Social Media, friend or? (semi boating related)

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Think about this. One person likes your pic on Facebook or IG. Let's say that friend has 300 FB and IG friends. One of their friends has 2000 friends and a Public account with 2M friends and they really love the pic of that DCB flying across the water with the hot woman in the back. Bam, more traffic to your site than you can imagine. Social media isn't going anywhere.

Yup, the fact people do not reply or like it does not mean they did not view it. Good call.

In anticipation of tomorrow's election, I'm working this angle right now. There is a Las Vegas real estate developer trying to develop some land that has been protected by growth control measures for decades. So, he cleverly disguised his measure as "Save the Hills." Of course, everybdoy wants to do that and vote "yes", so it's been a real uphill battle to inform people that the Measure is misleading and a No vote is the correct response. In our grass roots money chest was $20K for signs, advertising, placards etc. Thus far and as of a week ago, the developer has spent $1,500,000.

So our strategy is the same as bb88 point outs - social media. I have 1700 friends. Today, I reached out to about 100 friends, all of whom have between 700-1500 friends, asking them to reach out to each of their friends in the same manner. This in addition to the multiple blasts I have been making for the past week. So today, I probably reached out to about 12K people in the local area.

I doubt we'll pull it off, but the results will be interesting.

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For business purposes, I would like to have the friend cap of 5000 friends. That way, if I add friends who each have between 3000-5000 friends...that gives me a reach to 15,000,000 people in the SoCal area. With that reach, if I don't personally know you, there's a good chance one of my friends, or a friend of a friend does, which is mny goal.

But, one thing I've learned over the past several years, is that achieving 5000 friends is not an easy task and will take several years of daily work to accomplish that task. And we're not talking about going on Fiverr and buying FB friends for $5. Four years ago on FB, you could add hundreds of friends per week, but now everybody is pretty much over friend whoring, and Facebook will put you in timeout if it thinks you are adding people who are not personal friends.

Lastly, just yesterday I was telling wifey about my theory on how some people will always be "cheaters" because they cannot control their basic survival instinct of reproducing. I think, this underlying and subconscious instinct is stronger in some people than others, and uncontrollable for the minority of people. It ties into FB because you see it there too. Some people need constant validation, and FB gives them the perfect platform to seek out their constant need to be praised. Which is what I loathe about FB. Yuk.

So earlier today I was researching click-baiting and found a great article, which basically says all our brains care about is food, sex and danger. You need food to survive, without sex our species will not survive, and if you are killed, the first two will not matter.

See, I told ya...

http://www.blog.theteamw.com/2009/11...sex-or-danger/

Anyhow, carry on...

[bb88]

Yup, the fact people do not reply or like it does not mean they did not view it. Good call.

In anticipation of tomorrow's election, I'm working this angle right now. There is a Las Vegas real estate developer trying to develop some land that has been protected by growth control measures for decades. So, he cleverly disguised his measure as "Save the Hills." Of course, everybdoy wants to do that and vote "yes", so it's been a real uphill battle to inform people that the Measure is misleading and a No vote is the correct response. In our grass roots money chest was $20K for signs, advertising, placards etc. Thus far and as of a week ago, the developer has spent $1,500,000.

So our strategy is the same as bb88 point outs - social media. I have 1700 friends. Today, I reached out to about 100 friends, all of whom have between 700-1500 friends, asking them to reach out to each of their friends in the same manner. This in addition to the multiple blasts I have been making for the past week. So today, I probably reached out to about 12K people in the local area.

I doubt we'll pull it off, but the results will be interesting.

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For business purposes, I would like to have the friend cap of 5000 friends. That way, if I add friends who each have between 3000-5000 friends...that gives me a reach to 15,000,000 people in the SoCal area. With that reach, if I don't personally know you, there's a good chance one of my friends, or a friend of a friend does, which is mny goal.

But, one thing I've learned over the past several years, is that achieving 5000 friends is not an easy task and will take several years of daily work to accomplish that task. And we're not talking about going on Fiverr and buying FB friends for $5. Four years ago on FB, you could add hundreds of friends per week, but now everybody is pretty much over friend whoring, and Facebook will put you in timeout if it thinks you are adding people who are not personal friends.

Lastly, just yesterday I was telling wifey about my theory on how some people will always be "cheaters" because they cannot control their basic survival instinct of reproducing. I think, this underlying and subconscious instinct is stronger in some people than others, and uncontrollable for the minority of people. It ties into FB because you see it there too. Some people need constant validation, and FB gives them the perfect platform to seek out their constant need to be praised. Which is what I loathe about FB. Yuk.

So earlier today I was researching click-baiting and found a great article, which basically says all our brains care about is food, sex and danger. You need food to survive, without sex our species will not survive, and if you are killed, the first two will not matter.

See, I told ya...

http://www.blog.theteamw.com/2009/11...sex-or-danger/

Anyhow, carry on...

Solid info right there!