In other words you're just going to follow hundreds of random people every day in the hopes they'll follow you back. So basically you're going to be a spammer who follows a bunch of other spammers, and who is followed by spammers.
No. Not random people, not hoping they'll follow back, not following other spammers, spammers are weeded out.
I think I'd rather try to build a real Twitter following that is interested in what I have to say, that I'm engaged with, and that might actually benefit me in some way (oh, wait, I've already got all that).
And yeah, saying the account has 65k followers when it doesn't even exist yet is lying. It's potentially fraud. And at the very least, it makes you look really, really unprofessional and like a scammer.
It's a real twitter following as I have already said multiple times.
No, it is not a lie, not fraud, and does not make me look unprofessional or like a scammer.
Ask around w/ people who use twitter promotional tools and they will tell you the same. Everything I said checks out to be true and accurate. Or try it yourself.
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Also, expecting an editor to work for $300 on a self-published book that needs as much editing as yours is kind of insulting (I'm an editor, and no way would I take on a project like yours for so little pay, even if it was the kind of thing I normally edit, which it's not). There's no benefit to them to work for such a low rate. If you know it needs a lot of work, then why don't you try doing a few rounds of edits on it yourself? If you can get it polished more, then you might be able to find an editor who will do line editing for you for somewhere in the area of $300, if they're just starting out or only edit part time.
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Advice taken into consideration.
Thf, since you asked for feedback, here's mine: First, you're not willing to fix your own mistakes and do all of the revisions for your book before you hand it off to a copy editor. Secondly, your marketing scheme is less than honest. I'm not sure why anyone should get behind your project, much less make a donation.
No guerillaangel, I never said I wasn't or didn't make revisions.
My marketing offer is not less than honest either.
Disagree if you want, but I can prove my statements to be true and nobody can disprove it.
I have facts, tried and proven statistics, thousands of other marketers claiming and doing the same thing, times and dates, averages. You can try it yourself if you're still confused.
Here we go again.
Every time you start something you abandon it. You tell people you
already have something when you mean you hope to someday have it.
You made the exact same claims with your documentary. You told us
over and over that it was the most moving documentary ever made. Not
WILL BE, but that IT IS. Yet you never made it and abandoned the idea
of making it.
That is false and I did not abandon anything. I don't mean to "hope to someday have" I can the actual number with statistics to support it. Download it and try it yourself if you still disagree.
“The twitter account for Please Don’t Be Real has over 65,000 followers”
does not mean “The twitter account for Please Don’t Be Real will someday
have over 65,000 followers”. You are smart guy and you know you are
deliberately misleading people and playing with semantics.
You are wrong, and I am right.
You're a smart guy too, so you should know that what you're are saying is incorrect.
I'll edit it to say "The twitter account for Please Don't Be Real gets 300 to 500 real followers each day which means your link will be promoted to over 65,000 people"
Then nobody can argue with it.
You registered the domain under a false name with a false address
using a contact number that does not exist.
Yet you want people to trust you and give you money.
I can't afford to pay for private registration. Nothing to do with trust, nothing deceptive, nothing wrong.
In fact (As in a true statement) many people use a fake last name at the least if they can't afford private registration, and a fake phone number.
Also on IndieGoGo in the perks section it says "All perks listed on pleasedontbereal.com" which is against their terms. As soon as someone contributes the perk text is non-editable so you honor what you agreed to, but this text allows him to accept contributions and then switch the perk in the end. There is no other reason for doing that! Dishonest and against their terms. He knows how it works since he's had accounts there.
This member also tried to post this under a different user account with a different name and state listed but I told him to use his original account.
I don't like where all this is going.
Since this involves asking for money I am tempted to ban this member to protect other members.
I'll switch the perks section and yes, there is a reason for doing that. I didn't want to list perks when there is no information about what, who, when, where, why or how on the indiegogo page. I'll list them anyway though and fix the perks section.
I didn't try to post under a different user account I forgot the password to this account -- if you look you will see I had to request it to log back in. When everybody read the book description they would remember who I was and know it was the same guy.
What's hilarious here is that you are trying to fake your way onto twitter. Are you aware of the market value of what you're pretending to have? It's not too high. Even if you had 65k real twitter followers, you would still have to make a truly great work. Otherwise, 2/3 loose interest. Then 1/3 of those people make it over to kickstarter, then 6/7 will give you a buck. The others 5.
So now you have
65,000
/3
so around 22k left
/3 again
thats around 7
add the one in 6 that give higher numbers and you've got almost 12 grand.
So you've come up with this elaborate plan to claim via spam and website info,
That you're a guy with so much support, you could buy a used imitation rosewood panel station wagon.
Everything you just said is wrong, sorry.
I'm sorry to say, since I leave my computer on 24/7, my best friend and neighbor read directorik's last post. He said, and I quote, "If I was a cop I'd be calling in right now about a fraud investigation. Sounds like a con-artist."
Here are laws I found helpful to any law enforcement officials on this forum.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00001030----000-.html
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00001037----000-.html
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00001038----000-.html
And if you try to come after me for providing these laws to everyone calling you out,
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00001039----000-.html
For some reason I see you coming after me thfdocumentary. I guess that's easy with all my personal information on the interwebs, thanks to my medals. So if you do, it's called military training, a gun, and a baton, and the fact that I'm a Nevadan. c:
Not to insult you, but that was wild sounding.
Fraud, laws, con-artist, coming after you, guns and military training??
There. I've handled criticism and corrected everybody's false statements.
I feel like a champion, a defense champion though.
