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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

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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

14:27

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

14:37

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

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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

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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

15:13

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.

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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

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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

15:42

Store Connect dashboard. It's been a

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couple hours now and our campaign has

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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

16:18

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.

Interactive Summary

The video addresses the common struggle brands face in gaining attention and traffic, proposing a unique solution through the platform "Posted". The speaker, who successfully scaled his previous app to $44,000/month using this method, explains how Posted reverses traditional influencer marketing by allowing creators to submit content first, with brands only paying for what they love. He details how to set up "deals" on the platform, providing a brief with inspirational content (even from competitors), inviting creators, and managing submissions. Key to success is demonstrating spending on the platform to attract more and higher-quality content. The video showcases impressive results, including hundreds of free content submissions, significant organic views, and a step-by-step guide to leveraging this content for profitable TikTok Spark Ad campaigns. These campaigns demonstrate a substantial reduction in cost-per-click and a sharp increase in app installs, proving the effectiveness of mass testing creator-generated content.

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