This is Day 19 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
One of the best ways of ensuring that your Facebook Page will be successful is to copy other successful ones. It’s no secret that the best marketers are most influenced by other successful marketers. While there are a lot of research methods I would suggest taking a look at our Facebook Pages leaderboard (which is in the process of being updated), and selecting the most popular as well as the fastest growing. We’ll also soon begin to provide more advanced…
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Why You Won’t Get 3,000 Facebook Fans Without Research
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XR-NOISE Box
[denha] has assembled a noise box he calls the XR-NOISE using an XR-2206 multi-waveform function generator. The output has an impressive number of controllable settings, and uses a set of LEDs to indicate sound level and rate. The XR-NOISE uses 1/4″ jacks for both in and out, and can also be controlled by the tap-sensitive mic located on the front of the box. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any further documentation or schematics to provide context, but it seems that this function generator chip has also been used for other audio hack projects as well, including a scratch-synth…
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Zynga Expands The Gap, Surpassing 60 Million Monthly Active Users
Zynga has been expanding the gap between them and competing developers now with over 60 million monthly active users when adding up the users across all their games. Playfish, the second largest application developer, has 35 million monthly active users, an impressive number however it’s still far from 60 million. So how does Zynga have such a dominant position on the platform?
The primary reason Zynga has such a dominant position is that they have 34 games, the top three of which add up to almost 40 million monthly active users alone. Not surprisingly, the company’s fastest growing game is…
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What’s The Best Business Model For Facebook Applications?
The “How Well Do You Know Me?” application is now the largest Facebook application ever based on monthly active users but how much is that worth? Considering that the developers behind the application have been using aggressive ads to monetize the application, it’s worth a lot but is that a sustainable business model? For the past few weeks I’ve been repeatedly arguing that it’s not a sustainable model and unhealthy for the state of the Facebook application economy. So if these aggressive ads are not the most effective business model on the Facebook platform, what is?
Virtual Goods Lead The…
