Maxed AI · B2C · AI lifting and fitness coach app
Hire a few creators to post videos like yours every day
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What they did
Starting a Sideshift campaign to find five creators who, like him, make videos every single day. He waited to hire creators until he knew which features and angles drive downloads, warning that hiring UGC creators before then burns money.
What happened
Just starting; no results yet.
- Stage
- growth
“finally starting a a Sideshift campaign to get, you know, five other people like me that can make videos every single day as well.”
“I would avoid hiring UGC creators. You really need to know the exact direction, um and the angles that are going to work before you want to burn money doing that.”
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