[londonstartup]

Amazing reply, thank you (Grasswire looks amazing, I'd love to hear more!) I somehow don't feel like I should be running an affiliates for other people business, and wonder how much my heart would be in it. I'd prefer to do something more transparent, pointing traffic to my own site (but not competing with those companies that pull in thousands of shops and have data scientists working around the clock, like Lyst) There's a company called the social chain doing this really well (influencer marketing as an agency) they have mulit-mutli millions of UK people in their network. Then there's the audience, who claim a billion people can be influenced by them every month. Woah.

[sgold515]

How are you growing the accounts so fast? I started an account last week after reading Austen's awesome book (http://austenallred.com/user-acquisition/book/chapter/instag...),but only grow my following around 30 per day as opposed to 10k. Also I haven't tested out any bots yet.

[londonstartup]

Once you have accounts with followings they can support each other, RT each other's posts, get reach that way. I think that's how any in-house influencer marketing companies got started, they built Facebook like pages over the last decade then just used them to make new pages. Moviepilot did this also, apparently spending a year building the pages before they built the website! That is brilliant forward thinking. Regarding Insta/Twitter growth from zero, Austin's advice seems pretty solid?

[sgold515]

Also would love to get your quick feedback on my niche account. I have some great ideas to monetize it once it gets to some scale that I can share too. Email is [e-mail]

[londonstartup]

Sent!

[jfoutz]

WRT affiliate programs, I've never had a problem with an book review that has an affiliate link to buy the book. If you're a plumber, and you found this great robot camera for inspecting pipes, sell it.

I think the main thing, if you're in it for the long run, is to preserve authenticity. It's easy to start seeming spammy.

[londonstartup]

Yes, totally. I just feel like a lot of e-books are 99p so 10% of that is so small. I guess the upside is 1,000 people could buy it at once, but then you'd need 100,000+ book fans for an ambitious 1% conversion. And even then you'd have to go author direct (so amazon don't also take a cut) which may mean lower quality books, and if people see you promoting bad product, end of brand, maybe.