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You’ve heard the stories of websites and businesses “going viral” on Reddit and other social platforms, but there’s an art and a science to it.
To me, Reddit is kind of an intimidating place. I’ve never spent much time there, but I have an appreciation for it’s potential as a networking and marketing channel.
After all, it’s the 9th most popular site in the US and 32nd most popular site in the world.
My guest this week, Brian Swichkow, is a viral marketing pro, having achieved outsize results on several different projects, such as:
- Building his ex-fiancé’s dog a YouTube channel with 6,500 subscribers and 2M+ views.
- Breakinga server when he launched hisblog with 450K pageviews in the first 72 hours.
- Makinga girl on Tinder world famous with 25 million impressions in under 72 hours.
- Creating “most absurd email to give in bar” with11K pageviews in the first 30 minutes.
Having one viral hit could be considered a lucky fluke, but to be able to do it again and again, and you start to recognize a repeatable, learnable pattern.
That’s what listeners can look forward to in this episode; how you can apply Brian’s tactics to your own side hustle to get more visitors, leads, and customers.
Long-time listeners of the show will remember Brian from WAY back in The Side Hustle Show archives from episode 23 in 2013.
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Learn:
- How to embed yourself in relevant Reddit communities.
- The fine line between tasteful self-promotion and outright spam.
- The ways smart marketers and freelancers are using Reddit to drive traffic and generate leads.
- The differences between “brand platforms” (like Facebook) and “community platforms” like Reddit.
- The types of content that perform best on community platforms.
- Brian’s #1 tip for Side Hustle Nation.
Links:
- Ghost Influence
- The Ghost Influence Podcast
- Brian’s roommate Facebook ads prank
- That Shirt Was Cash| Reddit Thread: $40k before Shopify Trial Ended
- Ellusionist Flame Thrower
- Tinder Hacks
- The User is Drunk
- Cloudflare
- W3 Total Cache
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Nick Loper is a side hustle expert who loves helping people earn more money and start businesses they care about.He hosts the award-winning Side Hustle Show, where he's interviewed over 500 successful entrepreneurs, andis the bestselling author of Buy Buttons, The Side Hustle, and $1,000 100 Ways.
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2 thoughts on “155: How to Drive Viral Traffic From Reddit”
Viral concept was black spot I read about it and didn’t understood what it is, finally your blog helped me to understand. Thanks
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Reddit members are really harsh compared to other communities. It is very difficult to drive traffic from this site.
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