In 2010 a friend of mine got ahold of me and said he was writing a zombie novel and wanted to post it online for people to read. He didn't know how to do it and asked me for help. I agreed immediately. I set up a website for him with enhanced blogging capabilities. I designed the site to flow the reader from one chapter to the next with great ease and made it so they were able to pick up where they left off. I then created short videos for his novel that were shared over and over. Within the first week we went from 0 website traffic to 30 online readers per day. Within a month we had nearly 500 readers online whenever a new chapter was released, and it kept growing.
Simultaneously, I created a worldwide event called the "2011 Halloween Zombie Apocalypse" which was an event that pitted "zombies" against "survivors" on Halloween. There were rules to follow, safety instructions to heed and a lot of fun to be had. It started as a Facebook Event with around 50 willing participants the first week. As I pushed it, created videos, designed a thorough website and started interesting people off my social channels to get involved, it quickly morphed into the fastest growing event on Facebook with a total of 250,000 confirmed participants. It was so successful that the AMC Network marketing team for the Walking Dead contacted me and begged me to take a ton of Walking Dead marketing material, which I did! I had over 250 original Walking Dead posters, 250 shirts and I campaigned on giving the TOP 8 cities of the event a cut of the materials to give to their participants. My inbox was getting over 200 messages a day from people all over the world and it was amazing. The best part was that I made my author friend the main sponsor to the event and plugged his website to millions of people. My friend is now a successfully published author with over dozen novels.
I hope to do the same for you.
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Simultaneously, I created a worldwide event called the "2011 Halloween Zombie Apocalypse" which was an event that pitted "zombies" against "survivors" on Halloween. There were rules to follow, safety instructions to heed and a lot of fun to be had. It started as a Facebook Event with around 50 willing participants the first week. As I pushed it, created videos, designed a thorough website and started interesting people off my social channels to get involved, it quickly morphed into the fastest growing event on Facebook with a total of 250,000 confirmed participants. It was so successful that the AMC Network marketing team for the Walking Dead contacted me and begged me to take a ton of Walking Dead marketing material, which I did! I had over 250 original Walking Dead posters, 250 shirts and I campaigned on giving the TOP 8 cities of the event a cut of the materials to give to their participants. My inbox was getting over 200 messages a day from people all over the world and it was amazing. The best part was that I made my author friend the main sponsor to the event and plugged his website to millions of people. My friend is now a successfully published author with over dozen novels.
I hope to do the same for you.