Niche
How to find mushroom coffee Instagram creators
I still start with the same avatar. Instagram is a different room than TikTok. Reels, the grid, and the bio email are different. The person is not.
The person: US English, 24-38, already bounced off a grocery bag and a mushroom mix that tasted like dirt, watches ‘this mushroom coffee tastes like dirt’ and 2pm-crash videos at a desk, no medical claims. They watch dirt-taste, 2pm-crash, ‘I miss coffee’, tin-under-the-sink. They already tried a dirt-taste mix, grocery coffee they miss, and a tin under the sink. Skip the biohacker whose mushroom coffee is one of 20 supplements.
Instagram is beige tins; TikTok at the desk is the spit-take. Email the spit-take. No medical claims.
What I actually do on Instagram
Fresh account. Real phones. I try to put myself in the shoes of the person who would buy this SKU. Linger, save, like, comment as if I were them. Once the algorithm is trained I take whoever keeps showing up in Reels and in the feed.
Ideally over 50k average. Below that they quote $700 a post for 1k views. That’s a money sink.
Example I want to see: someone sipping, making a face, and pouring it out. Signal: the same dirt-taste face two mornings.
I prefer email. The contact is usually in a small desk-coffee bio, not a stack storefront. Just send a short note. Name a real Reel. Ask for the phone number. Don’t start the deal over email. If they won’t, move on.
Reels vs FYP
TikTok’s For You is a night session for dirt-taste, 2pm-crash, ‘I miss coffee’, tin-under-the-sink. Instagram still has a grid, a bio, and a Shop sticker. Instagram is beige tins; TikTok at the desk is the spit-take. Email the spit-take. No medical claims.
Do not copy the TikTok outreach into a DM that looks like a bot. The call is still the job. Minimum View Guarantee. Example: $2000 / 4 posts / 1M views. Talent extra.
Like a 20-supplement stack and you will leave the dirt-taste people. Doing it by hand is kind of soul-crushing. Scout is $1,500/month.
The TikTok-side essay is How we find creators by scrolling a real TikTok avatar. First person: How I find influencers. Money: jumptrend.co/for/mushroom-coffee.
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