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A stacked bar comparison showing ten creators retained blind costing 8,000 dollars a month across retainers and GMV Max floor spend, with 5,600 of that on content that failed to convert, against 2,400 a month when only three proven creators are retained

Why GMV Max Underperforms for Most Shops

Sydney ReySydney Rey
Oct 17
Two panels comparing retaining ten creators blind at five thousand dollars a month producing three productive creators at 1,667 each, against sampling ten for 170 dollars and retaining only the three that converted for 1,500 a month, or 500 per productive creator.

Affiliate Retainers Should Be Earned, Not Offered

Sydney ReySydney Rey
Oct 17
A waterfall chart of an illustrative month showing TikTok Shop at minus five thousand dollars read alone, an Amazon lift of plus seven thousand five hundred at a twenty-five percent margin, and the two together at plus two thousand five hundred.

Measuring the TikTok Shop Halo Effect

Sydney ReySydney Rey
Oct 17
A rising curve showing the annual creator GMV thrown back into renegotiation when a commission rate changes, starting at zero on day one and reaching 363 thousand dollars at fifty active creators and 1.81 million at two hundred and fifty.

TikTok Shop Setup: What You Cannot Change Later

Sydney ReySydney Rey
Oct 17
A logarithmic bar chart of US TikTok Shops counted three ways against eight to ten thousand L3-plus creators, showing 803,500 registered shops at 80 brands per top creator, 370,000 shops with any sales at 37, and 5,700 shops above one million dollars at 0.57.

800,000 Brands Chasing 10,000 Creators

Sydney ReySydney Rey
Oct 17
A bar chart of annual cost per creator for four incentives, showing a five-point commission bump at 363 dollars and monthly samples at 204 dollars both marked as instantly copyable, against a kept monthly call at zero dollars and a dinner at 80 dollars marked as almost impossible to copy.

Building a Creator Community Creators Choose

Sydney ReySydney Rey
Oct 17

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A dumbbell chart comparing ten creators posting ten times against a hundred creators posting once, showing identical output of 100 videos but ten times the samples at 10 against 100, ten times the sample cost at 170 against 1,700 dollars, two and a half times the relationship hours at 20 against 50, and 90 repeat posts against zero.

Ten Creators Posting Ten Times Each

Sydney ReySydney Rey
Oct 17
A rising line showing the maximum payable per video as contribution margin times 94 dollars of GMV per video, with dashed lines at SOVA's 25 dollar average needing a 27 percent margin and its 13 dollar low needing 14 percent.

What to Pay Creators Per Video on TikTok Shop

Sydney ReySydney Rey
Oct 17
A scatter chart of videos produced against GMV generated, with a leaderboard campaign at 19,404 videos and 1.83 million dollars and a beauty brand at 2,000 videos and 250 thousand dollars, both sitting close to a dashed hundred dollars per video line.

Creator Leaderboards and Contests That Work

Sydney ReySydney Rey
Oct 17
Four bars dividing a week across shop management, orders, affiliates, content and ads, giving 48 minutes an area at four hours a week, four hours an area at twenty hours, eight hours an area at forty hours and sixteen hours an area at eighty

Why Meta and Amazon Playbooks Fail on TikTok Shop

Sydney ReySydney Rey
Oct 17
A five step chain showing four production hours a month, five surfaces reached, twenty surface hours, eighty dollars per surface hour on a four hundred dollar hourly production cost and twenty replays left behind.

Live Shopping Without an Influencer

Sydney ReySydney Rey
Oct 17
Four bars showing products covered in a two-hour live, sixty at two minutes each in the Chinese pass format, twenty-four at five minutes, twelve at ten minutes and seven at seventeen minutes in the story-led US pattern

What Separates a High-Performing Live Stream

Sydney ReySydney Rey
Oct 17
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