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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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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 /…

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

Totally agree re: the price tag. Especially since most smaller stores have 100-1000 fans. They can pay $100 to get an additional 100 real fans. $400? I don't think so.

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

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I'm both horrified and intrigued by the idea of a Bluetooth lapel pin. It's like a smartwatch, but with other people as the target audience.

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I'm both horrified and intrigued by the idea of a Bluetooth lapel pin. It's like a smartwatch, but with other people as the target audience.

I was aiming for the former myself. Sadly the latter is likely a large enough population to see something like this come to fruition.

Further along that train of thought, it would not be surprising to see Google Glass discounted for users who agree to display Plus numbers/info.

Re: The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses

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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!

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.

In the meantime, people could probably print up signs with a QR code and instructions telling people to scan the code, 'like' the store, and watch the sign.
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