How common is a revenue share/commission based payment structure ?

Hey all,

I am in the home decor space and we started our own e-commerce store 3 months ago. So far we’ve done all our marketing in house and we are profitable, however it’s pretty minimal considering how little we’ve spent on ads.

We are college students and don’t have much budget to work with when it comes to ad spend. Is hiring a freelancer/digital marketing agency out of the question for us? We’ve had a lot of people approach us and we’re actively looking for someone but once they hear our ad spend budget they shut us down, which is understandable.

Does anyone have any advice for seeking a commission based payment structure? Like a revenue share model. How can we go about this assuming we can’t increase our ad spend.

We’ve been spending 600-800 a month on ads since June. We’ve been quoted upfront fees of over 1000 (which I completely understand is reasonable from their perspective) but the issue is even if we manage to get more funds we won’t have anything left for adspend. If anyone has any advice or could give some recommendations that would be super helpful !