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Chris Thomas

Chris runs an insanely popular pimple popping videos website that has gotten over 1 million monthly page views and also has a private group with over 50,000 members. Chris has also recently launched ConJunkies.com, a comic book convention calendar and tips blog, where he hopes to leverage his years of marketing experience to grow another large audience.

Some things we talked about:

Both sites can get paid when showing other people’s videos
He uses free content and a $50 website template
He uses Dreamhost dedicated WordPress hosting for $35 a month
Traffic to his site varies from month to month, and some of the variance is tied to his effort
How he started his Facebook groups and why
He announced on his Facebook page daily and later weekly about the group and also told about it in his newsletters
Registered a vanity URL to point to his Facebook group
Uses the group to drive traffic to the web site
Promotes affiliate products from time to time
Focuses on the audience and what they want
Monitors posts in the group and uses moderators
Asks where people are from in the group from time to time to get conversations going
Keeps focused that he must serve the audience to build the group
Put in the work with keywords
Polled audience
…And much more