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This is great! I've been seeing links from The Startup Foundry a lot here already and it's just been a month. Keep it up and you'll soon get even more traction.
by kristofferR 16y ago
This is great! I've been seeing links from The Startup Foundry a lot here already and it's just been a month. Keep it up and you'll soon get even more traction.
In November 2010 I discovered Kinect hacking and created a blog with the latest hacks, http://KinectHacks.net http://KinectHacks.net, just for fun. Since it was the only blog about the topic at the time it grew quickly and the in the first month it reached 100 000 unique visitors and 300 000 pageviews. In the end of January it had gotten over a million pageviews.
I eventually got tired of running it, it took time away from my real business, so I sold it on Flippa.com for $12600 (http://bit.ly/hBcQQb http://bit.ly/hBcQQb , requires login).
One of the best tips I can give you is to invest in a realtime analytics service like Clicky, which I used. It's really helpful for immediately noticing when stuff go viral and take action on it.
Another cool thing is that the new owner spent just $200 on Facebook advertisements and got over 10000 likes for the group (https://www.facebook.com/KinectHacking https://www.facebook.com/KinectHacking) in a week because of it. I've always heard that Facebook ads don't work, but it surely worked in this case. Just goes to show that you should never take stuff as granted before you've tested it yourself.
- michael_dorfman 16y agoI've always heard that Facebook ads don't work, but it surely worked in this case. My own (limited) experience is that Facebook as can be very effective at driving traffic to your Facebook page. To your website? Not so much.
- seiji 16y agoYou nailed it. Facebook ads work if you want to send people to a Facebook page or Facebook game where people will spend Facebook credits ending up back in your Facebook account so you can buy more Facebook ads.
- ig1 16y agoI'm getting high-quality traffic from Facebook for a fraction of the cost of Google Adwords, it takes more work but it's definitely viable.