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INSIGHT sure there are some out there, but I don’t know who they are. Social tends to work well if you’re a brand with a following and you go very gently on them. So, it’s a lot of talking about everything but casino bonuses. running a standard casino, there will be gambling communities you can engage with, but as ever, it’s all about your unique selling proposition to that community. If you get it right, acquisitions are dirt cheap. Email Where does this all take us? I’ve never bought lists and spammed them, so I’ve no idea what the cost per acquisition here would be. All I know is that email providers are getting very good at filtering out spam and making this work would be a huge challenge. The horrible truth is that churning out your marketing money on a badly conceived ‘me too’ cookie-cutter white-label casino brand will probably allow you to break even at best. I go back to the underlying theme of my previous article of having some kind of practical insights into the marketplace. I think ground zero is knowing you can get converting traffic. Then it’s being smart enough to build a brand which resonates with your target audience. Put the two together and you’re in a good place. Community There is a huge and vibrant bitcoin community who are very reputation sensitive. If you engage with the community and they trust you, it becomes a huge source of new customers. If you’re That’s why if you’ve lined up a savvy affiliate that is been in the game for more than three or four years and some random person with a few million pounds who reckons he can make even more cash running a casino, I’d put my money on the affiliate any day. In the next issue, I will talk about brand and what it actually means in the context of a white-label casino. NICK GARNER is CEO of Tykhe iGaming, which owns Oshi Bitcoin Casino. He is also founder of the successful iGaming marketing agency 90 Digital and prior to that worked for Unibet and before that Betfair.