Uncle, don’t be upset
I can see why sharing can seem counter-intuitive. But come-on not for things like this. If it’s a patent then yeah but not for something like insta advertising.
This is good for our eco system. But feel free to hug your information though. Lord knows how many business insights people have shared with you.
Dear @ogunlanaolumide, while I respect your opinions about keeping things secret, it makes you know less.
Personally, I have been writing about stuffs like this for a while and I read a lorry load of good, hot stuffs like the one @Uduak is sharing.
The river is never going to dry. in fact, here are two resources that you will probably think I SHOULD NEVER share
- Some Advertising Hacks that MOST people dont know
- 20 other resources that REVEAL too much like @Uduak’s post
At the end of the day…
I agree with @akindolu
In fact, here is the LINK to the greatest class you will ever take on STARTING A STARTUP BUSINESS taught by the president of YC
This is a personal mantra i live by:
Share 95 - 98% of your insights for free while monetizing the rest.
I learnt this from MEGA successful growth and business leaders like Noah Kagan (No. 34 employee @Facebook, No. 3 @ Mint; Founder of AppSumo and SumoMe and Ramith Sethi of IWillTeachYouToBeRich.
My shiny 2 cents
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Love this. Please, if your run a blog or are on Medium, let me Know. I am curating great guys on my upcoming project
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If your business model is built around insufficient information, and hoarding important facts, and hoping your competition or customers don’t get to find out, then you don’t have a business.
This is not 1854. Anything and mostly everything can be googled or quora-ed up.
Still having a headache with this instagram advertising thing. Not been able to do it. Been trying it for several hours now.
I wasn’t even going to reply again, But I saw this. @akindolu YYYY…YYYY…I ignored you the first time na…It is very normal for businesses to have secrets na,…YY are you saying things like this…Y not calm down and really think about things you write?
1.Do you know Coca-Cola’s Formula?
2.Do you know 50kobo’s/Multitexter/ advertising strategy
3.Do you know Hotel’s advertising strategy talkless of his cost per user acquisition with screenshots(try asking him…at least I have tried that one before)
4.Do you know Konga’s/Jumia’s most effective channel with screenshots? (this guys both have spies on each sides constantly monitoring each others strategy…having the slighties insights to cost per acquisition would be Gold.
5.Do you know Naij’s /Pulse’s traffic sources talkless of the cost of acquring this traffic
Y not ask yourself some questions first na…Read what you write before you hit reply…
@spokentwice As in the case of Techcrucnh…I am not interested in anything YC has to offer. The ecosystems are soo sooo sooo different. Its like comparing Yoruba to French
Everyone is quoting there foreign source of inspiration and forming “sharing is caring”…I doubt they have bleed there own personal funds to achieve results…I am merely saying the facts here…Businesses have secret…uncommon insights generate a shit load of money…infact uncommon insight is the one of the few things that drive the success of a business…Infact some companies poach staff simply because of the uncommon insights they have about competition. Biko @akindolu what do you do…i dont think you really get how this game is played. Not everything can be Googled up…at least you should know that…Try Googling “How to cheapily and effectively acquire Nigerian customers” execute on your search results and tell me how greatly they performed!
How can you sell recharge card online(a business with zero barrier to entry) gather uncommon insights to effectively acquire customers…then jump around singing it cause you want to share the loot.
At this point I really don’t blame him…some of us want to just earn extra cash…while some of want to dominate and swallow the market…
#WE ARE NOT FRIENDS…I WANT TO WIN AND SWALLOW THE MARKET…I DO NOT SHARE
well said sir @ADT I share in return, But not in public forums like this. Infact there is an unofficial club I belong too for stuff like this. The difference is that in those cases I actually get something in return
I have a team of about 15. Everybody gets $50 monthly credit to setup independent ads targeting ONLY their facebook friends. It delivers unimaginably low CPC. Four(4) of the team members have 5000 facebook connections. Cummulatively, we have about 50000 people we are chasing monthly.
Everybody developes their own creative. Its like the way banks give marketing targets to all their staff. I once had someone do a video telling his friends that they don’t wish her well if they don’t make a purchase. It was crazy funny.
Then we have a monthly social review where we sit together to review how many beta (in pidgin) friends we have.
So you see that is how i push cpc below the limits when I am worried about CPC.
Do you do that too?
I mean do you do that for your clients? I am sure some of your clients have over 50-100people in their teams. You should recommend that to them.
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I love you. Did you apply to YC and get rejected? You talk about differing ecosystems right after using Coke’s secret formula, and a couple of foreign-funded companies to make your point. Maybe we shouldn’t answer you the next time you ask how to recruit a committed PHP developer for 150k, afterall… we are not friends - it’s just an opportunity to swallow the market at your expense.
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I’ll say what I’ll say. You will either update yourself or not. In any case, it’s your boat. Rock it however it pleases you. It’s best for the entire Radar community to ignore you henceforth, for any kind of request whatsoever, starting from this thread.
& It’s only vexing this conversation degenerated into this, and your lack of understanding. But your ignorance is your business, so have a super day.
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To be fair … different strokes for different folks.
If his hoarding secrets is what he feels is the way to success, we don’t really need to do much but sit back and see how his life and business progresses.
Let’s even give him a discount on all his years of hoarding secrets and not ask exactly how far it has gotten him yet. Brand new slate. Let’s see what the next 6 months holds for him. Let’s not even compare him with other people. Only himself. How much further will he ahead of where he is now?
If his way works, maybe we might have to reconsider our belief system.
@xolubi @akindolu
Let me be clear. I am having fun…If your vexing…then you need to meet me in person to understand the kinda person I am. I love to argue. All this personal emotions you people want to involve is not needed at all.
I have not cursed or dissed anyone. Biko dont slap if you see me pass by. I expected facts from you guys not emotions…FACTS BRUV FACTS!!!
@xolubi I did meet a very good team from that post and yes we are doing business. That doesn’t make us best buddies to share business secrets with. FYI…Coke was the only foreign company I used…strike it out and my point is still accurate
@akindolu You need to see how loud we are laughing at my office cause of this thread. You make a point, I make a counter-point then you get emotionally attached. I would have expected to hear facts instead you say I lack understanding…bros…You don’t have monopoly on radar na…I still met an android dev this week from radar. We have started a project already sef…
@akamaozu Thanks for at least trying to see things a little differently. I would not want to brag about achievements so far but I would be more vocal on radar henceforth. We have generally being blessed this year and its not because we were singing our secrets…Its cause we focused and made shit work.
(Side gist…we are moving to a new office just opposite KFC Yaba. Once pics are ready I would share it with yall)
@Uduak
Bros…I do Facebook marketing. Infact am an ADVANCED FACEBOOK marketer. You CANNOT target your friends with Facebook interest based targeting. Stop doing this na…How far bobo-ing us to make yourself look smart. See link below
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/community/question/?id=861399850598805
Plus I asked for the CPC of your insta video campaign. The same one that got you 0.003 per video view…You should look at the CPC…its a more important metric than your cost per video view since app download is your conversion not video views
@ogunlanaolumide you sure sound very excited about yourself, this one you keep running your opinion here like its a tabloid.
First you’ve got to respect people decisions and not label a grown man ‘stupid’ because he chose not to cue with YOUR understanding of business best practice.
Google recently made TensorFlow open source, its Artificial intelligence Engine the stuff that powers ALL of the smart stuffs on Google services from voice recognition to other complex semantic recognition, devs from all over can have access to Google ‘secret’ AI, you ask yourself what does Google have to gain from this?
There was a time when this was nearly sacrilegious, but why has it turned into a common practice amongst software giants today? I’d leave you to go figure that out on your own.
What @uduak shared isn’t in the realm of the do-not-share ‘sauce’.
He may well be cuing himself to appear a seasoned consultant for a top hire. I’ve seen him share in-depth stuffs like this before, and I know who to consult when am in need of one.
“No take Panadol for another man headache!”
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@87_chuks I don’t remember calling anyone stupid.
However, I am sorry if I have offended anyone here…I gat nothing but love for radar. I guess it doesn’t have my appetite for intelligent non-emotional arguments
Hahaa. You dug up his bones =)
Page, Event or App
Swallowers club.
I still don’t get why you’re so worked about the fact she chose to share this
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Insightful…
Thanks for sharing