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Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you
Hello, Buenos Dias, Konichiwa!
That’s how my younger daughter’s best friend greets me when I pick them up from school for a playdate.
She’s always full of life and smiling. It’s a pleasure to have her.
But today is Friday, and the girls will be even happier than usual because I have an exceptional program for them. Instead of a play date, they will have a play weekend.
We are flying to Disney World!!!
One of my recent marketing ploys was successful enough to pay for the weekend
You must have heard of the ko-fi platform by now. It’s a convenient way for creators to ask for tips or donations from their audience. Typically, tips are around $3 — which isn’t much but always appreciated.
However, you can also offer memberships.
Instead of getting a tip once, you can receive a fixed amount monthly, usually in exchange for exclusive or advanced access to their work.
On my ko-fi page, I already offered several memberships where people could get postcards, books, and even toilet paper rolls (vintage ones). They worked OK, but nothing fabulous.
That’s when I got
THE IDEA
You know how they say that if you want to earn seven figures per month, it’s better to have 1,000 true fans that pay you $1,000 a month instead of 1,000,000 fans that give you $1 tip a month?
I used this principle and created a ko-fi membership for rich people. Poor people are kind and all that, but they don’t have money, while rich people do. Logically, rich people are better clients.
I was lucky to have my grandma by my side. She’s a marketing executive and immediately found the perfect name for this membership. It’s simple yet effective and says what it has to say. The name is:
RICH
It was an instant success
You know how they say that if something’s working, you shouldn’t eat or sleep but repeat?
That’s what I did.
I immediately introduced a referral system. It’s very similar to Medium’s referred memberships, and it works like this: if someone gets me RICH members, I share 50% of the membership fees (after payment and processing fees).
(It’s called an affiliate program. You’re welcome to join it too, but read the terms and conditions first.)
All this multiplied the success of my RICH marketing campaign by a factor of twelve.
Time to give back
I would like to thank all the people involved in the process of making my RICH membership successful. Your hard work gave me and my family the necessary funds to spend the weekend at Disney World.
Money is important, but the look of pure joy on the kids’ faces, that’s priceless.
Lee G. Hornbrook sponsored this article. On Twitter, Lee implied the title was so ridiculous nobody would click on it. I decided to prove him wrong and write a viral story. As a thank you, I’d like to encourage you to read Lee’s articles instead of my 3rd rate trash :D
(I didn’t read this one)
(Yep, I read that one)