Nate Calder

I sell on TikTok Shop without filming a thing. DM "SHOP" and I'll show you how I pick products.

[Nate Calder @calderships]

Every TikTok Shop video I post was made without a camera.

No filming. No ringlight. No "hey guys". No creators to chase for samples.

The process, start to finish:

1. Pick a product that a 20-second video can explain. If it needs a paragraph, skip it
2. Write the script. Hook in the first line, problem in the second, product in the third, one reason to trust it, done
3. Run the script through my setup. Out comes a person holding the product, talking to the camera, in a kitchen or a car. Subtitles, voice, cuts, done. 15 minutes, about $2
4. Post it with the product linked. Post 3 versions with 3 different hooks
5. Keep the hook that gets watched past 3 seconds. Kill the other two

The product sells because the script is right, not because someone pretty said it.

Most people spend 4 hours filming one video. I spend 4 hours writing 12 scripts.

[Nate Calder @calderships]

drain thing, 10 hours in

video 1 (the disposal one): 412 views, nothing
video 2 (almost threw it away): 1.1k, 2 saves
video 3 (spotless kitchen scroll past): 80 views. dead

not touching anything for 48h. that's the rule and I break it every time

what's the longest a video sat dead before it woke up for you?

[Nate Calder @calderships]

someone asked how I decide which of the 3 videos stays up when one starts moving

I wrote it down, it's a one pager, the 3 second test and the 10 first lines that keep passing it for me right now. dm me SHOP and I'll send it, you have to follow me or it won't go through

what's the first line of your best video this month?

[Nate Calder @calderships]

there's a guy in tampa, 31, runs 22 tiktok shop accounts and doesn't own a single product

"stuff dan bought", "kayla's kitchen finds", that kind of name. all ai videos of other people's products for the affiliate cut

I know because one of his accounts posted my product without asking and I paid him 20% on 60 orders in 9 days. I dm'd him to say thanks

how much of your volume comes from affiliates you never spoke to?

[Nate Calder @calderships]

the 3 first lines my setup gave me for the drain thing

"my sink smelled like this for 3 months and I thought it was the disposal"
"I almost threw this away when it arrived"
"if your kitchen is spotless scroll past this one"

I'm posting all three. I've stopped guessing which one wins, I'm wrong about half the time

which one would you bet on?

[Nate Calder @calderships]

listing a new product this morning and I'm going to post about it all week, wins and losses

it's a $23 sink drain thing. ugly. 1,900 reviews, a third of them complaining about shipping speed, which in my experience is the best sign a product is real

3 videos going up by noon. none of them filmed

what's the ugliest product that ever made you money?

[Nate Calder @calderships]

@bigdanupdates Affiliate on tiktokshop! Nothing more easy than that

[Nate Calder @calderships]

100 creators at once is the dream version. the version I can actually run is 100 videos at once, same hook logic, posted over 48 hours from 3 accounts. no seeding, no waiting on anyone. curious if you've tested volume from one seller vs volume from many creators, my gut says the algo can't tell the difference

[Nate Calder @calderships]

@jakecarnee distribution yeah, but the part nobody says out loud is the distribution doesn't care who's holding the phone. I've got 4 girls in my videos and none of them exist. same reach, 2 bucks a video, and I never chase anyone for a sample

[Nate Calder @calderships]

@somewhere_faded seller here. the stuff that scams you is the $9 gadget with 40 five-star reviews posted the same week. the stuff that's fine is the boring $24 thing with 2k reviews and half of them complaining about shipping speed. boring + complaints about shipping = real product

[Nate Calder @calderships]

@loganstakeley You just get shadowban if you post ai slop

[Nate Calder @calderships]

a creator with 8k followers quoted me $150 for one video, plus I send her the product, plus she keeps it

honestly fair. that's the going rate and she's good

my setup made 3 videos for that same product while I was reading her dm. $6 total

but the price isn't really the point. it's that at $2 a video I can be wrong 40 times a week and it costs me 80 bucks. she can't be wrong once

most of my sales come from videos I would've never paid $150 to make

[Nate Calder @calderships]

the video that did 11 sales last week had a typo in the subtitles

"dosen't"

I noticed after it was up. left it. the clean version I posted the next morning, same product same everything, did 3

I have theories. the typo makes it look like a real person made it. or people paused to read it again. or it's random and I'm reading into it

I'm not adding typos on purpose. but I stopped fixing them

[Nate Calder @calderships]

the 48 hour thing

I used to delete a video if it was under 200 views after 3 hours. felt like keeping the page clean

then one I forgot to delete did 340k on day 4. a cleaning brush. nothing special about it

now I don't touch anything for 48 hours and honestly I don't fully get why some of them wake up late. my theory is tiktok re-pushes a shop video when someone buys from it, like a sale counts as engagement. not sure that's how it works

anyone actually know

[Nate Calder @calderships]

I put together a one pager on how I decide which of my 3 AI videos actually gets posted

it's the 3 second test I use, plus the 10 opening lines that keep passing it for me this month (kitchen, cleaning, pet stuff mostly)

comment SHOP and make sure you follow me, otherwise I literally can't dm you

sending them out tonight

[Nate Calder @calderships]

how I read a product page before I make a single video, takes about 90 seconds

I skip the description entirely. go straight to reviews, sort by recent, and I'm only looking for a few words

"finally"
"why didn't I get this sooner"
"my husband asked where I got it"
"bought 2 more for my mom"

if I see those, it's a video product. someone had a small annoying problem and this fixed it and they're a little emotional about it

if the reviews are "good quality" "fast shipping" "as described"... nice product, dead on video. nobody stops scrolling for as described

I've passed on 4.8 star products for this. I've also made videos for a 4.1 with 200 reviews that all said "finally" and it did fine

[Nate Calder @calderships]

there's a girl in Phoenix, 22, who posts 6 tiktok shop videos a day and has never been in a single one of them

found her page in june because her videos kept showing up under a product I was watching. same girl every video except it's not a girl, it's 4 different AI actresses and she rotates them so the page doesn't look weird

I counted. 140 videos in 30 days. the top one is at 2.1M views and links a $19 pet hair thing

dm'd her to ask what she uses. she said "a script and a tool" and left me on read lol

anyway that's the week I stopped filming

[Nate Calder @calderships]

@Alecco Unfortunately

[Nate Calder @calderships]

Posted 3 AI videos of the same $27 kitchen product last week.

Same product. Same 20 seconds. Only the first line changed.

"This is the one thing I use every morning" → nobody stayed past 2 seconds.
"My mom asked me where I got this" → better, people watched to the end.
"I didn't believe this worked until I dropped it" → that one did the sales.

Nobody noticed the person in the video isn't real. Nobody asked. They asked where to buy it.

The hook did all the work. The video was the same three times.

What's the worst hook you've ever posted?

[Nate Calder @calderships]

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