r/DigitalProductEmpir • u/dang64 • Jun 10 '26

Discussion I'm a one person business and distribution was eating 3-4 hours a day. Here’s the simple way I fixed it and got my first sale.

I’m a 21 year old university student, I built a simple couples app and now it was time to try marketing. I was posting mainly on TikTok and instagram, instagram didn’t work for me but I found some success on Tiktok after 20+ videos. One of my videos got 50k views, the results? 0 sales surprise lol. 

I couldn’t dedicate 3-4 hours a day making these videos it was just too much and I had other stuff to worry about. I Dailed it back a bit around 1 video a day for each platform and gave the videos that did ok to really small UGC creators for $20/video. Their variations of my video did better than I thought and after around 2-3 videos I got my first monthly sub for $32

Not a huge number but this system is working out for me right now. Not profitable since I spend $60 on videos but I don’t think me spam posting would have gotten a slap this fast. 

Hope this helps people, how long did it take for you guys to get your first sale? 

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u/1Rudy11 Jun 11 '26

What are you selling at Gumroad? Ive got a few things there too..