow the inspiration content. The

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inspiration content is viral content

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within our niche. We need to be doing

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market research and understanding what

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content goes viral for our products in

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our niche. And it doesn't matter if you

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don't have this content yourself. If you

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don't have content specifically about

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your brand, you can grab content from

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competitors, paid ads that have worked

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very well for competitors and you can

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use that in your brief. The most

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important part is you need to guide the

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creators to making solid content for

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you. Okay. Next, we're going to set up

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our rules and then we can choose assets

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here. You don't need to upload any

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assets. The most important part is the

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inspiration content. So, let's take a

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look at some of our inspiration content.

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This creator has 757 followers. Her post

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about our brand got 53,000 views. That

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is going to be one of our inspiration

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pieces. And then again, this one, I

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think this video also got 50,000 views.

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It is about our product. This one is not

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about our product at all, but she is

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showing her side hustles. And one of

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them is creating content. So, this is

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perfect. This is not about our product.

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This isn't about any product, but it's a

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piece of content that went viral within

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our niche. So, we are going to show this

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piece of content, all three of these, to

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the creators in our brief, and we're

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going to tell them, hey, make content

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like this because it worked. It worked

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for us. So, we're going to throw these

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in here. We're going to add a little

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description

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for each.

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Boom. We're good to go. Our deal has

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just been approved. And now we'll be

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able to launch our deal and it will go

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live on the app on the posted mobile

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app. every creator will be able to see

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this deal and start submitting content.

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We can even invite creators to our deal.

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So, we can head over to the creator

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database and we can filter by certain

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niches. We can filter by what country

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the creators are from, right? And we can

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sort through all 40,000 creators on

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Postit and we can invite them to our

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deal. So, we can invite this creator to

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our deal and say, "Hey, Kira, love your

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content. Consider submitting to the new

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Posted deal." We can even give them a

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price. we would offer 50 per post for

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you. You can even offer them a price and

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you can send these invites. So, boom,

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we're going to send that invite out. The

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creator is then going to get an email

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and a push notification and they'll be

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able to check out our deal. Now that our

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deal is live, we simply sit back and we

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let the submissions roll in. And I want

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to make something very, very clear. The

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most important part about your deal is

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the amount of money that you spent on

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it. So, when your deal goes live, your

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spend is obviously going to be at zero.

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So, the most important part that we're

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going to focus on is getting our spend

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above zero because we want creators to

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know that we are active and paying for

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content on the platform. Once our spend

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starts to get higher, the deal will get

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more visibility with creators and we

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will get more submissions, more

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high-quality submissions, bigger and

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bigger creators as we start to spend

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more on our deal and the results are

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going to snowball. If this feels

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overwhelming and you're like, "Ah, get

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to the results." Stick around to the end

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of the video because the results are

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going to blow your mind. I'm going to

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show you exactly what type of content we

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are getting on our deal, how much

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engagement it gets organically, and

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we're going to start paid ad campaigns

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and really scale this content. Boom. Our

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first submissions have started flowing

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in. I want to show you this one that we

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got here. This creator has 18,000

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followers. She wants $40 for this piece

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of content. And if we watch the video,

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>> so I need to put you on how I've been

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making this extra money. The app is

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called Post. So, great video, social

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proof, but the hook needs to be a little

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bit better. So, we're going to leave a

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slight note for her. We're going to say,

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"Let's start with a stronger hook. Quick

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and cut to the chase. I need to put you

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on how I made it." Blah, blah, blah.

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Just creating content. So, we're going

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to suggest a different hook for her, a

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stronger hook to capture the attention

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much quicker. She'll get more views this

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way. So, we're going to decline the

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video with this feedback, and she will

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come back with that post. We also just

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accepted another piece of content. This

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creator made an amazing piece of

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content. Social proof here showing how

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much she made as a small content

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creator. This creator only has 36

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followers, but we're still paying her 35

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bucks. And it doesn't matter how many

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followers the creators have, they all

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have a chance at going viral if they

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follow the right format. And we actually

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declined a piece of content from this

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creator and she came back with this

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edited version. So, this is awesome.

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>> This is how we're going to get mass

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content. We're going to give the

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creators valuable feedback. They're

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going to submit better and better

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videos. And you'll see as the

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submissions start to stack up and other

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creators can see that we're spending

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money on the platform, the submissions

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are going to start flowing in. I'll let

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you know when we have another update.

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So, we actually put together another

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campaign. We have two deals running now.

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And I built this new text on screen

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campaign because I've seen this format

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going absolutely ballistic. So, super

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easy format to copy just slideshows,

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creators talking about how much they

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have been paid to create content. And

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this is such an easy style of content to

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create for our creators, but it goes

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mega viral. They're coming in with

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amazing styles already. So, this is

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pretty much exactly what we want. It's

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exactly what we were asking for, right?

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And we're going to accept this piece of

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content from this creator. Please submit

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more of these. And boom, we're going to

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accept and pay. And we're good to go. We

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got over 50 submissions. We got 50

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pieces of free content created for our

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brand and we get to choose which ones we

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which ones we like. Like look at all

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these. It's it's absolutely absurd how

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much content is coming in for free that

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we get to scroll through and choose.

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This creator has 20,000 followers. This

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creator has 29,000 followers. 11,000

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followers. Let's see if we can find some

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more here. 23,000 25,000 10,000 19,000

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2.6 million followers. The amount of

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submissions that we're getting in here

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is absurd. 2.6 million followers for

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$55. This is the power of posted. So

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again, we'll keep you updated on how

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these posts perform. Okay, now let's get

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into the results. As you can see, our

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previous campaign absolutely crushed it.

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60,000 views on this video, 25,000 here,

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28,000 here, 53,000 here. So, this

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campaign actually performed much better

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than our text on screen campaign. This

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was great for mass content, but it

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didn't end up getting us too many

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organic views. But that's okay because

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we are going to be able to take this

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content and we're going to run it on

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paid ads shortly. And as you can see in

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this text on screen format, we got 309

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different content proposals, which is

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absolutely insane. We spent a total of

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$1,000. We accepted 38. We declined 193.

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We got so much content, we couldn't even

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handle it all coming in. So if you are

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looking to get mass content, this is the

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way to do it. So what we're going to do

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is we are going to download all these

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videos. We're going to start a Tik Tok

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campaign and see what the results will

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be there. We're running a Tik Tok

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campaign. As you can see, we've already

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had one active here. We've been testing

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out these creatives and our CPC is

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absolutely

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crushing it. As you can see, we have

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spent just over $500 on this campaign.

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And if we go to our app, and we just

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started running this a couple days ago.

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If we go to the last 7 days here, we can

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see that is absolutely crushing. We have

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pushed 1,000 and this is October 1st.

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And if we go today in the last 24 hours,

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300 downloads. So let's call it 1.3,000

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downloads. 566. That's 43 cents per

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download. The tracking on Tik Tok here

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is a little bit a little bit whack. It

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doesn't track all the conversions very

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well, especially with scan. Takes a

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little bit of time for it to come in. So

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it's always good to just cross ref cross

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cross reference with your app store

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connect dashboard. But with that being

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said, we are going to create a brand new

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campaign from scratch. I'm going to show

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you exactly how you can take your posted

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creatives and run a profitable Tik Tok

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campaign. And the beautiful thing is you

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can take the spark ads code from all

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these videos and you can run these as

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spark ads. So that is exactly what we're

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going to do. Let's go ahead and create

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the campaign. Okay, so we're obviously

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going to choose app promotion for our

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campaign. We're going to use an iOS 14

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dedicated application and we are also

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going to use a smart plus cuz this will

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make everything so much easier for us.

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It will automatically pull in content uh

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from our account. Smart plus, it's just

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set and forget. It will automatically

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optimize for the best results. App

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install campaign V3. Let's call it no

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special categories. We want to turn off

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video download just because we don't

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want anyone downloading our videos. And

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then we're going to select a couple

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different regions here. If you only

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select the US, that's great, but you can

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greatly reduce the cost of your

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campaigns if you select all of all the

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other tier one countries. There's a lot

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of European countries that are tier one.

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So, that is what we're going to do.

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We're going to accept Netherlands. New

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Zealand, we want in there. Sweden is a

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good one. Switzerland is a good one. We

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have the US, of course. We want the

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United Kingdom. We want Germany. We want

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Canada, of course. Australia, also a

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great one. And boom. Now we have a very,

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very, very broad audience that we can

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market to. We're going to keep this

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campaign as broad as possible. Okay. And

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we're going to set the budget to $100

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per day. It wants us to do 107, so we're

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going to do 110. Start time immediately.

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Optimization goal is going to be

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install. Target CPA. We leave this

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alone. All day long, we want to run

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these. And boom. Here is the fun part.

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We can add in creatives. And we're also

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going to turn on creative autopull. So

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we want to open our creative library

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here. And we want to create more spark

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ads posts. So this is all the content

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that we can pull in from our deal on

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posted. You get the spark ads code for

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every single piece of content that you

13:33

pay for. So we're going to go ahead and

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copy and paste in the best performing

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ads here. And we are going to add these

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to our account. Boom. It is that easy.

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We have just uploaded all of the content

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and it will run on these creators

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profiles. So, it's not going to feel

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like an ad. It's going to feel very

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natural. And we have a full 365day

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period to run ads on all of these thanks

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to posted and the spark ads codes that

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we have just utilized. So, using these

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posts, we're going to go back and we are

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going to add these in. Okay. And boom,

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here are all of our posts. And we are

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simply going to copy and paste and add

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all these in. This is the fastest way to

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mass test content. Okay. Boom. So now we

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have 13 ads in this campaign. We're

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we're going to do also creative

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autopull. Clear and update these. And

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then very important, we want to choose

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the app profile page. We want to set an

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instant page. So we're going to set this

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up. Boom. We've already created ours

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here. Okay. Don't need to do anything on

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the tracking. And it was that simple.

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What did it take us? 3 minutes to set up

14:41

this campaign and boom, we can go ahead

14:44

and publish all of this content. So, Tik

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Tok is going to do its thing. They're

14:48

going to create the campaign. They're

14:49

going to review all the content and then

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it will be live. Okay. So, as you can

14:53

see, the campaign that we just launched

14:54

is already active. We're going to let

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this spend. And what we can do is we can

14:58

go into these campaigns. For our

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previous one that we've been running, we

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had around 30 cribs that we were

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testing. And we can simply go in and

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some of these got disapproved because,

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you know, on post you make money. Tik

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Tok doesn't like when you talk about ads

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that make people money. Um, but what you

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can do is you can go in here and you can

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see which ones are getting the most

15:16

spend allocated to them. For example,

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these are our top performers in terms of

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impressions. So, we know that these are

15:22

the best performing ads. So, what we can

15:24

do is we can build other campaigns on

15:26

top of these after we see which pieces

15:27

of content are performing the best. And

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we can see all of our conversions here.

15:31

We can see the conversion rate. Again,

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these numbers are going to be a bit off

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because Tik Tok is not the best at

15:36

tracking app conversions, which is why

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it's so important to have an MMP, but

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also to track your stats on your App

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Store Connect dashboard. It's been a

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couple hours now and our campaign has

15:46

successfully spent a little bit of

15:48

budget, but we can already see our CPC

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has been cut by a third. This is why we

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mass test content, right? We just threw

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up a bunch of videos here that we got

15:59

from posted and we've cut our CPC by a

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third. We'll see how the conversions

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roll in. Again, these numbers are not

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going to be super accurate. These

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numbers are going to be delayed. Um, but

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we've cut our CPC by a third here. And

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as we can see, we've also seen a sharp

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increase in installs over the past

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couple hours here. So, we know these new

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campaigns are working. They're crushing.

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We've cut our CPC by a third.

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