Who got the BIGGEST BALLS in marketing here?

[Dopious]

You got BIG BALLS??

Tell us what the baldest ( blackhat ) marketing stunt you did that worked in your ventures thru the years, to inspire others.

Be bolder is the theme in this thread.

Ps. Don`t derail this thread with ferrets, it ain`t the fckn Salon, I will report any derailed answer FFS.

 

[Dopious]

Just to get this going, I`m going to share my boldest move back in the days, not that much though considering stories I heard out there.

I once launched a MLM club based on a competitors full database of members that I happend to find, got a couple of thousands of paid members the first 48H. This was some 20 years ago.

 

[polecat]

You got BIG BALLS??

Tell us what the baldest ( blackhat ) marketing stunt you did that worked in your ventures thru the years, to inspire others.

Be bolder is the theme in this thread.

Ps. Don`t derail this thread with ferrets, it ain`t the fckn Salon, I will report any derailed answer FFS.

By reading this now me and you have contact enforced in European, North America ,Asia,South America,Africa, New Zealand,Australia,North pole ,South Pole,law now you must get two ferrets plus anyone else reading this.

In the past I was walking about my flat singing never thought anyone heard it.

My friend then knocked on my door told me about some gig going where the head singer could not go asked for me to join said" thanks but I am horrible singer so not going to it" him You great me"me I suck ." him "I will give you a load of Chicken Tikka if you sing at festival" me"sold when is it ?" him"tomorrow at this area me" me and the other ferret guy went to festival. He played a guitar me just started singing. Went from 100 people at it then without warning 10,000 at the festival.

My friend was playing guitar I will be just singing with him or I went on with DJ guy a bit as well sometime.

At the end saw all these women looking at me wanting my autograph or to party with them. Was not expecting so much popularity when all I did was sing some metal,rock,pop punk cover songs.

I told the 1,000 woman around me I need the bathroom. I went to the bathroom saw mask on the ground put on my face then left the festival ground.

I heard after it was done random women talking about my so called back story on subway,around the city such as two said on the subway I am meant to horse ride drop roses at women houses. Now I can horse ride but I doubt any women knew that about more just their madeup theory on what I do.

I do occasionally sing to women if they give me enough backlinks. Such one lady shared me singing before which top the charts before in Eastern Europe but you can only sing if you get a ferret and eat Indian food.

 

[Dopious]

By reading this now me and you have contact enforced in European, North America ,Asia,South America,Africa, New Zealand,Australia,North pole ,South Pole,law now you must get two ferrets plus anyone else reading this.

In the past I was walking about my flat singing never thought anyone heard it.

My friend then knocked on my door told me about some gig going where the head singer could not go asked for me to join said" thanks but I am horrible singer so not going to it" him You great me"me I suck ." him "I will give you a load of Chicken Tikka if you sing at festival" me"sold when is it ?" him"tomorrow at this area me" me and the other ferret guy went to festival. He played a guitar me just started singing. Went from 100 people at it then without warning 10,000 at the festival.

My friend was playing guitar I will be just singing with him or I went on with DJ guy a bit as well sometime.

At the end saw all these women looking at me wanting my autograph or to party with them. Was not expecting so much popularity when all I did was sing some metal,rock,pop punk cover songs.

I told the 1,000 woman around me I need the bathroom. I went to the bathroom saw mask on the ground put on my face then left the festival ground.

I heard after it was done random women talking about my so called back story on subway,around the city such as two said on the subway I am meant to horse ride drop roses at women houses. Now I can horse ride but I doubt any women knew that about more just their madeup theory on what I do.

I do occasionally sing to women if they give me enough backlinks. Such one lady shared me singing before which top the charts before in Eastern Europe but you can only sing if you get a ferret and eat Indian food.

Is this true or just a fckn AI story?

 

[polecat]

Is this true or just a fckn AI story?

It's true.

I am semi famous musician in some countrys.

I can sing in English,German,Russian,Ukranian,Scots, Gaelic,Panjabi, Tagalog,little Chinese or Japanese as well.

 

[roydan]

I used to run the PPC department of a Forex company back in 2015/6 and we were about to launch a new self deposit brand. I wanted to gather some data before we launched our campaigns so we applied as affiliates at a competing brand (under a fake company name, of course) to see what works.

So we sent them our conversion tracking code from Google Ads (AdWords at the time) and we waited for it to get the data from their entire affiliate and in house PPC team, who all sent traffic to the same funnel.

A few days later our audience list was already full of depositor data - 1000s of people (back then Google created audiences from conversion codes automatically, as well as created similar audiences (Google's version of lookalike)).

Then, we just started with a remarketing campaign getting FTDs in an extremely saturated and competitive area for a fraction of what it would have costed, using our biggest competitor's data.

 

[TheVigilante]

I went all blackhat

I cooked two ferrets and ate them as tandoori fry

I used to spam 4chan promoting dating offers in 2010 easy peasy money lasted for 2-3 months didn't knew blackhat term even existed then as I was told to do what the guy said as it was a JV with a US guy

 

[polecat]

I went all blackhat

I cooked two ferrets and ate them as tandoori fry

I used to spam 4chan promoting dating offers in 2010 easy peasy money lasted for 2-3 months didn't knew blackhat term even existed then as I was told to do what the guy said as it was a JV with a US guy

That's not how to cook Tandoori.

Interesting admitting you worked as a Pimp bit different to black hat SEO unless you meant you wore black hat for you work each night?

 

[polecat]

@Dopious Can't say who they are but I got three friends in the SEO community some are behind world famous songs for example one of my friends released a club song which was popular all over the Western world during the 2008 to like 2012 time period you probably heard it.

I know some Slavic guys with decent DJ careers as well

 

[Dopious]

I used to run the PPC department of a Forex company back in 2015/6 and we were about to launch a new self deposit brand. I wanted to gather some data before we launched our campaigns so we applied as affiliates at a competing brand (under a fake company name, of course) to see what works.

So we sent them our conversion tracking code from Google Ads (AdWords at the time) and we waited for it to get the data from their entire affiliate and in house PPC team, who all sent traffic to the same funnel.

A few days later our audience list was already full of depositor data - 1000s of people (back then Google created audiences from conversion codes automatically, as well as created similar audiences (Google's version of lookalike)).

Then, we just started with a remarketing campaign getting FTDs in an extremely saturated and competitive area for a fraction of what it would have costed, using our biggest competitor's data.

This is the kind of bold tips on marketing we need in this thread, well done.

 

[SilverClouds]

I used to run the PPC department of a Forex company back in 2015/6 and we were about to launch a new self deposit brand. I wanted to gather some data before we launched our campaigns so we applied as affiliates at a competing brand (under a fake company name, of course) to see what works.

So we sent them our conversion tracking code from Google Ads (AdWords at the time) and we waited for it to get the data from their entire affiliate and in house PPC team, who all sent traffic to the same funnel.

A few days later our audience list was already full of depositor data - 1000s of people (back then Google created audiences from conversion codes automatically, as well as created similar audiences (Google's version of lookalike)).

Then, we just started with a remarketing campaign getting FTDs in an extremely saturated and competitive area for a fraction of what it would have costed, using our biggest competitor's data.

Dude, you rock or what? I remember your post at the other place about extension that switched ads to your employer's. Good stuff.

 

[roydan]

Dude, you rock or what? I remember your post at the other place about extension that switched ads to your employer's. Good stuff.

It was in the same company lol.. the CMO was very cool to allow me to do all these stuff

 

[MisterF]

I found a way to get do-follow, UK govt backlinks. This was probably 4 years back.

Revealed this to Craig Campbell, who asked if he could include it in his presentation at the SEO conference we were at in Milan, where he was speaking before Kyle Roof.

Craig did his talk about blackhat SEO, then added this in at the end, gave me full credit too and it earned me a few beers in the bar afterwards.

Nothing better than getting one over the taxman.

 

[t2van]

I don't really have anything I got product scams I used to do lol

Only thing backhat that comes to mind:

Years ago brands/manufactures used to offer partial funding for advertising (if you purchased your stock from licensed distributors) anyway I got friendly with my sales rep (at the distribution company) and he used to help me pass internal checks and verification for adverts...

What we used to do is I would design an advert myself and get it booked in last moment with a newspaper or magazine. Id say 200 for a last rush before a paper would go to print.

I would then claim back £3200

With that money then Id give my rep £1500 and Id get £1700

Once we done two "real" adverts we moved to claiming back for digital banners and as that was new there was a bit more a premium on that stuff back in the day. We started claiming back for 5 manufactures in the end, on a website that never existed and done a straight 50-50 split until he left the company.

Was a different world back then with the internet was a bit more Wild West.

Not even sure that even classes as Black Hat it's probably fraud.

 

[polecat]

I found a way to get do-follow, UK govt backlinks. This was probably 4 years back.

Revealed this to Craig Campbell, who asked if he could include it in his presentation at the SEO conference we were at in Milan, where he was speaking before Kyle Roof.

Craig did his talk about blackhat SEO, then added this in at the end, gave me full credit too and it earned me a few beers in the bar afterwards.

Nothing better than getting one over the taxman.

Did I ever share with you how to get Slavic gov backlinks?

 

[Dopious]

I don't really have anything I got product scams I used to do lol

Only thing backhat that comes to mind:

Years ago brands/manufactures used to offer partial funding for advertising (if you purchased your stock from licensed distributors) anyway I got friendly with my sales rep (at the distribution company) and he used to help me pass internal checks and verification for adverts...

What we used to do is I would design an advert myself and get it booked in last moment with a newspaper or magazine. Id say 200 for a last rush before a paper would go to print.

I would then claim back £3200

With that money then Id give my rep £1500 and Id get £1700

Once we done two "real" adverts we moved to claiming back for digital banners and as that was new there was a bit more a premium on that stuff back in the day. We started claiming back for 5 manufactures in the end, on a website that never existed and done a straight 50-50 split until he left the company.

Was a different world back then with the internet was a bit more Wild West.

Not even sure that even classes as Black Hat it's probably fraud.

This is right up my alley when it comes to having BIG BALLS in marketing, seing an opportunity and grab it by the balls.

 

[t2van]

One product one, I won't post too much as I don't think I ever got caught for this:

Used to buy perfumer's alcohol in bulk batches years ago.

Id then buy luxury perfumes and then "water" them down with the perfumer's alcohol. I used to fill the bottles 70-80% of the way and I would market them as "end of production line bottles" or "defected bottles" (amazing what you can do with a file on some glass)

Would sell them at car boot stalls and a few pop up market stalls. Sold them at reduced prices and used to make a fortune always a couple of grand every weekend for not so little effort.

Id have "sample" bottles on the stall people could test to see if it's a smell or scent they know. Which was obviously the real deal in a damaged bottle.

Then because of the power of suggestion I let them pick their own bottle of perfume to take home and they could do a quick sprit there and then to "confirm" it was the real deal. Of course with them just smelling a stronger scent and was aware of the smell 99% of the time the person was happy and hand over the money.



I've done tons of shit, been arrested (never convicted) for some of my "sales tactics" as I've said before where I am now none of this goes on because it has different stakes, years ago when I was younger I just needed the cash.

 

[MisterF]

Many years back used to do a lot of snide goods from guys in Manchester. perfume was one, designer clothes brands another.

A mate of mine ran a music shop, he got burgled early hours, police turned up and in his workshop were 9 huge black dustbin bags of fake clothes. Two local uniform plods taking a statement about his cash box with £60 that got stolen and his inkjet printer and he has a shit ton of bent gear at their feet basically.

 

[roydan]

I remember your post at the other place about extension that switched ads to your employer's.

This was a cool project.
The idea was to save some of the huge budget we had for remarketing (over $10K per day), assuming that because the audience was so strong, the ad placement wouldn't be that important (which was somewhat true, but wasn't that important for reasons you'll understand a bit later).

So the company was a forex company that had a few huge brands is different areas around the world. What we did was to promote a free browser extension giving our users real time prices of gold, some commodities, oil, silver, currency pairs, and some stocks. Beind the scenes, it was an ad injection extension that inserted our own ads instead of other sites' AdSense ads. Ended up saving a but loads of money, as well as growing our revenue from remarketing by a lot because we got so many extra impressions.

 

[Starblazer]

I found a method to create free Semrush Guru accounts (around 2019-20). I didn't need it much as I was just running small-scale websites and not that passionate about making big bucks. I started doing some research, studying patterns, and creating lists of parasites that were competing for high-difficulty keywords. I created a list of top parasites, reverse engineered their strategies, and found that most of them post trash content and rank solely because of site authority. Surprisingly, most of them don't even have considerable backlinks. This proved all the claims Google engineers spread on social media to be false. So, I went on to run a case study with 5-10 parasites competing mostly for brand keywords and spam niches. Almost all of them ranked within a week which eventually lead me to abandon small scale sites to start working full time on parasites. I made good money on CPA and a few other side projects.

The largest spike I saw was a parasite had 600k+ impressions in 1 day. It ranked within top 5 results for a high competition keyword. This also made me realize that whitehat is for naive people who blindly trust Google employees. Marketers must wear blackhat at least once in their career to see what happens behind curtains.