Launch an influencer campaign for interior paint brands
I scroll Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube under a fresh account if I’m marketing an interior paint brand. I try to put myself in this person’s shoes: the client's customer is US English, 28-44, already bounced off a big-box color that looked different at night and a designer they cannot afford, watches 'this gray is sad at 6pm' and sample-board videos in a half-painted room. Linger, save, like, and comment as if I were them. Once the algorithm is trained I take whoever keeps showing up. Ideally over 50k average views. Below that they quote $700 a post for 1k views. That’s a money sink.
You already have the client. You keep the retainer. I scroll Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube as your client's customer on real phones. Scout is $1,500/month. We find creators. Outreach is $2,500 if I should send the emails. Dealmaker is $5,000 if I should negotiate and paper the deal. Creator pay is extra. No demo. No download guarantee. I wrote the long version at How I find influencers.
Where people actually look
How I actually launch
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Not a demographic. The chip looked like a cloud in the store and at 6pm the room is a cave. They already tried a big-box gray that died at 6pm, a designer quote they cannot afford, and peel-and-stick samples that peeled. Skip the 1M interior-design creator whose house is a full gut. Adjacent is half-painted rooms, 6pm gray, not mansion makeovers. Steal the brief if you want.
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Fresh account. Real phones. Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Linger, save, like, comment as if I were them. Once the algorithm is trained I take whoever keeps showing up. Ideally over 50k average. Example: someone showing the chip in daylight and the wall at 6pm. Signal: the same 6pm-gray face two evenings.
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I prefer email. The contact is usually in a small DIY-room bio. Just send a short note. Name a real video. Ask for the phone number. Don’t start the deal over email. Makeover creators quote renovation-campaign rates. If they won’t give a number, move on.
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Pay $X for N posts with a floor of Y views. An example that is easy to hold: $2000 / 4 posts / 1M views. Then send the contract while it’s still fresh. A sample on a real wall at 6pm, not a studio swatch. Sample on the wall at 6pm, show the live gallon, drop the code.
Why most first interior paint brands campaigns stall
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Makeover creators quote renovation-campaign rates. You needed a lot of other names so you could move on. Sad-gray rants already have the audience; a sample that ships this week is the demo.
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People tag #paint when they want brands to find them. A database tells you who exists. Your customer lives in a feed you never opened. A mansion reveal with no sample step.
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Many times I have read something unprofitable like “$700 a post” from a creator that gets 50k views. On a call I can explain a Minimum View Guarantee. Over email you just get the first number. Do not ask for a full-house reveal. Ask them to put the sample on the wall at 6pm.
What you actually buy
Every plan includes the scrolling. Pay more and I do more of the emailing and the paperwork. Creator pay is extra. No demo. No download guarantee. The client's live color with a real sample SKU.
Scout
$1,500/month
We find creators.
Most people start here
Outreach
$2,500/month
We find relevant creators, and do outreach.
Dealmaker
$5,000/month
Outreach, then negotiation and contracts.
Billed monthly, cancel anytime. Creator compensation is not included. You approve every creator and every rate. Measurement is codes on a live gallon or a real sample checkout.
Questions
You can learn vocabulary that way. People tag what they want brands to find. I still scroll as your client's customer on a fresh account and take whoever keeps showing up. The method essay is How we find creators by scrolling a real TikTok avatar.
No. Anyone who does is lying or running paid. I do the scrolling and, on Outreach and Dealmaker, the contacting. You still approve every creator and every rate. Talent is extra. No demo. No download guarantee.
Makeover creators quote renovation-campaign rates. I want roughly 50k average views or the economics usually break. Below that, $700 a post for 1k views is a money sink. On a call I can explain a Minimum View Guarantee. Example: $2000 / 4 posts / 1M views. Over email you just get the first number. If they will not give a number, move on. If you do this right, ie at scale, you will have many other creators to choose from.
No. It is a different job. The tag is mansion-makeover talent. I read the session your client's customer actually gets served. Product page for the general job: campaigns.