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The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses

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Re: The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses

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Post by robbiea »

tomschlick wrote: post #36
Gauhier wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've build this device for local businesses such as little stores, shops, bars, restaurants...etc, it seems that the average number of fans of these types of fan pages is comprised between 0 and 99 999 fans.. Plus we are sure that Facebook pages with over 100 000 fans would prefer a custom version of Fliike.

This could be solved by adding a period and "K" flaps. That way if it got bigger it could display 212.5K... not big deal for small businesses but I could see you offering that to a bigger chain of businesses.

I like that approach too, but a big part of it is seeing the numbers change in real time. Your approach would have to wait 100 like's, but I guess at that amount it still can change fairly frequently.

Re: The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses

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Post by alan_cx »

MartinCron wrote: post #17

Once you've saturated the local businesses market, you can also sell this to narcissists.

I assume you are being a bit naughty there, and your comment did raise a smile, but I do think people would buy them. I mean, lets face it, deep down, don't we all have varying degrees of narcissism?

Re: The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses

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Post by Groxx »

aresant wrote: post #14

This is genius and fills a real need, here's why: I've spent the last two years building out a customer acquisition program for a brick & mortar chain with ~50 locations. We CONSTANTLY try to train the people in the store to ask for reviews / likes / etc which is a cornerstone of local SEO and the customer acquisition process. The biggest issue that we encounter is that store employees have trouble figuring out how /…

CTA is a good point. I'll cast my vote for a QR code also - as much as they're apparently hated, they do tend to work, and are usually easier than punching in a URL (plus, they should be able to open the FB app directly). Or NFC / Android beam would be awesome, but there aren't too many phones that support it yet.

Re: The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses

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Post by philk10 »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #6

Nitpick, this seems to have some funky grammar: Connect you to the “Smiirl” Wi-Fi network & connect Fliike to your own Wi-Fi via your browser

Another nitpick, on the FAQ page it says to 'click here' to create a FB account but there is no link to click - http://www.smiirl.com/faq

Re: The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses

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Post by philwebster »

wtvanhest wrote: post #18
Gauhier wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that's encouraging for us, you totally seized what we are trying to do with this device. Let's get in touch!

You should definitely make it easy for them to "like" the store they are in while they are on their visit. I understand that searching for he business on the mobile device would work, but if there was faster way, you should consider adding it as an upgrade.

Facebook should include a QR code scanner in their app to do this. I rarely scan QR codes because I would rather type in a short URL than find some QR scanning app. (I realize Google's app can do this, but you end up in an in-app web browser where you are likely not signed into Facebook.) If I could get to a business' official page in a couple of taps in the Facebook app, my chances of interacting with the page would definitely increase.

Re: The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses

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Post by ThomPete »

I once used to lead 20 telemarketers. I would create all sorts of board games on a whiteboard, using magnets and a marker. 1 Sale would equal 1 move.

Adding bonus fields, and a finish line, Those who made it to that where allowed to go home for the day.

Believe me, it did wonders to sales

Re: The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses

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Post by massarog »

Instead of saying on the page 'pre-orders are coming tomorrow' you should have an email collection form there. You're likely getting a large amount of traffic and could be losing out on a lot of potential pre-orders because people will forget to go back to your page tomorrow. Just toss in an email collection form saying you'll notify people when pre-ordering opens. Otherwise, neat product.
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