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Cal AI · B2C · photo calorie tracking app

Sign a second creator in the same niche as your best one

Didn't work at all; the first creator made $100K profit in a month

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What they did

After one creator paid $20K for a month drove $120K of signups (~$100K profit), signed another creator in the same niche.

What happened

The second creator didn't do well at all; guest thinks the niche audience had already seen the app. Large niches like fitness can take many creators; small ones only one.
Effort
one creator

In their words

Alfie Dickens - Meet The Marketing Genius Behind Cal AI

Play from 16:51

Alfie Dickens… plus per month. I think a goal for a long time was like, sign 100 influencers in a month, which like some I think on a few months we did sign 100 influencers, so it's uh it's like three a day, which is which is pretty cool, more than. But we did have like normal business strategy. An example was like we worked with a creator, did like 100,000 in profit for us, basically. We paid them like 20,000 for the month, and they did 120,000 of signups,

16:51

Alfie Dickensum, just in that month. And then we tried to sign another creator that was in the same niche as them, and they didn't do well at all. And so like diving into that and seeing why it didn't work well. And it kind of goes back to what you were saying before, and, you know, sometimes doing more in a niche means that your ROI goes down, because people have already seen it. Um, I think, thankfully, the fitness niche is big enough to be able to go at different different spaces, whereas some of the niches we found, you know, didn't. We weren't able to do that, and having one influencer in that niche was enough, and we we didn't need to expand on that much more.

17:28

JosephWhat were the other niches? Like you guys definitely were huge in fitness, but then were there other content niches that Cal app Cal AI like applies to that you also did influencer marketing?

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