--- title: 'How to Actually Start TikTok Shop Affiliate (With 0 Followers)' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=DWsm48Jkg5o' video_id: 'DWsm48Jkg5o' date: 2026-07-14 duration_sec: 237 --- # How to Actually Start TikTok Shop Affiliate (With 0 Followers) > Source: [How to Actually Start TikTok Shop Affiliate (With 0 Followers)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DWsm48Jkg5o) ## Summary This video provides a step-by-step guide for beginners with zero followers to become a TikTok Shop Affiliate. It covers using an aged account, creating a specific type of video to gain followers, and running targeted ads to reach the required 5,000 followers quickly. ### Key Points - **Requirement for Aged Account** [00:01] — You need an account older than 3 months with no previous devices logged in, and only one device on that account. This avoids issues with TikTok's Shop Affiliate Program acceptance. - **Eligibility Criteria** [00:40] — To be eligible for TikTok Shop, your account must be at least 3 months old, have 5,000 followers, follow community guidelines, and pass account checks. - **Video Strategy to Gain Followers** [01:05] — Create a video explaining you want to be a TikTok Shop Affiliate but lack followers, asking for support. Use a 7-second video with text overlay saying 'Who's with me?' and hashtags #teamwork and #followback. - **Running Ads to Boost Followers** [02:23] — Go to ads.tiktok.com, create an ad with goal 'Follow', set budget to $20/day, launch at midnight. Target all countries except South Korea. Use the video as creative asset, set ad period to 7 days. - **Expected Results** [03:41] — After setting up the ad, wait for midnight to start. Followers should start coming in. The process helped a student make $17,000 in a month and another $20,000. ### Conclusion By following this exact process—using an aged account, creating a support-seeking video, and running targeted ads—you can quickly reach 5,000 followers and start earning as a TikTok Shop Affiliate. ## Transcript Shop Affiliate even if you're a complete TikTok Shop Affiliate right now, but you're probably stuck because you don't followers yet. So, I'm going to show you the exact step-by-step on how to get So, lock in for the next 10 minutes and you're going to start printing on TikTok it, the first thing you're going to need is an aged account. So, that's going to more than 3 months, okay? You want to make sure that no devices are logged in previously and it's only one device on that account. The reason for this is TikTok right now and get it to 5,000 followers in the next 12 hours, TikTok you a hard time getting accepted into the TikTok Shop Affiliate Program. So, account that you've had on TikTok for at least 3 months and not making a brand new account. To be eligible for TikTok Shop, your account needs to follow four years old, you need to have an account with at least 5,000 followers, your guidelines and pass the TikTok account checks. But, the hardest part is followers, so I'm going to show you the step-by-step process without using any understand that, let's go to step two where you make the video to actually get example looks like from one of my students. is because you're taking your viewers on a journey. You're explaining to them Affiliate, but you don't even have an account with 5K. So, you're asking them for help to support you along with the journey. Now, in this video, she decided trying to do this completely faceless, but you could technically do this in selfie mode with your face as long as you have the same text on screen, that's you a quick rundown on exactly how to make the video. Just take a 7-second video and again, it doesn't matter if you show your face or not. text you have with this app and then underneath that, you're going to write who's with me. description of your video, just write that you're going to follow everyone back and then for your hashtags, use #teamwork and #followback. And then you important part and I'm going to break it one-on-one help with TikTok Shop, check the description. I'll leave a link down out. And this is the exact same process that my student Stephanie took to make $17,000 in a single month and also the same process that Mike used to make 20K all because you get direct one-on-one access and coaching from me and you're and expected to figure it out. Now, let's get into the fun part, step three. The first thing you're going to do is go to ads.tiktok.com and make an account, here, go to the dashboard and press create ad. When you get to this page, you're going to press on community interaction and then hit continue. The just scroll down and make sure your goal is set to follow and then delete this bid control. For my budget, I like to set it to 20 USD every single day and set the ads to launch at midnight for the best results. Make sure you have the down to demographics. Press on the locations. From here, you're going to select every single country except for single country and I've intentionally left South Korea unmarked. Then you can scroll down and leave age, gender and languages exactly how it is and then go you're going to go to creative assets and press add. Hit TikTok posts and then press [music] add post. Now, this part's that you have posted on TikTok and press on the three little dots at the bottom. Scroll all the way down until you see ad settings. From here, you're going to going to set the [music] period for 7 days. Press save at the bottom and then press manage and copy code. And right here is where you're going to take that [music] it into your computer. Then just hit continue and press add TikTok posts. then once you have the creative asset under this toggle right here, you're all. Now, you just have to wait for midnight to hit so that your ad can should start seeing [music] the followers come in. Now, do me a quick get to 5K followers, come back to this video and comment down below and let us know exactly how long it took you to actually get to that 5K mark.