In reply to It’s A Facebook World … or is it?

DRautenbach•14th of June 2011

The times they are a changing...

There is a a saying that ALL owners of social networks should listen to. "keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer."

Facebook is too big to compete with..... so.... don't try to compete with it. Use it to your own advantage. Even if your members love your site... even if they love it more than the mighty Facebook, the are still going to use facebook, so let them use it... from within your site.

If a member can view their facebook from see more

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Andrew Boon•15th of June 2011•to DRautenbach

Oh, that's one really interesting topic to tinker.... how we can use Facebook and what we can do to lure visitors from Facebook to Dolphin sites in bunches and how we can automate that. This one needs a separate discussion at some stage. Thanks for bringing it up!

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DRautenbach•15th of June 2011•to Andrew Boon

its the philosophy behind the marketing stratergy for our site. Facebook are basicaly handing it to us on a plate. We just have to know how to take it, and need to tools to take it. This is what I have been trying to develop. Where else is my dance site going to find 100,000 dancers in one place?

we launch sept1st and before that date we will have mugged FB for a lot of members. Once we have 10-20,000 members from FB we STOP issuing free voucher codes and their friends will have to pay to join..... see more

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