Oren discusses how early product seeding on TikTok enabled beverage brand Chlorophyll Water to generate viral demand and secure retail distribution.
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Goli offers Rolexes, Lamborghinis, and Miami condos to top TikTok Shop affiliates
“Their incentive package for affiliates going into Q four is insane. Well, I mean, my incentive package is basically if you generate enough GMV, like the market value of sales there, it's like Rolex, Lamborghini, a condo in Miami, night at Amangiri. Like that's…”
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YouTube is not an effective primary direct sales driver for niche brands
“So if you are a niche product, you have less of a chance of reaching your audience there, but you have a product with wide appeal and you have a viral format, you have a lot of opportunity for success. But I still don't think of that as a YouTube, YouTube as a…”
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Oren John: Utility drives internet sharing more effectively than coolness
“The IP angle is a great angle, but I think the utility angle is still the best angle to take for anything that's going on the internet, right? Because people are more likely to save and share something with utility than they think is cool because we were so in…”
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Oren John: Niche fragrance startups must sell chemical utility like pheromones
“I think, you know, if you really want to make something in that niche, and you don't have the infinite marketing budget, apparently Creed has, then you have to go back to a good old fashioned chemical utility. Whether it works or not.”
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Oren John: TikTok Shop success requires scaling a creator affiliate network
“So, so TikTok shop is a scale game. This is the thing that breaks most CMO's brains right now is everyone back to our comment about one TikTok account, whatever they started off the account with is that is TikTok is a game of affiliates, right? So basically ot…”
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Oren John: Big brands pay 50-100 TikTok creators $1.5k–$2.5k monthly retainers
“Bigger brands will build this up to 50 creators, hundred creators. They are thirsting for creators to be able to do this because it's a lucrative system. For that 1525 hundred bucks a month, they make, let's say, 15 to 20 videos, you know, sometimes more that …”