Crazy Marketing Tactics That Worked For You?

[SEO Guy]

SEO guy here.

I came across this one on the marketing Reddit, but some guy said he managed to land clients by threatening them if they didn't contact him.

Crazy part? It worked.

This is what he sent.

Thought I'd start the same discussion here. Anyone done any crazy tactics that actually worked?

 

[Zwielicht]

When I got into affiliate marketing, there was this product to start learning Spanish that I used to promote that was fairly cheap.

I was struggling to promote it to people who wanted to learn Spanish, so I came up with another idea: promote it to people who already speak Spanish.

You see, I grew up speaking English and Spanish, and in my experience, a lot of Spanish speakers had a tendency to get very pedantic. So I found some sites with Spanish speakers and posted something in not-so-great Spanish about how I’m learning the language and how great this book has been.

My goal was to irritate people into buying so that they could tell me how stupid I was for buying it and that’s why my Spanish was so bad, and it worked. I managed to sell about 10 of those ebooks before I stopped advertising that product. I got my first $100 cheque from Clickbank pretty much from that one product alone.

People are more privy to affiliate links these days, so that exact tactic is unlikely to work now, but the idea behind it definitely still does. It’s like getting people to hate-watch your content on YouTube.

 

[roydan]

some guy said he managed to land clients by threatening them if they didn't contact him.

Reviews sellers do that all the time. They say that they were hired by a competitor to flood you with 1 star reviews, unless you want to hire them for 5 star reviews.

A really stupid practice IMO.

 

[Ranking Expert]

Few year ago i blast my site with sick submitter + AMR and my site hit #1 Position for my main keyword that was Hard. stick on #1 3 to 4 month first 2 month i got approx. $1.5k per month with AdSense and sold site for $10k

 

[Skyrocket]

I upped my prices tenfold. It worked.