$100 in gas money visiting every customer you can
$100 on a table at your customer's industry event
You have $200. How do you drive traffic?
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Re: You have $200. How do you drive traffic?
#12Something I learned on HN a long, long,long time ago was that if you wanted really cheap, unfiltered traffic, you could buy quite a bit of it using Mechanical Turk. As the commenter said "It's pretty amazing what will happen if you throw up a few nickels". I've only used it once, but it worked. But with only $200 you want to make sure every dollar -- every penny -- counts towards getting action. So I would use it on…
Can you elaborate a bit more on the MT strategies? I have used it in the past to create survey data the quick way, but ho do you use it for traffic?
Re: You have $200. How do you drive traffic?
#13Something I learned on HN a long, long,long time ago was that if you wanted really cheap, unfiltered traffic, you could buy quite a bit of it using Mechanical Turk. As the commenter said "It's pretty amazing what will happen if you throw up a few nickels". I've only used it once, but it worked. But with only $200 you want to make sure every dollar -- every penny -- counts towards getting action. So I would use it on…
Can you elaborate a bit more on the MT strategies? I have used it in the past to create survey data the quick way, but ho do you use it for traffic?
It's really as easy as creating a HIT(? been a while but I think that's what they're called) that says "Beta test this website/app/game" for $0.05. You will probably get a lot of feedback that you didn't expect, even if you don't ask for it.
You can get more sophisticated if you want, but that's all I did. I ended up getting around 4000 seed users for a Facebook app I built in '08 this way.
Re: You have $200. How do you drive traffic?
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate a bit more on the MT strategies? I have used it in the past to create survey data the quick way, but ho do you use it for traffic?
It's really as easy as creating a HIT(? been a while but I think that's what they're called) that says "Beta test this website/app/game" for $0.05. You will probably get a lot of feedback that you didn't expect, even if you don't ask for it. You can get more sophisticated if you want, but that's all I did. I ended up getting around 4000 seed users for a Facebook app I built in '08 this way.
I agree that this can work. However, they are very strict about collecting any sort of personal data from the MT workers. Thus you may end up not having any stick from this because you cant ask them for an email. Cellis, how did you get around this?
Re: You have $200. How do you drive traffic?
#15Something I learned on HN a long, long,long time ago was that if you wanted really cheap, unfiltered traffic, you could buy quite a bit of it using Mechanical Turk. As the commenter said "It's pretty amazing what will happen if you throw up a few nickels". I've only used it once, but it worked. But with only $200 you want to make sure every dollar -- every penny -- counts towards getting action. So I would use it on…
Wow, I actually found the link!
You can read it for yourself here:
Re: You have $200. How do you drive traffic?
#16An anecdote from somebody who is very successful, when presented with a similar question: "Buy my girlfriend a bracelet for $180, spent $20 on sending email to my opt-in list." "But what if you didn't have the opt-in list?" "Not my problem, but if it will eventually be your's, start working on that opt-in list today." Stupidly, I forever put off doing that one!
So...I don't actually understand what you mean by "spent $20 on sending email to my opt-in list".
Do you mean this person owns a list and spent $20 somehow sending email to this list? How does this relate to the $180 bracelet?
Please excuse my ignorance :-)
Re: You have $200. How do you drive traffic?
#17$100 in gas money visiting every customer you can $100 on a table at your customer's industry event
Probably the best one if you have customers