r/OnlineMarketing

Hey guys,

I've been running a small page for my shop and I'm also trying to use it to bring in a little extra income on the side, but gaining followers is proving to be harder than I expected. Every time I look into ways to grow faster, buying USA Instagram followers keeps coming up, and since I'm based in the US, it honestly makes sense to go with local ones anyway. The problem is once I actually started looking, I kinda got lost because every site just says they're the best, and I don't really know which one to trust.

What I'm hoping for is to find a safe place to buy USA based followers that could work for a newer page and I want the accounts that look real. If anyone paid for this recently, I'd love to know which sites actually delivered and which ones to stay away from before I waste money on the wrong one.

I’ve invested a significant portion of my quarterly budget into specialized LinkedIn marketing services, hoping to land a few enterprise-level contracts. While the agency has helped me increase my connection count and post engagement, the actual discovery call pipeline remains bone dry.

It seems like the strategy is focused more on vanity metrics than on actual revenue-generating conversations. My issue is that the outreach feels too broad and doesn't address the specific pain points of the C-suite executives I’m targeting. I need a way to pivot toward a more personalized, high-intent strategy before I burn through the rest of my marketing spend.

I run a small (very new) Etsy store focused on a pretty niche product — custom flight simulator panels for home cockpit setups.

Over the past few days I’ve been experimenting with Reddit as a traffic source, mainly posting in relevant communities (home cockpit builders, flight sim, etc.). Some posts get decent traction (upvotes, a few comments), but actual conversions are… unclear.

I’m trying to figure out if Reddit is:

• a real sales channel for niche products like this
• or more of a “top of funnel” awareness tool

From what I’m seeing, anything that feels even slightly promotional gets downvoted fast, so the only thing that seems to work is posting as a builder and letting people ask questions organically - which of course is great but it does take A LOT of time and its an un-viable long term solution.

So I guess my questions are:

• Has anyone here actually managed to convert Reddit traffic into consistent sales?
• Is it worth investing time into Reddit long-term for something like this?
• Or should it mainly be used as a supporting channel while focusing on search/ads?

Would really appreciate hearing from people who’ve actually tried this — especially with niche / higher-ticket products.

Hello all,
I'm a developer and also a 3D modeler/animator. I'd like to publish a course in a certain niche in the field of game development and 3D modeling, and how to combine both.

So now I'd like to do some market research on what users are really looking for in this broad niche of game development for "Beginners" that also teaches them 3D modeling.

In short, how do I get some numbers on what people are looking for and be able to do a deep dive, both on YouTube and social media, where they usually consume what they learn and more?