At KickoffLabs we used them to handle a bunch of routing on behalf of our hosted customers.
The timing was less than ideal for sure.
However they arranged a good support system with the folks at Fly.io. We’ve already transitioned new customers to it and they are helping to migrate existing sites and certs next week.
I think it’s a risk you just have to take, but we learned a lesson that for things that are dependancies for your business it’s good to have a couple of alternatives lined up or working side by side. :)
We don't actually force anything. We could, of course, check to see if you liked us on Facebook... but even that's a loose check since it's easy to unlike something anyway.
The goal is to help others improve their launches with the email course and for us to build a larger audience... through Facebook, Twitter, and Email.
It's good feedback that we should highlight the free course and encouragement we give you a chance to opt into.
http://www.landingpages107.com specifically. It's a 10 part email course with 9 worksheets you can use to improve your conversion rates. There are some subtle ads in that email course for our service... but we get great feedback on the content of the course.
When it comes to viral gains. It doesn't really matter much if you don't have many followers... sometimes it just takes one. :)
This is the sort of contest a lot of our customers have been asking to run lately and we're experimenting by running one ourselves so we can improve our own customer experience.
To me, what made what he was doing appealing was that he wasn't directly soliciting people. He made the arrow and the sign. He wasn't harassing anyone in line. I think that makes all the difference.
I'm not saying it couldn't be improved. Just saying that what matters is if, overall, our conversion rate is better with it.
Then, if it is, we can spend more time, money, and effort on the video. If we had spent $6,000 to learn that having an explainer video doesn't help... I'd be pissed. But if I see an improvement over the next week then I can invest more.
Voicebunny lets you select gender and add notes. They also seem to have a process that reads your notes and looks for the ideal talent.
Our first recording came back a little too whimsical. So we asked for a revision to have it more profesional sounding and got it for $16 more dollars. Still within our $200 budget.
I called this out before... Vimeo could be considered optional. Youtube can be configured as well for hosting the video. Or you could self host. The post was more about the production.
But, on the other hand, even if we'd paid a service to do it we still would have had to help a lot with the script. Which was one of the most costly (time consuming) parts.
The timing was less than ideal for sure.
However they arranged a good support system with the folks at Fly.io. We’ve already transitioned new customers to it and they are helping to migrate existing sites and certs next week.
I think it’s a risk you just have to take, but we learned a lesson that for things that are dependancies for your business it’s good to have a couple of alternatives lined up or working side by side. :)