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Re: Show HN: Promotioner - Allow your readers to pay with clicks

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very similar to successnexus - but, they have a very good blog going as well.

We're the same guys actually. Promotioner is owned by SuccessNexus :)

Promotioner is a lean rebranding effort to focus more on the site-wide referral idea, and less on the all-in-one ecommerce + mailing list + referral program tool.

Re: Show HN: Promotioner - Allow your readers to pay with clicks

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Internet marketing garbage. Alas, tis the fate of HN. "Just ask 2 of your friends to visit: http://Promotioner.com/viral/?u=yourname@email.com and you will receive the report "5 Elements of a Successful Viral Marketing Campaign" for free in your email."

Thanks for your comment. I'm at a loss as to how to respond. I'm show casing my startup that is a referral marketing app. Of course, the demo that I set up for it will be about referral marketing too, no?

Re: Show HN: Promotioner - Allow your readers to pay with clicks

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Awesome idea. Quick thought: You would get a lot more users by testing difference bases(reducing the 15 to something really small, like 5). Feels like more people would do it, you would get more than 5 anyways, and the the exponential gains outweighs the difference in the base.

Thanks for your comment. Good idea. Made the change and lowered the barrier to 5 clicks.

(I had kept the milestone at 15 clicks as a comparison to $3. But you're right, lower base doesn't matter if it can increase the number of people who start sharing.)

Re: Show HN: Promotioner - Allow your readers to pay with clicks

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Why does it require me to put my email address on the end of it for a reward. Considering that for anyone to get any real benefit out of it the links (containing the email address) would have to be posted publicly. Just seems like a huge spam magnet.

I think most people would be pretty wary of adding their email address to a link and posting publicly. Especially on a strange site they dont know about.

Re: Show HN: Promotioner - Allow your readers to pay with clicks

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Internet marketing garbage. Alas, tis the fate of HN. "Just ask 2 of your friends to visit: http://Promotioner.com/viral/?u=yourname@email.com and you will receive the report "5 Elements of a Successful Viral Marketing Campaign" for free in your email."

Don't be an asshole.

Re: Show HN: Promotioner - Allow your readers to pay with clicks

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post #12

Internet marketing garbage. Alas, tis the fate of HN. "Just ask 2 of your friends to visit: http://Promotioner.com/viral/?u=yourname@email.com and you will receive the report "5 Elements of a Successful Viral Marketing Campaign" for free in your email."

Thanks for your comment. I'm at a loss as to how to respond. I'm show casing my startup that is a referral marketing app. Of course, the demo that I set up for it will be about referral marketing too, no?

Don't worry about it, a lot of techies are just grumpy about the very idea of marketing, because they think the world would be a better, purer place without it. They're obviously wrong. Carry on!

Re: Show HN: Promotioner - Allow your readers to pay with clicks

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Why does it require me to put my email address on the end of it for a reward. Considering that for anyone to get any real benefit out of it the links (containing the email address) would have to be posted publicly. Just seems like a huge spam magnet. I think most people would be pretty wary of adding their email address to a link and posting publicly. Especially on a strange site they dont know about.

They offer a username alternative: (And yes, for folks who don't want to show their email address in the URL due to spam worries, they can replace their email address with a unique username.)

Re: Show HN: Promotioner - Allow your readers to pay with clicks

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Internet marketing garbage. Alas, tis the fate of HN. "Just ask 2 of your friends to visit: http://Promotioner.com/viral/?u=yourname@email.com and you will receive the report "5 Elements of a Successful Viral Marketing Campaign" for free in your email."

Don't be an asshole.

I'm not, it's a lame ass idea. There isn't even a demo on the page. Plus, you'll get penalized by Google once they catch on. Scammers gonna scam.

Re: Show HN: Promotioner - Allow your readers to pay with clicks

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Why does it require me to put my email address on the end of it for a reward. Considering that for anyone to get any real benefit out of it the links (containing the email address) would have to be posted publicly. Just seems like a huge spam magnet. I think most people would be pretty wary of adding their email address to a link and posting publicly. Especially on a strange site they dont know about.

We had to make a choice: go with a signup form which leads to fewer referrals. Or automatically sign people up when they add their email id at the end of "any" page on your domain to increase adoption rate and get more people to promote you.

This second option could lead to spam worries. Thats why, we offer optional usernames. The first time our system recognizes a new email id, an email is sent out to them with instructions on setting up a username with which they can replace their email id while promoting URLs.

(Also, we'll be launching social media integration buttons next week, which will automatically shorten the URLs and disguise your email ids.)

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