SMB Market · B2C · app for buying small businesses
Use young creators with get-rich-quick hooks to sell a business-buying app
40M views and $1.2M, but ~45% churn; dropped for older creators
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What they did
Early SMB Market content used ~20-year-old creators with relatable get-rich-quick hooks ('I bought a Boomer's business and got rich', 'make your next 10-20K recurring revenue tomorrow'), glasses to look younger, filmed in cars, speaking to Gen Z and crypto audiences.
What happened
Lots of sign-ups (part of 40M views / $1.2M generated) but churn ran ~45% because get-rich-quick viewers can't afford to buy a business; the client flagged rising churn 2-3 months in.
- Effort
- several months from ~February 2026
In their words
The Superwall Podcast · Dawson Gibbs - The 1 Billion Views Content Strategy Every App Should Steal in 2026“we were using like 20-year-olds, right, of like the ICP and more of like a relatability type of understanding at the beginning of the hook”
“we would get a lot of sign-ups, but the churn was like 45%”
“people that want to get rich quick are not the people that can actually buy a business that's going to get them recurring revenue, right?”
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