Black Hat Wolfie
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- Jul 5, 2022
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Let’s talk Telegram.
More specifically - creative ways to promote your Telegram channel/groups. We all know the usual methods of promotion: Posting your channel on relevant groups, optimizing the channel name for search, directly adding members to your group, promoting to Telegram channel directories and catalogs, getting reposts in other channels etc..etc.. What we’re interested here are some non standard ways to promote your Telegram assets. I’ll start with a few on the top of my head:
Leverage Linkedin for experts:
Linkedin is not a popular platform for marketing, but it has wonderful targeting tools. Go and find people working in or having interest in your niche and send them an invite to your group. You can manually send 50-60 invites per day and expect 10-15% to join your Telegram group, since they are already in the field and interested in networking. Be creative with your messages tough. Don’t expect a flood of new subscribers, but that’s not what we’re after here. Depending on your country (Telegram is more popular in certain countries, hence a larger percent of Linkedin users will have TG accounts) you can find some really useful members for your group, which will create content and add expertiese.
Use the alternative media websites:
Telegram is popular with people who often consume alternative media. Video sharing websites like Odysee, Bitchute, Bannedvideo, PeerTube, AltCensored. Dtube. Social media like MeWe, Mastodon, Minds, Pixelfed, Signal group chats. Of course your success will depend on your niche, but don’t rule out those smaller networks – in certain fields they are almost as popular as the big ones.
Content-lock your exclusive stuff:
You know the old drill with email marketing: You provide something valuable and wanted in exchange for an email signup – well this old marketer’s tool works wonders for Telegram too.
Use HARO:
Help a reporter out can be used not only for links to your website, but links to your channel as well. Depending on the quality of your articles you can explode your channel with a single hit piece if your target audience is in the right niche.
Donor channels:
Mother and child method, but for Telegram. Bonus if the channels are not in the same, but related niches.
Spam forums:
Yes, yes - the age old forum spam. The difference here is that there is no Google to ban your website and you can easily get away with your posts not being deleted, since you don’t even have to post a link. Your telegram channel name is all you need to get out there. So start your Xrummer engines, gentleman.
Cross platform mutual promotion:
Find asset owners on facebook/youtube/instagram/snapchat/whatever your audience is on, contact them and offer mutual “shout-outs” to your respective readers. If your channel/group is already large you will have success with this tactic. If not – target small channels on the other platforms. More often than not people will be willing to atleast try, since you’re not in direct competition.
What’s on your mind? Shoot away! Let’s put our black hats together.
More specifically - creative ways to promote your Telegram channel/groups. We all know the usual methods of promotion: Posting your channel on relevant groups, optimizing the channel name for search, directly adding members to your group, promoting to Telegram channel directories and catalogs, getting reposts in other channels etc..etc.. What we’re interested here are some non standard ways to promote your Telegram assets. I’ll start with a few on the top of my head:
Leverage Linkedin for experts:
Linkedin is not a popular platform for marketing, but it has wonderful targeting tools. Go and find people working in or having interest in your niche and send them an invite to your group. You can manually send 50-60 invites per day and expect 10-15% to join your Telegram group, since they are already in the field and interested in networking. Be creative with your messages tough. Don’t expect a flood of new subscribers, but that’s not what we’re after here. Depending on your country (Telegram is more popular in certain countries, hence a larger percent of Linkedin users will have TG accounts) you can find some really useful members for your group, which will create content and add expertiese.
Use the alternative media websites:
Telegram is popular with people who often consume alternative media. Video sharing websites like Odysee, Bitchute, Bannedvideo, PeerTube, AltCensored. Dtube. Social media like MeWe, Mastodon, Minds, Pixelfed, Signal group chats. Of course your success will depend on your niche, but don’t rule out those smaller networks – in certain fields they are almost as popular as the big ones.
Content-lock your exclusive stuff:
You know the old drill with email marketing: You provide something valuable and wanted in exchange for an email signup – well this old marketer’s tool works wonders for Telegram too.
Use HARO:
Help a reporter out can be used not only for links to your website, but links to your channel as well. Depending on the quality of your articles you can explode your channel with a single hit piece if your target audience is in the right niche.
Donor channels:
Mother and child method, but for Telegram. Bonus if the channels are not in the same, but related niches.
Spam forums:
Yes, yes - the age old forum spam. The difference here is that there is no Google to ban your website and you can easily get away with your posts not being deleted, since you don’t even have to post a link. Your telegram channel name is all you need to get out there. So start your Xrummer engines, gentleman.
Cross platform mutual promotion:
Find asset owners on facebook/youtube/instagram/snapchat/whatever your audience is on, contact them and offer mutual “shout-outs” to your respective readers. If your channel/group is already large you will have success with this tactic. If not – target small channels on the other platforms. More often than not people will be willing to atleast try, since you’re not in direct competition.
What’s on your mind? Shoot away! Let’s put our black hats together.
