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Provide "results in advance" to get your foot in the door...

by leojq2
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Credit an article on making money with Fiverr for this idea...

The Top 10 Ways to Easily Make Money Online with Fiverr | Anticareer.com

#10 is...

Here's something I did which worked out very well for me. I had a company I wanted to get as a customer. But when I tried contacting them I never got anywhere. Either no reply or a reply that they were not interested. Most likely because they already had someone they were working with. I saw the added a Facebook Like button on one of the product pages. It had barely any likes. I waited a week and it still had barely any Likes. I reached out to them again and I told them I was going to promote their product page for free because I wanted their business and I wanted them to see firsthand that I could get the job done. I went over to Fiverr and purchased two gigs for Facebook Likes. The gigs were delivered within 2 days. And I got an email back after 5 days asking for an over the phone meeting. I ended up landing their business to do social media promotion for them and it was a nice win for me all by offering a free sample which cost me $10.
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If I were going to do this I'd find businesses I'd like to target in my area who are active on FB but don't have a big following....less than 200.

I'd buy one of the gigs that deliver only 50-100 likes from the US.

I've never bought one of these gigs and some of the feedback indicates the likes disappear but contemplating how to provide "results in advance" is certainly a worthy exercise for selling anything.
#door #foot #provide #results in advance
  • Profile picture of the author Andrew H
    There was an article posted here recently about a company who hired a marketing firm that wrote fake reviews for their yelp page. Caused a big media storm with a lot of bad publicity. I'm sure the marketing firm had a contract in place so won't get sued.

    If you added a bunch of fake likes to my company page, which I did not wan't (fake likes is amateur hour...). Then the media catches wind of this and publishes a story trashing my company. I would surely see you in court

    So overall I would say it's a bad idea.

    If you have the time to provide a real campaign then that would be a different story.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mav91890
    Get a $100 ad voucher for FB ads and do research on how to set up your ads and split test. PPC on FB isn't that hard. Fully agree with Andrew. While it may be very unlikely, you could end up getting sued.
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  • Profile picture of the author MrFume
    I think the OP was not advocating getting the fake likes, but drawing the parallel that demonstrating some results prior to offering your services is good idea-and I think it is a good one too-but definitely not fake FB likes.
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