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Facebook Application Marketing LA Facebook Developers Garage July 17, 2007 Pete Mauro [email protected] id=500074798

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Facebook ApplicationMarketing

LA Facebook DevelopersGarage July 17, 2007

Pete Mauro

[email protected]

id=500074798

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Why listen to Pete?

• Not a FB expert, but…

• 14 years experience launchingdigital media products

• 5+ years digital marketing forWarner Bros.

• FB R&D for my startup

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Overview

Understanding App Integration Points

+ Marketing 101

= Better chance for your app to succeed

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Advertising on FB is Free

• Distribution– Friends (100 people)

– Everyone (30 million people)

• Integration Points = Ad Inventory– Directory

– Newsfeed

– Profile Page

– Facebook Mail

– Email

– Canvas Pages

– Many more…

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Call to Action is Key

Draw gra ti onBlake’s Wall

Install Gra ti

Bad Good

To improve yourpopularity, invitemore friends tomake their ownTop Friends list.

Invite morefriends!

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News Feed

• Critical communication channel

• 1000’s of potential stories are considered

• Based on proprietary algorithm, plus– Both people need to have app installed

– Individual user privacy settings a ect feed

• News Feed Optimization is key - seefurther reading

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Profile Page

Profileaction

links

Mini-feed

ProfileBox

Pulldown

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Mini-feed

• Leverageimages

• Show o yourcontent

• Communicatevalue

• Add call toaction

• Show popularity

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Use the Profile Picture Link

• Link to key action

• Make every wordcount

• Don’t assume I haveever heard of yourapp

• Be clear

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Advertise on the Profile Box

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3 Keys to Successful Invitations

1. Intelligently work the 10 / daylimit

2. Discourage accidental spam

3. Provide a great reason to accept

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Great Invitation Design

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Why should I accept?

“Top friend? I’m popular!”

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Inviting with Content

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Need to Install to See it

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Share Buttons

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Sharing goes to the In-Box

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Share vs Invite

Share Pros-Stands out-Does not requireinstall

Share Cons-Does not encourageuser to add app-No stories

Invite Pros-Encourages people toadd app

Invite Cons-Spammy?-No preview-Alert is not as visible-Can be marked as spam

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Application Directory

• FB says directory will be improved

• Focus on fundamentals

– Packaging: Key Art, Copy

– Positioning & Di erentiation

• Strong voice & personality

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Cross Promotion

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Deep Integration

• 5 Slide Apps Promoted on TopFriends

• Top friends is a platform in itself

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Additional Integration Points

• More added all the time…

• Use them all to make your app more viral

Wall attachments Application pull-down

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Further Reading

Facebook: Anatomy of a Facebook Applicationhttp://developers.facebook.com/anatomy.php

Inside Facebook: NFO (News Feed Optimization) is the new SEOhttp://www.insidefacebook.com/2007/07/16/inside-facebook-nfo-is-the-new-seo/

Presentation and links:blog.mauronic.com

Master of 500 Hats: Marketing Facebook Apps: All About the FEED, n00bs!http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2007/07/marketing-faceb.html

Pete Mauro

[email protected]

id=500074798