How to Build an Online Community and OWN IT!
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2018
- Building an online community won't work if you use Facebook and Twitter as your home base because they aren't platforms you can control long-term. In this video we share some reliable ways to build a community that you can control.
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That was the most poetic 27 seconds (beginning of the video) I have ever experienced on a UA-cam channel about making passive income. Keep that kind of quality coming!
Those FB tips are totally great. For photos and content! You could even do interviews for blog posts as well and ask that interviewee to share it. Added those ideas to my list :)
LOL! I needed to see this video when I first started! Everything you are saying NOT to do is exactly what I started out trying to do. It wasn't until I found you guys that I saw the error of my ways, and have since begun doing things the right way. You two are awesome!!
Great video! I've made a note to watch and re-watch from 11:40 on to get photos and helpful content from groups. Triple stars on this set of notes.
Thanks for the advice. I will definitely implement it! Great as always!
Great video guys as always! Another item on the to do list. We need a video to create more time!😀😀😀😀
Love the “new” way to use Facebook. I hadn’t heard that approach before.
You guys are AWESOME! Great mix of entertaining and useful information. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I really like this video, not only for the visually interesting place you picked, but like always the content. Thanks guys.
Love your advise. in almost every video is a twist i was not aware before.. thank you for these gems!
Great video guys. I really enjoy the content that you guys put out. All actionable, not just theory blabbering.
Soooo true about Facebook. I have a pretty good social media following but it brings hardly any traffic to my website. I'm so glad you said this because I thought I was either going crazy or doing something wrong!
Thanks for all the great information. I am just beginning to look into a passive income website. My neighbor is the employment specialist and has recommended you guys. He sure was right!
Great content my friends! Really nice work!! Thanks for this!
When are you two getting Lamborghinis? If you want to be taken seriously you gotta have Lamborghinis. And big new homes and chartered jets and name dropping really rich people who probably don't have a clue who you are.
Really
Ha ha ha! Not to mention hanging out on a yacht with at least 6 bikini chicks each.
hahahahaha
funniest thing I've heard all day.
They probably just bought that ghost town for private airsoft and dirt bikes
I really like this video, not only for the visually interesting place you picked, but like always the content. The aerial view was breath taking. Love your innovative way to use Facebook. This was the first time I have heard that approach. These are all great ideas. You ignited about 100 light bulbs in my skull! Those Facebook tips are totally great. Thanks for the advice. I will definitely implement it in the near future! For photos and content!
Thanks for your valuable advices!
Thanks, I've always been told Facebook was the way to go. Thanks for the options available. Wow, so much to learn!!
Hey guy's, hopefully you see this.. I have started my site in the last three weeks and I am finding your video's extremely inspirational. Keep Them coming :) big love from England
How is it going so far?
When will you be posting an update on rexburg. I'm itching to find out how you're getting on.
I like the community ideas and have already started to implement some of these strategies.
Love the group idea! Never thought of that idea before on Facebook and had an Aha moment. Before finishing the video I went to an E-bike group I am in and ask: What they wished they knew before buying their first E-bike. I tried asking for interviews before with no response. But with this, I think someone will add a quick 2 cents and I get a post and a bunch of post ideas. Thanks! Pete
Gear Gadgets and Gizmos did you get responses to your question?
@@itsgeraldinelee It didn't work as good as hoped but I did get a few things. I will try again. I still think its a great idea.
These are some great ideas... You lit about 20 light bulbs in my head! Thanks Jim & Ricky!!!
Very useful tips about l"leveraging" Facebook groups. And gonna tattoo this phrase "Own Your platform on my forehead". Thanks guys.
Thanks, this information was really appreciated
Another awesome video. I love the different ways of getting content ideas
thanks for the town tour and community content
Great analogy guys. I have built a third of my ghost town, and I'm waiting for traffic. I figure if you make it well and they will come. By the way, I love the location. I do a lot of photography of old buildings and would like to go through that town with a camera someday.
Listening to this really does bring into perspective how hard it is to wait and not cave. But if you go there remember that's when it's about to take off, and just bare with it a bit longer, then let go.
Awesome info!!! Thanks for the insight!!!
Great analogy thank you!
Man, you guys are totally awesome and the way you present your videos, it's amazing , one more thing , can you make a video about pinterest traffic?.
Dudes,
U Guys Rock
Thanks guys, great insight's
This is reallly amazing!
The ghost town phase is the easiest phase to quit it. That's when many people just let their site sit. Then years later they see decent traffic to their couple articles and wish they had been writing that whole time! Imagine if they had been! $$$$$
Great video guy's...
Awesomemesness thanks again for the motivation
Your advice is very helpful and valuable. What do you think about building a community on discord?
Cool setting for the video!
So I have an off subject question for anyone that knows. Jim and Ricky pitch getting the snippets all the time and for obvious reason. My question is does anyone know if you can steal the snippet for a search term that already has one or can you only get one if the term doesn’t already have one? If you can steal them away any idea what it will take?
Makes a lot of sense!
Hi guys, should i link to my YT channel from my website? Or just only from YT to website? Maybe both?
Anyway great content as always.
Lol, loved the intro😆
Do you have a recommendation on how to assess if a social site is going to be useful or not?
This was awesome info thanks. Goodbye fb!
Its not Goodby FB
he said use FB groups instead,
use it the other way if we can get traffic & Ideas from it
Thank you for these tips guys! What is that platform called again, discourse or something like that?
I thought they meant discus- that comment plugin at the bottom of articles
I Like This Ghosttown series ...
very interesting perspectives for using FB groups, I liked the ideas.
Kind of going guerrilla, isn't it?
Thank you x10!
Hi guys, I really love the work you are doing. I have been watching your videos over the past 2 days almost non-stop. My only question is how do you take the same approach from South Africa. At this stage we are veeeeery far behind on affiliate programs. Our biggest online store compared to Amazon is TakeALot, and they have stated they will not be doing an affiliate program due to the smaller market share they have. Amazon does not deliver to South Africa. Should I be catering for the American market then?
That's what I would do. The American market has a ton of affiliate programs and advertisers willing to pay. Even just targeting the English speaking market in general will work just fine too. Just don't pick something that only make sense for South Africa.
Thanks for the ideas, great video. I like the drone view very much!!! who is the pilot?
Alex Herrera - Thanks! That was me this time. Jim.
Enjoyed You Content
Please make a video on how to select a niche and how to analysis the market?
URGENT - My amazon affiliate links are for the uk store of amazon. What happens when someone from a different country like US clicks on the link and gets taken to the uk store? If they then copy and paste the title of the product into their amazon US store and buy it there, do i still get commission?
Shyam Reddy thirumalareddy oh right thanks, do you know which video (what it’s called)?
Beautiful farm btw.
yeah, people constantly invite me to facebook pages. i'm thinking why bother, reach sucks
Seeing that we are talking about communities that we have control over and you use wordpress, what about buddypress? Nobody ever seems to mention that.
Hey sir, I have a question that I have a new blog and I am a newbie. I am getting an average 200 traffic from search engines daily. But my AdSense CTR is very low. I hardly get one clicks daily. It's been a month with over 8000 traffic and I have only mange to get 20 clicks and 3$ earnings. Please help me to know what to do. My niche is gaming. And I am using plugin for ads placement.
how come one of my articles is ranking really well? but everything else does nothing. i have 53 articles, and am seeing like 3000 page views a month, but the topic they're coming to the site for is not interested amazon buyers. I have been trying everythign you guys recommend, the only thing I haven't done is spent any money on project 24.I wanted to see if I could make enough profit from my site before spending it on project 24. I have foodica theme, a niche that has plenty of products, and am an amazon affiliate. so far $9 in amazon fees.
oh also i know a ton about my field, but it is very much flooded niche. I am just frustrated at how little I have to show for my work, and how confused I am at how to move forward.
just subscribed 🎉
Hey, what about Google Plus. I know it's going away. But it has some pluses and it can be a community. Maybe Google will just replace with something and stay in that business.
You guys are smart like foxes.
What microphone are you using guys?
Tascam DR-10L
where is that town! so amazing!
Sergio de Chazal - Silver city Idaho.
This video was so amazing.... always great content! THANK YOU for taking the time to be the next Steven Spielberg.... i can see your future on movies, im serious!
So are you guys going to fix up this little town 🤗
and what about QUORA? Gracias 👌
I liked it before I watched it....hahahahahaha Fan boy
haha me too !!
You have incredible foresight!
Awesome video. I'm just starting to use Reddit. I would love it if you made a video specifically about using Reddit, as a blogger. I agree about Pinterest. It's my top traffic source, but not really a community. I think people tend to use it in conjunction with Instagram, because Pinterest is great for sharing links, and Instagram for community. Pinterest has little community, and Instagram is not good for links.
You forget about one thing and it's building a "Brand" in your every niche website.
No need to build community or collecting emails, forwarding them on Fb, Insta, and twitter, these ways are just for notifying people of your new post and people are not always there to receive it or may be that time they don't have time to read it and later they also forget to go check it out.
But if you have brand or you are known to them by your super content, they will come back to your site by typing your website brand name on Google or searching on YT if your have YT CHANNEL.
If you are master in that niche people will also follow you, you will not need to force them to follow you.. right?
For example: No matter how big UA-cam is but if someone watches your video once then he will come to your channel again for future videos or more info on building niche websites..that's called royal community and I am one of them, I watch every single video of yours for bettering my knowledge about Niche websites or for something new to learn.
I'm shocked you guys didn't mention the buddypress plugin. It's not the best but it's free and you can build a community on your site with it. Another thing people should know is if you're planning to build a community on your site your shared blue host package won't cut it. You'll need to get a VPN which costs quite a bit more than a shared server but you can get some discounts--I personally used knownhost. The reality is building a community is an expensive and time consuming process. You'll basically turn into a baby sitter for adults dealing with peoples' online arguments and spam from other marketers trying to use your platform for free. If I were to do a community again it would be a paid community like income school as making people actually pay to join eliminates a lot of the problems I mentioned. That being said you need to have a stellar product/service if you expect people to pay to join a community online.
You can host your community on a separate hosting package, which is what we do. I wouldn't host a community on a cheap shared hosting platform, I totally agree.
It's kind of surprising that building a community is limited to so few techniques. Surely there are more ways?
They have a cheek, don't they? Your rant was interrupted by ads as well 🙂 Websites can be hard to build a community, true. My daughter said about Discord, is that what you're saying?
Browser notifications are a security risk. Its like taking a pop up ad and installing it on your viewers' computers.
Ever heard of MeWe for a popular social platform?
I've been working pretty diligently at building up a few social media accounts and after having put in the time and followed instructions on how to gain followers, from the usual suspects, I was beginning to get the exact feeling that's being conveyed in this video.
2700 followers on Instagram, in a few months and more or less crickets.
Pinterest seems more like a image hording site, with very little, if any engagement.
Twitter brings to mind standing in a room with countless people with ADHD, shouting random statements, in the hopes that someone repeats what they're saying. And, I can't get passed how politicized and polarized it is. No thanks.
Facebook? No comment.
When I've been active on Reddit, I've seen some really decent to really surprising, long lasting residual traffic come from posting on there, with relatively limited effort. The trouble I've encountered on reddit it, the rules on other subreddits can be absolutely arbitrary and make breaking into a post, difficult. Unless what you're saying meets 150+/- random criteria. Otherwise, get a message from a bot informing you that your post didn't meet the rules of the moderator. So, you end up having to read and become familiar with all of the rules of everyone of the subs that might be relevant to what you're trying to accomplish or get banned from each of them.
Google+ hasn't resulted in any measure of return for my efforts.
With all that being said, I've taken the time away from working on the website, and "invested" it in building these accounts up. Things are definitely shifting in the digital world. I think it's time to go back home and fortify. Lol.
Facebook group is a great idea. What about building a Facebook group from a UA-cam channel where we can have a good following. your response will be appreciated.
**Discord, BTW. (Unless you meant "Disqus", the blog comment plugin.)
Edit: nevermind. I didn't know there was an actual app called specifically "Discourse." Usually, people mean the Slack-like community platform "Discord," though that platform is usually marketed towards gaming communities.
Great ideas..... Time to go hunting! 🤔
Hi guys, I have a really important question , I'm a second year student of Chemical engineering , and I don't have ideas(I know that you have a list) of what to write because I think *you should know about what you are writing*, so my question is this:
1- Can I write about something that I don't know anything?
2- If so what tips can you give us?
3- If not , should I focus on trying to write about what I already know even if I know there is little potential of monetization in the niche?
Or should I learn somethig new with some potential and then write about it ?
And if there is a third option, enlighten me please.
(My native language is spanish. so, I apologize if I did some catastrophic mistakes.)
Give some likes if this interest you guys :)))))))))))
Thanks in advance.
@Shyam Reddy thirumalareddy I saw almost every video, but they did every blog about something that they knew or first they did something and then they realized that they could write about that topic
But I'm talking about some tips to write about something that you have not knowledge and you didn't search anything before
I don't know if I expressed my thoughts correctly.
(Or just say that you shouldn't write about something that you have no experience, and in the videos that I saw, they didn't mention this, if they did please tell me in which video)
Thanks in advance. :)
You guys don't upload often enough, want to see more
Is facebook friendly to anyone?
The Facebook algorithm sucks. 5500 followers on my page and nobody sees my post
does anyone live in that town?
A few people do except in the winter
5:30 for those who don't know what they said, it's Discord! I think there is a typo, but I use it for communication in my mastermind program. Definitely recommend!
We’re using discourse
Income School ohhh, it sounded a lot like Discord how you described it, my bad. Just looked it up, I'll check it out! Thanks for the reply :)
The cheapest version of Discourse...$100/Month...definitely not an option for someone new on the game. Great video btw guys.
Emprende Academy - No, the software is free. Hosting is the cost but you can host it yourself for next to free, or use another hosting company like discoursehosting.com for cheap.
Facebook sucks I shared a blog on my page with 2000 members 2 days ago and 17 people saw it. Wtf . Pinterest all day long for me. Seriously thinking of deleting FB
This is my favourite blog post of the year, calling out the digital marketing BS -
leoniedawson.com/the-horror-pitchfest-an-honest-review-of-gary-vaynerchuk-success-squared-and-success-resources-australia/?fbclid=IwAR0KxitjxwlUwF0ez7NPOgfEGX86bujIbP4mpR4iL7SzSTaQe-M7RZtKjRY
1:59 Bait and switch. In the real world you can get prosecuted. Amazing what they're getting away with.
No kidding!
Where is that ghost town?
I joined Reddit 2 weeks ago. Went through the signup and selected my 5 areas of interest. Then I looked at the "groups" I was in and found that I had automatically become a member of a Trump knocking group, Democrats and one called Political Humor, whch was basically another Trump knocking group. It is just another leftist platform for snowflakes like Facebook and Twitter so I left - 5 minutes I was a member.
Love you guys but don't like this video, feels like a generic advice. Showing live sites is what made you stand out from the crowd, filler videos like this makes you blend in again. Thanks
Except it has specific actionable advice, not just filler. We still talk about our sites, and will give all the details for our new sites very soon. In the meantime, we're sharing the exact things we're learning and implementing on our sites.