The first month is not for profit, it is for numbers. The goal is to obtain your own conversion rates and cost base while spending as little as possible on getting them.
Week one: preparation
One or two aged accounts, individual proxies, a model key. Fill in the profiles: name, avatar, bio. Collect a first channel list with the parser using your niche keywords, then check it — part of it will drop out immediately.
Week two: a careful launch
Start with soft limits from the warm-up schedule. The goal of the week is not volume but the first live comments in your niche. Read all of them: this is where you find out whether the prompt produces substance or platitudes.
Week three: fixes
By now the first profile views and dialogues appear. Fix the weakest link: few views means the prompt, many views without dialogues means the profile, dialogues without requests means the conversation itself. Change one thing at a time or you will not know what worked.
Week four: measure
Collect four numbers: comments, dialogues, requests, spend. Everything else derives from them — cost per lead, break-even and the fleet size you need.
What not to do
- Do not buy ten accounts at once: they will all be ramping, and setup mistakes get multiplied by ten.
- Do not raise the limits: a restriction in week one wipes out the month.
- Do not change everything daily: then you are measuring your own edits.
What counts as success
Not profit but legible numbers. A month that ends with you knowing your cost per lead succeeded — even if the figure is high, because now it has something to be compared against. The daily allowances are in the warm-up calculator.