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How Mikey Used AI To Make $50k (TikTok Shop Case Study)

By Michael Bernstein

Summary

## Key takeaways - **AI Automation for Video Production**: Using N8N automation, you upload scripts to Notion, press execute, and it generates videos via AI tools like VO, placing them in Google Drive without hiring anyone. This setup took 6 hours to configure but now runs with one button, freeing time for other tasks. [02:31], [04:23] - **TikTok Viral Formula: Replicate Top Scripts**: The formula to go viral is to steal scripts from the past week's top videos, replicate the characters for two-thirds of the video, and innovate slightly on pre-hooks from recent trends. With a banner account, you can access and copy what's working to ensure high performance. [07:49], [08:02] - **Exploit Language Delays for Quick Wins**: Take viral US TikTok videos, translate them to French or other languages, and post them to capitalize on the one-month delay in trends across regions, leading to 100% success rates as seen in accounts hitting 540k views. This strategy repeats across business models like organic dropshipping and Facebook ads. [09:01], [11:18] - **Gemini Video Prompt Replication Hack**: Upload a video to Google Gemini—not just an image—and ask it to generate a prompt to replicate the video for tools like Sora 2 or VO, making it easy to copy successful content without manual effort. This speeds up replicating other people's viral videos. [15:17], [15:38] - **AI Enables Fast First-Month Profits**: With AI tools, affiliates can achieve 54K GMV and 15K profit in the first real month by posting a few videos daily on multiple accounts, following trends, and using provided scripts and products, though account bans remain a challenge. New AI advancements like Sora 2's character consistency make videos realistic and competitive. [00:03], [17:34]

Topics Covered

  • Can AI automate video production with one button?
  • Why replicate viral scripts to dominate TikTok?
  • Does language delay create arbitrage opportunities?
  • Will AI tools make money-making dangerously easy?
  • How does community accelerate AI edge?

Full Transcript

You're at 50K in a month.

>> 54K GMV in one month. 15K profit.

I'm a genius. You just press a button.

You press execute. It just puts the videos into this drive. You don't need to hire people to make the videos for you.

You can just leave an automation run.

Your videos will be made.

>> Like you literally press one button and it's done.

>> This is the formula to go viral on Tik Tok.

Did you know that you could literally upload a video, not an image, and then ask it to make a video prompt to replicate that video for you?

This AI opportunity is not going to be around forever.

>> Bro, you are back, >> bro.

I'm back, but I'm not back.

I'm happy, but I want more.

>> You're at 50K in a month.

>> 54K GMV in one month. 15K profit minus some expenses.

8K profits in a month is great.

I'm not happy. But I get it.

I I get what you're saying though.

I get what you're saying because you had all these ups with organic and with the other stuff where it was so crazy.

And now in comparison, it feels different.

But you have to keep in mind it's the first real month of you doing affiliate like actually following it properly, not by yourself like [ __ ] >> Bro, look, I try to figure things out myself and I kind of did and then I was like, why?

I just gave up. I'm like, what is the point?

because there's no real reward.

Like in my head it's like if you're trying to figure things out yourself, you get all the credits and everything.

Like wait, I still got all the credit from the organic side even though I like wait why you only have one life.

Why am I wasting my time?

I want to do other dumb stuff. So you know what?

Yeah, >> you guys just give me the source and then I'll implement it and then I'll still get the credit because there's still some stuff that I did because everybody gets the exact same information and depends on how you executed.

I still have brought it back to me.

>> True, true, bro. When you showed me your automated [ __ ] that was impressive.

Let's get into that. Like, we gave you a bunch of sauce on the content, but like how you produce the content is crazy.

It's it's like it was mind-blowing when I saw that.

>> Nobody knows this. Okay. Ah, this is so annoying because it's it's fine because where where I found the information about this was in the events, the best in a there's this one really smart French guy.

He he just introduced me to someone YouTube video.

It's called N8N thing.

It's some weird code automation thing where literally all you need to do is just once you set it up, you press a button, it can make whatever you want.

It's hard to conceptualize, but if you make a if you're making video videos, like a bunch, you can put like a script just automate it. It will generate the videos for you, page, everything.

>> I can try and describe it as much as I can, but people wouldn't understand.

You just press a button, you don't do anything.

You don't need to hire people to make the videos for you. Blah blah.

You can just leave an automation run, your videos will be made.

Bro, I literally logged in for like 6 hours one day with somebody just trying to figure it out how to get it to work and everything.

And then once I got it to work, life was great.

>> Okay, wait. We said all of this.

People have no idea what you're talking.

You have to show this. You have to you have to share your screen and show this because this is actual stuff.

>> So, as you can see, hen automation.

Those of you who know what hen is, it basically allows you to make this.

It's so annoying. I don't even want to show it because there's so much effort that went into this. But I think it's fine because like people just won't, >> bro.

No one will execute this.

You can tell no one's going to do this.

>> Nobody knows this. This is some >> So just look at this. Oh, you could already tell this is [ __ ] >> So let's get a little technical here.

This is where the retention drops.

Be quick. I'll be quick. I'll be quick.

Assuming you have an Excel sheet with scripts and videos and whatever you want to make, it takes that information and then it just sends it to like the VO thing.

Then VO gives the video back and it puts the video in a Google Drive and then you have your video and then life is easy.

Okay, it wasn't that hard to expect.

>> So people understand what you just said.

Let's go back the very first step.

You upload a script onto notion and put the link of notion in the front of this whole machine.

>> Yes. What do you do next or what happens?

>> You just press a button.

You press execute and then once once the ex also you can put as many videos as you want in the notion. By the way, once it press you press execute, it just puts the videos into this drive. So these are some videos that I >> That's just ridiculous.

>> He left because of the smell.

You think he left because of stress? No.

>> Obviously, bro.

>> And then you just have to edit it and that's it.

like you you press one button, you add one scrub and you're done with the whole thing. Don't have to do anything, >> bro.

You're chilling. Life is great.

And you can do it for Google Video 3.

You can do it for Sora 2 now, which I'm now going to set up because there's so much that I just found out. You can do it for a gen as well. You can do it for literally anything.

You can do it for 11 Labs.

Name a tool. This is how you know it will work. Name the tool 11 Labs.

Add the API to the end of it. If it has this, you can put it here and you can automate whatever you want.

>> Nobody will understand, guys.

Like, and it's way easier to set up than you would think.

But that >> that's ridiculous. That's ridiculous.

So, like it leaves you so much room to actually focus on the most important things.

And this is like kind of what I love about AI right now because you can still like you can you can actually focus on making a good script and then you can put that notion in.

You can triple the time you spend on only making a good script and the rest is done for you by literally pressing a button.

And I'm not over exagger like you literally press one button and it's done.

>> Yeah. Cuz like well it spends it takes people maybe like 3 to four hours a day depending on their volume to make the videos.

You've gotten all that free time back.

You some people who've outsourced it pay people to actually edit the stuff.

You've gotten some of that money back.

You just pay the credits cuz usually you pay for the credits and you pay to for the people's time.

That's been cut in half. So I am a I am a genius.

I am the sauce master.

>> You are. This was like when you showed this to me, I kind of freaked out because it's like the first initial thought I always have.

When something's too easy, it's like [ __ ] But obviously, you can still stand out a lot.

Like even even just this automation like everyone watching could theoretically do it.

>> Yeah.

>> I would bet my life that not even one in a hundred of people watching this right now will ever like or at least like in the next month will use nam. No. No way.

because it's like complicated and annoying.

It's just a bunch of like >> the whole like it balances out.

So, it's not really too good to be true anymore because it's like actually let me say this like even if the automation I showed you, there is some YouTube video somewhere that literally teaches you take a screenshot of it and you can replicate it.

Thing is, you set that up, you literally have my exact same thing.

It's not even anything complicated.

You just need to link your Google account, link your notion accounts, link all these accounts.

People it's so annoying and you it's like so I'm I'm not worried at all. But I've a couple people told them how insane it is and they just don't do it. So it's fine.

>> The one thing which is kind of tough to get to work in the beginning is the script themsel and what works right now.

And I feel like this is something which was like probably the main thing from from having calls with with a team.

Yeah.

>> Um, every week there's some new [ __ ] Every week >> did tell me the whole concept of getting on top of Tik Tok shop is to have like a banner account.

With a banner account, you could literally see a lot, but you can't see everything at once.

I do appreciate the fact that Pepe literally just gave me all the stuff that's currently working.

The formula.

The formula. Let me give everybody the formula.

This is the formula to go viral on Tik Tok. I currently know this.

Unfortunately, things may change.

Very annoying. formula is the scripts that are currently working for the past week.

You just take those steal those the steal the characters just replicate that and then once you have that one that's twothirds of the vid one third of the video and the main thing is like the prehooks and that is literally also just replicating like the most recent stuff and then slightly innovating it.

It's so simple. is just like I don't even know.

But it's a lot easier when you just have people just handing you the scripts.

Yeah, it's very possible to do if you just have a banner account.

>> Yeah, 100% 100%. It's basically um exactly what you said is that like all the top AI videos right now basically have two parts to it. It's the pre hook where it's a a person saying something and then a speaker who like a long form few minute video where where a person is on stage speaking as well. These are two separate things and you can kind of mix and match things which are currently working.

And what we've seen is that if you take a video that did really well, for example, this week, you have a very high chance to make something very similar.

And if you post it this week also, you will make it work and you're going to go viral. The same thing happens if you take, for example, a video which went viral this week in the US and if you post posted in France, it's going to crush you.

>> Bro, are we are we talking about that?

>> I don't know. I mean this is something I now realize that a lot of things repeat in all different business models and everything literally years and years and years.

I remember when organic drop shipping was going crazy and then Jordan Welsh had some weird events and then he met some guys who made a lot of money with organic drop shipping millions and then he asked them how they did it and then literally all they did was just take everything that's been working in US organic English organic >> copy it translate it into the different languages and then all the European top European Germany France Italy and just making it work that has worked for organic.

I've since I'm seeing it now work for Tik Tok shop and it's working for literally everything any kind of online money whatever thing there's always some kind of delay into the other languages and it's like a gap even I don't know why I'm not taking another right now you know >> 100 million% even like the OG's know this on Facebook back in the day German drop shipping was the actual sauce like if you tested products in Germany that would did well in the US it was the most ridiculous thing ever seen in your life.

And the only issue was this whole VAT issue and all of that because it's way more money like the margins get cut so drastically that it's a problem.

But other than that, especially with organic, it's like with with the business model like this, it doesn't matter because you don't have any ad spend and the margins are already good.

So VAT is fine. Um, and the the the people who figured out the VAT stuff in Germany, they crushed on Facebook.

It was it was ridiculous. It was the same exact thing.

You just take something that works and it makes so much sense.

You take something, it already works.

It's proven to work. It It works because it works.

Like it works because it already worked.

You just translated it and that's it. So, um it keeps happening.

I I fully agree with you.

It does keep happening. And whatever the next thing is going to be after this, it will keep happening again for sure.

>> If you ever feel like there's something that exploded and there's a pocket of opportunity and you missed it, do the exact same thing in a different whatever.

like it's like there's such a delay >> and the thing is with us right now with US shop the prehooks change literally weekly there is like a one month delay in bringing it over to the other account so if something goes viral in the US ah I missed it I have two let me show you I can literally show you I have two this is my biggest one my second video got 20k views >> 100k 540k so this is my second account as well it didn't go as well but now I'm starting to go viral here.

So I basically have oh here as well have a 100% success rate with France.

>> So what we've seen is that the product itself it makes a difference but it's not that big. The one thing which actually makes a massive difference is how much insight do you have onto the videos which do well with this product.

And this is what we kind of was were focusing on in the program.

We we basically selected like seven eight products which which we're going to give out to people um and seven eight brands.

All of these brands basically um had people going viral and then we saw what's working and then it all amplified everything for everyone and then just things got better and better and the saturation factor in with Tik Tok shop is very different than with organic.

With organic it's very combative.

You steal my product and if you steal like it's it's very it's it gets saturated very fast.

Here it's different because every week things change anyways and it's just like if you keep up with with the trends it keeps working over and over.

Definitely the biggest was >> okay this week these periods are working copy them blah blah blah do this do this like weekly calls revisions okay cuz like you I still I still have that stubborn thing in me and I don't think it's going anywhere but I think sometimes it's a good thing but it's like you think you've got it and then you get on another call and then like bro this drive and then you go into some depression and then piss off and then you try again and it's totally everybody is happy and then you're like all right I finally get it and I think that applies to every skill like when you're learning a skill with like boxing you think you get it and then you watch yourself back and the foot is just goofy >> and you just have to listen even though it pisses you off eventually you you figure it out I I agree. I agree.

And you keep doing the same thing of trying things by yourself first.

>> Um which which fair enough. I see why you're doing it. But overall, it's actually significantly more simple to just have someone tell you what to do and then you do it versus just figuring out what to do than doing it without even knowing if it's going to work or not.

The the the main problem with doing things by yourself is let's say you do something and it doesn't work.

You don't know why. You don't know what went wrong.

you don't know what the issue is.

You don't know like you you you I remember how you had like you were so frustrated overall because it wasn't working.

And it was like this broad general thing of like I don't know what's going on but I keep getting banned in this and this decision.

Like it's just all these problems on top of each other.

And um at some point it's just like okay the the the chances of somebody quitting overall is so much higher by themselves because it like it it logically makes sense to stop if you try everything you you think works and it doesn't work.

>> Yeah. I mean I wouldn't even say it depends on the person because like even me eventually I fully get frustrated but like now I put myself in a position where I have to make a YouTube video so I have no choice but to make things work.

So, it's a bit different for me, but people who don't have some kind of deadline or whatever, it's like, "All right, nobody's going to see me not cook anyways, so it's fine.

" >> 100%. 100%.

>> Also, some new source that people don't know about.

Did you know that you could literally upload a video, not an image, because usually you had to do an image in Google Gemini, you can upload a video and then ask it to make a video prompt that you can put in either Sorat 2 or VO to replicate that video for you.

Did you know that was a thing?

>> Holy [ __ ] [ __ ] Wait, is this a link or a video?

Like a >> literally literally upload file, upload a video.

It will maybe it might work with links cuz with Google you can upload YouTube video links and it watches.

>> Yeah, YouTube you it does watch YouTube videos.

I'm not sure if it does Tik Tok.

Pretty sure it doesn't cuz YouTube and Gemini is more like it's related >> that could I haven't tried that.

But you could literally just I just upload a video and >> yeah, it makes you the entire prompt that you can put in making video three and eats everything up so much when you're trying to replicate other people's like content and stuff and you just >> So one thing which actually pisses me off overall if I want to stay honest overall I have to say that it's right now significantly easier to make money fast which is the most scammy thing you can possibly ever say because like I Oh, on YouTube if you say how to make money fast, it's the cringiest thing ever because this is what everybody promises and overpromises and it doesn't work.

And for last for the last years of I kept saying how hard it is, how difficult it is, but it's like all these difficult things are kind of gone and there's still issues. You're going to have account issues and all of like there's a bunch of problems which you generally face.

But like what what we're seeing in the program is if you execute on what we tell you and if you just post a few videos a day on a few accounts every single day and keep up to date in terms of the the trends and the right products and the right AI tools and the right scripts and and the right visuals and and just the right promps. If you if you do all of that, it's not that hard.

It's it's it's kind of annoying to say, but it's like in comparison to to to to the other business models, it's easier.

It is easier. And the only the only hope I still have for this whole thing are the account bends because they suck.

And this is one thing which is actually really bad about this business model um which which kind of makes me like a little happy and relieved that I can still say this um because because it's not all sunshine and rainbow.

It has definitely its own issues.

But like overall, even though it's frustrating and we experience a lot of problems, if you if you look at the time frame where you can start making money, it's like a lot of people make it first month, which is really weird to say. It's kind of that's the problem I have. Like if if somebody joins a program and if they execute this stuff for what we're saying, in a lot of the case it works first month.

It sounds bad.

It sounds not good >> because all of these new AI tools are coming out really fast. It opens new pockets of like shortcut stuff.

>> Yeah.

>> Like all right people can make money very quickly.

Now new thing will come new thing will come. So it's like why while AI is on the uptrend the >> this is where like most people cuz everybody sees the AI is coming to take over you your jobs will be gone.

Nobody really sees the opportunities while it's opening up.

>> Exactly. I think maybe this is one of them though.

100% 100% like this community aspect which we have is basically like what you just said for example I didn't know this like you can upload a video onto Gemini and tell it to change the problem like this is something which is new it's new every day I hear some new thing from someone in the program it's like oh today this new thing came on and it's all like I by myself would probably not figure out this thing for the next month or two month or 3 months if you wouldn't just tell me this but I have these conversations like almost on a daily basis and there's somebody telling some new sauce and we kind of we we kind of aggravate all the sauce in in in in one community which which we instantly then share.

So this it's a massive advantage which people have inside.

>> Most people won't get it but like there's also new sauce which is now Sora now has character consistency which means you can make an entire video with Sora alone and Sora is the most realistic AI tool in the world.

And now that I'm going to probably be one of the first few people to implement it.

I'm going to cook all the competition cuz my videos are going to look actually realistic.

The only difference between my video and other people's videos is this is the current state of the way Tik Tok shop is going. It's kind of real, but it is not it doesn't fool everybody.

Sora 2 fools pretty much everyone.

>> Bro, I got fooled a few days ago.

A few days ago, I watched a video where there's like dogs saving babies and it's like it looks real. It looked like Yeah.

Initially you would get it, but now like it takes a second question it >> Yeah.

And then you have to look at the comments quality.

Like I only know that AI because like the quality is lower or it might have the watermark.

There's a way to get rid of the watermark and you can make the quality look insane.

>> It's going to be crazy. It's going to be crazy.

This is the whole point about AI.

There's new [ __ ] coming out every week.

Like lit literally every week.

And if you're not on top of it, it's kind of hard to keep up because there's so much news.

There's so much like if you if you take a look at which videos went viral months ago, it's like these Hedra videos and these other ones and it's just like no one's using it anymore. The soft the software is fully changed.

The video style kind of like fully different.

These pre-hooks were added all of these things and it's like new stuff every few weeks.

This is what we have in the program.

This is what we offer a community brain where we see the overview over everyone and we give you the best product and then we also don't it's not only the giving the best product it's giving you the products which we have the most insight in and then we give you the best advice for that product and this is like we all the products you have tested are fully like us giving you the product.

It's not there's not a single one which which did well which which was from outside and why we do that is because we know about these products the most. We know them the best.

So it's like okay how about we give them the ones which would where we give the best advice and then we just give you the right choice and that's it.

>> This AI opportunity is not going to be around forever but I think a lot of gaps will still be opening up.

This is definitely the right side to be on in terms of figuring out opportunities >> for everyone watching in general like I'd highly recommend everyone watching this right now to sign up for a free call with us. We basically we will guide you through the whole process.

We're going to give you the right products.

We're going to give you the right tools to do everything and just walk you through going viral with Tik Tok Shop affiliate at some point also opening up your own brand. Um, it's just which the the strategy that works by far the best.

And if you want to have this full community of information like dumped onto you, you can sign up and click the link below.

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