Quote from: EarnOnVictor on September 23, 2024, 06:59:37 PM

This post might mean nothing to many of you, but to me, it means a lot and is proof that you might have all creativity, best service and genuineness but still lavish in failure with your business if there is no quality marketing. No matter what you do, let your product/service be good, but let the marketing be "better," if not "best." Those popular companies are products of good marketing and this marketing is not all about you spending all the money, you can engage people in terms of affiliates and before you know it, it would have gone viral.

What shocked me and even brought about this post was an in-game on Telegram that I joined through a Medium article about 3-4 months ago. The developers had good prospects and gave quality UI & UX etc, but they struggled to sell what they offered for months. They might have tried some nonsense marketing system that gave them about 450k fake followers. I know it's "nonsense" since their posts hardly attracted 700 reactions (like, love etc) for months despite 450k followers with over 100k views.

But in just 3 days of noticing they've partnered with a good advertising outlet, could you believe that the followers jumped to over 1 million with over 750k views and the reaction has reached almost 200k from below 700? This is awesome! This can only happen with the help of "marketing," which I now value more than products and services in a business's success.

You should be careful about judging a book by it's cover. There are a lot of companies out there now which are dedicated to faking reviews, likes and views on content - even at these sort of larger scales. The could be lots of genuine feedback in the numbers you mention, however a large chunk of it might be paid for advertising as well. If you can pretend to have that many active users or fans, it can become a self sustaining cycle that draws in ever higher numbers, so it is very useful for people to fake them. Even genuine marketing companies that claim to be offering real visitors might intermingle their numbers with fake bots in order to boost them as it is hard to build natural traffic.