Adventures in Twitter advertising:
I’ve been dabbling with Twitter advertising for the last month or so via Shane Hunter who always whips up the most controversial ads for me. In fact, I know when Shane has cooked another Twitter ad up because sometimes I’ll start getting weird troll replies to my Twitter ads.
It even doesn’t take much to wake a Twitter troll up, either.
For example:
Shane put up a Twitter ad that said:
“DO NOT follow this guy if you LOVE being a broke business owner. DO follow if you want email marketing advice that works”
Kinda tame for a Shane Hunter ad, actually.
But, apparently not too tame for the trolls.
What happened was, a little troll hungry for attention got so obsessed with my tweets (I basically retweet lots of right wing pro freedom, anti-liberal, anti big government, anti abortion, etc tweets, which is like my version of TV — it entertains and amuses me) he took the time making a collage of some of my retweets with the caption “email marketing that works!”
Ooh.
There was a time I would have blasted the little troll.
Nowadays?
I simply take trolls’ silly little comments and use them in emails (like I’m doing in this one) to make more sales with. I’ve done it with Kindle review trolls, iTunes review trolls, website trolls, Flakebook trolls, and many other species of trolls.
It’s fun once you get into it.
And, profitable to boot.
I highly suggest you try it some time.
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Ben Settle
