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title: 'Don''t Start Whop Clipping, Try This Instead (Better Alternative)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=O2ITbK79rTQ'
video_id: 'O2ITbK79rTQ'
date: 2026-07-27
duration_sec: 511
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# Don't Start Whop Clipping, Try This Instead (Better Alternative)

> Source: [Don't Start Whop Clipping, Try This Instead (Better Alternative)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O2ITbK79rTQ)

## Summary

The video critiques Whop clipping as an overrated side hustle and advocates for TikTok Shop affiliate marketing as a more lucrative alternative. The creator shares personal success stories, including making $2.5 million in sales, and contrasts the capped earnings of clipping with the unlimited potential of TikTok Shop.

### Key Points

- **Clipping is overrated** [00:01] — Clipping (creator clipping) is promoted by gurus but has low earnings: $0.50 to $3 per 1,000 views. It also builds someone else's brand, not your own.
- **TikTok Shop affiliate as better alternative** [01:56] — TikTok Shop affiliate marketing offers unlimited earning potential. You get free products and make commissions on sales. The creator made $2.5M and his sister made $5M in her first year.
- **Honest truths about TikTok Shop** [02:37] — Challenges include: uncomfortable filming, learning to sell, picking viral products, time commitment (10-20 hrs/week), risk of account shutdown, and not everyone succeeds.
- **Skills transfer from clipping** [04:08] — Clipping teaches viral short-form content creation. Those same skills apply to TikTok Shop, but with much higher earning potential—e.g., a million-view video earned $15,000 in commissions vs. ~$1,000 from clipping.
- **Long-term brand building** [06:09] — TikTok Shop allows building a personal brand and honest review strategy, unlike clipping which is a low-commitment side hustle. Each video is a 'free lottery ticket' that could yield huge returns.

### Conclusion

TikTok Shop affiliate marketing is a more sustainable and profitable alternative to clipping, despite its challenges. It offers unlimited earning potential and the chance to build a personal brand, making it a better long-term investment.

## Transcript

overrated side hustles in 2025. And yet, everybody and their mother seems to be going crazy over it. And honestly, I get it. It's the new shiny thing, and genuinely works if you put in real effort. But here's what's driving me
crazy. Every guru is pushing this creator clipping, but conveniently leaving out like one massive opportunity that uses basically the same skills, but has like 5 to 10x more profit. And if you're already learning how to make
viral content, why are you capping your earnings to only a few thousand a month? Over the past two years, I've made over $2.5 million in sales in my first two years doing content and focusing on these content skills that I ultimately
helped dozens of other people end up quitting their jobs to do this pushing you towards an opportunity that is smaller and ignoring the bigger ones, the alternative options. So, in this video, I'm going to show you the side
hustle that is very similar to this clipping, but is very unlimited when it money that you can make. And I'm gonna be brutally honest about both. At least from my perspective as much as I can be. So look, I'm not here to basically bash
clipping. It works and people are actually making, you know, 500 a,000, But here's the other side of the truth that these creators won't tell you. On average, you'll be getting paid like 50 cents to maybe if you're lucky, $3
per,000 views on these videos. And these videos are going to be of other creators that aren't even yourself. So you won't even be getting the virality for your be getting it for a whole different person that's not you. And personally,
if I want to go viral, I want to go viral for myself and my brand and my somebody else to ultimately get the higher success. And personally, I don't want to get paid 50 cents per thousand views or three even $3 per,000 views is
like nothing. It's like not much at all. On top of all that, it's like marketed as an easy money scheme, which is also part of the problem. Making easy money online is generally not true. It's like kind of not the case in any business
models that are more fun and more entertaining and maybe it doesn't feel make it easier. What I have learned to be a good and a long-term way to make affiliate. This is where you can get
again, completely free, and it feels like Christmas Day every single day that film these products and you make money by making fun, entertaining films and content at home. And here's what I've learned from making the $2.5 million in
sales on Tik Tok Shop by doing this and teaching my sister, who ended up making over $5 million in sales her first year on Tik Tok Shop and my mom who made over $23,000 her second month ever having the Tik Tok app downloaded on her phone.
Now, for some brutally honest truths about Tik Tok Shop affiliate, a lot of or they're just not telling you the entire truth about their earnings. They months that they had, but never show you the bad months that they've had. And
creator who made, you know, $50,000 one month and then now they're just this everything about Tik Tok shop. So that is something that is a challenge. You have to make sure that you're not getting roped into somebody who is just
that, there are some other challenges. Like it's extremely uncomfortable to first time you've ever done this. I remember my first time actually filming uncomfortable thing I've probably ever done in my entire life. But I'm also so
happy that I did because if it wasn't for doing those hard things, I wouldn't because of Tik Tok Shop. On top of that, it's also hard to learn these skills and the frameworks that work for these viral videos because if you think about it,
already hard to do, but on top of that, you're trying to also sell a product. So, you're kind of combining two worlds into one. But when you master that, it because not only are you a good content creator, but you're also a good salesman
challenging part of this is actually picking viral products. You really have who would be buying a lot of stuff to think about what is actually a good can do that, you can really think about like what products other people would
want and how you can use them in your house and your like lifestyle to and master that kind of framework and mindset, you really can pick good But that part is really hard. Now, I will say that the skills transfer from
clipping to Tik Tok Shop affiliate is very similar because it is a very similar concept. Like, if you're going to learn how to make viral short form content on Tik Tok or on any platform, that's basically exactly what
Clipping teaches you. Why not use those same skills for an unlimited potential has this kind of max potential you can get. For example, actually caps your earning potentials and doesn't even pay about 60 to 70% of your videos. Whereas,
Tik Tok shop is unlimited. You can make as many posts as you want and you could every view could possibly make you a sale. And when you implement the actual start to make really good money on really small amount of views. Or you can
For example, I had a video that got a million views and it got me about $15,000 in commission. Whereas a normal video like that on could only make me about $1,000. Now, I want to play it fair for W clipping here. There are some
obvious things that again are not that great about Tik Tok Shop Affiliate. And are some things that other creators and gurus online won't tell you. Like the to suck at talking on camera for the first month. No one else is going to
not going to be normal. It's going to feel really uncomfortable. On top of sometimes can take you up to 10 to 20 hours per week to actually see good know if that seems like a lot or a little to you, but to me it feels like
especially if I have a 9 toive job. Another thing that no one really tells account like on a dime. you could lose everything overnight. Another thing that everybody succeeds in this. It is not like everybody who tries this and like
magically make tons of money. Obviously, that's not the case. But I will say that consistent and you try really hard and you put in good work, you will make good money. I mean, that is the reason why my sister has literally became the number
app out of everybody in the world for the home and living category. That's the military and do this full-time. That's also the same reason why my friends and this nearly full-time as well. But that's also the main thing is that you
in a person that you want to learn from or else you're just going to get nowhere. And for example, my community, we do not cherrypick like the good the bad things because if you don't learn from the bad things, you will
that's actually how you see results. You don't just avoid these mistakes. So, this is why I truly believe that Tik Tok Shop will win long-term over WO because I believe that WA clipping is like renting an apartment, whereas Tik
of a house. And I know that sounds weird, but it really is thinking long term because Tik Tok shop, you can really build a personal brand out of this. You can build a long-term honest review type of strategy of selling and
promoting products. Whereas Wap clipping kind of comes off like this, you know, side hustle of making a little bit of tiny cash that you ultimately just use as like a a shield behind some other bigname creator. And every single Tik
Tok shop video is like a free lottery ticket that every time you post a video, and you don't know if it's going to make you like $70,000 or not. And that's why so nice is that it's like, you know, the next video could be this crazy
she posted this video, she was two months into doing Tik Tok Shop affiliate and she made $72,000 from one single video. And that's the thing. I'm not going to sit here and promise that you're going to make $10,000 your first
example, like you're going to be just like my mom who made all this crazy money in such a short amount of time because that's not always the case. It's because these people put in the work. Like my sister, she went from zero to $5
million in sales because she put in good work and put in all the reps that it that I mentored, for example, Abigail, she ended up putting in all this work this full-time. And I believe it was like her third month or her second or
in commission. So, here's my honest truth with this is that you can choose clipping and compete with everybody who's coming up with this shortcut to actually make this money or you can invest in this kind of long-term play
that actually makes real wealth and builds a real brand plus gives you like day. So, if you want my honest truth, which hopefully you've kind of gathered it by now, is that actually Tik Tok shop is a lot better of an option even after
that other people won't tell you about this platform. So, if you want a shop affiliate and doing it successfully, I have that video linked community that values honesty over everything, I'll have that linked down
everything, I'll have that linked down below.