Show 103 – App.net and Facebook Marketing with Matt Astifan
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Bunker Project Episode 103:
Mavens in the House:
Andrew McGivern @podcasthero on twitter & @andrewmcgivern on app.net
Bob Garlick @bobgarlick on twitter and app.net
Randall Orser @numbercrunchers
Sleepy Maven / Sean of the Dead Maven
Marco Pasqua ablegamers.com writer
Lucas Mattiello @levelupliving
Marcel Lapointe @movieyearbook
Matt Astifan webfriendly.com
James Karg @twisted_majic The Gaming Maven
Jason Kirby @jasonkirby
Bonnie Sainsbury @bsainsbury The Twitter Maven (arrives a little late)
Margaret Reynolds @bc_insurancegal >>The Wicked Wix of the West
Some people join us via Google + but they don’t speak English.
Show 103 – Facebook Marketing with Matt Astifan and App.net first impressions.
App.Net looks like it will be cool
- App.Net – Andrew, Bob, and Bonnie are on App.net – Is there a market for a paid service?
- App.Net is just an API and all the work will be done by developers – no advertising ever, the promise
- Over $400 000 has been raised so far… $50 per year for a user and $100 for developer with their own Kickstarter like campaign
- Matt says because it is a paid service it will reduce spam. Andrew says the spammers will combine spamming with credit card fraud
If This Then That
- If This Then That tells Bob when it is raining so he can grab his umbrella and reminds him to pay his rent! You can set up any recipe you want.
- Set up a recipe to tell you when Amazon offers a free book
- Set up Cascading Events by daisy chaining your recipes and create a domino effect
Facebook Chat with Social Media Trainer, Matt Astifan
- Two scenarios – B 2 B – Networking and B 2 C – customer acquisition
- Best strategy is to create a fan page with a landing page (squeeze page)
- Run Facebook Ads to see what converts best and fine tune it.
- Pictures of a face generally have higher Click Through Rates
- Always learn something about your demographic with every campaign
- Matt recommends direct response marketing. You must be able to track ROI.
- The only downside to a facebook landing page is you can’t do split testing
Bob bought a Nexus 7
- Bob loves it – solid, sexy and great performance
- The only complaint is camera quality isn’t great
- Works great using other languages
- Good Battery Life
- Bob highly recommends it
Bonnie reviewed an ASUS Transformer Prime – with Windows! And Andrew is looking for a new computer and likes the Lenovo Idea Pad Yoga
- Bonnie likes it because you can use it for everything included enterprise use
- The Yoga has four modes – notebook, tablet, tent and stand
- Check out the pictures
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