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by brendanib 14y ago
Yeah, I can't imagine Facebook building exactly what the commenter described, but it'd be interesting for a company like TaskRabbit to integrate their product with the Facebook Ads API, such that if you posted a task, you could pay a few bu
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by brendanib 14y ago
Yeah - I think the real challenge for startups is often that the communities and audiences for what they do, particularly early in the game, aren't often well-defined. Even when they are, they are often fragmented, and the precise interest
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by brendanib 14y ago
Yeah, in part, but after I invited people I knew, plus posted the event on my business's Facebook Page, there were only 40 or so people attending. To me, it shows the power of combining native Facebook functionality like Events with Faceboo
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by brendanib 14y ago
Yeah, I actually only recently started to understand the impact that area subreddits can have - great channel for certain audiences. My intuition is that most of my target audience for vinyl isn't yet on Reddit, but maybe that's changed and
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by brendanib 14y ago
Absolutely - there's a huge competitive advantage being in the Bay Area, and Craigslist ads can get you pretty far. In the past, I'd used Craigslist ads for selling records and seen an okay response - maybe 20-30 people or so, but nowhere n
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by brendanib 14y ago
It's actually an idea that I've entertained before, and I think there's tons of businesses that could be built in this space (for example, I'm a huge fan of Yardsale, and this could be an interesting growth strategy for them, to build Faceb
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by brendanib 14y ago
Totally agree. It's a huge challenge for brands that are selling products that aren't highly differentiated too - I had the benefit of selling a niche product that's partially built on scarcity. Commercial products are tougher, but they als
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by brendanib 14y ago
I'm curious - what other ad platform could I have turned to drive local commerce? Always interested to hear how other folks would approach the same problem. I still have some records left over, thinking about doing another sale, would be ga
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by brendanib 14y ago
It's true, this was a liquidation sale, but most of the records came from a batch of 8000 records that I bought for $2000. I was being a bit flippant with the ROI percentage, sorry about that - just trying to stress how easy the process was