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title: 'TikTok Shop Affiliate for Beginners: Make Money with Zero Followers'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=BrNqWB12l38'
video_id: 'BrNqWB12l38'
date: 2026-07-12
duration_sec: 1341
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# TikTok Shop Affiliate for Beginners: Make Money with Zero Followers

> Source: [TikTok Shop Affiliate for Beginners: Make Money with Zero Followers](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BrNqWB12l38)

## Summary

This video is a comprehensive guide to making money as a TikTok Shop affiliate, even with zero followers. It covers setting up an account, finding viral products, creating effective videos, and avoiding violations.

### Key Points

- **What is TikTok Shop Affiliate?** [00:00] — TikTok Shop allows users to purchase products directly on TikTok. As an affiliate, you promote products and earn commission on sales without handling shipping or customer service.
- **Setting Up TikTok Shop Account** [02:15] — If you have 5,000+ followers, apply via Creator Tools. For zero followers, sign up on the official TikTok Shop website with your email, upload ID, and link your TikTok account.
- **Finding Viral Products** [07:12] — Three methods: 1) Browse your For You Page to see what others promote. 2) Use the TikTok Shop Marketplace to search by category and best sellers. 3) Use Cow Data, a data analysis platform for TikTok e-commerce.
- **Winning Product Criteria** [13:54] — Key criteria: solves a problem, creates emotion/curiosity, relatable, shareable, impulse buy, proven sales (30k+ total), easy to gift, low price with high commission.
- **Getting Free Products** [15:29] — Request free samples from sellers by offering to create promotional content. Alternatively, find the same product on Amazon for faster shipping.
- **Creating Videos That Sell** [16:39] — Videos need three parts: hook (target audience), body (honest review of features/benefits), call to action (scarcity/urgency). Both face and faceless styles work.
- **Avoiding Violations** [20:53] — Do not re-record or reproduce others' content. Create original videos to avoid violations and account issues.

### Conclusion

Consistency is key: keep searching for good products, testing, and posting. The TikTok Shop affiliate program is a simple way to make money online with minimal upfront requirements.

## Transcript

Tok shop affiliate anyone can do it even if you currently have zero followers on have all the knowledge you need to save time avoid mistakes and to be crystal
clear on exactly what to do in order to start making money on Tik toac shop affiliate so let's get right into it so these are the topics that we will cover have zero followers how to find viral products what mix up a winning product
criteria how to create videos that sell and also how to avoid violations in your Tik Tok shop so first of all what is a Tik Tok shop so in case you're brand new Tik Tok shop is a feature in Tik Tok that allows users to purchase products
directly on the Tik Tok platform and then the Tik Tok shop affiliate program allows you to become an affiliate to promote any products that's being sold on the Tik Tok shop and get paid each time a person makes a purchase from your
video so let me show you an example all right so when you're scrolling on Tik Tok and when you see a video that has like a product linked on the bottom for example this one when you click on it it'll take you to the product page so
this is the Coco mint pulling oil so what happens is if I end up purchasing this let's say if I click on buy now and if I end up buying this item this Creator will get credit for the sale and he will receive a commission you won't
need to ship the product you won't need to deal with any customer service your only job is to create the content and Link the product to your video and if just so you're not confused with this method it's good to know the different
ways you can actually make money on Tik Tok so here are the few ways that you can actually make money on Tik Tok the first one we have the creativity program and there are some you know High requirements on it the second method is
you can sell on Tik Tok shop so when you sell any product on the Tik Tok shop you can actually set up a shop but you will be responsible for fulfilling the order and providing the customer service so the third method is is a method that
we're focusing which is being a Tik Tok shop affiliate you simply show off the money so with this method I think it's one of the most simplest way to make money online right now so the first way to do this is to create a Tik Tok shop
method number one that is for if you have already 5,000 followers in your Tik Tok account so what you got to do is super simple just go inside your creator
tools go to Tik Tok shop for Creator click on that and you simply just click apply now at the bottom and you just got to verify your information and within 5,000 followers and you still want to set up an account and this even works if
you have zero follower just follow this guide I'll show you step by step so first step just come to Google and type in sign up for Tik Tock shop and go to the official Tik Tok Shop website and enter your email to sign up
press continue then you need to just enter the verification code and then you will just set your password click continue then on this page you would just select your business type for most of us signing up it would be individual
unless you have a LLC or corporation that you would um select the option that's applicable to you I would just select individual click next and here is where you have to upload your either US passport or US driver's license and they
exactly who you say you are after you uploaded your ID you need to make sure that the following information is exactly as it appears on your uploaded
ID that includes your legal name your driver's license number or your ID number your date of birth the expiration date and also your residential address so you want to make sure that all this information it matches your ID and on
your tax ID number and that is just to confirm your identity and after you're done with that you will just need to click next for the primary product you will just need to select a category that describes the products that you sell
product we are just looking to become an affiliate for other people's products so I would just pick either home supplies or kitchenware so I'll just go with home supplies and next is to enter your phone number and again this is just for
verification purposes so make sure that you enter your phone number that you need to verify it and after you're done just click submit okay so we just submitted the information and they're under review and they will notify us
once the review is complete by email so I was approved in about a few minutes you'll get an email like this congratulations your Tik Tok shop has been approved and let's go back to the Tik Tok shop so next up is to add your
tax information here and when you scroll down you see an option to set up looking to ship any products to any customer we just are wanting to become
about that for now what we want to do though is to connect our Tik Tok shop account to our regular Tik Tok account so to do that just come up to the shop icon right here on the top right click this go to my account and go to linked
accounts and here is where we can link this shop account to our regular TI Tock account click on link official account you'll see this like QR code here and link to your Tik Tok shop account so here we have mine just come to the top
right and click the three lines click on this click on my QR code and go to the top right and click the scan button and then what we want to do is
just scan this authorize so click here to complete the identity verification so let's click this okay so this is where we need to enter everything again and submit it
okay so after I submitted that it says successful click got it so as you can see it says identity verification successful let's go back out let's go back to profile and let's try this step one more time so we'll go back to Tik
Tock shop come to this icon my account linked account link official account and we see this QR code again so on the phone I'll just come to the three line
go to my QR code and go to the scan button and we'll scan this code and we'll click on authorize and we'll see this screen again check this box and click on link this account and there we go it says
congratulations your official Tik Tok account has been successfully linked so click on got it okay so as you can see this Tik Tok shop account is linked to my regular official Tik Tok account so on the phone again we'll go back out
refresh it and you should be able to see this Tik Tok shop icon click on this and it says congrats you're invited to Tik Tock shop click continue and in here we can go to the
product Marketplace and this is where we can find any type of product that we want to promote so how to find viral products for your Tik Tok shop so there look at your own for you page so you can just go on your Tik Tok and go to for
you page and just keep scrolling and you'll be able to see what products other creators are promoting so for example this Creator is promoting this brush when you click on it you'll be able to see the price how many you sold
the ratings the shipping information and also the reviews and when you exit this you can keep scrolling and you can see what other products people are selling of views on the video so that means it's probably trending but when you come
across a video that's getting a lot of views and engagement that's when you could consider that could be a good product so this one is a nice day steppers for exercise so this one is getting a lot of views and comments and
the marketplace just go to your profile go to your Tik Tok shop creative Center as you see on screen and come to the middle click on product Marketplace so
categories and also by Best Sellers and by the trending shops right so let's go with category on top you can pick any Outdoor Sports Health home and living
fashion your electronics Automotive so they have all types of products here so let's click on electronics so these are all products that are being sold on Tik Tok shop and you could find almost anything on here so what I like to do is
go by sort bu best sellers so you get the good and reputable sellers so you actually legit so when you found an item that interests you just click on it and
then you'll see the commission rate on this item so for this item for each sale you make 15% which equals to $3.75 and when you scroll down you'll be this is where you could see what content style works well and you can get
inspiration from it and then I'll show you the third way to find winning products which is to use a software called cow data this one is my favorite one so C data is basically a data analysis platform specifically for Tik
Tok e-commerce so this is basically the best research tool that you will find for Tik Tok shop and the only thing that I would say about this tool is use this exactly step by step how it works so this is the homepage so what you can do
is to sign in and once you're inside here you'll be able to see the different making money right now the hot videos and when you scroll down you're able to one of them so on the product page you're able to see the revenue that's
it's generating in the past week this is the last 7 Days the item sold and which creators are making the revenue so it's very extensive and you'll be able to see the specific videos and let's look at this one s after you after you brushed
your teeth like a couple hours ago you need an oil pull what's the point of here you're able to download the video or export the script so here you have
the script ready to go so what you can do is also use AI to optimize it you can shorter you can emphasize the selling point let's exit out of here this video
alone brought in 238,000 of Revenue it has 11 million views and it sold 22,000 just click on this and you can see the specific video and this is the stats so
this is the last 7 days last 30 days this Creator generated 334,000 of Revenue this created made we can just uh find the same exact product in the Tik Tock shop so what you can do is just come to the Tik Tok app and go to
product Marketplace and just search up this product so it should be the first one here sort by Best Sellers so it looks like the first one as you can see here is 10% commission the revenue here is
334,000 for the past month so this created made about 33,000 of this video alone that's pretty crazy so we can go back and look at a different product let's look at this one so this one is another trending product so we could
just go by last 7 days and let's come to the first Creator here so this Creator video
it's a really simple video she didn't even speak in this video and she's making bank so what you can do now again you can just search up the nice day steppers on the app I think I had already searched for this nice day
stepper and it looks like it's the first one we can sort by Best Sellers yep I think it's the first one this one is also 10% commission So based on this Revenue last 7 days she made about 21,000 of this one video yeah so this
website makes researching a lot easier and when you come down here you can see the different similar videos so let's look at this
one so this one is the 6 seconds video and she had generated 16,000 in Revenue so this alone she made about 1,600 for 6 seconds video so let's go back to the
explore page each so this is where you can find the top products this is where you can find the top creators this is where you can find the top shops top videos and top live stream so everything is categorized very efficiently so next
let's come to the category tab this is where you can select the different category so for example if you want to narrow down your searches by the different categories you could do that you can filter by Revenue the revenue
growth rate or Revenue per shop and when you come to Creator you can also come to the follower filter and look at creatives with a smaller following for example if we go less than 50,000 click submit and then you'll see all the
creators that have less than 50,000 followers and you can also see that their videos are also popping off so a lot of these smaller creators are right now so next I'll talk about the winning product criteria so this is the
criteria that I would follow to kind of narrow down the product to see if it the question does the product solve a problem so I think this is the most problem so the next one is does the product create any emotions or curiosity
and next one is relatability are people able to relate to the experience or the product and then we have sharability what people want to share the video and I think this one is an important factor as well in terms of If the product has a
chance to go viral and the next one is If the product is a impos buy if it is I think that's a really good sign and then does the product have proven sales so I would say give or take 30,000 in total sales so this shows you that people are
buying so when a product has high sales that means it's proven that means it works but it can also mean that a lot of people are promoting it so competition might be higher so that's something that you want to consider so the next one is
I want to see if the product can be easily gifted to someone because if it is I think that's also a good sign and ideally I would want my products to have a lower price but has a high commission so this way you can make the most amount
of sales but you can still earn a high commission so these are the criterias that I will walk myself through for each product so for a product to be a winning product it doesn't need to meet each and every single one of these but I think
the more that it meets this criteria the higher chance that it has in order to make a lot of sales and go viral so next I'll talk about how to get free products so you can review them in your videos so if you have already tank followers in
your account you can actually have this request free samples button in your account if you don't no worries you can still find the product then go ahead to contact the sellers and ask for a free product so what you want to tell them is
you want to create videos or content to help them promote that products to help to make sales it's best if you could provide like some type of examples or you could do for them and if you do this most sellers will agree to it because
a good video that goes viral it's worth 100 times 200 times more than the get free products to review so next I'll talk about how to get products fast if
is actually search the brand name and the product name exactly on Amazon so what happens is a lot of these brands are actually selling on both platforms
you can get like two days shipping instead of a longer shipping time from Tik Tok and what I found out is that you can find a lot of them on Amazon so if just want to make sure that it's the same exact product and also the same
exact seller so next I'm going to talk about how to create videos that sell so your video needs three parts to it one is the hook two is the body and three is the call to action so let me break this down in details for you so here we have
the hook body and call to action so the purpose of the hook is to capture people's attention and keep them watching in the purpose of the body is for you to review and talk about the product for the call to action the
scarcity and urgency for the viewer so for the hook you want to know who your target audience is so for example if it's a pet product you want to Target
dark lovers you could say if you're a do lover you're going to love this next is the body so in the body you want to give your honest opinions about the product product you could talk about its features or its benefits but you want to
be genuine and truthful about it and for the call to action an example could be I'm going to link the product down below but they're selling out fast so be quick if you want one so something like this or similar to this could work well and I
included more examples of the viral hooks examples in a spreadsheet and I'll link the spreadsheet Down Below in the description so next thing you need to do different styles of content some people like to show the face in the video and
product without showing the face both option works it really just depends on what you want to do about it or you can do both if you want so let me show you a regular example and let me show you an example with the faceless channel so let
me show you an example of a faceless Channel and this channel is blowing up this one this is why you should never buy an air tag so I made a huge mistake when buying one of these so went for my
look at this the air tag is just bulging out of my wallet it doesn't even fit it just looks terrible so I pretty much just wasted money on an air tag but I paper thin very durable and the battery honestly lasts a lifetime and the best
part is it literally fits in my wallet so it works the same way an air tag does it works with f my has a GPS to track the exact location and it even plays a noise when you're close to it the best part is air t
his face talk about the features and benefits so something like this could work really well we can take a look at another example let's look at this one
carry it like a regular wallet you're not bound to the mag safe feature it still holds all your cards no matter if it's on your phone even though it still sticks on the back of your phone you can still carry it like a regular wallet so
ready watch this if you're like me I lose my wallet all the time so this is an absolute Game Changer and even though it's stuck on cards yeah so very similar video so this Creator just make a bunch of these and
know get some ideas and inspiration from some videos are getting you know tens of thousands hundreds of thousands look at this one 11.7 million views so yeah I
you know make yours different and make yours better so next I'll show you the type of video if you don't mind putting your face on it well look at this one 24.4 million views my I have a photo shoot tomor for a new brand coming to
Sephora so I can't walk in with my Lions so I'm going to go in with my hot round this section start to finish I wrap it the root and then I slowly make my way
down by the way this is the new thermal brush P yeah so this is just like a regular product review video just showing the product and showing how to use the product so yeah so you can just like make reviews videos like this with
you're facing it this works well but both Styles work and it really just style that could also work too especially in the beginning phase it's also good to like test to see which style could get you better results so
next I'll talk about how to avoid violations in your Tik Tok shop so this is like a example of the violation you'll get like a message like this from Tik Tok and this is definitely something that you want to avoid if possible but
just appeal but for the most part you definitely want to stay away from it so your account won't have any problems so a lot of the violations has to do with people re-recording or reproducing other people's content so as you can see here
sure that viewers have good experiences they do not encourage reproduced content such as videos from other creators recorded screens of other devices or
other reproduced videos and media so the way to avoid violations in your Tik Tok shop is to follow these practices no screen recording content don't steal someone else's content and don't repost any videos without making significant
changes to it and the best way is to really just create your own content have problems or violations so this is it for this video I hope this was helpful if
you made it this far congrats you're one of the rare persistent ones and I applaud you remember to be consistent with Tik Tok shop affiliate keep searching for good products keep testing and keep posting if you're starting out
your progress and results with me in the future message me on Instagram my handle is down below and until next time see you in the next video