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How to find refillable cleaning brands Instagram creators

Creator-powered user acquisition

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: the client’s customer is US English, 25-40, already bounced off a cute cleaner that ran out of refills and a grocery gallon they are tired of, watches ‘the cute bottle has no refill’ and under-sink-plastic videos on a Sunday clean. They watch no-refill-rage, under-sink-plastic, ‘cute bottle abandoned me’, Sunday-clean restocks. They already tried a cute bottle whose brand ghosted refills, grocery gallons, and tablets that did not dissolve. Skip the 700k clean-with-me whose whole video is product placement.

Instagram is beige bottles; TikTok Sunday clean is the no-refill rant. Email the rant.

What I actually do on Instagram

Fresh account. Real phones. I try to put myself in the shoes of your client’s customer. 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 holding a pretty bottle and a grocery gallon because the refill never restocked. Signal: the same Sunday-clean face two weeks.

I prefer email. The contact is usually in a small apartment-clean bio, not a 20-brand Linktree. 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 no-refill-rage, under-sink-plastic, ‘cute bottle abandoned me’, Sunday-clean restocks. Instagram still has a grid, a bio, and a Shop sticker. Instagram is beige bottles; TikTok Sunday clean is the no-refill rant. Email the rant.

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-SKU clean-with-me and you will bury the client’s pouch. 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/refillable-cleaning.

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