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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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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.

1,000,000 sold at $100 is still ...

Re: The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses

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Cool idea. It would be nice if this was generic and hackable. For example, I have a mailing list, and it would be cool to see the # of users on the mailing list, or website subscribers, etc. It would need some type of API to go along with it, I'd purchase it, if the price was around ~100.

Branding, maybe just send along a pack of stickers, so if someone wants a facebook tracker, they just apply the facebook sticker, etc. Maybe just a template that people can print their own branding, etc. then you don't need to print anything on your end!

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 /…

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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.

A like button on the wifi home page would work well.

Re: The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses

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This is a cool idea. Although isn't 5 digits a little limited?

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.

Re: The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses

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post #23

One could also build a version of this with a Raspberry Pi, LCD screen an a little scripting for less than $60.

The selling point of this device is the novelty aspect. You can interact with a physical device simply by Liking a Facebook page. By keeping it digital, you do not traverse mediums and it will be adding very little to the smartphone age. You can fake the flip transitions, but it is just not the same.

Re: The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses

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Interesting. My local chipshop has had a like us on Facebook sign up for the past year. They have 13 likes.. The only use for this I can see is in an office so everyone can see the count going up. Putting it on the shop front of a small business would be a bit embarassing as the majority of small businesses have a miniscule number of likes..

I don't think a minuscule amount of likes is embarrassing. People expect that for a small local business. The big difference is that those likes really count for something - 13 likes at a local chip shop probably means 13 people who go there once a week.

Or the 13 employees who work there.
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