u/FancyCount7546

I would really appreciate advice from people who have actually reached $10k+/month selling their own product on TikTok Shop.

I sell my own tote bag brand, and the highest I've ever reached was around $3k/month in revenue (not profit), and that was while running GMV Max ads. Right now, without ads, I'm usually doing under $1k/month in revenue.

I'm trying to figure out what my biggest bottleneck is because I feel like I'm putting in the work but not seeing the results.

Right now I:
- Post about 1 video a day (sometimes every other day).
- Reuse a lot of my packing/organizing footage with different hooks instead of filming completely new videos every time.
- Have sent out around 50 affiliate samples, mostly to smaller creators (I've already hit the 1,000 affiliate invitation limit).
- Keep testing different video ideas, but nothing has really taken off consistently.

For those of you who eventually broke through to $10k+/month, what was the biggest thing that changed?

Was it:
- Better hooks/videos?
- Posting more frequently?
- Better affiliates?
- A higher volume of content?
- Just staying consistent long enough?
- Something else?

If you were in my position, what would you focus on first?

I'm not looking for a shortcut, I know this takes time. I just want to know if I'm focusing on the right things or if there's something obvious I'm missing. Any advice or hard truths are welcome.

Hey everyone!

I run a small TikTok Shop brand called Tutu’s Tote Bag, and over the past few months we somehow grew to 500+ sales with 4.9-star reviews.

Recently I started focusing more on the affiliate side of TikTok Shop and actually hit my starter pack invite limit pretty quickly. I noticed the tote bag tends to perform best when creators do their own content style rather than my videos, especially “what’s in my bag,” reviews, school/work, and travel-type videos.

I’m still pretty new to scaling the affiliate side, so I’ve been trying to figure out the best ways people consistently find quality creators after hitting that limit.

The main thing customers seem to like is that the bag has lots of pockets/organization inside compared to most tote bags.

For those who’ve scaled through affiliates, what strategies ended up working best for you?