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159          <span class="eyebrow"><span class="num">Free playbook</span> &middot; by Jake Elbeery</span>
160          <h1 class="disp pb-hero-h1">The $1M<br>Run Rate<br><span class="accent">Playbook.</span></h1>
161          <p class="pb-lead">How we scaled a brand from zero to <strong>over a $1M run rate in under a year</strong> — using TikTok Shop, creators, and Meta ads. The exact system, in five parts.</p>
162          <div class="pb-byline">
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164            <span>Written by <strong>Jake Elbeery</strong> — founder of Voltr, built on WELD</span>
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169            <h3>Get the playbook, free.</h3>
170            <p class="pb-form-sub">Week 1 lands in your inbox now — then Jake sends one new part each week, with homework.</p>
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189        <div class="pb-stat"><div class="pb-stat-val">$1M+</div><div class="pb-stat-label">Run rate, year one</div></div>
190        <div class="pb-stat"><div class="pb-stat-val">500+</div><div class="pb-stat-label">Creators activated</div></div>
191        <div class="pb-stat"><div class="pb-stat-val">60%</div><div class="pb-stat-label">Revenue from creators</div></div>
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200        <span class="eyebrow"><span class="num">01</span> What's inside</span>
201        <h2 class="disp">Five weeks.<br><span class="accent disp-italic">One system.</span></h2>
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205          <div class="pb-week-num disp">01</div>
206          <div class="row-name">The model</div>
207          <div class="row-body">
208            <div class="row-desc">Why small brands can build with creators now: TikTok Shop supports affiliate commissions, connected signals can make more creator revenue observable, and approved content can become a TikTok Spark Ad or Meta creator ad.</div>
209            <div class="row-tags"><span class="tag">The shift</span><span class="tag green">Why now</span></div>
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213          <div class="pb-week-num disp">02</div>
214          <div class="row-name">Finding sellers</div>
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216            <div class="row-desc">Forget follower counts. The number that matters is GMV — actual dollars sold. How to find and qualify creators with evidence of selling, and build your first roster of twenty.</div>
217            <div class="row-tags"><span class="tag">GMV rule</span><span class="tag green">First 20</span></div>
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221          <div class="pb-week-num disp">03</div>
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224            <div class="row-desc">The short, specific message that actually gets replies (steal it), the follow-up cadence, and the two sample rules that saved us thousands in free product.</div>
225            <div class="row-tags"><span class="tag">The template</span><span class="tag green">Sample rules</span></div>
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229          <div class="pb-week-num disp">04</div>
230          <div class="row-name">Ads that compound</div>
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232            <div class="row-desc">Stop making ad creative. Promote the posts that already sold — Spark Ads on TikTok, creator ads with commission on Meta — with the entry, budget, and kill rules that keep it disciplined.</div>
233            <div class="row-tags"><span class="tag">Spark ads</span><span class="tag">Creator ads</span><span class="tag green">Kill rule</span></div>
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238          <div class="row-name">The flywheel</div>
239          <div class="row-body">
240            <div class="row-desc">Running all four pieces as one loop — find, activate, track, amplify — and the honest math on doing it by hand versus letting software run the shift nobody wants.</div>
241            <div class="row-tags"><span class="tag">The loop</span><span class="tag green">Honest math</span></div>
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253          <span class="eyebrow"><span class="num">02</span> The receipts</span>
254          <h2 class="disp pb-receipts-h reveal">Not theory.<br><span class="accent disp-italic">A real brand's year.</span></h2>
255          <p class="pb-receipts-body reveal">WELD is a real energy drink brand — maybe the most competitive category on earth, against billion-dollar companies. No celebrity, no retail buyer, no ad agency. <strong>Eight all-time record revenue days. 120% growth in one two-month stretch. Sixty percent of tracked revenue from creators.</strong> This playbook is the system behind those numbers, including the parts that didn't work.</p>
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265        <span class="eyebrow"><span class="num">03</span> How it works</span>
266        <h2 class="disp">Start today.<br><span class="accent disp-italic">Build it in five weeks.</span></h2>
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270          <div class="pb-how-step">Step 01</div>
271          <h3>Week 1, instantly</h3>
272          <p>Drop your email and Week 1 is in your inbox in about a minute. Each new part arrives in its own weekly email.</p>
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275          <div class="pb-how-step">Step 02</div>
276          <h3>One part a week</h3>
277          <p>Jake walks you through the system one week at a time, with 15-minute homework — so you build it instead of skimming it.</p>
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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.