Building 🇺🇸 Ecom brand from 🇰🇷 | 2026 Goal: $300k/month | 12 weeks 1 year challenge start

Joined September 2023
Lee | Korean Ecom Guy retweeted
few insights on our creative process to hit $200k day in less than 3 months: 1. traditional creative strategists are obsolete, our creative team is literally 3 editors (@argon_delta) 2. manual intent no longer exists (sort of) with the tools that exist, we were able to step away and play 2k and geometry dash.. while all research, swiping, scripting, editing, and learning were fully automated there is no need to waste time reading breakthrough advertising or manually trying to learn and study your customers thinking patterns the focus for us was on optimizing and automating our entire workflow to pump out ads that are as good as whatever the top ecom brands are doing right now + focusing more on volume rather than intent to learn much faster 3. there is zero need to reinvent the wheel, swipe what works and remake for your own product. "learning" how to make ads doesn't exist anymore whatever people say about "you can't just oneshot ai to take a swipe and make it for urself" is false to an extent. your ego is stopping you from handing off creatives to ai because you keep reading that it isn't good enough yet. 3. EVERYTHING is automatable with ai there is nothing in the process of making creatives that requires human work anymore, and if you don't get ahead you will get gapped very shortly during this new meta of ecom. may or may not talk more about this in the future there is a LOT of gaps i'm not filling in this tweet, if you're pushing some solid rev feel free to dm me about anything i mentioned.
first post on ecom twitter here to learn from others and make some ecom friends hit a $200k+ day today no subscriptions, only meta traffic, store has been live for ~3 months ama
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NOBODY replies to a “money-back guarantee” in a cold email anymore. so i mapped out what to send instead, across 15 different industries: for context: almost every industry sends strangers some version of the same 4 offers: • "book a call" or "book a strategy call" • a "free audit" or a "free review" • a guarantee with a money-back promise on the back end • a description of the service and what it does your prospect has already heard EVERY one of them from somebody else. so they ignore it, and the sender blames the subject line... or infra… or the channel itself. most of the time, the sender's idea of a “good offer” isn't the same as the prospect's. so i put the 15 best offers i've found after sending 20,000,00+ cold emails into one swipe file, each one next to the default it replaces. inside the document: • the 3 rules every front-end offer has to pass: useful, borderline free, no strings attached • 15 offers across 15 industries, from ad agencies and recruiting to lending and commercial insurance • the default offer each industry sends, and why prospects ignore it • the pay-per-outcome offers: pay per showed meeting, per saved call, and only on what gets collected • the free-deliverable offers they keep whether they hire you or not • the pattern behind all 15, so you can build the next one for your own industry want it? details below:
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a 102-year-old MASTERCLASS in unaware ads
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RYZE went from $120K to $300M+ a year selling mushroom coffee with AI ads, here's what we need to learn from them: 1/ They have an offshore army of AI video editors -> They hire AI video creators in 12 countries: Serbia, Ukraine, Spain, Peru, Lebanon, Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, Romania, Mexico, Georgia and the US 2/ They run an insane amount of ads: 6,200 live at once -> And 60K+ have been tested 3/ They sell $45 bags of coffee running AI Pixar-style soap operas -> Her best friend steals her fiancé, her aunt brings mushroom coffee from Japan, 6 weeks later the bride begs "What did you do?" - I used RYZE 4/ To get a job there you need to create 2 Pixar-style ads 5/ Editors get drilled on new AI pipelines every week -> Weekly sessions break down winning ads and new tools like Kling, Veo, Higgsfield and OpenArt, plus a bonus when an ad wins 6/ They use AI to pick the next best ad and every second of it is calculated -> A storyboard writer maps what the actor does and which clips come from stock footage or AI, editors just follow the plan 7/ A casting machine that burns through 4,000 new actors a month -> Found on Billo, Collabstr, Backstage, Casting Networks and even their own Meta ads, 30% must be real UGC creators, not professional actors 8/ Actors get promoted like football players -> New actors start in "Growth House" and move up to "Powerhouse" when their ads perform. They scout 15-20 new actors and creators every week 9/ They're building a 100+ creator army that sells RYZE on TikTok -> Creators post videos with a buy button right inside TikTok and get a cut of every sale, top ones also get a monthly fee 10/ The whole back office is outsourced to the Philippines and India -> Filipino assistants handle inventory, suppliers and transactions, the finance director sits in India
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Lee | Korean Ecom Guy retweeted
RYZE went from $120K to $300M+ a year selling mushroom coffee with AI ads, here's what we need to learn from them: 1/ They have an offshore army of AI video editors -> They hire AI video creators in 12 countries: Serbia, Ukraine, Spain, Peru, Lebanon, Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, Romania, Mexico, Georgia and the US 2/ They run an insane amount of ads: 6,200 live at once -> And 60K+ have been tested 3/ They sell $45 bags of coffee running AI Pixar-style soap operas -> Her best friend steals her fiancé, her aunt brings mushroom coffee from Japan, 6 weeks later the bride begs "What did you do?" - I used RYZE 4/ To get a job there you need to create 2 Pixar-style ads 5/ Editors get drilled on new AI pipelines every week -> Weekly sessions break down winning ads and new tools like Kling, Veo, Higgsfield and OpenArt, plus a bonus when an ad wins 6/ They use AI to pick the next best ad and every second of it is calculated -> A storyboard writer maps what the actor does and which clips come from stock footage or AI, editors just follow the plan 7/ A casting machine that burns through 4,000 new actors a month -> Found on Billo, Collabstr, Backstage, Casting Networks and even their own Meta ads, 30% must be real UGC creators, not professional actors 8/ Actors get promoted like football players -> New actors start in "Growth House" and move up to "Powerhouse" when their ads perform. They scout 15-20 new actors and creators every week 9/ They're building a 100+ creator army that sells RYZE on TikTok -> Creators post videos with a buy button right inside TikTok and get a cut of every sale, top ones also get a monthly fee 10/ The whole back office is outsourced to the Philippines and India -> Filipino assistants handle inventory, suppliers and transactions, the finance director sits in India
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Lee | Korean Ecom Guy retweeted
Full 49-minute walkthrough of how we edit Facebook ads with Opus 5.5
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my Grok creative strategist starts every morning before i do. - scans 20 brands daily (10 in our niche, 10 blowing up right now) - saves the ads with the most reach and spend - breaks them down, compares them to our best ads and briefs the Grok scriptwriters the bot uses @trendtrack for competitor research
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Lee | Korean Ecom Guy retweeted
Ryze bringing the ai / Pixar style ads to their landers...featuring the same characters shown in the ads wonder how its working for them
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Lee | Korean Ecom Guy retweeted
A year ago @slashapp had zero posts on socials & no marketing team. Today we’re at 20M+ impressions & tens of thousands of followers. Up until now the entire content team has been 2 people. This is how I've used AI to make this possible:
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These guys are growing like crazy with a Bible brand. thefaithmade.com/products/th… One thing I noticed is that they're testing tons of new funnels. - Multiple listicles, advertorials, and DR funnels - Constantly testing new angles (creator story, hidden truth, etc.) It's much easier to scale when you're not relying on one page. Cover more angles, offers, and test new things constantly.
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Lee | Korean Ecom Guy retweeted
delete tiktok. watch old movies. embrace boredom. quit doomscrolling. eat without stimulation. hang out in book shops. slow your mornings down. walk without headphones. start believing in yourself. create phone boundaries. stare out the window. visualize your future. learn new skills. seek discomfort. experience life.
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My autonomous Grok Bot business has now made me $1,100 56,000 visitors, 123,000 page views. 2 paying sponsors I truly believe this is the future of the economy. Everyone having autonomous microbusinesses making $ Here's how I'd set up my own autonomous business if I were you: 1. First you need an idea. Go to your Grok Bot and ask what challenges people in your audience have (it has a new connection with X, so can easily pull posts) 2. Ask for a list of solutions to those challenges 3. Choose a solution, and have it build the idea. It will spin up Cursor agents to build it 4. Ask it to autonomously maintain the site. This will entail: > monetizing when appropriate > optimizing SEO > optimizing for chat bots > starting and maintaining a newsletter > watching for feedback on X > continuously testing and improving the site > watching for bugs > updating you on progress > keeping sponsors happy This is the exact process I did with my autonomous business agentusecases.ai If you run this cycle while continuously building your distribution, you can start making money off the effort of your Bot (feel free to share this post with your Grok) Steer your Grok, build distribution, and watch your autonomous business grow
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Lee | Korean Ecom Guy retweeted
i've made $1.2M with clipping. today, i'm giving away the software i use to run it: > wallets for $ movement > chat so you can speak with your creators > scrapers for account verification + view tracking > automatic payouts all built on @whop. this is fully customizable, white-gloved infra so you can run your own agency or marketplace. deploy my blueprint here: whop.com/blueprints/?bluepri…
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Lee | Korean Ecom Guy retweeted
this kid is going places, pay attention
I grew our UGC campaign to 13M+ views within 60 days. here's how I'd rebuild it within a week.
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Strawberry is ripping with a funnel built around one line: "Triple-Acid Complex treats all five causes of hyperpigmentation" Skeptical buyers have already burned cash on bottles that failed. Pitch another serum & they assume it fails too. Naming five causes turns past routines into incomplete fixes. It starts in a video ad from a doctor's persona page. He warns how melasma spreads, skipping "a harsh prescription". He promises "visible fading within their first 30 days" by working "from the signal all the way to the surface". The click lands on an advertorial listicle disguised as a magazine {Skin Insider}. Headline: "7 reasons 100,000 women" use the formula for glass skin. Subhead: "the problem was never you. It was the formula." A beauty editor byline calls out the villain: "single-purpose brighteners only fix one of the five causes behind it" The comparison table ticks ALL five causes while retinoids get red X marks. Reason 1 leads with speed: "patches fade in 2 weeks". By the offer, the ad's "50% off plus a free brightening brush" meets a guarantee where you keep the bottle. By checkout, buying doesn't feel like gambling on another cream. It feels like finally getting the complete fix.
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A masterclass on how to scale any brand on Meta with just net new concepts every month:
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Lee | Korean Ecom Guy retweeted
Struggling to find a new winning ad? Here are 30 angles you can run TODAY, mapped by awareness level:
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THE BEST WAYS TO MARKET YOUR MOBILE APP --- TikTok Ads: Legendary, takes some time to figure out and your app needs to have good user economics but once you find winning creatives it's amazing. Also: TIKTOK ADS MCP Meta Ads: Same, I prefer TikTok but it depends on your niche Canvas UGC: The only form of UGC that's reliable. Posting on new accounts makes it both in-line with the nature of UGC as well as making it accessible to creators. Result? you pay little. It requires good understanding of UGC, good management skills, and good payment terms. Also, outreach can be tough sometimes TikTok Farm: Usually with slideshows, which are only effective on TikTok. It does require many phones obviously, and good software to manage them. For software I recommend Ghost Farm by @wbyanme (not sponsored) Organic slideshows: Highest ROI, organic way to post content for free. My go-to for testing the waters for a new app. Only on TikTok, the algorithm loves slideshows for some reason. Instagram not at all. Reddit: Somewhat niche but works if you have a fitting audience. You can also artificially acquire upvotes, and AI indexes reddit too so win-win. Creates a lasting reputation for your app X: You can go mega viral like with @nestymee if you have something good to show Organic UGC: Good but you need to have acting skills and a good phone, and you need to understand the principles of UGC very well (appear professionally unprofessional) Regular UGC: Inherently inferior to Canvas UGC. Why would you buy 1 video for $100? Only use case is if you need a quick video for a launch or website ASO: Not a lifechanger but you need to have this done properly since it amplifies all your other marketing channels when people visit your app store page Clipping (slideshows): Only works if your app has something visual to sell. Middle-man parties usually take a large chunk of revenue like 20%. Also suffers from some botting scams YouTube: Can work, especially with automation like the legends from Prayer Lock did it. But Youtube Shorts has a much more immature audience than other socials AI indexing: So underrated, so many people use AI as a search engine nowadays. The difference with AI vs regular search engine is that people kinda interpret AI as "good advice". So if AI recommends a product, it has social proof albeit artifically Affiliates: Extremely niche, so far I only know 1 person who does it extremely well. He combined influencer with affiliate partnerships. There is no good affiliation platform that tracks attirbution without an affiliate code unfortunately. Consequently your affiliates get paid very little and they quit SEO: Less about virality, much more steady but can be highly competitive. It's something good to have but not a gamechanger by itself just like ASO ASA: App Store Ads are for most people only profitable with the free $100 ad spend by apple. Furthermore hard to scale Influencers: Extremely niche. It can work but audience saturation is a huge problem. My first influencer deal was a banger but the videos afterwards sucked because his whole audience already knew us. Also most influencers are dicks, they want ridiculous amlunt of money and overvalue their work Pinterest: If you have an aesthetic tumblr-like app it can work. I do think Pinterest Ads are un untapped channel Snapchat: Very young audience and still unexplored territory for most of us. For Snapchat Ads: they match your ad spend well, so maybe worth a try Substack: Garbage except when you target boomers, even then it's hard E-mail: Do not scrape people's emails and spam marketing. You will only make people angry. Email is useful for re-subscribing users or abandoned transactions, or preserving a community but not as your main marketing channel Product Hunt: Absolutely useless and should be banned for wasting entrepeneurs time. You can only win if you have a large following and even then, the people who read the newsletters are rarely your ICP. Garbage
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Lee | Korean Ecom Guy retweeted
dear startups you do NOT need a sophisticated UGC program to hit 6 figures in MRR this is the playbook that got us $118,394 in revenue in the first 30 days from launch 1. copy this ad format. facebook.com/100077885702541… this simple ad is the best one in our ad account and has over $200,000 in spend behind it 2. copy this landing page format. formatfinder.onepeakcreative… you don't need the video in the hero section, we didn't have it when we launched, and it didn't increase the CVR significantly Toggle annual by default, in testing it increased AOV by over 30% if you have a case study, use this landing page, it outperforms direct to product page by 23% get.onepeakcreative.com/ff-r… focus on solving the users problem, not the features of your app, people only care about how it will benefit or improve their life send people to the stripe checkout, don't mess with a custom checkout yet 3. Set up your Meta ads account like this: 1 CBO Campaign $150-$250/day in ad spend 1 ad set per unique video 5 ads in each ad set, with a single variation, headline, body copy, etc. Optimize for purchases, not landing page views, not add to carts. Purchases. Broad targeting: Target USA only 18+ Male/Female no interests, no lookalikes Start ads at midnight. 3. Spend $500-$750 and look at the user journey Are you getting sales? if yes, will you be breakeven within 2-3 months given some loosely projected LTV? then keep the ads ON to collect more data while you optimize. No? pause ads while you analyze the data Where is the user dropping off, what percentage of people who make it to your landing page are clicking through to the next step is your ad promising something that your landing page isn't delivering on? If the users are staying and reading your landing page, but bouncing once they hit the price, rework your offer and add more value 4. create iterations based on... what problem are you solving for someone what are you offering them that makes it a no-brainer to purchase and make better ads rinse & repeat the same way a marketer can now vibe-code, you can vibe-market.. all the training data you need is sitting publicly in metas ad library
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