Send to KindleVia Kickstarter Strategies: How to Get VC Angel Investors and Event Management Company
Yes, it would be nice to have 100,000 people who want to work with you and give you long term work contracts LIKE your Facebook (via social media marketing) page. It would be very nice.
So when I saw James Altucher’s post on how to get 100,000 likes or fans to your Facebook (via social media marketing) page, I had to read it. After all, I loved his post on the 7 Habits of Mediocre Entrepreneurs. It was humble, useful, and even a bit inspiring.
His post that mentions FanNewsCast, not so much.
Well, what you care about is just whether his method works. And the answer is: YES.
And if you want to know if his method works, the answer is NO.
Yep. I’m trying to confuse you. I’m trying to confuse you as much as FanNewsCast and James’s TC article does. I went to their site. I couldn’t make any sense of it. I sent in an email a couple days ago asking how they work and what they do. No answer yet. Then I Googled them. I found several mentions. And yes, nobody knew what they do or how.
So here’s me unravelling the mystery: FanNewsCast and James Altucher’s 100,000 fans | Social Media Marketing: Facebook Likes Inside: Yes, they do bring your targeted demographic users. But sorry, they’re not targeted for you.
So, Feel Like Brainstorming About Your Marketing?
Just reach out to us to talk about your company and getting you out in front of Bloggers, Google, and Your Customers at http://sparkah.com/marketing.
Now, If You Want Our Marketing Trade Secrets...
You're not going to find them here. Our proprietary side door trade secrets to Google, Twitter, Pinterest, Blogging, and Facebook are ONLY Available at http://sparkah.com/private. Join us.
PS, If You Want Us to Contact The Top 300 Bloggers In Your Industry For You...
Contact us if you want to quickly reach out to the top bloggers in your industry. It always helps side you past the bouncers if you know them personally. And we probably do. If we don't, they just might know us. After all, we were just featured in Forbes: http://sparkah.com/press
{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }
I’m not that much of a internet reader to be honest but your blogs really nice, keep it up!
I’ll go ahead and bookmark your site to come back down the road. All the best
I used them. I got tons of fans but it didn’t lead to traffic. Not what I wanted so I bailed out.
valuable comment. thank you. if you’d like to do a story about your experiences, I’d love to feature you
Thanks for this. I saw the TechCrunch article and checked out the FanNewscast page. After reading about it, I was immediately suspicious. I went back to the TechCrunch article and looked at the comments and was stunned how many of them were basically FNC spam.
Basically, it seems to amount to paying a lot of money to turn my page into a spambot and I’m not interested in that.
You are spot on. I left this comment on the TechCrunch article and am x-posting here to prove your point:
We tested James’ strategy in mini form, dropping 1,000USD – using FanNewsCast and got about 8.5K new likes (mostly non-english) on our existing 2.5K.
Results?
- The original 2.5K are still the only ones interacting in a useful way on the page.
- The spam on the page has shot up, we had none before
- Our edgerank, after a month, shot down
- Now it costs 4X as much to use promoted posts to reach our real 2.5K fans.
James, well done, more personal PR to sell worthless sh*t to marketing newbies, and Tech Crunch congrats, I’m sure you got many pageviews from this article and were able to sell more ad space.
The honest reviews keep pouring in..