I'm sure you've seen the list of supporters (http://1.usa.gov/t7Wpo8). Even the list itself is a half-assed job by pro-SOPAs to illustrate Congressional support for the bill.
Unless, of course, the fragrance company Coty Inc has been seeing a lot of their fragrances being pirated online.
It was a lose-lose situation once the parents became definitive.
Ultimately, our investor took the long-term view on this situation. Hopefully, I'm going to be doing this for years, so take the hit now and finish everything up.
Unless you have enough capital to sustain Facebook ads for a long period, they're never going to work.
We'll see how the Facebook Timeline and the new F8 solutions react to advertisers and businesses. But, unless you're an event-centric business, you're not going to benefit tremendously on Facebook.
Instead, the best methods are to drive traffic towards mediums like Twitter, where you can have conversations with customers without appearing like you're "on show" in front of an audience. You're a customer for someone else, and you're savvy enough to read into social media advertisements with skepticism. You can't tell me that that's unique to just you.
Not true - it worked in our case (a facebook app) from day one. Click-through is low (around 0.05%) but convertion tend to be a lot higher than adwords...
