You should build one for google analytics too
The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses
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Sorry, but the SMS generation is more likely to search for your brand than use a QR code. And since this is a display, you won't always be able to reach it to tap for NFC. Just show the Facebook URL of the store.
> the SMS generation is more likely to search for your brand than use a QR code I keep hearing this. I keep seeing the opposite. Have data, or...?
I'm at the tail end of the generation and am surrounded by these people. Maybe it's different geographically. But the effort to type two words is usually easier than finding that special camera app you might have (plenty of people still don't know what app they need to read the codes).
QR Codes might be useful for a complex URL with some sort of novelty behind it; a prize or whatever. But your brand shouldn't be that hard to find.
It's a Facebook sign. Get them to use Facebook to find the store. Same goes for Twitter. Accessory apps are a hurdle.
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#63$450 per unit and they couldn't design it to run on a battery? #fail
Yeah, that's what a business needs. Charging and swapping out batteries every other day. Hey, how long does your phone battery last?
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#64Is everyone really serious saying this is amazing? I really do not understand the price tag being stated and what the product actually does? - Just to be clear this shows a particular business's facebook likes? with an added bonus for real time and turning numbers.
Maybe I just do not get it.
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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…
It turns out the iOS Facebook app has this feature already under the sidebar > Find Friends > QR Code > Scan Code. The URL is in the form https://www.facebook.com/qr?id=###########. Unfortunately when I scanned codes, the app did nothing even though it said it would bring me to a Facebook page, so the feature does not appear to be working properly.
Re: The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses
#66Build in an NFC tag so users of recent Android Phones (and hopefully the next iPhone) can like by just touching the device with his/her phone.
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Wow, that's encouraging for us, you totally seized what we are trying to do with this device. Let's get in touch!
I agree that the $450 price tag is too steep. At a stretch, I think that anything more than $100 is not attractive, even if its a novelty item. Why don't you raise the money for mass scale production on Kickstarter. IMO its better to sell 10 K for $100 than a few hundred at $450.
If it provides business value, you can charge way more than 100 bucks. My brother had a (solari?) train-station clock of a similar shape, which was dead-on-arrival, didn't have a wood finish and probably costed about 400.
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#69Innovative idea, why was this not designed before...
because it was designed just now?
Because most likely there is still a niche market for that. That's why the $450 pricetag, I believe.
The bottom line is I think the killer, for now, would be that noone wants to put this with 13 likes. If I see a coffee shop with 13 likes its goes this way in my hand "damn I wish I would try but they only have 13 likes? Maybe their coffee sucks, where is the nearest Starbucks?". You see, the problem is that most people will compare this number of likes to other similar. So someone running small business does not want to show how few likes they have. Big business, on the other hand I dont think would care about this, unless its starbucks or hand of other large companies, but most likely than not you wont see your local coffee shop with the one (thats why I believe they price it so high, comparing to something reasonable like $99).
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#70This 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 /…
Wow, that's encouraging for us, you totally seized what we are trying to do with this device. Let's get in touch!
Why didn't you put this project on kickstarter? Also, what are those numbers/bearings made of? Wondering how much that material can withstand since it looks like the numbers flop around for every like... or was that effect just for the video?