Using Fiverr to get social media traffic?

Many people are aware of the website Fiverr.com, where you can hire people to perform a variety of tasks for just $5 a pop. But did you know that Fiverr has a section just for people offering to perform social media marketing?

For example, you can hire this attractive nerdy Asian girl to make some videos promoting any website you want, so long as you provide her a script to work with.






Tempting as her offer was, I instead decided to test the waters by purchase a tweet from a service promising a reach of 500,000+ customers.....

...and indeed a tweet was made on a Twitter account with 536,470 followers.

However, the blogger also marked my paid tweet with the hashtag #ad.

Unsurprisingly, even two hours later I had received no additional likes to my RPG Fanatic Facebook Fan Page, other than perhaps from people who I already had the ability to reach through my personal social network.

I would think that with so many followers I would still get at least a handful of additional likes to my page, but alas this didn't happen. So my conclusion is that purchasing tweets is a waste of $5 that could otherwise be spent on something more useful like hiring someone to be your girlfriend on Facebook to make your ex jealous. 

I jest.

Anyway before I abandoned the site I tried purchasing some promotion for my Weekly Texas Jump Facebook Fan Page.

The result was as equally disappointing as the prior effort. I received no traffic at all from that page.

However, the ten dollars I spent has taught me something; it's not enough to merely share links with tens of thousands of people. I believe you need to personalize the sharing and be much more specific with who you are sharing with; I think very few of the people who subscribed to the Twitter and Facebook accounts in this article were interested in the products I was advertising.

But perhaps if I was able to send a personalized invite to people who are interested in my sites I think I would have much better results.

I'll talk about this more in a future article.