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Weak mind, weak hands. You focus on the price when we're all focused on the company.
Internet Marketing Practices
For those interested in promoting things online, here are some general practices with proven success. There are a lot of investors on this board who have grown restless with the slow nature of this company's PPS. There are others who are born restless and cannot let a day pass without buying or selling their shares of this company. I am not posting this information to suggest that anyone should use it to pump or promote a stock that they own. I am, however, suggesting that the success of Stevia Co. lies in the hands of those who currently believe in its potential, and the restless energy of some of the users on this board would be better spent on behaviors that would help the company that they own expand its reach online - ensuring its success in the marketplace - than logging into their brokerage and forum accounts each day hoping and praying for a major PPS shift. Channel your frustrations and anxieties into actionable steps that will make the company you own grow.
Backlink Building
Link building is an essential part of ranking websites on search engines and helping increase the flow of traffic to and from websites. Search engines are especially fond of links FROM websites containing certain keywords, TO websites containing the same keywords (i.e. "stevia" -> Stevia.co, "hemp" -> RealHemp.com). Here are some ways to build links online:
Guest blogging. Contact owners and editors of blogs in or around your niche (keyword relevance) and write guest blog posts for them. Make sure the post will include an author bio or other opportunity to link back to your page. Other opportunities in this realm would include reaching out to review or other personal blogs that would write a post about your company or product and include links in the post.
Blog commenting. Many blogs have a comment section at the bottom of posts that allow users to enter a URL that will turn their name into a clickable link. This is a great opportunity to build a link on a keyword relevant blog post back to a page that has similar keywords. Though some blog commenting systems now make these links, as well as links contained in the body of the comment, "nofollow" links (meaning search engines do not apply them to rankings), the traffic from these comment links will still benefit the landing page they are directed to. Nofollow links are also an essential part of a backlink profile. Here is a tool that helps you find blogs that will allow backlinks in their comments: http://dropmylink.com/
Blog rolls. Many sites have "blog rolls" or other sections on their home pages/side bars that contain links to similar blogs/sites. These are incredibly valuable backlinks, as one link on a side bar can sometimes count for hundreds or thousands of backlinks (as that sidebar shows up on every individual post on a blog or website). These are, however, difficult and time-consuming backlinks to obtain, as they often mean reaching out to website owners and bloggers in order to secure.
WARNING: DO NOT BUY BACKLINKS. There are services online (namely on Fiverr.com) that offer to instantly create 20,000 backlinks around the web, pointing to your specified URLs. This is a dangerous offer, though, as often these links are posted on spam pages or blogs with thousands of backlinks already contained. Search engines will penalize websites with too many low-quality or spammy backlinks pointing to them. Though it can be beneficial to pay for a service like this to create backlinks to websites that contain backlinks to your page, I cannot recommend using a service like this to create backlinks directly to your page. It is a huge risk, as search engines are becoming vigilant and being de-indexed from search engines can cost lots and lots of traffic.
Social Media
You don't control the Stevia or RealHemp social media accounts, so what? Make your own accounts to share information about the Stevia and Hemp markets. In addition to the passive benefit of creating backlinks every time someone shares one of your posts on social media, these outlets can be a wonderful tool for connecting with users and developing audiences with very little time spent on them. Here are some tips for creating/maintaining large social media accounts:
Choosing services. It is critically important to be organized in how we approach today's social media landscape, yet it can be difficult and overwhelming to choose which services we should participate on. That's why I use this website to determine which services have the highest traffic numbers (http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-networking-websites), and develop a strategy around those services. My personal favorites are Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, Tumblr, and Instagram.
Posting regularly. After creating a profile that doesn't look like complete and utter spam, the next overwhelming step can be determining what to post. Do not fret. If you don't have anything to say on a regular basis, simply make a document with tons of quotes and facts that you find interesting, and start posting those on a daily basis. Turning them into images is even better. Some place high importance on frequency, but I have found that less frequent, high quality posts can achieve the desired results as well. Hootsuite (https://hootsuite.com/) is a wonderful service that actually allows you to queue up a billion posts across many of your social media outlets, meaning you don't have to log on and post to them each day. Now, make sure each of your posts links back to your desired page (perhaps a product page or landing page for your company), and let 'er rip.
Engagement. The third and final step that trips many inexperienced social media users up is their audience engagement. The secret to creating a large following is that there's no secret at all. Simply log in to your social media accounts each day and follow users until you hit your daily limit (or a limit you've set for yourself so not to get banned). Spend the rest of your time favoriting or liking posts. That's it. Facebook is a little more difficult, though I have had good results from joining a million "Groups" in my niche/keyword and sharing images to them. Google+ and Pinterest will give you warnings when you've hit your daily follow limit, so you can click away until you hit that. Tumblr has a daily limit of 200 follows. Instagram has an hourly limit of 60 or so. The key here is following active users who are posting your keywords. I use the free version of JustUnfollow (http://www.justunfollow.com/) for Twitter and Instagram to achieve this. For Pinterest, Google+, and Tumblr, I just search for my keyword and follow users who have recently posted about them. On Tumblr, you want to make sure you click "Most Recent," as opposed to "Most Popular," when your search results come up. There are iMacros that will also help automate this process on Pinterest and Tumblr, if you don't like to click.
WARNING: DO NOT BUY FOLLOWERS, LIKES, OR SHARES. The purpose of these actions is to create a genuine audience/following that will repost your content. It makes no sense to pay for a bot network to follow/share your content, as they generate no real sales leads. You want to focus on relevant and active human beings who have a shared interest with your product, service, company, etc.
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I'm sure there are countless other tips and tricks you can use to help promote things online, but with very little time and effort, these actions repeated daily will produce great results. Some marketers are opposed to the more "black hat" or spammy tactics on this list, but those moralists are ignorant to the true nature of the internet and how the current, more prominent websites gained their initial following.
Vacation week.
Wow, good pull. All signs point to buy.
Love this post. People without a philosophy should not be investing.
PPS is irrelevant. I know you're afraid of your investment, standon23, but I recommend reading The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. Save yourself from your current stress and your future mistakes.
Boom.
Should definitely be in the .20s based on P/E sector average and current P/E index averages.
That's a conservative figure, obviously.
Even standon23 agrees.
$0.28/share would put us at industry average. Who knows what is actually possible... =P
Industry average is P/E 28, FYI everybody.
Love this Co.
Good share. Looking forward to financials.
I've had limited correspondence with the RealHemp sales team but my God are they on top of their shit.
I'd rather George focus on his work than waste time talking to a 0.01% shareholder.
We shall see! =)
Earnings have not helped PPS for this company, historically, even when the resulting report shows 2x revenue increase. All a financial statement can do is reinforce your personal confidence in your investment in this case.
Financials are going to separate the winners from the losers in 2015. We'll see what all of these companies have to show for their financing booms. I can tell you which company has already shown progress because I own it.
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$6.25 and I will pay for everyone's airplane tickets.
2nd that boom.
$STEV mentioned here: youtu.be/LvhV_m5Pl9M
We're all here.
CBDs are a small part of the hemp market.
$STEV had nice, forward-looking news today. Profitable company growing Hemp and Stevia. Lots of DD on the iHub board.
$STEV had nice, forward-looking news today. Profitable company growing Hemp and Stevia. Lots of DD on the iHub board.
Pretty much.
I am partially in a state of shock about our PR. $STEV only PRs what they can absolutely follow through on. They have a track record of this, so teasing an even larger Spring harvest, PLUS "hemp-based business initiatives generating significant revenue in 2015." My God. What does "significant" mean from a CEO who says "on pace for record harvest" and then more than DOUBLES the previous year's?
I've been following $STEV for more than a year now, but only in the last few weeks have I started having recurring dreams that I'm waking up and the company is trading for $2 per share. Imagine my surprise, as I'm on California time and don't typically wake up until an hour into the trading day. The dreams are incredibly vivid and real. I doubt I would have the guts to let go of my shares at $2, though. I'd probably hold on all the way up to $5 and back down. I feel like I'm looking at $PLUG.
Sorry, man. Was trying to make some money at work to buy more $STEV. Did come away with quite a few more shares today, though. :)
LMAO you are a trip.
Once we bust that ask wall, things are gonna get real. I picked up a bunch more shares today.
Volume is great today. WB, Amish. You turd.
Great PR. Glad people haven't caught on yet. The forward thinkers know where this one is going.
The CBDs are negligible. Stevia, hemp protein and hemp oil will be the next gluten free, lactose intolerant, raw/vegan/paleo/vegetarian, margarine, Splenda craze.
Boom?
The longer management takes to publicize, the larger my position grows. As an investor, I'd rather keep the information hidden in financial statements as long as possible, so by the time the illiterate traders pick up on a big PR, my position is massive.
That wasn't aimed at you, sorry. Just putting it out there for the board to see. Everyone here needs to step their game up, including and especially myself.