rovad
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- Dec 27, 2009
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Hi,
I'm a young dude from Europe. 24 y/o, I made some money online during all these years, but I never maintained a stable income for more than a few months. This is my attempt to change that, the journey logs will hopefully help a bit more with accountability, determination, patience, discipline and all that stuff...
Anyway, started a couple months ago with Pinterest with the help of my good friends. 1 of them made a nice Pinterest iMacros script (follows, repins, likes, comments). Long story short, I got some accounts banned, some are still alive, made mistakes, a little wiser now, still a lot of learning ahead of me. I've started a long-term freelance project couple days ago, that will be my main source of income to spend on stuff like VPS, proxies or any other expense. It will also eat a lot of my free time, so I won't be able to dedicate as much time/energy/focus as I'd want to on this Pinterest project. Therefore the growth will probably be somewhat slower than I'd want it to be.
GENERAL IDEA/GOAL:
Build up dozens, hundreds of Pinterest accounts, have them pin my own stuff 24/7 on autopilot for me, make money with Adsense/Amazon/affiliate.
CURRENT SETUP DETAILS:
First, I find a nice looking profile with 20+ boards. I clone it with iMacros script. After the script finishes cloning the profile, I search for some random female profile on Pinterest with decent follower count. I follow 500-1000 of her followers - this is done by another very simple iMacros script. From that I get 50-100 followbacks usually. After that, I follow my own followers' followers using a bit more complicated iMacros script. This results in 25-35% followback rate as of now.
Once accounts hit 40k following, I start mass unfollowing by using, well, guess XD.
I'm not trying to build niche specific accounts. I'm casting a wide net to see what works and what fits my current setup the most. However, I do plan on switching to niche accounts eventually, especially if I don't reach my short-term income goals.
THINGS TO DO/FINISH BY THE END OF THIS WEEK (November 2nd 2014):
END OF NOVEMBER/START OF DECEMBER GOALS:
I'm a young dude from Europe. 24 y/o, I made some money online during all these years, but I never maintained a stable income for more than a few months. This is my attempt to change that, the journey logs will hopefully help a bit more with accountability, determination, patience, discipline and all that stuff...
Anyway, started a couple months ago with Pinterest with the help of my good friends. 1 of them made a nice Pinterest iMacros script (follows, repins, likes, comments). Long story short, I got some accounts banned, some are still alive, made mistakes, a little wiser now, still a lot of learning ahead of me. I've started a long-term freelance project couple days ago, that will be my main source of income to spend on stuff like VPS, proxies or any other expense. It will also eat a lot of my free time, so I won't be able to dedicate as much time/energy/focus as I'd want to on this Pinterest project. Therefore the growth will probably be somewhat slower than I'd want it to be.
GENERAL IDEA/GOAL:
Build up dozens, hundreds of Pinterest accounts, have them pin my own stuff 24/7 on autopilot for me, make money with Adsense/Amazon/affiliate.
CURRENT SETUP DETAILS:
- Accounts: 10 accounts
- Followers count: ~50k followers combined
- Proxies: 10 dedicated private proxies - $20/month
- VPS: No VPS yet, will buy asap to avoid destroying my laptop
- Website: 1 food/recipes blog with ~1000 posts. Semi-unique & auto-generated, automation = custom-made. Content and information quality is something like 5/10. I link back to source (recipe) sites on each post. Overall site quality is very low atm.
First, I find a nice looking profile with 20+ boards. I clone it with iMacros script. After the script finishes cloning the profile, I search for some random female profile on Pinterest with decent follower count. I follow 500-1000 of her followers - this is done by another very simple iMacros script. From that I get 50-100 followbacks usually. After that, I follow my own followers' followers using a bit more complicated iMacros script. This results in 25-35% followback rate as of now.
Once accounts hit 40k following, I start mass unfollowing by using, well, guess XD.
I'm not trying to build niche specific accounts. I'm casting a wide net to see what works and what fits my current setup the most. However, I do plan on switching to niche accounts eventually, especially if I don't reach my short-term income goals.
THINGS TO DO/FINISH BY THE END OF THIS WEEK (November 2nd 2014):
- Buy VPS.
- Spend some time on a website, make it look really good to avoid reports and bans from angry mamacitas.
- I have a script that pins my own stuff. It requires some work to further minimize risks of bans.
- I have to optimize the profile cloning script a bit cuz it can't fully clone huge boards and it doesn't skip group boards.
END OF NOVEMBER/START OF DECEMBER GOALS:
- 8k-10k followers on all 7 accounts I'm currently growing.
- Things will move slowly at the beginning, but I hope I'll hit $2/day at least.
- Create 1 more website in a different niche with ~1000 posts.
- Improve my content automation method significantly, possibly even hire cheaper writers if the automation fails to produce good content.
Current expenses: $20/month
Current earnings: ~$1/month
$50/day INCOME GOAL DEADLINE:
April 2015
Current earnings: ~$1/month
$50/day INCOME GOAL DEADLINE:
April 2015
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