Pep AI · B2C · peptide and GLP-1 tracker
Pay creators a one-time 20% of each sale on top of their fee
Creators post more than agreed and put in more effort
What they did
What happened
In their words
Cedric Roberge - I speedran an ai app to $100k in 70 days.
… like working with creators where they're going to tell them, OK, here's your structure. I'll give you this many, this much CPM, like this much performance bonus. Just make whatever you want. And then they're just going to end up like going viral with some random videos that don't actually promote the app. But if you get on a call with every single creator, you're like they're they're going to be bought in like they they actually trust you.
You trust them and they understand that, OK, we're we're actually trying to drive down those. Plus, you have the link in bio. So you give them a percentage of the revenue that they generate. Right. Or is it just for tracking? It's different for everyone. You know, we do do affiliate deals with some of them where they can make a percentage of subscription sales. And since we can see all that, which this has worked really well because they care a lot more. Almost every creator, I would say, has a deal like that. And the percentages kind of vary for everyone. But it's usually 20 percent commission and it's just one time.
It's not like reoccurring every month. It's just like a one time thing. But it gives them a little extra and something to work for. So a lot of these guys will post more than we are even asking them to. And they put more effort into the videos because they're getting something out of it. That's great. I feel like attribution is always kind of hard in these UGC campaigns. And so it's like hard to do affiliate revenue. And that's the strength, the huge strength of TikTok Shop because you just it's like built into the platform. People just sell physical products through TikTok on pure commission.
And for apps, it's like kind of hard to do that. But like the apps flyer thing seems like a great I think with like pure fresh account organic UGC, it's a little bit harder because the there's less trust to put like LinkedIn bio and stuff. But for influencer, it makes sense that you could still do like sort of TikTok Shop style strategies where you're like really incentivizing people to to to do revenue or to drive revenue. Yeah. Could we look at …
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- Sign nearly every creator in your niche before running paid ads$30K then $50K revenue in months 1-2; ~$100K in 70 days
- Pay new creators ~$200 for a trial month; sign the winners for 3 monthsCore of the creator program behind most revenue
- Give every creator a tracked link and discount codeShows who to keep and whose rates to cut
- Make creators keep your app link in their bio for the whole deal'A ton of downloads' in two weeks with no posts
- Send creators past winning videos as ideas, then let them make anythingFounder says creators love working with them; content performs
- Post educational slideshows that end with the app as the tracking toolBeat talking-head videos, per the guest; no numbers
- Run top creator videos as Meta ads and raise the budget every week~$2.50 per download; profitable by the guest's math
- Give creators scripts copied from competitors' ads and run them as adsLost money; replaced by organic winners
- Test a cluttered AI-made image ad listing ~8 featuresBest ad at under $2 per download, beating video
- Run peptide creator videos as TikTok adsTikTok kept rejecting them as medical advice; moved to Meta
- Give under-25s a short onboarding and older users a longer oneLonger flow works well for 25+, per founder; no numbers
- Show 'try it free' slides before a paywall with $40/year and $10/month plans
- Build the most-requested features, like a dose calculator, after legal reviewCalculator 'drove a ton of traffic'
- Remove or simplify features nobody uses
- Collect feedback everywhere, including creator calls, and ship 2-3 updates a week
- Tell creators about each new feature as a reason to postCreators all want to post about new features
- DM 1,000+ creators a week with one message, then get them on a callSigns many creators every week; delegating made it scale
- Skip creators with no real comments or few niche videos to avoid bought viewsEarly signings with bought views brought zero signups
- Review each new creator's first video before it goes liveA few redos; most videos were fine
- Give creators lifetime access and text them almost daily instead of view bonusesCreators do more than the contract, including TikTok Lives
- Repost as many creator videos as possible on the brand account
- Raise a small angel check for marketing; pay developers in equityFunded the creator program from launch
- Enter a trending niche where existing apps do no marketingFounder claims the app helped start the peptide-tracker trend
Tags: tiktok, instagram, creator-comp, revenue-share, one-time-commission