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5 min readOliver Broccado started Tabs Chocolate in his college apartment with $30,000—his entire bank account from previous ventures. Two years later, at age 21, he was doing $11 million in annual revenue from a single product: chocolate marketed as an edible for sex. The business runs with zero employees, no outside investment, and a marketing engine built on a loophole in the TikTok algorithm.
The idea came when a friend sent him a TikTok video of a teenage girl reviewing a "sex chocolate." The video had 8 million views and 2 million likes, but the product had no website, no social media, no way to buy it. Broccado saw a validated viral concept with no competition. "If I were to take my prior experience and background in this space, I could make this into a multi-million dollar brand," he says. He spent a year developing the product before launch.
The Viral Product Strategy
Broccado's core insight is that the product itself must be the marketing. "You're scrolling through TikTok all day, you see 'sex chocolate.' What? It's super novel. People have never seen it before." The product triggers what he calls "emotional arousal"—making the viewer feel something, which drives them to watch the full video, like it, and share it with friends. This creates internal virality without paid advertising.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Ad Block** - Multiple sponsor segments for Accenture, Google Chrome, and PayPal.
- 2 (01:26) **Episode Introduction** - Host sets up the episode: Oliver Broccado turned one product, Tabs Chocolate, into an $11M brand in two years with zero employees.
- 3 (02:28) **The Business & Origin Story** - Oliver introduces "sex chocolate," an edible for sex, and explains how he discovered the concept through a viral TikTok video.
- 4 (04:28) **Manufacturing & Supply Chain** - Oliver breaks down the complex process of sourcing and manufacturing the chocolate and its packaging.
- 5 (05:40) **Critical Mistakes & Inventory Management** - Oliver shares the biggest operational mistakes he made, particularly around inventory.
- 6 (06:43) **Ad Break** - Promotional segment for StarterStory's library of case studies.
- 7 (08:59) **Brand vs. Dropshipping** - Oliver argues that building a real brand creates a competitive moat that dropshipping can never match.
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Show Notes
I Make $11M/Year Selling One Product
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In this episode, I met up with Oliver Brocato to ask him exactly how he built Tabs Chocolate to $11M/year using a viral content strategy... And he tells it all. He shared how he built the product from scratch, how he found the idea, and the viral formula he uses generate millions. Hope you enjoy this one!
0:00 - Intro 1:02 - The $11M Business 1:30 - How he found the idea 2:15 - Viral psychology 3:01 - How to create product from scratch 4:14 - Shipping & Logistics Mistakes 5:16 - Starter Story Special 6:06 - Building a Brand VS Dropshipping 8:05 - The early days 9:24 - Costs 10:16 - How to find manufacturer's 10:41 - The Viral Strategy 11:41 - Viral Video Formula 12:07 - Other marketing channels 12:33 - Advice for entrepreneurs
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