Episode 9 of Email Storytelling – My experiments with Quora and Reddit to get traffic

The progress has been slow. I can barely give only 4 hours to this project.

The struggle has been to get traffic onto the MPPS. I considered paid advertisements as well. But for targeting reasons, I decided to not go ahead with them. I decided to focus on organic traffic strategies, instead.

So this week and the next week, I will talk about my organic efforts to get traffic.

I want to specifically talk about the forums like Quora and Reddit. Both of these platforms are forum-like platforms or in other words question-answer platforms.

I have to confess that I have not used Reddit a lot, but I do have used Quora quite extensively.

These are great platforms to get your word out and attract the right people. People are asking you a specific question and you get the opportunity to provide value. Through this value, your reputation starts growing. You can also start getting more profile visits, more link visits, etc.

A word of caution though. People out here are extremely smart. They can see through bullshit. So do not try to manipulate people into clicking. Many marketers are actually self-promoting under the disguise of helping. So don’t do that.

Instead, play the long game. Help them. Provide value.

Towards the end of this episode, I also share my own success story of using Quora. The results I got were phenomenal.

So here is my suggestion – If you are someone who feels comfortable adding value to people using forums, this is a good way to go about it.