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How does "The Conjuring Universe" promote a socially/religious, conservative, sexist worldview? : horror
Main Post: How does "The Conjuring Universe" promote a socially/religious, conservative, sexist worldview? : horror
[Question] Ways to promote nature channels with only natural sounds : youtubers
Main Post: [Question] Ways to promote nature channels with only natural sounds : youtubers
Other ways to promote your audio drama? : audiodrama
Main Post: Other ways to promote your audio drama? : audiodrama
Any suggestions as to where I could promote my audio drama? : audiodrama
Main Post: Any suggestions as to where I could promote my audio drama? : audiodrama
Purchased App Reviews and Downloads | i will not promote : startups
Main Post: Purchased App Reviews and Downloads | i will not promote : startups
How to promote air circulation in room with no windows. : HomeImprovement
Main Post: How to promote air circulation in room with no windows. : HomeImprovement
How to promote on reddit?
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I see many people talking about promoting their Substacks on reddit,. How to actually do this? I tried going go subreddits related to my niche but every single one has some rules about selfpromo and it's not that easy to fit the way it don't look like spam. Explain it to me like I'm slow.
Top Comment: My tips (and you can check out my post history; pretty much everyone from my email list is from posting to Reddit). Pick ONE subsreddit. Don't spam 6 similar subs with the same content. You have to be reaaaaally conscious about what type of content gets upvoted. Sort by top/month. Go through each, especially the ones that offer advice. Notice trends, patterns. For me, I found that focusing intently on a specific problem (it works better if you yourself have had it), the at some point get to a concise solution. At the end of the day, what's valuable gets upvoted. Offer value. Get tactful with your plugs. I've tried different things, but for me a simple "if you like what I posted, check out this link for a free full method". Be patient, try stuff, iterate, and learn. Be active in the sub. Don't just post. Reply to posts. This will get you familiar with the vibe of the community, while exposing you to the types of problems they have.
Is it possible to promote on Reddit?
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Unlike Twitter where the community is quite encouraging and supportive when posting progress and sharing products, Reddit has always been quite skeptical and aggressive when I do the same.
Was wondering if anyone had any success in promoting their products on Reddit and getting users. Would love to learn.
Top Comment: Reddit is not a place for promotional purposes. Reddit is a place to solve other people's problems. However, we have truly gained paying users these days after I started commenting our solutions under related posts. If you want to attract users on Reddit, I think we should follow Reddit's culture: Someone is asking a question. Someone has a solution. Thus, you can introduce your product by providing a better solution. Key: Get notified as soon as the original poster asked a question. Contribute to Reddit while generating leads. The method and tool to achieve what I've mentioned are detailed in the Reddit post Time for self-promotion. What are you building? : r/SaaS (reddit.com)
How do you market your business on Reddit? Or we shouldn't do this at all?
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I have this burning question "What's the efficient or the appropriate way to promote a business on Reddit?"
Or is it a bad thing to promote it?
By promote, I don't mean the usual marketing gimmick, I simply mean in what way do you bring value so that people feel really helped and attracted towards what you post and visits your business or at least ask you about your business?
Top Comment: I started writing a well-formatted reply but I'm still waking up and my thoughts are all disjointed, so here they are in dot-point forms: First thoughts: I'm usually the first person to have a go at someone for using r/entrepreneur as a marketing channel (my most active sub). I really hate feeling sold to when I want to share my stories with other entrepreneurs. But, I don't believe marketing on reddit is inherently wrong. It just requires thought and a gentle touch. Redditors are really sensitive about being marketed/sold to. You can't just come in and start spamming links and then get defensive when you get called out for it. It also depends what you're selling - if it's a product, it's going to be completely different than if you're a marketing agency. Personal Experience/Plans: I personally posted this years ago, which got to front-page and generated a ton of traffic for my Kickstarter at the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1tc5qf/pillow_fort_construction_kit_disguised_as_a_foot/ I looked at the meme trends at the time, designed an image that matched, read all the rules about promotion, when to post, etc. and stuck it in r/pics with a watermark (which was allowed to give image credit). What was really cool was when people re-edited my image and shared it to facebook, tumblr and a bunch of other places, then for the next three years (because "on this day" was new), it kept going re-viral on Facebook. I'm particularly curious about ads - I've seen a few case studies about it and generally I think people have written off reddit ads as a waste of money, but I think that's because few people take the time to figure it out. I have to imagine that a well-constructed ad, in the style of a reddit post, where you reply to comments, is going to do well. Final-ish thoughts: I think building 'personal brand' on reddit is hard. Maybe it's the subs i hang out on, but there's just so many damn people, I think there's only like 4 other people in my ~15 years as a member that I actually remember. One guy who is really obnoxious, two guys that provided epic value ( u/localcasestudy and u/humblesalesman ), and one of the r/entrepreneur mods. I still think the epic value approach is the way to go. Give it all away and ask for nothing. Like if you read this post Ask me anything, I am a WordPress Performance Optimisation freak! : r/Wordpress , this dude is literally giving a masterclass on Wordpress optimisation, and you can see from his comments that people are DM'ing him asking to hire him. Granted, he's turning them away, but imo that's the way it's done. Give everything, ask for nothing, no newsletter signups or email-capture-for-pdf-download, give it all away. People will come to you. You see this a lot. Most of them are scammers hoovering suckers that froth everytime someone appears to know what they're talking about. But a lot of them provide real value. And profit from it. If I were to have a go at marketing a service on reddit, I'd probably run ads against an epic value post, with comments on, where I give feedback and advice to people posting. Eg, with BrutalTeardowns (defunct website roasting service), if I were to launch that service again today I might run something like this post, but as an ad: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/7mzxtq/to_launch_my_latest_side_hustle_im_offering_free/ (but in all honesty the value here was still self-serving, the real champs were the guys I mentioned above) Edit: Wild that I can't post a comment with links but I can edit them in