And we begin!

iforest said:
I just finished reading everything and found your story very interesting. I hope you succeed... And one more thing, is this automation for Amazon account creation for sale? I found it very interesting and would like to run some tests :)
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No...

But its not that difficult. Learn a little bit of python (Chatgpt will teach you) with 'Playwright' (Chatgpt will teach you that too) and use Dolphin Anty with iproxy (5g mobile proxy) on a small home network and then warm up 100 browsers by just surfing around randomly until google gets to know you. Set up 100 gmail accounts once google is satisfied that you are 100 normal people and scoot on over to Amazon. Amazon LOVES gmail accounts. It simply loves them. The browser will hold onto account names and passwords and session cookies that make it so you never have to log in. Just get used to automating a lot of fake browsing, flipping those carousel wheels and searching for random products you can never seem to find. After a while you can even funnel amazon gift cards over to the accounts and buy some stuff. Its easy, it just takes a little obsession.
 
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VisualA said:
Yeah but I read it.

Have you considered that perhaps you would be a lousy violent criminal? I mean sure you could take risks, but you don't want to be that guy that the other criminals ridicule. "Look at him pistol whipping people, his heart just isn't in it. Its like he knows that he doesn't have to be doing this."
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Thanks

I think that when it is absolutely necessary for us to do something, heart really doesn't matter. We will just do the thing

''Regular'' people like us usually have large windows of opportunity so go on many side-quests

A violent criminal that is not trying to get caught would plan out things and strike at the right moment.

Which means they have very small windows of opportunity and if they don't stay on the main quest, they simply don't eat.

I'd make a great violent criminal.

But I'd rather live without having to look over my shoulder worrying that the police or other criminals gonna ambush my ass

That's where the real stress is, the constant state of vigilance.

Not the small time-frame of violence
 
fielddigger said:
Thanks

I think that when it is absolutely necessary for us to do something, heart really doesn't matter. We will just do the thing

''Regular'' people like us usually have large windows of opportunity so go on many side-quests

A violent criminal that is not trying to get caught would plan out things and strike at the right moment.

Which means they have very small windows of opportunity and if they don't stay on the main quest, they simply don't eat.

I'd make a great violent criminal.

But I'd rather live without having to look over my shoulder worrying that the police or other criminals gonna ambush my ass

That's where the real stress is, the constant state of vigilance.

Not the small time-frame of violence
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On a graph of risk to reward: Where you are measuring a confrontation with the legal system' vs 'making a lot of money', there is a definite tier ranking for criminals.

Mugger - Robber - Bank Robber - Drug Dealer - Hitman - Arms Dealer - Lawyer - Politician - Banker

You don't have to start at the bottom.
 
VisualA said:
On a graph of risk to reward: Where you are measuring a confrontation with the legal system' vs 'making a lot of money', there is a definite tier ranking for criminals.

Mugger - Robber - Bank Robber - Drug Dealer - Hitman - Arms Dealer - Lawyer - Politician - Banker

You don't have to start at the bottom.
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The story of Segway and Ninebot is always a great inspiration for me.
Segway invented those self balancing vehicles and had patents on that tech but they were very expensive.
Then in 2012 Ninebot came and just used that technology, essentially infringing on the patent.
They were much cheaper in price and quality but it sold well.
Even though Segway tried to sue them for it, they already made enough money to buy the original company Segway before the lawsuit happened.

I cannot understand how anything like this could happen in a "just" world but the world is not "just" so just do whatever the fk you want and try to get away with it.

Same with the AI stuff that is going on right now. Everything is accusing everybody to steal from each other but if you grow big enough it doesn't matter and the biggest one will win.
 
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Update: Google shut down 5 of my accounts.

But it was my fault really. It was five of the newer accounts that were warmed through automation. During the process there was a bug with Dolphin Anty that did not close the browser in time for the IP change and as a result... five browsers were up and automating on the same IP. When I noticed this I shut everything down and flagged those browser profiles. The interesting thing is that Google did not immediately suspend those accounts. They waited and watched.

Recently, Google decided to put me through the 'Are you a bot?' routine and then informed me that my account was being suspended for Reason: No reason. LOL, they don't even know why it happened and just left the whole thing to automation. I filled out an appeal for each just because I wanted to see what the appeals process looks like, but honestly...

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They already gave me what I needed when I set up the amazon/reddit/goodreads for those accounts so they can feel free to disable whatever they'd like at this point.

Speaking of which...

Amazon now has five reviews on it, all five stars. I wanted to take this slow and steady and since Amazon has become my ultimate objective, I am taking great care to drop these review/ratings one at a time. In comparison, I am nearly spamming goodreads because they are so laid back. But Amazon is getting a cross treatment of botted reviews + this guy I found on Fiverr who supposedly has ten accounts. So long as we space these out over time, I can gain 100+ ratings/reviews in a little under six months. The perfect crime.

Reddit, unfortunately, has not produced anything along the lines of what I would call ROI. Sure I can name drop and sure I can upvote the hell out of those name drops. But this does not translate into sales or even recognition. As I get older I have become a bit more shrewd with my time and I am just not sure that being popular on reddit can really translate to a larger novel distribution. Perhaps I am just not looking in the correct subs. Perhaps. Perhaps.

I think it could be time to move on. Or at least move forward. The Goodreads/Amazon strategy is getting me exactly what I want 'Fake popularity' so now it is just a matter of finishing the audiobook(s) and attacking twitter/instagram/Amazon with an ad push. If I make the advert attractive enough, I will hopefully get some clicks and when they see all the glowing reviews, I will hopefully get some sales and when I get enough sales I will hopefully get SOME SEMBLANCE OF RECOGNITION FROM THIS SCREWED UP READERBASE THAT HAS IGNORED ME FOR SO LONG!!!

AND WHO SAID I COULDN'T DO IT?!?!?

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Even while reading the original thread post, I felt like reading a book lol,
I like your style of writing, it reminds me of some old books that I read when I was younger (they're in Arabic tho, idk what matches, but well...),
And ofc, another reminder of how my writing/language got worse over the years, probably getting used to basic chatting that grammar/vocabulary don't matter any longer,

One advice I would like to mention, is to take your time testing, don't scale too quickly,
Getting detected doesn't necessarily happen overnight, things could be going well for a good while, but doomed overnight,

Best of luck!
 
hideath said:
Even while reading the original thread post, I felt like reading a book lol,
I like your style of writing, it reminds me of some old books that I read when I was younger (they're in Arabic tho, idk what matches, but well...),
And ofc, another reminder of how my writing/language got worse over the years, probably getting used to basic chatting that grammar/vocabulary don't matter any longer,

One advice I would like to mention, is to take your time testing, don't scale too quickly,
Getting detected doesn't necessarily happen overnight, things could be going well for a good while, but doomed overnight,

Best of luck!
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Thank you thank you!

Thank you for the advice and thank you for the praise. Everyone on BHW has been so supportive. =D
 
Your journey is one of the more interesting ones to read so I hope you continue. You will succeed.
 
QUICK! What's our status?!

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Running 100 bots...

Reddit: Full blitz word of mouth campaign. A drop in the bucket and still very little visibility.

Google: 100 high trust email accounts that are refreshed daily.

Goodreads: 35 five star reviews.

Amazon: No movement as Amazon requires a customer to spend at least $50 before they can start leaving reviews (I should have known this ahead of time.)

Well it worked. It all worked! From my army of bots, I have shotgunned the internet in precisely the manner I set out to do. Am I famous yet?

No. Not at all. In fact, while I was doing all of this, some random person wandered into a platform called 'Smashwords' to a page I was not even advertising and bought the entire series for absolutely no reason. I guess he liked the cover or something. So absolutely no traction to the place I was trying to get the world to pay attention to but some traction on a platform I was completely ignoring.

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I found a person on Fiverr who has a bunch of Amazon accounts and would gladly purchase my book(s) and leave five star reviews for peanuts. Not only is this a lot cheaper than what I intended to do, but the accounts he is using are very old, very active and very good quality. Already I have 10 five star reviews on Amazon. It cost me like $30. That is basically $3 per review. So cheap! Madness.

He is cheap but highly effective.

I STILL have not run any instagram, facebook, bing or amazon ads. And yet I have spent an incredible amount of money on useless overcomplexity.

BHW people continue to give me great advice and I am eager to put some of it to the test.

So things did not turn out the way I expected... although I did learn a lot and I am going to outline it here.

  1. Don't overthink it. But if you do overthink it, realize that you have overthought it and promise yourself that you won't overthink it in the future.
  2. What might cost you $400 to do yourself will probably cost a guy on fiverr $15 and he's actually a professional and is better at it.
  3. Listen to people on BHW when they tell you that you are crazy. They would know, they have seen crazy people before. People like you.
  4. It is better to try, fail and learn than it will be to succeed and not know how you did it.
So the new plan is...

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I am going to retire my bots and once the new audiobook is done, I will start running ads (at $10/day). Then I will create articles and get fiverr people to spam them to low quality blogs. Instead of attempting to start an artificial 'Viral' campaign, I will create a genuine one. One that involves massive exposure through marketing but only as a cover...

A cover for my REAL plan which is to start 'trading up the chain'. Then I will take all of those low quality blogs and attempt to trade them for medium quality, then high quality, then *****, reddit and hopefully... The world.

Updates to follow!
 
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VisualA said:
A cover for my REAL plan which is to start 'trading up the chain'. Then I will take all of those low quality blogs and attempt to trade them for medium quality, then high quality, then *****, reddit and hopefully... The world.
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:)
 
This is truly an exemplary article. You are absolutely right, in some cases all of these promotions can be useless and that is so sad.

However, I think different advertising and marketing tactics should be used for each project.

For example; It is obvious that backlinks, promotional articles, etc. will not be useful for these 4 books. The only thing that will make a book written by an unknown person interesting is the author himself. Here, it is necessary to focus on the author, not the books, and determine the strategy accordingly.
 
VisualA said:
QUICK! What's our status?!

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Running 100 bots...

Reddit: Full blitz word of mouth campaign. A drop in the bucket and still very little visibility.

Google: 100 high trust email accounts that are refreshed daily.

Goodreads: 35 five star reviews.

Amazon: No movement as Amazon requires a customer to spend at least $50 before they can start leaving reviews (I should have known this ahead of time.)

Well it worked. It all worked! From my army of bots, I have shotgunned the internet in precisely the manner I set out to do. Am I famous yet?

No. Not at all. In fact, while I was doing all of this, some random person wandered into a platform called 'Smashwords' to a page I was not even advertising and bought the entire series for absolutely no reason. I guess he liked the cover or something. So absolutely no traction to the place I was trying to get the world to pay attention to but some traction on a platform I was completely ignoring.

embarrassed-shy.gif


I found a person on Fiverr who has a bunch of Amazon accounts and would gladly purchase my book(s) and leave five star reviews for peanuts. Not only is this a lot cheaper than what I intended to do, but the accounts he is using are very old, very active and very good quality. Already I have 10 five star reviews on Amazon. It cost me like $30. That is basically $3 per review. So cheap! Madness.

He is cheap but highly effective.

I STILL have not run any instagram, facebook, bing or amazon ads. And yet I have spent an incredible amount of money on useless overcomplexity.

BHW people continue to give me great advice and I am eager to put some of it to the test.

So things did not turn out the way I expected... although I did learn a lot and I am going to outline it here.

  1. Don't overthink it. But if you do overthink it, realize that you have overthought it and promise yourself that you won't overthink it in the future.
  2. What might cost you $400 to do yourself will probably cost a guy on fiverr $15 and he's actually a professional and is better at it.
  3. Listen to people on BHW when they tell you that you are crazy. They would know, they have seen crazy people before. People like you.
  4. It is better to try, fail and learn than it will be to succeed and not know how you did it.
So the new plan is...

the-flash-snart.gif

I am going to retire my bots and once the new audiobook is done, I will start running ads (at $10/day). Then I will create articles and get fiverr people to spam them to low quality blogs. Instead of attempting to start an artificial 'Viral' campaign, I will create a genuine one. One that involves massive exposure through marketing but only as a cover...

A cover for my REAL plan which is to start 'trading up the chain'. Then I will take all of those low quality blogs and attempt to trade them for medium quality, then high quality, then *****, reddit and hopefully... The world.

Updates to follow!
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I'm glad that you are making good progress now. Good luck with your journey.
 
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