That’s right, the first fiverr person that I’m listing below promises — money back guarantee — that you will get 1,000,000 actual non-bot “organic” visitors to your selected url page.
He’s listed as a vetted pro, and you’ll note many positive feedbacks. His total price for the premium package is, you’ll note, a mere $45.00, so even if it’s a total bust, you don’t take a heavy hit for it.
On the other hand, if he can deliver even a few hundred thousand visitors to a url, think how easy it would be to apply that to youtube, in order to grow a channel fairly fast — only 15 days to reach 1,000,000.
If all you do is ask them to subscribe, you’ve won the match, and if they click through to your webpage landing url with the “add to shopping cart” right there in front of their faces, you’ve got a double winner.
So let’s add him to our fiverr.com shopping list — here’s the url below:
Have you made a video game recently? If so, you’ll want to show a video “trailer” about the game and why people should download it and play it, so here’s someone who might be able to help you, although keep in mind that I have no experience with these folks, so my guess might well be wrong.
Or right.
It’s up to you to check things out, use due diligence. Anyhow, here’s the url for this gig:
But keep in mind that this is a facebook operator, so you should be well-established on facebook in order to exploit this gambit.
This would be a good way to go if you wanted to build traffic to an embedded video on your web page.
Don’t send them elsewhere — that’s self-defeating. Keep them on the page and give them the opportunity to see your product, which can be anything from a book or video game to a painting or special meteorite.
You can pitch the product inside the meat & potatoes section of your video, or make uyour sales pitch at the end of the video, and don’t forget to thank them and remember to ask them to subscribe and hit the alert bell, to help them self-remember when they hear the bell, sort of intentional Pavlovian discipline.
What if you’ve made an incredible music video, or a video about gun-twirling or a video featuring a new video game you just completed for market, could you get some help from someone out there in fiverr land?
Of course you could — here’s Emma Beth, in Nigeria, who’d love to help you get your video out to the big wide world:
They will promote through actual ads and campaigns, to thousands of followers, not millions. They also do some google adword stuff to boost your vid.
Their promotion is organic and adheres to youtube’s TOS rules and regulations. They guarantee results or money back, and you should start seeing actual logins within the first 24-72 hours.
You don’t prepare anything, just send the video’s youtube url address and they do all the rest, get you on music platforms, and they don’t sell your traffic, an important point.
They charge $70 to reach a 20 million audience, but if you just want to try them out to see how they do, $40 buys the standard package, reaching 6 million viewers, which seems to me to be plenty, at least to make a decision whether to continue the promotion or not.
If you get along well with the seller, your chances improve. If you’re always fighting the seller, you have to find someone who is both able and congenial — there’s no shortage of competent help out there, especially in covid times, so you don’t have to settle for second-best.
Their broadcast ads reach 1,000,000 viewers, more than enough to make any youtube channel grow. It’s tricky, good luck with it, and once again, I don’t guarantee that my picks for this dissertation are good choices — I haven’t checked them out yet, but I certainly will, and you’re welcome to wait here for the results, or go get your own.
Okay, so now what?
Well, if you’re a musician, you want to be on the soundcloud with your soundcloud tracks, and then you’d find a soundcloud marketer — there are plenty, because this is the wave of the future of the music industry.
Now what about books?
Well, you can find a book marketer, or go with one of these video promoters, and make a selling video about your book and where to get a copy, with a hot link in the description.
Nothing could be simpler, and the chances improve with a compelling and persuasive video in full living color and full, deep and brilliant sound.
In short, use your video skills to sell the product, game or service.
So what other kinds of marketing things are there to tap into on fiverr?
There are a large number of promoters who offer “millions of active readers” and exposure there could help you to get visitors to a FREE story or chapter from your book, and maybe even lure them all the way to your landing page with the “add to shopping cart” button.
That IS the point, remember?
Getting them to watch a video doesn’t actually do you any good, but it’s a way of measuring the reaction to your promotion campaign, and it may result in a few sales or conversions, meaning converted from looky-loo to buyer.
You might or might not find someone who specializes in promoting your style of webinar or your idea of craft classes, but you’ll easily find a VIDEO promoter, and what’s in the video is entirely up to you.
Video promotion is probably the most economical type of online promotion — it gets you lots of views — but it isn’t the best way to actually SELL something online.
The best way is to get them onto your webpage where they’re confronted with an “add to shopping cart” button, and they do.
The goal is to make the promotion at least pay for itself, meaning it has to at the minimum break even, income equals expense, or surpasses expense, hopefully by a long way.
That’s the real issue here. Can you make and sell enough donuts PER DAY to make a living? Most folks can’t, and when they try, it falls far short of sufficient.
So, we gotta go slow.
Don’t risk too much when trying out a new promoter. $40 is about right for most services, and at that price, you should get the middle offering.
The cheap price, that $5 price tag, is strictly to attract the mouse button — it’s click-bait. You’ll never want to settle for that loss-leader $5 package.
It won’t do much, and it won’t tell you anything about the viability of this path for you — and you’ll have to pay extreme attention to what’s working and what isn’t, or you’ll lose money, and it goes faster than you’d think, even at $35-$45 at a time.
What if your video is lousy?
You can find someone on fiverr to fix it for you, or just let it go out the way it is and hope for the best. Don’t forget that their decision to watch the video had nothing to do with the actual video itself.
It was all about the title and the thumbnail.
What they see in the first 1/5th of a second is what they’re reacting to, not to what’s inside the video, which they can’t see from here.
Remember this — it isn’t about the video, it’s about the title and the thumbnail. If you want to get views, even with promotion, your thumbnail will have to be great. But what if your thumbnail is crap?
In that case, you’ll need to find someone to help you make a great thumbnail. And you’ll have to find someone else to create a powerful and attractive title with lots of power words along with the key words.
That takes a specialist in keyword and power word promotion, and they are there to be found, and you’ll discover them lurking among the “web traffic” developers that abound.
Need a great soundtrack or music for your video? Look no further, they are plentiful, along with producers, mixers, engineers and technicians of all kinds, along with every type of musician you can think of, and more besides.
You have to keep the expenses down to a minimum, and keep track of the relative levels of income versus outlay.
In each case, you need to weigh the investment against income. You can’t ignore it. You need to tailor your promotion and make it pay.
That’s easiest done with books, jewelry and workshops.
Yes, workshops. We can fill a workshop or webinar with thousands of interested viewers, if only they knew it was available to them.
You can have the best product or service in the world, but if nobody knows about it, it’s as if it didn’t exist.
Our job is to promote the higher. Always has been, always will be, but how can you help? Gosh, I’m glad you asked.
Send money.
I’m only half-joking there. You probably don’t have either the time, skills or inclination to do any marketing, but you could help us to market these ideas to a very large audience, larger than we’ve ever been able to reach before.
Your $19 a month provides care for … no, sorry, that’s the animal rescue promotion. Ah, here it is…
Please send as much as you can as often as you can, and get everyone you come into contact with to do the same.
With enough promotion, we can finally achieve that great result we’ve been working toward, these many centuries — more marketing.
Although I’m joking about the money, donations are always welcome, but that’s not the issue.
The real issue is, how can I get you to join in, to participate, to take your place in the circle of work?
Yes, you can do this stuff. You can create a video about a book, a book review, if you will, and post it on youtube, and then promote the video, and sit back and wait for results.
If all goes well, it should produce a few hundred sales, which is more than we’re doing now, so the effort will be very visible and productive.
If we can raise our book sales by only a few thousand per year, we’ll be doing well, and people do come in from the books to our workshops and other virtual gatherings.
But if it just isn’t in your nature to do such things, I understand, but don’t worry, there are still lots of ways to participate directly, one of which is to become a Project Donor.
That means you’d take part in a ZOOM meeting where we’d decide together which fiverr person to hire, and for how much, and then we’d raise the money between ourselves to finance the operation, generally about $40, so it won’t hurt anyone to donate to this.
If we get super results, you won’t even have to fund raise anymore. As a matter of fact, we could find fundraisers on fiverr to handle that for us.
We’re a non-profit organization, which means “not for personal profit”, meaning it doesn’t benefit any one person.
It does NOT mean we spend more money every month than we make. That’s never been what “non-profit” means, but the average Joe thinks it means you lose money.
Fiscal responsibility is what it’s all about. Anyway, we do a lot of good for a lot of people, and very few people know what it is we do and what we offer to the public, so we want to remedy that right now.
More than 1 MILLION readers have bought and read the American Book of the Dead, and there are millions more out there who would read it if they could get it, and now they can.
The ABD is available in digital download, so there’s nobody who can’t get it, even in some alternate dimensions where the internet isn’t yet outlawed, like here.
You can’t tell that I’m writing this from a different dimension — there’s just no way to tell. So forget about the alternate dimensions — what’s the difference between hiring a book promoter and a video promoter?
Exactly. You don’t really know, do you? You’d just be guessing. Well, a book promoter will reach a few thousand readers, maybe as many as tens of thousands, while a video promoter will reach millions of disinterested uninformed utility rats.
In short, a million zombies will see your video offered for free in front of their faces. Now, does that translate into actual views?
Dream on, sucker.
No, it just means that someone dumped your video, along with zillions of other similar videos, onto the trash-heap that is the internet, and one million people saw it flash before their eyes.
Just once. You only get the single hit. Whatever happens. You want to roll those dice, Casper?
Well, you might not, but I do, and I’ll tell you why.
If we continue on our present course, we’ll only reach people like ourselves, and that doesn’t just mean “fourth way” or spiritual stuff or things like that — it also means that most of our contacts are in the category most likely to need the vaccine first.
That’s right. Codgers, old folks, and we’re not getting any younger, although mentally we’re quite youthful these days, almost blissfully so.
What? Oh yeah, now I remember. We were talking about bliss. Okay, that’s enough bliss, let’s get real.
You want to stop waiting for youngsters to show up in our circle and take control of our outreach programs and get us on the air and out the door.
That isn’t going to happen anytime soon, and even if it does, there’s no way to predict it or to do anything with local talent. You need the skills, the expertise and the connections, and we have none of those things here, we’re vegetarians, spoken in Vincent Price tones.
We need to define the problem and handle it.
The problem is that we’re not getting out there — we have no port cities, no seacoast — we’re landlocked, surrounded by monster territories with powerful armies of marketers.
Okay, so we’re going to get out of the hole, by hiring competent professional people at reasonable prices per job, to do specific tasks with known end-games, like “promote this video”.
Again I want to mention that “promote this video” could be about anything — the video could be about the next Wilderness Workshop we’re holding next summer, or it could be about the fabulous new Orb or Ammy or book that just came out, like we’re doing with Glenn & Lee’s new paperback that we published. It doesn’t matter what you promote or how you promote it.
The first thing you need to figure out and decide upon is WHY you are doing this. What’s your end-game? What do you want them to do? How will you pay for this exposure?
How you pay for it is you make sure that every element works, meaning that every effort to market a thing has happened and that you’ve mapped out the results, using google stats if necessary to do that.
If you’re marketing a video, just note the number of views. If you’re promoting a web page, note the traffic per month.
If you’re marketing a book, note the number of sales per month and note any increase. If there is none, cease and desist and find something else to do — and keep the day job.
Remember that most of the people on fiverr are international, meaning that they can handle things at that level, but also that they live in other countries.
If you’re squeamish about hiring a foreigner, imagine how they feel about hiring out to you. There is a definite advantage to this, which you wouldn’t ordinarily know — most everyone speaks some sort of English, at least a few words, enough to order food in a restaurant or enough to get laid, if they’re military.
One guy I knew, the day he left the Army, he got into a cab in Boston, realized he was starving, and he hadn’t had seafood since he went into the Army, so he asks the cab driver, “Do you know where I can get scrod?”, and the cabbie turns toward him and says, “That’s the first time I’ve ever been asked that in the pluperfect subjunctive.”.
Live and learn. No, what I meant to tell the Senators was, “Lessons Unlearned Will Be Repeated”, but they haven’t answered my phone calls yet.
Gosh, maybe my messages are full. I better check.
Yep, they were, so I probably missed their calls. I’ll call again in the morning — they get in real early when there are proceedings.
I hope I hear from my good friend Chester A. Arthur. He’ll know what do to. I have an unpublished manuscript written by him back in 1912, about radical groups in America.
What I’m trying to tell you is, this is nothing new. I wouldn’t worry about it. Eventually it will go away. Everything will go away, at least for 49 days it will, plus the two and a half days you spend in the Clear Light.
Turnover in there is slow. Tips are bad. Work conditions are lousy, and our take-home pay doesn’t come close to covering our expenses.
That’s how you can tell we’re in the Great Work. It’s the only sure sign. Otherwise, how would you know?
It really makes a difference WHY you’re marketing things, and you have to know what that WHY is, what makes your project tick, and that means digging into what you want to have happen, what you expect to happen from your promotions.
Do you want them to buy something? Okay, how you get that to happen may mean that you hire someone to design your landing page, so it’s phone-friendly and also inviting.
You might want to hire someone to figure out what your keywords and power words should be for your target url page. This is available as a separate service on fiverr, meaning that some folks specialize in it, so you’d look for “keywords” in the fiverr search field.
So you might want them to end up on a selling page, like this one:
Or you might lure them in with the video posted on youtube which leads to that web page through the hot-link in the description.
Of course, there’s the entire list of videos, half a dozen pages of them, and you could send them to that master page with all those buttons on there, with lots of attractive images and words.
Myself, I’d like to get them directly to the selling page, where they can easily see and play the video just by pressing the “start” button in the middle of the image.
This page gives them access to yoyodyne and other stuff, too. There’s a world to be explored, and they just might click on one of those subjects and go there to have a look around.
We can’t get that sort of action on our web pages these days without help of some kind, and this seems to be a good way to at least begin to remedy some of the slowdown we’ve experienced over the past year.
The link above is to a promoter of books, specifically. Her most recent delivery was one hour ago. She has over 1,000 positive reviews of her work from clients. She does author interviews, which is why I’m interested in her services.
Here is a link to Melrock:
She advertises your book on her popular book website, but don’t hold your breath for sales from this level of promotion — it takes thousands to make thousands.
Here’s a link to Melissa Caudle:
Her specialty is driving traffic to your web page, and she makes a video featuring your book, or at least something that sort of looks like your book, in a promotional action video, and mentions it with a link to the page as part of her daily blog. She also offers editing services, unlike myself.
I wouldn’t edit for a million bucks. Not anymore. I just straight publish what the author sends me. I saw that particular handwriting on the wall decades ago, and stopped insisting on proofreading and editing after I lost dozens of writers for Galaxy SF Magazine back in the 1980s.
Edit? For what? People who can’t tell the difference between its and it’s? Forget it. Just print it, like my Second Life budget burial service sign says: “Just drop the body off here and don’t ask any stupid questions.”. The questions are not in themselves stupid.
It’s stupid to ask them.
Anyone who grew up around the docks knows what I’m talking about. Keep your mouth shut, and your darkest thoughts to yourself.
Surekab is a woman from Sri Lanka:
She is a musician with a large following, and she uses her following to promote things like what you have in mind, so give her a try, for $35, see what she can produce for you, and go from there.
You don’t want to spend $100 bucks until you’re sure it’s gonna work FOR YOU. Sometimes you stumble on something that works for others, but doesn’t seem to work for you.
It’s probably your thumbnail, or it could be worse — you could just be jinxed.
If you think you’re jinxed, you’ll find the remedy in marketing the work ideas, so get behind a project and take it on and get ‘er done.
If you want ideas of things we’d like to see promoted, let me know. Also, keep in mind that you don’t need to own it in order to sell it. That’s real important, but also keep in mind that drop-shipping requires your utmost cooperation and patience.
That’s why I recommend selling downloadables at this time.