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RE: The Other Side of the Coin - Dealing with the Onboarding Issue and Some Ways of Helping
Thanks those are great ideas. I still think we can work on both but I see your point. My concern is that if we don't focus on getting new users at all we will never get to the non-beta or completed state. When Facebook first launched it was pretty minimal but they were already working on promotion. I think we need to work on both whist being careful not to sabotage one or the other.
Ok, great example, FB. I personally have no clue, but what was it like? What features did they have, when they did start promoting? I would like to know. And also, take into consideration at that time, the level or bar was lower, as the social media we have today did not exist in 2003-2005. So the features to start off would not be comparable to today's features. Also, FB created many of the social media features we now use. Thanks.
It was pretty empty and yes it was a different time for sure. A lot more text and fewer photos. No advertising or monetisation either. It was really quiet too as not many people were on. Initially I saw it and didn't use it - my brother starting using it very early and I would see his feed and posts and wonder what the point was! It is hard to remember exactly what it was like now though because we take so much of these things for granted now and one of the problems is that memory is very fallible and fluid. Might be a good exercise to use something like the wayback machine to have an objective look.
I also see growth as an organic thing that comes with quality of product or service, and word of mouth in society. It can be helped with promotion and ads for sure. To try to get quantity of users too early may be the wrong way to go about it. It will come. Build it and they will come, as they told Kevin Costner.
Yes absolutely - I think we saw how that works when we had the price peaks in July. Good points as always mate.