Jack comments on The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks OR How I learned to stop worrying and create one billion dollars out of nothing - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Kevin 10 February 2010 03:15AM

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Comment author: Jack 10 February 2010 06:28:41AM 1 point [-]

Hmmm. Conceded. Since it looks like this was tried before and failed, I'd be interested to hear what you learned from the first attempt.

Comment author: Kevin 11 February 2010 08:33:27AM 1 point [-]

I learned that my initial copy was not viral to motivate people to join based on seeing the group name in their newsfeed. I learned that it is a whole lot easier to get someone to join a group than it is to invite their friends to join the group. I sent out a few mass messages encouraging people to invite their friends, but the third and final message I sent out resulted in a net loss in users for the group.

I do still have control of that group and it's 150 members, so it's a good enough place to focus test ad copy for the next group.