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How to promote a social media shop?

by LegendToBe
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I'm planning to open up a shop that would sell facebook likes, youtube views, etc.

What would be some good ways to promote such a website?
#media #promote #shop #social
  • Profile picture of the author ronrule
    Originally Posted by LegendToBe View Post

    I'm planning to open up a shop that would sell facebook likes, youtube views, etc.

    What would be some good ways to promote such a website?
    If the service you were providing had any value what so ever, would you really have to ask this question?
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    • Profile picture of the author LegendToBe
      Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

      If the service you were providing had any value what so ever, would you really have to ask this question?
      What's with the rude reply? If we followed your logic, then no one would ask for any ideas on promoting any kind of service. This is a forum where people involved with IM are supposed to help each other.

      I have a few ideas, but I'm looking for other opinions as well.
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      • Profile picture of the author ronrule
        Originally Posted by LegendToBe View Post

        What's with the rude reply? If we followed your logic, then no one would ask for any ideas on promoting any kind of service. This is a forum where people involved with IM are supposed to help each other.

        I have a few ideas, but I'm looking for other opinions as well.
        Because you're asking us to help you figure out a way to promote a junk "service" that has no value to the buyer. On top of that, what you're selling - fake Likes - has a direct negative impact on the IM community and makes it difficult for marketers who actually DO provide real social marketing services to find clients.
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      • Profile picture of the author Steve B
        Legend,

        Maybe what Ron's getting at is the fact that selling "likes" is not exactly what Facebook would want for their customers. Can you see how "likes" coming from someone who was paid to perform the like is not what Facebook intended and probably not what the person receiving the likes needs in the long run? If I were in business and wanted my FB page to be liked, I would hope it would be genuine and not something someone was trying to fool the system with.

        The best to you,

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        • Profile picture of the author moneywealth
          Face it, FB, Twitter and YT likes and followers are junk social media now

          All the alogrithms using FB, TWIT, YT as benchmarks are wrong.

          The big social media companies got gamed and such things are worthless in reality, yet they may be able to pop seo for a while longer.

          Long term these social fakes mean nothing, but short term they may have some IM value if you want to be socially relevant to SE's.

          Traffic is traffic, if it's real you sell stuff, and all these fake social services may be a temporary aid to help pop some organic traffic.

          So if matt cutts the head of google spam wants to include social metrics in google now, well he got what he deserves, JUNK SITES now rule google serps, it's why users with a brain have switched to bing/yahoo.

          Google destroyed their serp's allowing these bs benchmarks to be part of the panda/penguin formula.

          So if he can produce 1K followers on twitter for the going rate of 7 bucks, tell him the right place to promote the service is WSO, they have lots of that stuff there.

          For IM it is a strategy, will it hurt in the long run, I doubt it.

          Links can be traced down via whois and IP's, likes and followers can't

          So Google can't say if they're real or not

          LOL

          As soon as google wakes up and removes the bs social metrics from their recipe the better for everyone.

          Make FB, Twitter, YT irrelevant in SEO and Serps and then no one will even want 1K followers for a buck.

          WORTHLESS all of it but if it pops google for a nice term, why not?
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          • Profile picture of the author LegendToBe
            Ah, I understand better now. Thank you everyone for the explanations. I suppose I'll stay away from opening a service like this.
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  • Profile picture of the author moneywealth
    Lots of that stuff listed in the WSO section

    So how are you going to find 1K real people to follow a twitter account for like 7 bucks?

    That's the going rate

    You want to reveal how you do it, supply 1K followers for like 7 or so bucks

    Or do you think you can get more than every other Likes/Followers seller?
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  • Profile picture of the author DaveHodgkinson
    Hi Legend,

    In my early and naive video days, I bought a "service" that would help rank a particular video on YT, and it just caused me problems. YT took the video down and gave me a stern warning.

    I for one, will never employ these tactics again, it's more than just a waste of money, it's damaging to my business and to the IM industry.
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