Tim Keen

I help 7 and 8-figure brands find agencies they love | 1x exit | $100M revenue from TikTok & FB Ads

I help B2B agency owners and consultants build predictable lead gen systems they actually own, based on my experience building and selling a 7-figure agency in just 2 years.

My favorite clients are high 6 or 7-figure agencies who are running on mostly referrals (or one channel), who are looking to "get LinkedIn working". 

At some point you typically realize there's more to it than just writing content and posting.

That's where I show up: I can help you build a full inbound + outbound funnel that brings you ideal-fit clients every month, without you grinding all day on content.

I believe that:

1. The tedious work that agency owners used to outsource to black box lead gen agencies is now actually 

- really easy, 
- highly automatable, and 
- should be done in house once you get over the limiting belief that it's hard, and

2. Learning how to run a modern go-to-market system - literally learning how to fish - is one of the best possible uses of a founder's time.

Plus it's fun.

What I offer:
Modern Lead Gen Bootcamp - 4-week intensive where you build your complete lead gen system. Lists, outbound, lead magnets, ads. Live coaching.

Modern B2B Sales Advisory - 3-4 month engagements where I help you build your entire GTM function. Strategy, systems, tech stack, team training.

What people say:

"Over the course of the program with Tim I doubled revenue in about two months." - Alexandre Olim, Plutus Media

"Building a lead gen system that gets me leads that already are half closed because of my content." - Laksh Sehgal, Neuroid

"Before buying Tim's course I would spend hours and hours on a single post and now I can write 3-5 posts in one hour." - Pedro Leite, Adstart

"Best course I had about agency leads. Been in the game for 4 years, it's the best course out there I've found." - Saar Bell

What I help you build is running in my business right now, and I have been at the pointy end of lead generation on LinkedIn for the last few years.

DM me if you run a high-6-figure+ agency and would like a friendly, no-strings-attached roast of your current lead generation system.

VP of Marketing

Building the best DTC agency in the country with some ecom legends.

I collected 18,731 leads from LinkedIn.

(And closed over $5M in revenue doing it.)

This year, 90% of creators:

- built lead magnets nobody wanted
- collected emails that never converted
- treated lead magnets as content, not sales assets

Me?

I exited my agency. Built a system. Documented everything.

Now I'm giving away the entire playbook.

Here's what's inside The 7-Figure Lead Magnet Method:

→ How I closed $5M+ in revenue from LinkedIn
→ The viral idea framework (endless content, on demand)
→ Turning lead magnets into actual revenue
→ Converting leads on the back-end (where the money lives)
→ The distribution formula to flood your funnel on repeat
→ Building a web of lead magnets that scale with you
→ 5 mistakes that destroy lead magnet performance
→ What you need to do next (step-by-step)

BONUS: The $1M+ Lead Magnet Swipefile 

It's MY exact system behind 18,731 leads and a 7-figure exit.

Want the full 8-chapter playbook and BONUS?

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I'll DM you everything.

P.S. We must be connected, otherwise LinkedIn blocks the message.

P.S. ♻️ Repost this and I'll send you the full recordings of my 3-day LinkedIn Cohort masterclass where I teach THIS EXACT COMPLETE LinkedIn + lead gen system behind these results.

I get agencies more ideal clients | 1x exit | GTM strategy & coaching

This Gemini 3 system replaces a $120,000/year agency sales team.

(I built it to kill the Freelancers for good)

Most agency owners spend $5k - $15k monthly on:

- Ghostwriters who sound like robots.
- Lead gen agencies that burn your reputation.
- VAs who need constant hand-holding.

I'm done with the BS.

I spent 6,000+ hours testing agency sales workflows.

I built a fully agentic system that does the work for you.

It doesn't help you work, it replaces the manual labor.

I'm giving away the "Gemini 3: Agency Sales System" protocol today.

Inside the Agency Sales System:

→ The Gemini 3 prompt library for founders

→ My internal Sales Onboarding Kit

→ The "Deep Personalization" outreach workflow

→ 8-chapter playbook on 7-figure lead magnets

→ The "Sanitizer" pass to kill generic AI tone

→ My 4-week lead gen implementation roadmap

Start owning your infrastructure.

Want the full protocol and system?

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I'll DM it over.

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P.P.S. ♻️ Repost this and I'll send you the full recordings of my 3-day LinkedIn Cohort masterclass where I teach THIS EXACT COMPLETE LinkedIn + lead gen system behind these results.

I turned a 30-minute call into 47 LinkedIn posts.

Here's my exact internal AI system:

This is how I generated $4.7M in agency revenue from LinkedIn content. Then sold the business.

Now I'm giving away the exact system for free.

It's a 30-minute walkthrough + AI agent showing how I turn one call into a week of content.

What you get:

→ The full system I used to hit $4.7M (not theory, the actual workflow) 
→ Access to every prompt involved + AI agent access 
→ A free 60-day content strategy 
→ The method that took me from 1 post in 3 hours to 3-5 posts in 1 hour
Results from people using this:
→ "Doubled revenue in about two months" 
→ "Too many leads booking on my calendar" 
→ "Booked 3 calls in Week 2 alone" 
→ 5-10 qualified appointments per month (without ads)

You already have the content, it's sitting in your call recordings.

Want the free AI Agent that does this completely for you?

Comment "CALLS" and I'll send it over right away.

P.S. ♻️ Repost this and I'll send you the full recordings of my 3-day GTM Cohort masterclass where I teach the COMPLETE LinkedIn + lead gen system behind these results.

I'll create your next lead magnet in 8 minutes for free.

(this AI system generated 18,731 leads and $5M+)

Most creators spend 20+ hours creating one lead magnet.

I built an AI system that does it for you.

Here's how it works:

AI analyzes your LinkedIn profile and business

It identifies your audience's top 5 pain points

Then generates complete lead magnets for each one

What you get:
→ Lead Magnet Swipe File (18,731 leads generated)
→ 5 complete lead magnets ready to launch
→ Viral post templates for each magnet
→ Automated capture and delivery setup
→ Conversion sequences that close at 67%
→ My $5M Claude Code Sales Vault
→ Step-by-step implementation guide

This AI system turned LinkedIn into my #1 revenue channel.

Want your own AI lead magnet machine?
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I'll DM it to you.

P.S. We must be connected or LinkedIn blocks the message.

P.S. ♻️ Repost this and I'll also send you my 3-day internal training on booking inbound calls on autopilot.

NEVER cold outreach again.

This free LinkedIn playbook replaces $10k/month ads.

Most founders struggle with lead generation:

- Sending 100 DMs a day for 2 replies
- Burning $10k on ads with terrible ROI
- Posting daily with zero inbound calls

I just packaged the EXACT playbook I used to generate $5M in inbound revenue.

The system is stupid simple:

→ Set up your profile to convert (not just impress)
→ Book calls automatically from every post
→ Turn lurkers into buyers with warm DMs
→ Launch lead magnets that book 5+ meetings daily
→ Triple your engagement without the algorithm games

I used this to build and sell a 7-figure agency in 2 years.

The best part?

Everything's automated. Your content works while you sleep. Calls book themselves. DMs convert on autopilot.

I've included everything in the playbook:

→ Profile optimization checklist (15 minutes to 3x conversions)
→ My exact call-booking post templates
→ DM scripts that close without being salesy
→ Lead magnet swipe file (these got me 3,722 comments)
→ Content formulas for 300% more engagement
→ Real examples from my $5M journey

Want the playbook?
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I'll send it straight to your DMs.

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♻️ P.P.S. Repost this and I'll also send you my $5M Post Database with every template that actually converted to revenue.

I spent 15min / day building a system that books 500+ sales calls.

Alex O. used it to double his revenue in 60 days.

Most agency owners waste 3 hours a day on LinkedIn.
- Scrolling for "inspiration"
- Writing deep thoughts nobody reads
- Chasing likes that don't pay bills

I built a 7-figure agency by ignoring the noise and ran a boring, 15-minute daily loop instead.

I’ve documented the full 60-day architecture into a Notion roadmap.
It’s the exact documentation I used to exit my agency.

Inside the 15-Minute Daily SOPs:

- The 3-step "High-Value Handshake" for dream clients
- The 5-Post 'Authority' Bank (Monday-Friday templates)
- The 'Snatch Question' script to skip small talk in DMs
- The Minimum Viable Profile checklist for high-ticket sales
- The Frictionless Tracker to manage 100+ leads in minutes

Stop being a content creator and start being an operator.

Want the Notion roadmap and the 15-minute SOPs?

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I’ll DM you the link.

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P.P.S. ♻️ Repost this and I'll send you the AI Prompt Library with more than 75 prompts you can use to COPY the EXACT COMPLETE LinkedIn + lead gen system behind these results.

here's my $5M LinkedIn sales system, take it.

(it turns followers into monthly recurring revenue)

Most creators have an audience but no business model.

- They post content that gets likes but no leads
- They have followers who never become customers
- They dream of MRR but settle for sporadic PayPal payments

I did the opposite and built predictable revenue.

I've spent 2 years perfecting this with 300+ agency owners.
It's not a course. It's the actual infrastructure of a 7-figure business.

Today, I'm giving it all away for free.

Here's what's waiting for you:

- The Zero-to-One Offer Generator (build your first $5k offer)
- My Easy Sell Intro-Offer framework (closes itself)
- Discovery call recordings from actual $10k+ closes
- The exact audit template that converts 67% of prospects
- 8 bonus templates including my client case study swipe file
- Lead magnet posts that generated 3,722 comments

This system took me from random DMs to $300k months.
1. Connect with me
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I'll DM you the full Zero to One pack.

P.S. We must be connected or LinkedIn blocks the message.

P.P.S. ♻️ Repost this and I'll also send you my Automation GPT Suite that handles discovery calls for you.

I just analyzed 18,731 LinkedIn DMs that generated $5M 

(here's the exact playbook)

Most people send DMs that get ignored.

They're either too salesy or too generic.

I spent 3 years perfecting what actually converts in the DMs.

Then I built an AI that writes better DMs than me.

Here's what happened:

My students started booking calls with prospects who never responded before.

One agency owner closed 3 deals in his first week using it.

Another went from 2% to 18% response rates overnight.

The difference?

This GPT doesn't write templates. It reads your prospect's actual writing style and mirrors it perfectly.

Casual prospect? Casual response.
Formal CEO? Professional tone.
Creative founder? Playful energy.

I'm giving you the exact same DM system:

→ The GPT that writes like you (but better)
→ Analysis of 18,731 real DM conversations
→ My "invisible buyer" detection framework
→ 50 highest-converting openers by industry
→ The 3-message sequence that books calls
→ Video breakdown of a $25K deal closed in DMs

This replaced my entire DM team.

Want the DM GPT that generated $5M?

1. Connect with me
2. Comment "ANALYZE" below

I'll send everything to your inbox.

P.S. We must be connected or LinkedIn blocks the message.

Want me to write 60 posts for you?

I wanted to make the best lead magnet ever.

So, now, if you book a call with me, I

- Scrape your LinkedIn profile
- Scrape your post history
- Scrape everything I can find on the internet about your business

and run all that through a series of prompts & processes I have been working on for over a year.

What you get is:

1. An Authority Score out of 100 (based on what I can see and what you tell me)
2. 3 things you're doing well
3. 3 areas you could improve
4. Your headline re-written and improved
5. Your about section re-written and improved
6. 3 full ideas for lead magnets you could make today
7. 3 POSTS already written for those lead magnets
8. 60 pre-written posts based on top performing templates, with notes telling you what you would need to do to finish those posts. Yes, 60 - two full months of posts.

Why am I giving so much away?

- Firstly, to see if I could make the ultimate lead magnet.

I've been working on scorecards, personalized landing pages, and prompts for so long it felt like fun to put it together.

- Second, because I believe this stuff is table stakes now.

My paid program is not "let's re-write your profile together and get your first clients yay".

It's "if you already run a b2b business, let's build an always-on system that combines content, lead magnets, warm + cold outreach, and LinkedIn ads to build a predictable funnel"

So I need you to have the foundations in place before we can really work.
Now, I am offering you your own custom strategy doc just like this.

Comment DOC below if you want one of these :)

18,731 leads later, I finally documented every Claude Code tool that actually converts

Most agencies waste $10K+/year on tools they barely use.

I spent 6 months building the exact same tools with Claude Code.

For free.

Now 300+ agencies are using them to automate their entire stack.

Here's what's in the vault:

The Lead Generation Suite:
→ LinkedIn scraper (finds 500 prospects in 10 minutes)
→ Email finder with 94% accuracy
→ Personalization engine for outreach

The Sales Automation Pack:
→ Proposal generator (67% close rate)
→ Discovery call analyzer
→ Pipeline tracker with AI insights

The Content Machine:
→ Post repurposer (1 post → 7 platforms)
→ Hook analyzer based on 18,731 leads
→ Engagement predictor

The Client Success System:
→ Automated reporting dashboard
→ ROI calculator
→ Renewal predictor

Each tool includes:
• The exact Claude Code prompts
• Step-by-step setup videos
• Deploy instructions (even if you're not technical)
• Real examples from my agency

Want the Claude Code Agency Vault?

Connect with me
Comment "STACK" below

I'll send you instant access.

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I watched agencies struggle with the same sales problem for years until one conversation changed everything.

You're targeting prospects who already have an agency. Which means they need to hate their current setup, get their whole team on board to switch, AND you have to hit their DMs at the exact moment they're ready to move.

The percentage of your total addressable market that meets all those conditions at any given time is microscopic.

So you're fighting over scraps while 95% of potential clients sit on the sidelines because switching agencies feels like open heart surgery.

Intro offers flip this completely.

Instead of asking prospects to divorce their current agency, you're selling them something that layers on top of what they're already doing. A $2,500 audit that can boost their existing campaigns without changing their strategy or their team.

Sudenly you can talk to the whole market. Not just the tiny slice that's ready to blow up their current setup.

The desperate agency owner who needs results in 90 days will buy it. The satisfied client who just wants to optimize will buy it. The cautious CMO who would never switch agencies but loves incremental wins will buy it.

You went from selling to 3% of the market to selling to 100% of the market.

That's not a sales tactic. That's completely different math.

Jordan West

E-Com Investor & Podcast Host | Multiple Exits| Avid Golfer, Biker + Hiker | Dad Of 3 | CEO + CMO | Mastermind Host

My Journey 
When I was 23 I decided to buy a Taco Del Mar restaurant... I knew I had made a huge mistake at 2pm the first day when only 3 customers had walked in... (and two of them were my parents haha) 
For 5 years I worked hard to grow sales every way I could think of and in the end, tripled our revenue which still didn't seem to matter on the profit side. (I lost a lot of money 💰)

The one thing that I seemed to be the best at in the restaurant endeavor was marketing and getting people in the door. 

Fast forward to 2014 when my wonderful wife Carmen (definitely my better half) started a modest baby clothing line and was selling at craft markets. 

I asked if I could test running a few ads on Facebook... and the rest is history. I learned every up-and-coming strategy and tactic and helped grow the small start-up to a multi-million dollar company and still growing!

Since then we have acquired multiple DTC brands and have built an agency (upGrowth Commerce) to service our brands as well as others who are in a similar situation to us!

In 2019 we started the podcast "secrets to scaling your e-commerce brand" which is now in the top 50 business/marketing podcasts in multiple countries including Canada and the United States.

I love connecting with people, so please connect. (I do have a no a**holes policy though, so don't connect if that's you.) 

I talk all about scaling businesses using paid ads on “Secrets To Scaling Your E-Commerce Brand”.

Chief Executive Officer

I made this post a few months ago... and this HAS CHANGED MY LIFE. 
I have an airport hack for ALL OF YOU! (that may just change your life) 

Lately... at the airport I've been doing something kind of weird. 

You probably wouldn't peg me for this kind of person but here it is. 

I've been...

1. Putting my phone in my pocket 
2. Not having airpods in. 
3. Talking to whoever is around me that looks interesting and doesn't have their head buried in their phone. 

And HERE'S the WILD THING! 

Today alone I made 2 insane connections... 

the first was a nice couple that was sitting beside me in the emergency exit row. 

They turned out to own (with another group) a bunch of motel properties that I had been eyeing for a MASSIVE RESORT that i think could be an insanely huge attraction for the city I live in. I had been thinking about it for a while and it's crazy that they just happened to be beside me on a random flight. Many more other connections too... but I digress. 

The second was a random guy who runs point for one of the largest inference chip companies in the world helping put in data centres... 

Well I just happen to have a local data centre deal that I've been dreaming up for my town. 

The first convo actualy helped steer me in a totally different LIFE direction than I was thinking about for the next 5-10 years TBH (not exaggerating) 

So... the lesson. 

Get off your effing phone 
Talk to people. 
The universe/god/life wants to give you good things... but you won't get them staring at your phone or sitting in your office. 

they are out there! 
Anyone else ever have moments like these?

I AM HIRING NA-BASED SOCIAL COMMERCE STRATEGISTS AT Social Commerce Club! 
We are opening two pods a month right now and not slowing down any time soon. 

If you have TikTok shop experience and/or can learn fast and consider yourself a fast learner and have DTC experience, PLEASE DM ME! 

Our core values 

Low ego learners 
High agency executers
Move with competitive speed 

If this sounds like you... 
DM ME 
We're on a rocketship.

Our culture is amazing. 
Our people are amazing. 
Come join us! (or if you know anyone let me know!)

Most brands still think TikTok Shop and Amazon are competing channels...

They're not.

Heres what we're seeing at SCC 👇

TikTok content goes viral → product gets discovered by Hundreds of THOUSANDS of new buyers

Those buyers go to Amazon to "check reviews" before they buy then some buy on amazon.

Amazon ranking jumps because of the search volume spike and search, find, buy. (the holy grail of Amazon rankings)

Higher Amazon ranking = more organic Amazon sales

More Amazon sales = more budget to put back into TikTok creators

Round and round it goes...

The brands that figured this out are printing. 

The ones treating each channel separately are leaving MASSIVE money on the table 💰

HIRING AT Social Commerce Club (sales people!) 
WE ARE HIRING NA Based sales people who can be up and running within 2 weeks! (yes FAST!)

If you have TikTok shop experience and/or can learn fast and consider yourself a fast learner and have DTC experience, PLEASE DM ME! 

Our core values 

Low ego learners 
High agency executers
Move with competitive speed 

If this sounds like you... 
DM ME 
We're on a rocketship.

Our culture is amazing. 
Our people are amazing. 
Come join us! (or if you know anyone let me know!)

I had our TikTok Shop OS mastermind call yesterday and I'm genuinely blown away. 👇 

The people in this group are operating at a level I don't see anywhere else. 🤩 

Yesterday someone broke down their entire process for going viral every single day on TikTok - the research, the system, the execution. 

It was one of the best breakdowns I've ever heard. The kind of stuff you don't find in a course.

I will legit amke an SOP just from hearing what she had to say.

That's what this group is. Real operators sharing what's actually working right now.

If you're serious about scaling on TikTok Shop in 2026, applications are open.

here's the link to apply (serious operators only) 

https://lnkd.in/gmBiHerZ

🔥 close to 100M of revenue driven on TikTok Shop and we’ve noticed one correlation that is staggering 

At scale 
32 views = $1 of on platform sales 
Plus halo 

Our mission is to drive 1b of social commerce revenue for brands in 2026
That’s a LOT of video views! 💰💰🙌🏻

Anyone else seeing a similar correlation?

Another day... another screenshot win for the team at SCC (this is why we're platinum at TT)

TikTok Shop
Still the most underrated  TOFchannel opportunity for brands in 2026 

Lower CAC on all other channels
Massive HALO 
WINNING

AMA

Every other TTS agency we talk in 2026 to is set up like this… 

1 strategist 
1 VA 
6-8 clients 
Job? 
Don’t get fired 
Results 💸
Cost 💰

Social Commerce Club 👇 

1 senior strategist 
1 associate TTS strategist (level of everyone else’s senior strat) 
1 full time sampler + creator recruiter 
1 community manager 
1 ops/compliance specialist 
1 media buyer 
1 designer 
Job? 
Scale massive accounts as a Tiktok shop platinum partner 🔥

Results? 
Huge scale for our brands 💰💰💰💰
Cost 💰💰💰

Just sayin…

Something interesting that we are starting to see on TikTok shop... It's something that you would only see or notice if you've been in the e-commerce space long enough! 👇👇

Here’s what I’m seeing!! 

At the beginning of scaling on TikTok shop, it seemed as though there was some sort of upper limit that you would hit where you couldn't scale beyond that. You could have super high return on ad spend, but essentially you wouldn't be able to scale beyond a certain point and start to get some of those really big economies of scale that you can see on Meta 

What I’m seeing now is the maturity of the channel and how fast this maturity is coming about! 

Way faster than meta. 

But... this all comes with one big thing that happens on every amazing platform, and that is competition! We have seen what that looks like!

The amount of enterprise brands that are coming to us at Social Commerce Club is staggering! 

Why? 

Because we have to be one of the only platinum partners in North America!

Big brands are flocking over because when you can spend $30,000 to $50,000 a day profitably with a massive halo on two other channels and top of all things get really, really interesting!

I'm very interested to see what the next year is going to look like in the space. 

Everything is changing so fast. What do you think?

Every person that has any sense of the brand and ecommerce market knows this one thing... 

TikTok shop and social commerce is the next HUGE TOF growth lever. 

It's the awareness machine. 
The content machine 
The revenue machine 
The R & D machine 
The customer feedback machine. 

EVERYTHING 

This is why brands need to look at it compeltely differently. 
It will take a paradigm shift from the classic "meta ads" world you've been used to. 

Questions?

Biggest mistake brands are making in 2026 on TikTok Shop

Tiktok Shop being in your marketplace division. 

Why? 
Marketplaces are inherintly demand capture 

TikTok Shop is demand gen. 
Treat it close to DTC + performance, not PPC 

The brands that get this perform WAYYYY better. 

It matters how you look at the channel. 

Paradigms matter.

How TikTok Shop feeds your other sales channels in 2026. 👇 (it's not what you think)
It's super obvious to me that TikTok Shop is going to be the absolute breakout channel of 2026 for a lot of brands! but...

At the end of the day, the brands that we work with care about one thing and one thing only: profitability on all channels combined and how they all work together.

I'm constantly surprised at the amount of new agencies that have popped up who don't realize the hundreds of millions of dollars that most brands are doing on other channels already, and that TikTok Shop is the ultimate top-of-funnel awareness channel that yes, can make money, but also drives to these other channels. 

I've talked constantly over the last couple of years about the halo effect that we see from TikTok shop over to Amazon. 

But let me tell you a little bit more. 

For us, it's not just the actual sales halo that we are seeing. 

What is even more interesting is the massive amount of content Halo that we are seeing. The biggest issue that we saw early on was that we needed to capture all of that content and be able to deploy it easily over on Meta. That's where our friends at Refunnel came in. T

hey were able to help us do that across the agency at scale, and it has definitely been a game changer. If you are not capturing that content and repurposing it over on Meta at scale, you are playing on hard mode this year! 

This is why I'm obsessed with the idea of unified commerce at Social Commerce Club, even when people have said, "Don't you guys just do TikTok shop...?" 

No! We came from the DTC world. I

t's what we know, and we believe that it all works incredibly well together. And then we also love to use Amazon as the final product capture in the whole omni-channel strategy! 

If you have no idea how all of this works together or how to launch, and your brand does over $10M a year on other channels, send me a DM or get ahold of my team at Social Commerce Club! 

This is what we think about every day.

We spend multiple 7 figures on GMV max every month!
Here's the GMV Max playbook as of today on TikTok Shop...

FIRST!!! Most brands are still overcomplicating it.

The ones winning usually do a few simple things really well

1. Keep the campaign structure simple

-Run one consolidated GMV Max campaign
-Don’t split budget across a bunch of “smart” campaigns
-TikTok rewards signal density... not account complexity

2. Narrow the product focus

-Give the campaign a clean lane
-Don’t dump in a random mix of SKUs
-A focused set like new arrivals gives the algorithm better inputs

3. Stop treating this like a media buying problem

-GMV Max is heavily influenced by content volume
-The more relevant creator content a product has, the easier it is for TikTok to scale it
-Better content inputs usually matter more than fancy account structure

4. Use target ROI as your main lever

-If performance is beating target, raise the ROI goal
-Force more efficiency before just spending harder
-This is one of the few real optimization levers that actually matters

5. Use the grace period strategically

-Don’t rush to force all the spend in the main campaign window
-If you can hit targets efficiently early, you create flexibility later
-The extra runway can help you scale cleaner

6. Build around content momentum

-TikTok will naturally push the products with the strongest content ecosystem
-More creators, more relevant videos, more proof
-That’s what gives the machine something to optimize against

That’s really the playbook right now!!!!

Less segmentation
Less manual control
Less account hacking

More focused inputs
More creator content
More trust in the algorithm

GMV Max is rewarding brands that simplify the structure... (and us at Social Commerce Club lol)

ABOVE ALL... stregthen your content engine - let the robot do the rest!

Most enterprise brands think TikTok Shop is a demand capture channel.
They're wrong!! (let me tell you the stats why)

After 2+ years all-in on TikTok Shop for enterprise brands, we've seen the opposite at Social Commerce Club

TikTok Shop is the ultimate demand gen engine!!

creating halo effects that boost sales everywhere else.

Key stats brands miss across our data sets

Viral campaigns drive 33%+ uplift in Amazon sales from halo alone (branded search spikes, traffic explodes, velocity up: no links needed). 

A TikTok Shop sale is worth 3x a DTC sale in ecosystem impact. 

62% of TikTok's incremental impact occurs on Amazon. 

According to a recent forbes study... coordinating with Amazon drives 40% YoY new customer growth (we have seen this at SCC)

What we've seen... 

TikTok Shop creates net-new demand via discovery, creators, virality: halo spills to Amazon, DTC, retail.

Don't treat it like an Amazon clone or any marketplace - it's much closer to DTC

“Our customers aren’t on TikTok.”
What they mean… 👇 

“I personally haven’t seen them there… so the app must be for kids.”

Reality?

You’re confusing your For You Page with reality.

TikTok isn’t “just kids.”

It’s literally an algorithm.

And the fastest-growing segments are adult buyers…

Here’s the data that makes the objection fall apart:
About 1 in 3 U.S. adults use TikTok.

Even more important…
40% of ages 30–49 are on it.
26% of ages 50–64 are on it.

Also…

The adult base grew FAST.

Now the part most founders miss:

You don’t “see” buyers on TikTok because buyers + adults are quiet.

About half of U.S. adult TikTok users have never posted a video…

They’re consumers, not creators.

They scroll.
And discovery > intent…

People buy what they didn’t wake up planning to buy.

Globally (TikTok ad planning data, Jan 2026), the ad audience breakdown looks like:

25–34: 35.3%
35–44: 16.4%
45–54: 9.2%
55+: 8.4%
25–44 is literally the “action” age band.

Even better…
An Edison Research survey (Oct 2025) found TikTok users 25–44 lead all age groups in taking action after ads:

54% seek more info
47% make purchases

And if you still think it’s “teen money”…

TikTok Shop did $15.82B in U.S. sales in 2025 (EMARKETER).

Your customers are on TikTok.
You just don’t see them yet.

Want our SCC systems but don't want to commit to a retainer? 

Ok... here you go! 
The TikTok Shop OS 
in 30 days we install our systems for scale. 
And you grow. (with or without us) 

Apply here  

https://lnkd.in/gp3Trhxv

When I owned my brands... I despised influencer marketing!! Why?? 
Because it always felt like gambling! (don't worry i found a fix) 👇 

One big creator deal. $10k. Hope it converts.

It doesn't. 10K wasted. 

I figured something out though... 

Here's the model that actually prints 💰

Product seeding → affiliate conversion → retainer investment

Here's how it works 👇

Seed 50-100 micro creators with your product
No upfront fees. Just product cost.

Track who actually converts!

You can do this all with an army of spreadsheets... 

or you can use SARAL - The Influencer OS's performance dashboard that shows you exactly who's driving sales, not just views 

Double down on the ones that work

Affiliate → retainer. Now you're paying ONLY for proven performance

Repeat. Scale. Compound.
Your best creators become long-term brand partners

This is exactly what I preach with TikTok Shop! 

Most brands skip steps 1 and 2.
They go straight to expensive retainers with unproven creators.

SARAL - The Influencer OS is the operational engine behind this whole system.

Inbox keeps your creator outreach organized
Performance dashboard shows you who's actually selling
SIA (their AI) manages relationships so nothing falls through the cracks

I've been advising the SARAL team and helping them build this for brands over the last year.

The brands printing with influencers right now(off TikTok Shop)?  They're running this playbook.

Go check them out at 

https://lnkd.in/gYXKru7y

#saralpartner

Hottest 2026 take in e-commerce (brand world) 👇👇


In the next five years we will be talking about social commerce, including Tiktok shop, but not limited to Tiktok shop, as the central driving factor for the top of funnel of almost every brand on the planet! 

I saw this coming two years ago, which is why I went all in. 

We are still so incredibly early.

Brands have no idea. 

The big enterprise brands that are coming to us still don't understand what it is doing in the funnel, the insane amount of halo that it is creating on every single other channel. 

The thing is... every other channel will start to understand how they can build it out for themselves.

You think that Meta is done testing this? Absolutely not! 

They are going to be losing a tonne of market share until they figure this out. 

You think Amazon won't figure something out? 

You think there won't be a new competitor in the space?

The problem is, you need to build the muscles now in your organisation. 

You need to not waste time working with agencies who don't get it. 

You cannot hand this off to your Meta agency; they just don't understand! 

This might be the most pivotal and important time for brands of the next five to ten years. 

Agree? Disagree?

Booked shoptalk 🙌🏻
But… 

Decided not get tix this year. 
All I want is to talk to interesting people this year (maybe a SAAS partner or two, maybe a cool brand or two) 

Who’s going and wants to hang with Parker Kump and I? 

Dm me 🙌🏻

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K all (brand owners) - I have an ask... (and a give) THIS IS CRAZY POST BE WARNED lol
When I was a multi-brand owner, I would get invited to talk at events and podcasts etc ALL THE TIME. 

I would argue as a large agency owner I HAVE WAYYYYYY more to talk about now and a way bigger view on commerce in general... (we are aiming to drive 1 billion in social commerce revenue this year after all) 

but... most events make agency owners pay BIG MONEY to keynote (also WTF??) 

So here's my thought... 

I am a REALLY good advisor 
had 5 of my advisory clients exit last year
every consumer brand I worked with grew at least 2X profitably. 

So... here's my thought
LET ME GET BACK IN THE BRAND GAME HAHAH 

I will advise your brand
Take a small amount of equity only if we grow 
Will be public facing and one of the faces of the brand online 

Here's what the brand needs to have 

1. Minimum 5 Mill sales (be at PMF) 
2. Wants to grow huge 
3. has appetite for Tiktok shop 
4. Wants someone to be the face 
5. No supplements sorry 

If that's you... DM me and we can chat

What do I get out of it? 

1. I get to speak at more events as a brand owner. 
2. I get to see growth of a brand again as an owner. 

I know... crazy idea right? 
But I know there is someone out there right now looking for help JUST LIKE THIS and we could create a win-win! 

DMs open!

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