Launch an influencer campaign for MagSafe wallets
I scroll Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube under a fresh account if I’m marketing a MagSafe wallet. I try to put myself in this person’s shoes: US English, 22-34, already bounced off a cheap magnet that dropped cards in a checkout line and a leather folio they hated in a pocket, watches 'my MagSafe wallet dropped my cards' and checkout-line-panic videos after a store run. 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 really need to do this for hundreds of creators a day, because the market is not efficient. Some dumb startup is paying thousands for hundreds of views. I scroll as the person who would buy this SKU 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 fees 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. It stayed on the fridge magnet test and it still dumped my cards at the belt. They already tried a cheap magnet that dropped cards, a leather folio they hated in a pocket, and Apple's wallet they would not pay for. Skip the tech-unboxer whose whole grid is every MagSafe SKU this week. Adjacent is checkout panic, dropped cards, not tech-haul. 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 picking up cards off a grocery belt. Signal: the same checkout-dump face two store runs.
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I prefer email. The contact is usually in a small everyday-carry bio, not a gadget roundup Linktree. Just send a short note. Name a real video. Ask for the phone number. Don’t start the deal over email. Tech-unboxers quote gadget-haul 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. The wallet on a real phone at a real checkout. Stick it, go pay for something, show the cards still there, drop the code.
Why most first MagSafe wallets campaigns stall
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Tech-unboxers quote gadget-haul rates. You needed a lot of other names so you could move on. Dropped-card rants already have the audience; a live color that stays on is the demo.
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People tag #magsafe when they want brands to find them. A database tells you who exists. Your customer lives in a feed you never opened. A desk unboxing that never leaves the house.
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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 an 8-wallet roundup. Ask them to walk to a store and pay.
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. A live wallet in stock, real MagSafe fit named on the page.
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 Shop or site codes on a live color.
Questions
You can learn vocabulary that way. People tag what they want brands to find. I still scroll as the person who would buy this SKU 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.
Tech-unboxers quote gadget-haul 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 tech-haulers who will review 8 wallets in one video. I read the session the person who would buy this SKU actually gets served. Product page for the general job: campaigns.