David Laliberte

Ops at @Trycruva. Helping brands and agencies run sucesfull TikTok Shop affiliate and creator programs.

[Sally Xu @sallyxu97]

meet Data Bot, our new @bot teammate at SpaceXSI that can deep dive into metric changes, analyze experiments, and visualize data the right way.

our data science team now spends significantly less time on one-off requests and more on the strategic problems that really matter.

here’s a piece I wrote on how I built it: https://t.co/6rT6OUXL0j

[Lea Marie Korsawe @leakorsawe]

hey @bot set this up.

[David Laliberte @davidblaliberte]

@shauneng the stage is the viewer, not the video. one creator clip is tof for a stranger and bof for someone who just searched it

[David Laliberte @davidblaliberte]

@TheMattBerman on tiktok shop you don't have to guess. the marketplace shows what a creator's videos already sold

[David Laliberte @davidblaliberte]

@Seanfrank affiliate teams are heading the same way. same headcount, more creators each person keeps posting

[David Laliberte @davidblaliberte]

@Aazarshad what i see when meta-first brands open tiktok shop: affiliates end up making a lot of the ads, so the job moves from writing creative to briefing creators

[Tom @tombuildsbusine]

I'm now UK alcohol brand #52 to get in to tiktok shop.

It's getting real now.

Anyone got any advice?

#wine #alcohol #tiktok #tiktokshop

[Liana | UGC Creator @ugcwithliana]

Creators should be asking for performance results way more often. CTR, ROAS, hold rate, hook rate, even just whether the brand renewed the creative!!

That feedback teaches you way more than ‘we loved the video!’ ever will.

#ugc

[🥷🏽 @EcomSucker]

one tiktok shop sale can show up in the ads report and the affiliate report.
add them up and you doubled revenue without selling anything. the agencies call that a case study.

[David Laliberte @davidblaliberte]

@galluccinet same audit works on affiliate programmes. cut the creators who took a sample and never posted, and the ones who do post get the attention and the budget

[David Laliberte @davidblaliberte]

@KanishDigital a low new split isn't always on the creator. run their ad into retargeting and it reads as existing every time

[David Laliberte @davidblaliberte]

@EcomSucker both reports claiming the same order is still the most reliable growth channel in ecom

[David Laliberte @davidblaliberte]

@ugcwithliana the renewal is the honest one. ctr gets argued about, but a brand putting more spend behind your video tells you it sold

[David Laliberte @davidblaliberte]

@tombuildsbusine the listing is the easy part. send samples to creators who'll film, not ones who accept everything

[David Laliberte @davidblaliberte]

@ashley_wright agree. the simplest test before approving a creator is to watch their last few videos and ask if you'd be happy seeing your product in one like that. if not, pass, whatever their numbers say. fit beats follower count almost every time

[J.B. @VibeMarketer_]

you have two options for building a company media engine in 2026:

1) hire a $15k/mo agency or a 4-person content team that still slacks you every Monday asking "what should we post this week?"

2) spend 8 minutes setting up this 3-folder Grok Bot harness that runs your entire media operation on autopilot

all 6 prompts are inside - your call

[Branko Trcek @Brankotrcek]

i genuinely don’t understand why people pay ghostwriters $1,000/month instead of using Grok Bot

last week, my Grok Bot content setup brought in 1.5M views. and all templates behind it are publicly available. you can build your own version instead of paying someone every month to run the process

9 Grok Bot templates to build your content workflow:

01 / X Brief
watches the accounts and topics you choose, then delivers a sourced brief of what happened since the last run

02 / Forensic Writing, Persuasion and Psychology Analysis
dissects successful X posts, explains why their hooks work, and saves reusable writing patterns in a formula file

03 / Voice Keeper
learns from your actual writing and edits drafts without flattening your personality. shows the changes and flags AI-sounding lines

04 / Hookline
prepares LinkedIn and X posts, comments, and first-hour reply cards in your voice. everything arrives as drafts you can review

05 / Copy Humanizer
cuts stiff phrasing and corporate filler while preserving your facts and voice. returns the improved draft with reasons for each change

06 / Researchy
checks claims against live sources and returns dated evidence, so an interesting angle doesn’t turn into a post built on invented facts

07 / X to LinkedIn
adapts your existing X posts for LinkedIn, keeping the substance and relevant people instead of blindly copying the same format

08 / Weekly X Strategist
reviews posts at least 48 hours old, identifies a pattern that’s working, and recommends the next post to test

09 / Exact-Text Gate
shows the final text before publishing, checks for duplicates and stray mentions, and confirms the approved post is live

start with 10 posts you actually wrote. give the drafting and editing bots the same voice examples, audience, and list of phrases you would never use

choose one owner for each stage. research feeds the brief, the writer creates the draft, and the editor fixes specific weaknesses before you approve it

keep the published version and its results together. the next brief should build on what your audience responded to, rather than starting another search for “viral ideas”

save this. build a content process that gets more useful with every post

[David Laliberte @davidblaliberte]

@CommnThreadCo worth adding for anyone also selling on tiktok shop: checkout happens inside the app, so those orders don't depend on the pixel at all. the tracking gap before black friday is mostly a paid social problem, not a shop one

[David Laliberte @davidblaliberte]

@DrewArciuolo congrats, that's a big one. curious if creators make the list. the thing that bites brands in november is creators running out of ideas after their first post, so sending fresh hooks and a next goal right after it keeps the volume going through peak

[David Laliberte @davidblaliberte]

@AlvaroCFT agree. on tiktok shop the cleaner version is paying for results instead of slots. a base commission that steps up once the creator hits a sales milestone keeps them focused on your product rather than rotating through five brands a week