Organic Over Optics

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Chapters

• 2:19 Setting The Stage: Ads And Likes
• 3:14 The Bot Problem With Paid Boosts
• 4:09 Reading The Back End Metrics
• 5:19 Choosing Organic Growth
• 6:29 The Raw And The Real Philosophy
• 9:29 Closing And Listener Invitation

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 1:10

Hey there, Regina Swan here, coming to you from my podcast. Regina Swan audio series presents just three minutes from the top. You know, a lot of people ask me, um, how do I feel about advertising? Advertising on different uh social media sites. I'm not gonna not gonna name any of them right now, but just in general, advertising. Well, I think it's good in some cases. You know, if you really got something you want to push, then yeah, it's a good thing, but to sit there and pay for everything you try to post. Um, I used to do that. And you know, and a lot of people say, well, you know, it you used to get thousands and thousands and hundreds and hundreds of likes. Yeah, thousands and thousands and hundreds of bots. Bots. Not necessarily likes, but bots. I like it now. I don't care if it's only twelve, fifteen, twenty, a hundred people that like something that I post, even if it's less than that, at least I know that is organic. That's real. That doesn't that doesn't escape that doesn't escape from the fact that people still see your content as what I was talking about a couple weeks ago about likes and views. People are still seeing your content. So I kind of got away from paying for every post, every single post, and getting all these thousands and thousands upon thousands of likes, which is why when you see that people are spending money to do that, and I don't I'm not gonna come against them for doing that. That's what they want to do, but I want to do it differently. I'm really happy with on the back side what I see on the back side. It's not always what I see on the front side. I may see 15, 20, 30 likes or whatever, but on the back side, I see how many people actually saw that particular post. See, people don't understand. I can see that on my end. You know, I don't know if you know how to read those pages and go to the back end of it, you can read that and you can say, darn. So I stopped paying for every single post. If it's really urgent that I need something out there in a hurry, yeah. But I learned that paying for these bots, all these likes, just for it to look good, to make you feel good, to have a bunch of likes on something, then you're paying for it. And I'm not gonna knock you if that's what you want to do. In my case, I I stopped it because I was spending thousands upon thousands of dollars doing this, and I'm like, wait a minute, and I realized it was just a bunch of bots, and so again, I don't knock people that want to do that, they want to advertise, they want to spend money. There are organic ways that you could do that, and it would be a lot more profitable to you and your business, you know. Uh push it, get it out there, share it, tell friends to share it. You know, there's a lot of ways you can get it out there organically, you know, and put it in different areas, different uh social media areas, and people will see it, you know. So that's the way I do it now. I don't I no longer pay for every single little post just so it can look good on my page, so it can look hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of views and thousands and upon thousands, two hundred and I don't do that anymore. I don't care what other people do. I'm not in this for other people, I'm in this for what I do, and that that's all that matters. And it's not that I'm being cheap, I'm just trying to be frugal in these times because you know people yeah, frugal in these times, and it it just matters to me to do it that way because I want I want to see the real. I want to see the real. If your friends come to your page, you better believe they are looking at your post. They may not like it, I tell you, but they do see it. I know guys, I know what I'm talking about. You can you can say what she does she does she know she's talking about? I know what I'm talking about. Because I see on the back end, I can actually like I I do have something set up where I can see exactly who comes to my page. I had it set up like that, I probably shouldn't admit it that, but I do. And people come to see, to borrow, to to be nosy and all those things, just to see what you're doing. So, but no, I no longer pay for for views and likes and all of that crap. I don't do that. It's got to be now organic to me, and whether it's ten people that like it or ten thousand. I no longer just spend money for that because I found out it's just a bunch of bots. Bunch of bots. And this is not gonna be a popular podcast. I understand that. And I I'm not doing this for other people, I'm doing it for me, okay? So I I really it it doesn't matter. I'm I'm trying to be real. This last year I have decided to make things raw and real. That's that's my podcast um logo, lingo, the raw, the real. And that's that's that. So I just want to come to you and talk to you a little bit about that because a lot of people say, well, you know, you can you can push it, you can you can pay just a little bit like$5,$10. That adds up. If everything I post, because I post a lot, that adds up. And I'm not trying to please people. I'm I'm just I'm really not. I'm not in it to try to look good to people. You know, if if I gotta pay for something every time I post it, then maybe I just need to get off that site. Because I'm not in it for that. I'm in it for the raw and the real. That's my logo, that's my lingo. The raw and the real. I'm Regina Sworn, thank you so much for listening. Sorry that um this is such a short um little podcast. I it's really not that short because it's been over six minutes now. I was only supposed to do three minutes, but I just want to come to you with that. You don't always have to pay for every single post because doing that, you know, some people cannot do that. Some people it gets them in the hole trying to look good with light, like, like, like, like love, love, love, love, love. Bot, bot, bot, bot, bot. So, yeah. Run real. I know who comes to my page, I see who comes to my page, I see from the countries that come to my page. I can see you. I see you. I see you is all that matters. So I know that you see it, and that is all that matters. Paying for it, everything I do, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna pay for all these posts all the time just to look good to people. Ernina Swine, thank you so much for listening. Join my podcast right over here at iHeartRadio. The best site to me. The best site, iHeartRadio. Join me right there. Thanks a lot. Have a great, great evening.