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Facebook Marketing Experiment: Exponential Profit Machine?

Is it possible to start a self-reinforcing loop of Facebook advertising resulting in exponential revenue growth? Sure! Make a facebook page Promote it with Facebook ads > get fans Use page status updates to drive traffic to your site > monetize the landing page Invest the earnings in more Facebook ads > goto step 3 [...]

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for Surveys and More

Mechanical Turk is a system for crowdsourcing small tasks. And it rocks, if you don’t like doing small tasks. Amazon developed the system in 2005 to crowdsource the job of categorizing its own products, mostly CDs. It’s been open for public use (in Beta form) ever since. I’m writing about it because mTurk has remained [...]

Traffic from Facebook Fan Pages

How much traffic can a Facebook page bring your site? Is it worthwhile to build a fan base on Facebook? For sites serving a passionate niche market, fan pages are an excellent investment because: You can build you fanbase quickly using Facebook’s very targeted ads You can gather quality community feedback You can encourage fans [...]