How to get more Facebook fans? Holy Kaw has the answer.

A few months I ran a Facebook promotion where people who “liked” the Enchantment Facebook fan page could get a free copy of my first book, The Macintosh Way. Around the same time, I also offered an excerpt of Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour body and Take Control of iPad Basics by Tonya Engst.
Around the first week of January I emailed 140,000 of my closest friends to tell them about the offer. This graph shows the effect of this promotion: in a few days, the fan count increased by 50%. Admittedly, it was a small base of 8,000 people, but still—4,000 new fans is 4,000 new fans. The point is that using the “reveal” technique to attract more fans by giving them something special for liking a fan page and an email blast does work.
Something to think about if you’re trying to increase fans for your Facebook site. By the way, the offer for The Macintosh Way and the Tim Ferriss excerpt is still running here. And you can view your Facebook fan page trend by using the Wildfire social-media monitoring site like I did.
SXSW: Seven Years in Online Dating // presented by my good friend Jon Beilin
Since 2003, online dating has evolved in how web sites, profiles and photos are constructed to attract potential mates. Expectations and resultant relationships have changed as well. In this talk we illustrate how web site design and user savvy have created an alternate universe of intimate social protocols. via SXSW
mr. apple rips google and adobe
wow, this is what steve jobs had to say about google and adobe:
On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Someone else asks something on a different topic, but there’s no getting Jobs off this rant. I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing, he says. This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.” Audience roars.
About Adobe: They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.



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