Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
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Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
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Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
#2Well, that is a rather clever use of Facebook Ads.
I knew a guy who tried to use them as a dating service, I guess the lack of incentive is what made his trial fail...
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#3Neat. I have an friend-of-a-friend who is trying to find a dog-friendly flat in southish London and I've been trying to find a way that they could do this.
Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
#4Well, that is a rather clever use of Facebook Ads. I knew a guy who tried to use them as a dating service, I guess the lack of incentive is what made his trial fail...
> I guess the lack of incentive is what made his trial fail...
He should have offered a cash bribe. That would surely have worked.
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#5Somebody should build a service for this.
My wife and I recently moved and, while we ended up somewhere we like, there was one particular street right next to our old house that we always wished we would be able to get a home on. When we talked to other neighbors that were thinking about moving, we found out that we were far from the only ones eyeing that street. Unfortunately, people there rarely sold and, when they did, the homes got snapped up quick.
We thought about sending letters to see if somebody wanted to sell to us without going the realtor route, but we never did. Facebook ads would have made it way easier. And a service where we forked over $50 to run some ads plus $250 as a reward and pushed a button would have been better still.
Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
#6Well, that is a rather clever use of Facebook Ads. I knew a guy who tried to use them as a dating service, I guess the lack of incentive is what made his trial fail...
> I guess the lack of incentive is what made his trial fail... He should have offered a cash bribe. That would surely have worked.
HN wonders about whether our industry truly is unwelcoming to women, meanwhile people openly joke about soliciting prostitution. “Riff culture” and “it’s just a joke” don’t make it acceptable.
Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
#7This made me curious about whether there are good lifehacker-style articles/listicles/compendia of creative personal uses of targeted advertising platforms. Not sure if the answer is no, or if it's just one of those ungoogleable ideas.
Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
#8Well, that is a rather clever use of Facebook Ads. I knew a guy who tried to use them as a dating service, I guess the lack of incentive is what made his trial fail...
> I guess the lack of incentive is what made his trial fail... He should have offered a cash bribe. That would surely have worked.
You mean like free food and drinks? Basically a cash bribe to get her on a date with you.
Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
#9I did a similar process when house-shopping. Setup ads for a particular location, specifically targeting people who owned in the area, but who lived out of state.
1. Personal FB ad copy 2. Landing page w/ more information about what we were looking for. 3. Contact form
I received ~5 leads from people willing to sell their house with about $100 in ad spend.
Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
#10Somebody should build a service for this. My wife and I recently moved and, while we ended up somewhere we like, there was one particular street right next to our old house that we always wished we would be able to get a home on. When we talked to other neighbors that were thinking about moving, we found out that we were far from the only ones eyeing that street. Unfortunately, people there rarely sold and, when they…
> We thought about sending letters to see if somebody wanted to sell to us without going the realtor route
I've gotten letters like that before and always assumed they were Realtors trolling for clients.