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Review My Facebook App -- Social Genie http://www.sgenie.com/

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I have recently launched a facebook app (http://apps.facebook.com/socialgenie/splash.aspx)that lets you create a wish/Fundraiser using a multimedia composer and lets you share the wish with your friends. Friends can make contributions through PayPal. You can also review the wishes of all your friends using the app.

I launched the app 15 days back and am having problems making users sign up for a PayPal account.

I need ideas to market this app to facebook users who already have a PayPal account to increase awareness of the app.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Well, for starters, I'd suggest making an actual landing page for your dot com. I was going to go check out your site but it goes directly to the Facebook authorization page. I have absolutely no idea what sgenie.com is, at this point. I'm not going to give it permissions to see my information without knowing anything, either.

A landing page would at least allow me to review your concept and decide if I want to use it. You're talking about convincing users to use your product, well why not focus on showing them your product first?

I wholeheartedly agree. I'm not about to let a random application access all my data... unless of course, I know what it is/does.

I completely understand. This application is more of a word of mouth thing on facebook. You see your friends creating wishes and you want to make contributions or create one for yourself at that point you give application access rights. In case you want to pull away the permissions granted by you you can always do that in your privacy settings on facebook.

That's a really good advice and I have thought of that before but the application itself is targeted to users on facebook. I don't see a point in putting effort into a web presence unless I am marketing it outside facebook.It will definately come once I get some traction.

I have created a splash page that does not ask for any permissions. http://apps.facebook.com/socialgenie/splash.aspx

Market it outside of Facebook sort of like you just did here, on HN? Neglecting a proper landing page (or just an about page, in general) is like making potential users play roulette with your app. Maybe I'll authorize it, maybe I won't. Nothing about that decision includes any type of analysis based on your actual application itself, other than the fact that you've decided to leave out the most important page to me as a user (which probably does tell me something about what's inside, if I were being hyper-critical).

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