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A poster store on TikTok Shop · B2C · guest's own store

List a poster mockup on TikTok Shop, post one AI video, and print only after sales

3 sales on day one; the store went on to $100K in its first month

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What they did

Took an unused poster design made for a client, put it on a poster mockup (posters were easy to source fast, which matters with TikTok Shop's two-day delivery), listed it on TikTok Shop and made one video with AI (ElevenLabs voice + Midjourney images). When it got 3 sales, he left a $100 deposit with a local print shop so they would print on each call and bill his card afterwards.

What happened

First video had ~5K views and 3 sales on day one (the teaser says 280K views overall); the store did $100K in sales in its first month on AI content.
Stage
launch
Effort
One video
12:40
“So, I took this design, put on a poster mockup, this exact mockup, by the way, and put on TikTok Shop and made one video off of it using AI.”
Zuhair Lakhani
“But I think at the first day, it was probably at like 5k views, and it got just three sales. But that just validated that this could work.”
Zuhair Lakhani
13:08
“"Okay, instead of just doing that, here's a 100 bucks. Every time I I have a poster order, just make it for me, and then like, you know, bill my card afterwards."”
Zuhair Lakhani

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