Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Q21hQ-eLA
Channel: Steven Cravotta (steven.builds)
If you’re struggling to figure out what
content actually works to market your
SAS or mobile app, this is the exact
strategy I use to find high performing
content fast for 0upfrontandthenscaleittoreachmillionsofpeopleprofitably.AndI′veusedthisexactstrategytodrivehundredsofthousandsofappinstallsformypreviousapp,PuffCount,andscaleitto44,000 per
month in month revenue before I exited
and sold the business to a larger app
studio in Europe. And guess what? I’m
doing it again to scale my latest app.
And as you can see right now, it’s
finally kicking in. I am going to show
you my exact process, starting with
market research, launching deals in
contests, analyzing which pieces hit the
hardest organically, and then turning
those winners into profitable paid ads.
No fluff, no expensive agencies, no
chasing creators around, calling them,
emailing them 100 times, trying to get
them to make a decent piece of content
for you. Just simply a repeatable system
that you can start today with 0upfront,whetheryou′relaunchingyourveryfirstproductoryou′rescalingyourexistingbusiness.So,ifyoustickaroundandwatchthisvideotilltheend,youwillwalkawaywithabattletestedstrategyforfindingyourbestperformingcontentbeforeyoueverspendadimeonpaidads.Let′sjumpintoit.Okay,sothisisgoingtobebrokendownintofourdifferentphases.Numberonebeingmarketresearch.Numbertwobeinglaunchingadealinacontest.Numberthreeisanalyzingtheorganicwinnersfromthatdealandcontest.Andthennumberfour,we′regoingtoscaleonpaidads.I′mgoingtobedoingthiswithyouliveinthisvideo.I′mgoingtoshowyoueachpartofthisprocessthatIgothroughtofindwinningcreativesformybusiness.Andthenliveonthisvideo,I′mgoingtoscalethemonpaidadsandshowyoujusthowpowerfulthisstrategycanbe.Let′sstartwithmarketresearch.Ihavedroppedafullvideoondoingmarketresearch.Ifyouwantthein−depthguideonthat,youcancheckoutmyothervideothatIposted.Butforabriefrundown,marketresearchisverysimple.YoutypeinyourkeywordsonTikTok.Forexample,ifyou′relaunchingagymproduct,youcantypeingymworkoutsonTikTok.Andthenyoucanjustlookatthemostviralvideos.Thisisyourmarketresearch.Thesearethevideosyou′regoingtocreate.AndthenyoucanalsogoontheTikTokadslibraryorthemetaadslibraryandyoucanseewhatotheradsotherbrandsarerunning.Brandsareconsistentlyspendingmoneyonthiscontent.OnTikTokadslibrary,youcanevenshowyoucanshowtheadsfromuniqueuserseenfromhightolow.Wecanseewhichadshavethemostspendbehindthem.Sothisadisclearlycrushingbecauseithas200to300,000peoplewhohaveseenit.Wecanfilterthisandonlyshowactiveads,whichmeansbrandsarecurrentlyspendingmoney.They′renotgoingtobespendingmoneyontheadsifthey′renotprofitable.So,usetheTikTokadslibrary,usetheFacebookadslibrary,useTikTokorganicsearches,useInstagramorganicsearches,andfindoutwhatcontentworksforyourbrand,evenifyoudon′thaveany.Andobviously,ifyouhavepreviouswinningcontentfromyourbrand,youcanusethatasmarketresearchandusethattoguideyourstrategy.Okay,sonownowcomesthejuicypart.Howareweactuallygoingtogetthiscontent?WearegoingtouseaplatformcalledPosted.Andspoileralert,thisismyplatform,butIwouldn′tberecommendingmyownplatformifIwasn′tusingitmyselftoscalemyownapp.AndI′mgoingtoshowyouhowI′musingmyownplatformtogrowmyplatform.WeareusingPostedtogrowthePostedmobileapp.Asyoucanseehere,ourdownloadshavebeenupandtotherighteversincewelaunchedadealinacontest.AndI′mgoingtoshowyoueachoneofthese.Andagain,howyoucangetcontentwith0 upfront and zero
risk. Let’s dive into it. Our primary
product here is creator contest. So if
you click get started, you can set up on
the platform completely for free. You
can read our website to check out more
details. We have some example content
here and we even have some case studies
and testimonials from brands who have
done the same in the past. So if we jump
to the platform here, you can see that
we have one contest which is live and we
also have one deal which is live. And
I’m going to go through each one of
these, but I’m going to start with deals
first because this is the lowest risk
option and this is something that you
can start today with 0upfrontwithzerorisk.LetmeshowyouwhatImean.Ifwegointoourdealhere,wecanseethatwehavelaunchedadealforourprojectposted.Righthereintheprojectoverview,weexplainwhatourproductis,whatitdoes,andthenwesetrulesforthecontentaswell.Thecreatorsmustfollowthebriefandtheymustfollowtherulesifweaccepttheircontent,right?Wecanalsochoosewhichregionswewanttoshowthisto,right?So,ifweonlywantcreatorsfromtheUS,weonlychoosetheUS,butwedon′tmindthecreatorsbeingfromeverywhere.Andthenhere,you′llseetheinspirationcontent.Thisisthecontentthatwepulledfromourmarketresearch,eitherlookingatcompetitorsorpreviouscontentthathasworkedforusinthepast.So,weputthatthere.Thisbriefandthisinspirationcontentiswhatthecreatorswillseewhentheyputtogetherthecontentforyourdeal.AndI′mgoingtoshowyouhowitworks,right?So,creatorswillcomeinandtheywillsubmitcontenttoyourdeal.So,watchthis.Thiscreatormadethisvideoandhasanassociatedbidwithit.So,ifIwatchthispieceofcontentandIlikethispieceofcontentandthebidisokay,I′mokaywiththebid.I′mokaywithpayingthistoomuch.Iaccept.IamabletowatchthecontentandchoosewhetherornotIwantitbeforeIpayadimetothecreators.Thisisthemostpowerfulwaytogetcontentcreated.Right?So,we′regoingtogothroughtheflowhere.I′mgoingtogoaheadandacceptthispieceofcontentfromthiscreator.AndwhatI′llalsosayis,"Lovethis."So,boom.I′mgoingtogoaheadandpayforthiscontentrightnow.So,Ican′tshowyouthis,butI′mgoingtopayforit.Boom.So,wehavesuccessfullypaidforthatpieceofcontent.Now,thecreatorisgoingtopostitontheirownprofile,ontheirownTikTokprofileorganically,andthenwewillowntherightstothatfootage.So,I′vedonethisacoupletimesalready.I′veacceptedsevenpiecesofcontent,right?Um,andasyoucansee,ifIclickintooneofthese,wecandownloadthevideoandweowntheSparkAdscodeforlife.WeownthepieceofcontentandweowntheSparkAdscodeforlife.AndIwanttoshowyouwhatitlookslikewhen,let′ssay,forexample,acreatorsubmitsapieceofcontentandwethinkthebidistoohigh.Wedon′tlikethepieceofcontent.Youcanwritefeedback.So,forexample,thisguyEricTylerwith2millionfollowersmadethispieceofcontentandwelovedit,butwethoughtitwastooexpensive.Hewanted400. So
he said, “Hey, Eric, could you do 150
for this post?” And he said, “Sure.” So
he came back with a bid at 150. We
accepted the piece of content. He posted
on his profile and we now own this
video. We can download the video and we
own the Spark Ads code for life. And as
you can see, here are all of our
accepted submissions. We own this. We
can take them. We can download them. We
can run Spark ads or we can run regular
paid ads on Tik Tok, on Facebook, on
Snapchat, wherever we want. And we can
also repost this content across all of
our socials. So that is deals, the no
risk way to get content created for your
brand. And now I’m going to show you
contests. So we also have a contest live
for 3,000.Checkthisout.Socontestsarealittlebitdifferent.Samesortofstructurehere.Youhaveabrief,youhaverules,andyouhaveavailableregionsaswellastheinspirationcontent,right?Butinacontest,creatorswillpostorganicallyontheirownTikTokprofileandcompetetogetthemostviews.Soasyoucanseeinthiscontest,weputup3,000, which we
paid upfront. And then we have this
reward structure. So we are going to pay
the top 26 creators based on how many
views they get. Winner number one gets
500. Winner number two gets 250 and so
on. As you can see, we’re going to own
26 pieces of content at the end of this
contest. So, this is a great way to get
creators to compete to get the most
views for your brand. The creators will
compete with each other to win your
prizes, right? And so, if we look here,
we have a ton of creators who have made
content, right? But they didn’t get
enough views to win a prize. So, this is
almost free exposure for us. And the
creators are fully aware of the
leaderboard and of the prize pool. So,
we make it a very open and fair system.
The creators can see your contest. They
can see the leaderboard and they
understand whether or not they have a
chance at winning, right? The creators
can see this live leaderboard just like
I’m looking at it. But if we take a look
at, you know, our number one piece of
content here, this creator posted this
piece of content on her profile for the
chance to get paid and she absolutely
crushed it. She’s at 8,000 views right
now. She’s in first place, right? We can
take a look at another piece here. For
example, Jaca, like check this out. An
amazing piece of content. She posted
this without getting any money up front
for us. Just had a chance of winning.
So, this contest is going to end in a
couple days here. And based on who wins,
we will own all of that winning content
for life. And I’m going to come back and
I’m going to show you what this contest
looks like when it ends because right
now we have So we have 4 days left on
this contest, right? And you might be
thinking, “Hey, uh, you put up 3K and
you only have 37,000 views. That’s a bad
CPM.” Thing you need to understand is as
a brand, I know that this content is
valuable because I know I can scale it
on paid ads. So again, there’s 4 days
left in this contest. So we are going to
get more submissions. We are going to
get more views and the CPM is going to
go down. Creators tend to wait till the
end of the contest to submit their
content. But again, after this contest
is over, I’m going to own the winning
content for life to scale on paid ads.
And not only that, I’m speeding up my
learning curve to content market fit.
Based on this contest and based on how
these pieces of content do, I now
understand as a brand what works for my
brand, right? So, I can take these
learnings from this contest and I can
scale it internally. I can start making
videos on my own based on what these
creators did very well. I’m speeding up
my learning curve to content market fit.
I’m making creators compete to get the
most views from my brand and I own all
of the content afterwards. And
furthermore, if one of these creators
crushes it like Alyssa did and I can
invite her to my posted deal and then I
can get consistent content from her on a
daily or weekly basis, right? This is
the only platform you need to grow and
scale your content engine. So, we’re
going to let this contest finish up and
I’m going to show you the results here
shortly uh in the next 4 days. I’ll come
back. But I want you to know right now,
this is already a win for us because I
know for a fact some of that content
that was submitted and has a lot of
views, I know that I’ll be able to take
that and run it profitably on paid ads.
I’m going to show you the before and
after of our paid ads dashboard as well.
Right now, we’re running some content
that we got from a previous contest and
it’s performing good. It’s performing
okay, but I know from this contest that
I just showed you and this deal that
we’re running, we are going to get a
better performing piece of content that
we will be able to run profitably on
paid ads. So, with that being said,
let’s jump into the paid ads dashboard.
Okay, so here is our current ads
dashboard and our current performance.
As you can see, some of these creatives
we spent, you know, thousands of dollars
on, but check this out. So, this is all
content that we got from a previous
contest. I want to show you something
crazy. So, this is our winning creative,
right? It’s where we spent the most
money. Crazy CPC, crazy low CPC, right?
And it’s converting like crazy for us.
And we got this piece of content from a
previous contest that we ran. So, I’m
going to show you that contest and how
it ended up. Um, check this out. So,
that piece of content is from a creator
named Meera and Jojo. I’m going to show
you the get ready with me while I talked
about the app. I used it. So, college or
high school? Amazing. Maybe I should do
one of those, right? Show people how I
do my makeup routine. But uh here is I’m
just kidding. Uh here is our
leaderboard, right? And as you can see,
Mera and Jojo only got 2,000 views on
that piece of content. So at face value,
you think this piece of content flopped
cuz it only got 2,000 views. It is our
best performing, our best converting
creative, and she got last place in the
contest. And thank God she did because
that piece of content crushes. Views do
not mean everything. The quality of the
content, the audience of the creator,
how they present, how they create their
content is everything when it comes to
scaling with short form content. So,
let’s check out the video that she
submitted. Here it is. So, we own this
piece of content now and we can scale it
with paid ads. An amazing creator who
had the opportunity to participate in
our contest and otherwise we would have
never known that Mirror and Jojo
existed, right? We would have never
reached out to this creator. But that’s
what the contest platform does. This is
our whole goal with Posted. We’re trying
to make the interaction between brands
and creators more seamless. We’re trying
to make it an efficient system because
the old system is inefficient. Gone are
the days where you’re paying tens of
thousands of dollars to some big creator
who doesn’t give a a crap about your
brand, right? Stop paying big creators.
Big creators are not the ones who
convert the best. Running a contest and
making the creators compete to get the
best performing content for your brand
is the way to go. And another thing, 95%
of the creators out there don’t get any
deal flow. It’s only the top 5% of
creators who get all the deal flow. So,
they charge you insane prices. That’s
why they do it because they get all the
all the content deals, all the creator
uh influencer deals, right? Our platform
makes creator marketing much more
efficient. From the bidding to making
the creators compete to get the most
views on the contest. You can join the
platform for free. You can start a deal.
If your budget is lower or if you’re
hesitant about spending money on a
contest, start with a deal. It’s okay.
You can do it for free and you can watch
the content before you pay for it. So,
I’m going to stop right there. I’m going
to show you the results after our
contest ends. I’m going to show you how
many organic views we got. And then
afterwards, I’m going to put all those
creatives, all the winning creatives on
paid ads. And I’m going to show you how
our ad account scales. If you’re
enjoying the video so far, give it a
thumbs up, show the YouTube algorithm
that you want to see more content like
this that actually teaches you something
instead of watching the brain rot that
we’re all used to on YouTube. So, give
the video a like and you will see more
content like this. It would also be
greatly appreciated. And back to it,
ladies and gentlemen, we are back. The
contest has finalized and by the end of
it, we hit 97 total submissions and
234,000 views. We got to a 13CPM.Again,234,000views,andwehad97creatorssubmitapieceofcontenttothiscontest.Andhereareourwinnershere.Thewinnergot6162,000views,40,000fornumbertwo,andsoon.So,wearegoingtoownthetop26piecesofcontent,right?Weownallofthiscontent.We′regoingtohavetheSparkadscode,andwe′regoingtobeabletodownloadallofthesevideosandrunthemonpaidads.Andalso,ourdealhasbeencrushingaswell.Wegot90proposals.90creatorssubmittedapieceofcontentwithoutuspayingthemadimeupfront.AndIhaveactuallyacceptedafewofthese.Weevenhavesomemoreinreview.Someofthesearelookingactuallyreallygood.Likethisone.IamIjustmade350. It’s going to tell
you link it to the piece of based on
views. Um, so we’re going to probably
approve a couple more of these. But in
the meantime, in the past couple days
here, I’ve accepted 12 posts. A lot of
these got declined, but that’s okay
because we didn’t spend any money on
these, right? We did finalize 12 posts
here. Something I want to make
abundantly clear right here is we are
sitting right now at a 30 cent cost per
click and a 1.30costperinstall.So,rightnow,we′repaying30centsperclickfromTikTok.Andtogetaninstall,we′repayingabout130. So,
let’s see how that number changes and
ideally goes down after we run the new
content that we’ve gotten from our
contest and our deal. And if this video
is feeling a little bit complex to you,
stick around because I promise by the
end of it, it’s all going to make sense
and it’s all going to come together and
you’re going to see how our cost per
click and our cost per install goes way
down. Back to it. So, we are going to
take all this winning content from the
deal and from the contest and we’re
going to put it on our paid ads channel
now. All right, everyone. So, boom. Our
contest has ended. Our deals are still
coming in. So, we have a bunch of
content live. And this is Mark, the
wizard behind my paid ads. He ran all of
my paid ads for Puff Count. Help me
scale from 3K to 40K MR. I’m opening the
floor up to him to kind of go through
our ad setup currently and what we’re
going to be doing with all this winning
content from our contest and our deal.
All right, here’s a very quick tutorial
on how I took our winning content from
the contest, uploaded it to Tik Tok,
launched a test campaign, and got
1CPIastheresultcomingin.So,everythingthatyouneedtodowhenyourcontestisfinishedisyougoaheadandyou′regoingtocopytheadcodefromthecontest.NowyounavigateintoTikTokandundertoolscreativelibraryyougoaheadandselectsparkadspostyou′regoingtoapplythecodeforauthorizationandjustclickconfirm.Perfect.Nowwe′regoingtogoaheadandwe′regoingtocreateadsusingthispost.So,you′regoingtoselectapppromotionsmartplusturnoniOS14andselectyourapp.Callthistestone.Perfect.Now,allyouneedtodoiswhenyouwantUStraffic,ofcourse,youselectUSonlylanguage.Iwouldleavecompletelybroad.Irecommendyoutodoatestbudgetofaround75 a day with
five creatives. optimization goal should
be installed and then you’re going to
turn on this
toggle authorize post and now you should
select five videos here in this case we
just edit the one example video so I
will choose it here again I recommend
you to use at least five of your winning
pieces of content that’s pretty much it
would recommend you to use app profile
pages so you’re going to click here and
we already have one so it’s going to be
this one main one confirm in case you
need to create one. There was the create
button and that’s it. It’s pretty much
that simple. I’m going to show the exact
campaign structure also that we’ve been
running. So here are two campaigns with
exactly the structure. As you can see
here, the data is looking pretty good.
We’re going to click here on edit and
I’m going to show you the exact campaign
structure that we are using. It’s app
promotion smart plus iOS 14 dedicated
campaigns.
We’ve posted as our app selected. I
named this is a Canadian campaign. So I
named K CA smart plus install. This was
our fourth contest and the third
campaign. So I called it 4.3. It this is
Canada but you can also do US of course
optimization goal install. And we used
exactly the structure that I
recommended. In this case, it’s four
creatives. And we use our app profile
page is this is exactly the structure
that we’ve been using to receive 1CPIs.Likewecanseehere,1 CPI with a total cost of 200 of
79.Ihopethathelped.AndincaseyouhaveanyissuesconnectingyourSparkIDwithyouradaccountandlaunchingtheads,pleasefeelfreetoreachout.Wearebacknowafterafewmoredaysofrunningtheads.Andwejustwantedtogiveabriefupdateontheperformanceofournewwinningcampaignsbecausethisalwaystypicallyhappens,right?Thelongerthatyourunthecampaigns,themorethealgorithmislearned,thebetterthedatagets,themoredatayougetinside.So,theresultsjustgetbetterandbetterandbetter.Andwe′rejustgoingtogiveyouaquickupdateherebecauseourresultshavegottenmuchbetter.Asyoucanseehere,bynowwespendaround2,000. And when we
check out branch, we acquired 2318 users
with good users CPI of 83 cent, which is
amazing, right? When we initially
launched in the first days, we had I
think a CPI of around 1.Yeah.Soitwasaround120. We cut it down by 40
cent, which is quite a big percentage.
Um, and all this just because we let the
ads run further and validate the data
after some ad spend. This is also a
recommendation I can give to you.
Initially when you launch, let the ads
run for a few days before you cut them
off because performance normally will
increase the longer the ads learn. And
here are the results. So for 2K we got
around 2,300 users. 50 85 cent CPI like
really really good results. All this
content came from our posted contest and
our posted deals. I’m happy with the
data now and we are ready to scale
basically. Okay, so I want to break down
exactly what we did here and this is
pretty much everything, right? We ran a
posted contest and we ran a posted deal
which got us a bunch of content. We then
put all that content into three separate
campaigns. Five pieces of content per
campaign. You don’t want to flood the
campaigns with too much content or they
won’t get enough spend. You want to make
sure that each piece of content is
tested enough. So, we let that run for 3
days at 300 spend per day. The more you
let this run and the more money you put
in, the more reliable the results are
going to be. So, you know, don’t run
this piece of content for one day at
40.It′snotgoingtogiveyouit′snotgoingtogiveyouresults,right?Youneedtogivethealgorithmstimetolearnaboutyourcontent,learnaboutyouridealcustomerprofile,andoptimizethesecampaigns.Andfinally,onceweletthesethreecampaignsrunfor3daysat300 spend per day, we
identified our top five winning
creatives. There might be less for you.
There might be two. There might be one,
there might be three, right? But
whatever creatives are crushing for you,
you put them into one campaign and then
you scale this to the moon. And then
guess what? We run the whole process
over again, right? We take the learnings
from these three winning creatives and
now we understand better what content
we’re looking for. So we’re going to run
another contest and we’re going to run
another deal and we’re going to keep
optimizing this content until we get to
the most optimal piece. Right? I’ve done
this time and time again for every
single one of my businesses. You can
find one piece of content, two pieces of
content that will scale profitably for
you for years, right? You have to think
about the scale of most of the markets
out there and the scale of Facebook ads
and Tik Tok ads. People are spending
$50,000 a day. And we haven’t even
touched the surface here. This is the
process to find winning paid to ads and
we try to do it as fast as possible and
reduce our risk as much as possible by
running posted contests and posted
deals. A huge shout out to Mark here.
So, go give Mark a follow. He’s always
dropping sauce like this in the ad
space. If you join Posted and if you
start a deal and start a contest, Mark
and I will help you optimize your
campaign. We’ll help you take your
winning creatives from your deal, from
your contest, and throw those into paid
ads and we can do exactly what we did in
this video for you as a brand. So, go
over to postapp.com, get started, again,
completely for free, and you can achieve
results like this.