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Run the videos that already went viral as Meta ads
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Dillion Verma - 0 to $300k/mo in 45 days with my ai app (just copy me)
JosephDo you think that the the paid ads strategy will be pretty straightforward? Like, you just take the formats you already know, and will that be really helpful for paid ads or it does it feel more like starting from scratch with the distribution strategy?
Dillion VermaI'm going to approach paid ads the same way I approached UGC and like break it down to a science or math. I I think in the beginning it will be easier for us since we already have content which goes viral and we have converting conversions from that, so we can just run paid ads for that, but it won't be enough. It won't be enough to get to a million a month. We'll have to try and make new contents and like have create creative diversity and like different different content pieces for different levels of awareness to to maximize the our meta ads.
JosephOne thing that stuck out to me in the beginning is you you mentioned that you and your co-founder kind of looked at Gemini, like the new Gemini models that were coming out, and you thought, "Okay, this is a really cool piece of tech, like this should be a consumer app." Are there models today that are coming out that you feel should also be, you know, kind of the the backbone of a of the next big consumer thing?
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- Post creator jobs in UGC Facebook groups, then pay a $100 five-day trial500-600 applicants at 30-50 a day; trial winners became the 85-creator roster
- Give every creator one video format: shocking AI prank image, app demo, then a text-message storyOne format drove 1.2B views; ~5% of videos pass 100K, ~1% pass 1M
- Pay creators $20 a video plus bonuses at 20K, 100K, 500K and 1M views29 of 30 creators chose it over a better-paying CPM deal; effective CPM under $1
- Let creators post as many videos a day as they wantTop creators post 20+ videos a day (~80 posts); no rate limits seen on YouTube or Instagram
- Put an AI bot in Discord that writes scripts from your million-view videosCreators use it daily for new scripts; no numbers
- When one video goes viral, have every creator remake it that dayProduces big view spikes after each hit; no exact numbers
- Put all creators in one Discord with channels for wins, ideas and feedbackFounder says the camaraderie keeps creators motivated and sharing; no numbers
- Let people skip the first paywall, then show another when they hit submitTwo paywalls together beat one hard paywall in repeated tests; each converts 16.5%
- Charge $8.99 a week after a free trial, with extra offers when people leaveWeekly has worked best so far; yearly tested and dropped for now
- Take a $100K personal loan to pay creators once early videos return 6xScaled at break-even for ~4-5 weeks, then ~50% margin at $300K MRR
- Predict where revenue will level off from views, conversion and churnForecast a $300K MRR plateau and hit exactly that
Tags: meta, organic-to-paid, creative-diversity