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FinalBoss Sour · B2C · sour candy brand

Film shop videos in the founder's kitchen or bedroom, even as a funded brand

Brand became #1 in food and beverage on TikTok Shop; not isolated

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What they did

The 'small business factor' was a major pillar across the accelerator's brands: even though FinalBoss Sour is VC-backed and makes millions a month, content feels shot in the founder's kitchen or bedroom, building a cult around one person. The guest says the scrappy style that worked for Conch worked even better for TikTok Shop brands; the best affiliate videos read like Amazon reviews.

What happened

FinalBoss Sour reached #1 in food and beverage by TikTok Shop revenue alongside other tactics.

This shipped together with other changes, so the result can't be credited to this alone.

In their words

Daniel Kwon - He made $2.2M from building simple apps. Here's how (no-code)

Play from 13:49

Daniel Kwon… content that we saw work well with Conch, actually worked even better with TikTok Shop brands. So TikTok, as a platform, just boosts the likelihood of normal shop videos going viral in the first place, which is why everyone should be posting shop content if they don't know what to do and they want a side hustle or they're just reviewing products. But some of the best videos that come from affiliates basically just read like Amazon reviews.

13:49

Daniel KwonAnd then I mean, what you're seeing there with FinalBoss Sour is founder-led content where, yes, FinalBoss Sour is a VC-backed company. They make millions of dollars a month, but the content feels like it's being shot in the founder's kitchen, in their bedroom. We can go down high-production-style content. There's no problem in that, and that actually does have its place on TikTok Shop, but the small business factor combined with

14:16

Daniel KwonThere's a couple of different pillars that we were using to activate with a lot of our brands. One of the major ones was small business factor, and then number two was focusing on like the clearance of your products. So you can often put a flash sale on an item, and that automatically boosts both the product and the brand on TikTok Shop in terms of getting it in front of people on their For You pages. But getting people to convert or the click-through to conversion rate,

14:42

Daniel Kwonthat is the major factor in See, that's actually a video I made for FinalBoss Sour.

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