Let's dive right into good stuff...
I wrote a post about my 5-figure side-hustle and posted it on Jan 10th.
I launched Facebook campaign to drive traffic to the post and spent $58.14 on ads
Ads drove 775 clicks to the post averaging $0.08 per click. Ads traffic boosted my post rating and increased organic reach on DEV to 6804 views.
My Twitter account got +51 followers. Even though the account is almost empty.
My post made it to TOP 7 of the week and DEV.to sent me $50 gift.
Math results:
- TOP post of the week
- 6804 views on DEV.to with 293 likes and 21 comments
- +51 Twitter followers
- $58 ads spent
- $50 gift from DEV
- $58(spent)-$50(gift)=$8 total cost
Takeaways:
- Write a decent post. Publish it on DEV
- Drive enough ads traffic to the post so that it becomes TOP post of the week. If the post doesn't take off with $10 in ads, stop everything and write another post, which hopefully will do better. Profit.
- Put a CTA at the end of the post, so it converts to followers on Twitter
My CTA(giveaway):
Go follow me on Twitter and send me a DM. I will give away $50 gift for DEV.to shop to a random follower.
Top comments (5)
wowww cool man
Thank you)
waiting for your toptal article bro, i'm pretty sure even without ads it will get more engagement coz it's such a top search topic in terms of working remotely
Facebook suspended my ad account, so I can't run ads for this post, but I will get it back)
facebook just hate you man, but you're still the man though i have never though such idea