Adams: Elite Daily initially bought traffic and boosted Facebook posts
Gerard Adams · 0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228 · Apr 6, 2016 · at 13:56
Gerard Adams, co-founder of Elite Daily, discusses early traffic acquisition strategies with host Nathan Latka.
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“Initially, yeah, we did have services to help us boost traffic. We used Facebook, you know, boosting articles, and we did spend money on, on figuring out how to also get traffic to this site quickly.”
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