Comments on: Fafarazzi.com: Tell people about Fantasy Celebrity Leagues

By: Kellie

Kellie — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:16:21 +0000

If you want to reach the college age male or female….facebook is the way to go. Create a group and invite tons of people to join. When they join, it shows up on all their friends news feed and so on and so on. Although I am not a big fan, a myspace page might be good too.

By: Fafarazzi.com

Fafarazzi.com — Sun, 27 May 2007 20:19:12 +0000

Hey everyone, thank you for all the comments! I really enjoyed reading through them and will try to address of the points you all made:

1. widgetizing: agreed this needs to be done (and in different ways), and it’s my own fault for not putting the link to the different widgets we already had: http://www.fafarazzi.com/widgets.php

2. Thanks for pointing out the Tell-a-Friend link was not obvious. If you scroll to the bottom of the page, it’s very obvious in the footer, but that doesn’t help people who want to spread the word right away now does it?

3. Celeb bloggers & co-branded / vip leagues. You’re right on point, we’re actually about to release that feature in June!

4. Monetizing based on selecting certain sources by default for new leagues. Agreed we can make money this way once we’re big.

5. Rewarding the commissioners, need to do more of that and make everyone be a commissioner (Mike)

Overall the comments were great. Since I can only pick one winner, I’m going to go with Cameron….and give an honorable mention to Mike!

Thanks again everyone.

By: joe d

joe d — Fri, 25 May 2007 02:45:20 +0000

an interesting idea but i can’t picture how it would work. there are SO many news mediums – it boggles my mind to think about tracking how often someone is mentioned. sports scores are easily found and indesputable – celebrity mentions are completely arbitrary, especially when you live in the area. (hollyWOOD!) i ran this by one of my friends who writes for 944 magazine here in LA and she agrees…cute idea, but doesn’t make sense.

By: Shivani

Shivani — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:33:11 +0000

get the gossip blogs everybody loves to talk about the site (aka – perezhilton.com, the superficial.com, gofugyourself.com, popsugar)

By: Mike Macadaan

Mike Macadaan — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:16:29 +0000

target the type of people that start groups, rally people around going to an event or joining a book club. provide some kind of incentive to these people – reward them for their hard work. give them a celebrity makeover which may be in the form of a hair cut or full body wax by noah. or unlock some premium aspect to the service for these people – unlock hidden features that enhance the experience for the rest of the people that join the league.

make it REALLY easy for people to alert friends about this. when i first saw it, I immediately thought of a handful of friends that would love this but i didn’t see a clear way to alaert them.

create some urgency. display celebrities that are still available to claim within a public league. unclaimed celebrities: Paris Hilton, Lance Bass, Noah Kagan – claim yours now!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:01:09 +0000

I also think the widget idea is worth a try. Does anyone know if there are any male vs female stats on widget adoption?

The widget should be able to display the user’s current rank within her league. Also maybe show who’s in first and last places, or if the league is small enough, everyone’s rankings.) Another option might be to display the user’s roster and her players’ “stats” for the day/week/month/all-time.

Best of luck!

By: rishi

rishi — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:43:54 +0000

This is kind of a stretch. But no idea is a bad idea… right?

Behind the scenes revenue sharing with crappy celebs that need more publicity.

For example Screech in saved by the bell could create his own league, do something outrageous, his page becomes popular and he gets a cut of the ad rev.

Here is a quick plug for my good friend screech: http://www.getdshirts.com/

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:22:56 +0000

It’s a fascinating concept but you’re combining two things from different target audiences. You’ve got the fantasy league model, largely for men. And celebrity gossip, largely for women.

To get the word out you need to widgetize, but the best thing you can do is begin to provide your own content. Get a few celebrity gossip bloggers and start providing content people will come to read. Don’t make these writings have any affect on the game itself, otherwise you risk accusations of fixing the game.

A monetary idea is, once your user numbers get up there, begin approaching the gossip rags and offering to up their periodical’s weight in the system for a small fee. Be honest about this with your users, because you will then be advertising for the company.

By: Cameron Olthuis

Cameron Olthuis — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:10:01 +0000

‘Tell-a-friend’ link where the user gets some kind of incentive every time they get a referral, like points or something.

Contact all the celeb bloggers and ask them to blog about it. Possibly offer co-branded leagues or give them there own VIP leagues.

By: KR

KR — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:50:15 +0000

damn my writing today is horrendous. i can’t seem to write a coherent sentence. f these allergies.