Did you live in ancient Lesbos? Is that lifetime affecting you now? Would you like to know more about it?
I’m not going to make it easy, with a hotlink. You have to take the time and trouble to contact me, message me, find some way to tell me that you REALLY want to know if you have lived before this life — and you have.
I can tell you where, when and what happened, and I have the spiritual tools to actually educe that out of you.
You have all the memories, but they’re locked up away from you. It’s SAFE and EASY to bring those memories back to life, so you will KNOW that you are an immortal being — it’s not just about belief and faith!
I can PROVE to you that you lived many times before! Better yet, YOU can prove it TO YOURSELF, using my incredible Spiritual Work Tools and Software to unlock the Secrets of Your Ancient Past!
Now, about marketing:
Looking at all the schemes to “grow your business” on InstaGram in order to be able to hotlink every post individually, which means 10,000 followers or more, I’m left with a definite impression that in the end, it’s worthless to buy followers, and I couldn’t agree more.
First of all, you never want bots in your store. They break things and blunder into countertops.
Secondly, you don’t really NEED to sell anything on InstaGram — you can drive customers to a website or an ETSY or eBay point-of-purchase URL page, so why hassle it?
You don’t really need hotlinks. They help, but surprisingly, not that much. The client is driven by fear, hunger, overwhelm, all visible in the graphic — not by easy hotlinks.
Be natural, stay real, be authentic, be yourself.
Those are the words you’ll hear, if you listen to the professional advice of the top people in the marketing business.
Keep in mind that there is no brick and mortar business anymore that’s worth its weight in salt, or as Donald J. Trumpie-Poo would say, “werth it’s wait in SALT”.
So how long will it take to build organically to 1 million followers?
Well, first of all, that’s highly unlikely on InstaGram, although by fluke factor, it could happen. The chances are that any FaceBook account will have more followers than any IG account, just because of the way they handle “sharing”.
IG doesn’t really share in the broadcast sense. It’s more about the conversation, the interactions, than about someone telling others about things, more of an invitation to talk about the image, to discuss the matter, to comment and counter-comment, perhaps even leading to DM traffic, which gets the most votes from InstaGram.
I calculate that if I spend 8 to 12 hours a day conversing on IG, I will have just barely performed the minimum task necessary to maintain a good flow in my direction.
I need to spot peer groups and insert myself into them. I also need to start conversations with influencers and get them to respond, if I can, which means I should somehow seem useful to them for their campaigns — it does no good to try to bring them onto my band-wagon, I need to jump on theirs.
There’s a big deal about numbers of followers, but as I told my friend Harry Nilsson back in 1972 when he was about to sign with William Morris, “It’s not about the numbers”.
Now, back then, that was true, and it’s still true today, but there is a temptation to seek the numbers and depend on them.
Actually, you DO need largish numbers in order to market anything because you’ll otherwise quickly run out of customers — the field tends to dry up when you’ve exhausted all the potential out of it, which is called “burning territory” in salesperson’s language.
Oh, but wait — how about taking a look at WHY we need more followers?
We need them to make a good impression on incoming guests to our IG home page, right? That’s not necessarily true — it depends on what you’re selling and to whom.
If, for instance, I’m selling an original unique Renoir work on paper — which I am — you need to reach the actual potential buyers of that original Renoir.
Here are the main reasons:
- They can afford it.
- They’re in the market for art.
- They’re totally nuts about Renoir.
- They’re experienced and knowledgeable buyers.
- They’re buying to flip it.
Those are the main drivers for that particular piece. There aren’t many folks out there who can afford this item — it runs into five figures, and is supported by a rarity market that recognizes the extreme scarcity of this piece, along with its importance in art history.
That’s a very specialized and rarified market, and it does NOT typically include millionaires or billionaires. They pay people a lot of money to know things that they don’t care to know, and their only interest is in propping up their own personal brand, meaning themselves.
So how do you meet people of that social calibre? Haw, haw, you don’t. Give it up. So if you find yourself with this item, and it’s far outside the ability of your social class to obtain, you’re in serious trouble, and you need to find a way out of it if you hope to peddle your Renoir anytime soon.
The only way to do that is to find an influencer who reaches decorators and designers for the very rich, and that’s a long, long way away, unless you’re the original RocketMan. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, not RocketMan!
(SOUND: “Rocketman” audio track 1 and FADE)
There really isn’t any way to do this. Any contact will be with a middleman, and they’ll take most of the money, so how can you possibly make a high-end retail sale without actually knowing or meeting the buyer?
Well, online is one way, and actually, you never know where your next high-end art client is going to come from.
I’ve had people walk into the gallery that I would have sworn were homeless, and they’d whip out a card from their tattered rags and spend $38,000 with me on a Wednesday afternoon.
I once made a $92,000 sale from someone I thought was so bad off, I was impulsed to give him a couple of bucks to see him through the day.
You never know, and you can’t judge a book by its cover.
It’s not just about clothing or personal presentation. It’s about depth of field, and how it works within the client’s headspace.
In short, even they might not know that they’re in the market for an original Renoir. Maybe it took your notice to bring them to this awareness.
In the case of my Renoir, it has a very interesting history and story, and that’s the kind of thing that Rick Harrison of “Pawn Stars” likes to see.
The price? I’m asking $62,500 based on comparative recent sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction houses in New York and London.
The price is firm. I know what I have here, and if you do also, and you can afford it, you’ll buy this incredible piece of art history that could be displayed in an incredible frame and valued far above the price I’ve wholesaled it out at.
Wow, it’s late! I gotta go, it’s that time again — breakfast at 6:00 and the ICW at 6:30 — so I’ll leave you to work it out.
Meanwhile, I’ll go post something on IG and head down to breakfast.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby