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How to Get Pinterest Followers FAST!

Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 at 7:03 pm

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About a month or so ago, we decided to start using Pinterest. We kept hearing about how wonderful it is for driving traffic to your website so we felt it was time to actually get in and give it a go.

So far it’s been a fun experience. That’s the only way to describe Pinterest – it’s fun but also highly addictive if you let it be. We like to spend no more than 15 minutes a day on it although to be honest it can end up being much longer than that.

There seems to be conflicting opinions on whether Pinterest is worth it or not and we are still deciding that ourselves. But we can’t make an informed opinion without giving it some effort and that involves pinning content and getting followers.

Now the pinning part is easy. Just find a photo that you like and click the ‘Pin It’ button. Up goes the image with a link to wherever that image actually came from – you can then add your description if you like and it’s done.

Getting the followers is a whole different story. We struggled with this and it took about 4 weeks to get a measly 16 followers. At that rate, it would take us a year to get a couple hundred followers. We tried following other people but that didn’t seem to work. We thought that maybe we just needed a lot of boards and pins on our page but that didn’t seem to work either.

What finally worked was a simple strategy that had almost immediate results. After using it, we went from 16 followers to 50 followers and those extra 34 followers came in just one week. But not only that, we suddenly had our pins being pinned multiple times. Prior to this we were lucky to have any of them repinned.

So what did we do?

What we did was make use of the group board option in Pinterest. This is a relatively new option which allows users to invite other people to pin on their boards.

However, that’s not how we used this. We didn’t invite people to pin on our boards – instead we did the opposite of this and went to people with group boards and asked them if we could pin on their board.

You can tell if a Board is a Group Board by the little group icon at the top of the board.

We didn’t spend hours looking for group boards. All we had to do was go to this page which includes a big list of group boards and look for those that were in a similar category to ours. In this case, our Pinterest page is about muffins, cupcakes, wedding cakes and so on.

We scrolled through the group directory page until we found a group board that related to our niche and had more than a thousand followers. Fortunately, the owner included instructions on how to get an invite from her that would allow us to pin to her board. We simply had to email her and ask, which we did, and she happily accepted us and sent us an invite.

Now this user has over 25,000 followers on her cupcakes board. That’s a lot of followers! Even so, we weren’t expecting to get the reaction we had. We pinned only 2 pins to her board and almost immediately people started repinning those pins and we started getting followers.

We were amazed.

We left it for close to a week before we pinned again to her board, only because we were relocating our office and things were in a bit of a mess plus we didn’t have any internet for that time. Even so, we still had people repinning our pins and following us during that time and this is something that we hadn’t experienced before. So those two pins generated a lot of action.

When we got back to it yesterday and pinned on her board, again we saw a lot of multiple repins and followers.

As of today we have 50 followers so it’s going really well. We are now in the process of contacting other group board owners to see if we can pin to their boards.

What you need to keep in mind…

This process obviously works but only if the following criteria are met:

1. You should already have multiple boards and pins. If you are starting from scratch and expecting others to allow you to pin to their boards then you will be disappointed. Add at least 10 boards and multiple pins to each board before requesting an invite.

2. Your pins should be of a high quality. Don’t pin rubbish and don’t automate your pins so that anything and everything goes up. Be choosey about what you pin to your own boards so that it looks amazing when people look at them.

3. Only pin to group boards in the same niche. There’s no point trying to pin unrelated things to a group board. You will only get banned and at the very least people will just ignore your pins. Choose boards in the same niche or category so that you get people wanting to repin your pins. If you take a look at our Yummy Muffins Pinterest page you will see that we have kept them very specific.

UPDATE: 7 March 2013 – By following the methods outlined above we managed to get another 51 followers on our Pinterest page. We are now at 101 followers as I write this note.

UPDATE - 8 March 2013 – We are now at 191 followers.

UPDATE – 19 March 2013 – 277 followers.

UPDATE – 21 March 2013 – 305 (would probably have more but we have been a little busy with other things – the followers are still coming despite this.)

Can You Make Money With Fiverr? – Our Personal Experiment

Thursday, February 7th, 2013 at 8:25 am

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fiverr Just recently we uploaded a video training package to our membership site on how to make money with Fiverr. This wasn’t a training program that we personally developed but it looked pretty good so we purchased the rights to it. We watched it through and decided to test it out ourselves to see if there can be money made on Fiverr. So what you are going to read here is our personal case study.

What we wanted to do was add something that involved us only having to do the work once. We didn’t want to have to take action each time we made a sale because for $5 it really wouldn’t be worth it. I’ll get into what we did further along in this post but essentially if you really want to make the most out of Fiverr, you don’t want to spend an hour of your time making a measly $5. You want to maximize that $5 as much as possible.

So here are two ways that you can do that:

1. Create extra gigs for more money – In Fiverr, you can create a gig for $5 but you can also add extra gigs to that gig where you charge more for other services. So for instance, your $5 gig might be to write a 300 word article. Then under that gig you might add an extra service where you write a 600 word article for $10 and a 1500 word article for $20.

2. Do the work once -In this situation, you are usually selling a product of some sort. It might be an ebook, graphics, audio or plr content. So the work you do is upfront. You create the product (or purchase the rights to a product) and once the product is created there is no more work to be done other than to send it to the buyer.

Since we wanted to keep our workload down, we went with the second option.

The gig we created basically offered a pack of royalty free music which we had the rights to sell.

It probably took us about half a day to set it all up as we needed to zip the music up and upload it to one of our websites so the buyer could download it, We also wanted to make a short video with samples of the music because apparently Fiverr gigs with videos do better. And finally we needed to work out the wording, title and keywords for the Fiverr gig.

So we did the work once and from then on when a purchase is made all we need to do is spend about a minute or two responding to the buyer and providing them with a link to where they can download the music.

Our Results

We published the gig on January 18. You can take a look here if you are interested. Almost immediately we had a sale. Okay, it was from someone we knew but it did get us excited. The day after we had a second sale, this time from someone we didn’t know.

As of today we have had 5 sales in total. Okay, we aren’t going to become millionaires from this but imagine if we had 10 gigs up there each making $5 every few days and what if we added those ‘extra’ gigs for even more income. We could potentially make $100 a week or more quite easily.

It’s important to note that we haven’t actually promoted this gig anywhere so the sales are purely from people searching for our gig in Fiverr.

Also this was just an experiment, we haven’t added any more gigs or extra gigs to our original gig. Maybe when we have more time we will add more. But in the meantime we just wanted to see if it works so that we can provide you with the result. So result of experiment – It can and it does work.

Overall, I really think there is money to be made in Fiverr. What are your thoughts? Have you tried it and had any success?

My Secret Strategy for Making $2000 in Passive Income with Simple YouTube Videos

Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 at 8:00 am

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YouTube Hey Hey Guys! First off I want to say thank you for taking the time to read this post. I am Joshua Zamora from ZamuraiBlogger.com and today I want to share with you how I use YouTube to make passive income on a monthly basis, get daily subscribers and drive tons of traffic to my websites.

If you are not utilizing the power of YouTube to drive hoards of traffic to your websites or affiliate offers you are truly missing the boat. There are several statistics out there to support why you need to be using video in your business. One in particular that stood out for me was “Visitors who view product videos are 85% more likely to buy than visitors who do not. (Internet Retailer, April 2010)”

That is just the beginning of why I love using video to drive traffic. Another huge reason is the fact that Google owns YouTube and because of that YouTube Videos rank on the first page of Google WAYYYY faster then a brand new website. I personally have been able to rank a video on the first page of Google as quick as 15 minutes after uploading to YouTube AND after my sites got hit by the Penguin update, I was able to use video to quickly recover my income.

Proof:

I want to show you the power of what YouTube can do for you on a monthly Basis. I don’t do this to show off but to prove to you that video marketing WORKS and if done correctly can provide a nice income stream as well as a nice flow of daily subscribers.

Results

Let’s go ahead and get started shall we…

Cracking The Biggest Video Marketing Myth

Before I get into exactly how I use YouTube to make passive income I want to address one very important thing that I feel keeps people from getting into video marketing – YOU DO NOT need to be in front of the camera to start using video to drive traffic to your website. A lot of people think they need to actually be in front of the camera but in fact very few of my videos ever show my face.

There are three main types of videos that I use in my business and those are:

Simple Screencast Videos
PowerPoint Videos
Outsource to Fiverr.com and let them be the face of the video.

As you can see none of these ever show my face. Once you get over the fact that you think you have to be in front of a camera to make videos I think it becomes a lot easier to realize that video marketing should be a big part of your traffic and lead generation.

Keyword Research:

When it comes to deciding what keywords to target with video it does work a little different then the regular keyword research you would do for a website.

The first thing I usually do is open up the Google Keyword tool and start digging for keywords that get 500+ searches a month. I tend to either bundle up a few similar keywords that add up to 1,500+ searches per month and rank one video for those keywords.

My favorite kinds of keywords to target are review keywords. The reason for that is those people are already deep into the buying cycle and are just looking for information to support their reason for buying the product or service being reviewed.

If you can put your video in front of them that justifies why they should buy the product then you have a bigger chance of making a sale then a more general type keyword.

Focus on buyer keywords or if you are going to be building a list then focus on keywords that identify a problem and your free gift provides the solution.

I tend to stick with keywords that get 500+ searches per month.

Competition Analysis:

Once I find a few keywords that get good search volume its time to analyze the competition. This is a bit different then what you would do for analyzing the competition for a website.

The first thing I do is simply Google my target keyword and see if there’s a video currently ranking on the first page of Google. If there isn’t then that’s a great sign. If there are no videos on the 2nd or 3rd page of Google that’s an even better sign and usually I will proceed with targeting that keyword.

If there is a video on the first page I will check to see:

Is their on page SEO up to par (we will get into this later on) Are they clearly trying to rank for my keyword?
How many views does their video have? if its 50k or less that’s a good sign
How many back links does the video have? If it’s 100 or less that’s another good sign.

If the criteria I described above matches then I go ahead and proceed with the keyword.

The only time I will most likely not go after a keyword is if there are 3-4 videos showing up on the first page and they each have over 50k views and 100+ back links. I could realistically outrank them eventually but I like to see results fast and I know there are plenty of keywords out there to target so there is really no reason to go after a keyword with a lot of competition.

Proper Video SEO:

Once we have our keywords picked out and determined that the competition is low enough for us to go after its time to create your video. I already covered earlier in this post the 3 types of videos I use so I’m not going to get into it here.

One quick tip though that I can share with you about making videos is:

1. Tell them what you have

2. What it can do for them

3. What to do next.

That is it! Most people try and sell the product when what they need to be doing is selling the click. I rarely EVER do much selling on a video. Instead I have 3-4 Call to Actions in the video and sell the click. That simple 3 step formula will help you so you never have a video drag on for more then you need it to.

Let’s continue…. You have your video ready to upload.

Before you actually go to upload your video I want you to first change the name of your video file to the keyword that gets the most search volume. (if you are targeting more then one keyword)

So instead of the video being saved as “Video1.mp4″ be sure to change it to “Your Target Keyword.mp4″

Once that is done you can go ahead and upload your video. Once the video is uploaded you want to make sure you write a short 200-300 word description about the video and include your keyword at the very beginning of the description.

It will look something like this:

“Your Target Keyword http://thelinkyouwantthemtoclickon.com Start writing your description here….”

The last step to setting up your on page SEO is adding your tags. Here I would just simply enter your target keywords one at a time. It used to be that you had to put your tags in quotation marks but YouTube recently made a change so all you have to do now is enter your tag and hit “enter” after each one.

Backlinking Your Video:

Now that your video is uploaded and properly optimized for your target keyword it is time to start sending some back links to the video to get it ranking quickly.

Sometimes if the competition is fairly low simply doing the proper on page SEO is enough to shoot your video to the first page.

But I’m going to assume there is some level of competition, which is going to take a few back links to get your video ranking.

There is a simple formula to back linking that I follow to get my videos ranked quickly.

It looks a little something like this:

1. Social Bookmarks

2. Trackback and comment links

3. Web 2.0 Embedding

4. Article marketing links

5. Blog Network links

(you can get all of the above links from fiverr.com)

The good thing about piggy backing off of Youtube’s authority is that you don’t have to worry about the velocity in which your videos get’s back links. You can literally send all those types of links to your videos within a couple days and not have to worry about any penalties from Google.

That is why I love video marketing you can see results within just DAYS of uploading.

By following the step-by-step guide I have just outlined I usually rank a video within a maximum of 2 weeks of uploading. But on average I hit the first page within a few days.

As you can see using video marketing to make sales, get subscribers and send traffic to your website is simple and can reap rewards fairly quickly.

If you would like to get more in depth information about the wonderful world of video marketing I highly recommend downloading my Free Video Marketing report. If you want to see me rank a video live on Camera I recommend looking into my Tube Takeover Formula course which is a Live Case study where I took a brand new video in an evergreen niche, ranked it in 24 hours and made my first sale within 5 days.

The Winners of Our Christmas Giveaway

Tuesday, December 25th, 2012 at 6:20 pm

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Hope everyone has had an awesome Christmas. Christmas has already been and gone here in Australia. The day after is a holiday here so we get to relax and chill out before we all get back to work.

Hope everyone is geared up for the New Year. If you can get yourself a copy of The Secret, The Magic or The Power (or preferably all 3) then do so because it will get you in a better frame of mind to tackle the new year. At the very least, get yourself over to YouTube and start regularly watching motivational videos to keep you on track.

Thank you to all of those who entered the giveaway. The winners were drawn with a random number generator (random.org) and are listed below. Both of you will be contacted via email so keep a look out for that.

Winners of the double-pack of The Magic and The Power are: