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Re: The Top 5 Viral Facebook Techniques

Avenues_Nepal — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:53:42 -0000

Interesting.. I still wonder how applications like Zombie biting or vampire benefit from this.. Where's the advertising here.. What wud the application developer benefit from this??

Re: The Top 5 Viral Facebook Techniques

Joe Black — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:20:57 -0000

Interesting article but to Lorraines point, trying to become "viral" is highly subjective and can be VERY annoying. People have sent me numerous application invites and except for the 'very' few, I've ignored them all just because I dont have the time and the energy to care about it. + I think it is spam.

I think that what intrigued me about your article is the last point on it because it is the best way to connect with your customers.

I recently developed an application and my philosophy is that following any of the "force" invites or even rather incentivizing places people in a state of dissonance. Word-of-mouth is the way to go to get ahead of the game.

Yes, ILike, Countdown to bush, etc... are all amazing apps, but depending on the quality of the application and its honest use in the marketplace, your suggestions are subjective.

Re: The Top 5 Viral Facebook Techniques

farouk — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:41:51 -0000

very good techiques,you should write another part of this article

Re: The Top 5 Viral Facebook Techniques

Lorraine — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:17:48 -0000

I find "viral" Facebook application invites to be extremely annoying.

In order to find out the "message" or whatever my friend has sent me, I need to join the app. In order to join the app, I need to annoy several of my friends. I just hit "ignore" on these invites.

And for all this annoyance, the content is minimal! "You have been sent a round of drinks" "You have been sent luck" and the best one was in order to join a "circle of friends" I needed to form my own circle. Ugh!! It's like the guilt of 92837498327 chain letters, in my inbox, every day.

Oh and though I have shut off the email Facebook notifications, there are always some cowboy facebook apps that have not realized that I have shut off the email notifications, so I get Funwall notification emails anyhow.

If I'm going to do some bad programming, I do it on my Commodore 64, and as it is not attached to anything more networked than its 1541 disk drive, it is not going to hurt anyone. It is not going to fill anyone's facebook Home with a list of dumb requests.

Re: The Top 5 Viral Facebook Techniques

Francesca — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:53:27 -0000

Your suggestions might be obsolete in a few months, truly amazing,they are useful now and well thought out. But how does one spread the word about an off-site, non-widget, service to Facebook? Is it even possible?
Im an intern at SpeedDate.com and I have been trying to figure out how I can even talk about SpeedDate.com with my friends on Facebook without getting kicked off the site again.

Re: The Top 5 Viral Facebook Techniques

Mark Evans — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:07:17 -0000

We just launched a new Facebook application called My City, and one of the things we've been trying to get a much better handle on is how to market it virally.

My sense is it's more difficult now than it was even a month ago given the growing number of applications battling for peoples' attention. That said, I think a good application (such as My City!) has a good chance of resonating with Facebook users.

Thanks for the tips; they're excellent food for thought.

Mark

Re: The Top 5 Viral Facebook Techniques

Ram Vemuri — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:13:11 -0000

Great article. Recognition goes a long way, so do soft along with hard incentives. This is especially true when coupled with one-on-one because the pro bloggers are always on the lookout for the first scoop. Forced invite will just get people pissed off.

Re: The Top 5 Viral Facebook Techniques

Ben Rowe — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:30:15 -0000

Nice post,

It's incredible to see how quickly this is all happening.

Because Facebook is all about friends, I think the apps that deliver true value to friendship networks (like the carpool and couchswap apps) are the ones to watch.

Re: The Top 5 Viral Facebook Techniques

markus941 — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:51:53 -0000

Thanks for the overview. It's interesting to see how the techniques of a successful app evolve as this application space matures.

Re: The Top 5 Viral Facebook Techniques

Jeremiah Owyang — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:12:28 -0000

Great post, this is a great resource for new tools.

I believe there's a way of adding value by assembling a great group together, and letting folks opt in and join.

6) I created the Web Strategy Group, which is a collection of Web Managers for the modern website (like yourself) and it's a great place to learn and meet other folks. While initially I invited a few key folks to get it kick started, one of the ways it continues to grow is by the high quality conversations in the discussion forum.

Perhaps this technique could be consider yet a 6th way of getting folks to volunteer to join --they get value and add it!

This link below shows how I promote it, with 47% growth in four days!

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/07/26/w...