As Rob explained, YouMob went live and we now have to figure out out how to get people to use it. Anyone with business experience knows we should have figured that out first, and we know that too. But hey, we're geeks and we had to build it first.
The important thing is that we're totally head-over-heals about what YouMob does. And once people understand how our site ranking works, and what our beacons do, they'll be blown away and want to use it. YouMob is like nothing out there. (ahem, by the way, tell me if I'm wrong)
We also understand that success will come from enthusiastic power-users, portal sites and bloggers. You are the ones who will bring users to YouMob, and in turn benefit from it. So we are focusing on you web leaders.
Our pitch is to folks who want to give this a shot. YouMob will work when clever people are able use their knowledge of great content, community, and YouMob (and other) technologies to start the biggest mobs on the web. Those who can do it will be the heroes.
So if you want to play, here's what you can do:
1) If you have a portal or blog with interesting links, follow these Partner Beacon instructions to send your visitors to the mobbed sites instead of naked ones. The better you are at this, the more free advertising you get on YouMob.com.
2) If you are a web superstar with lots of followers, use these Follow-Me Beacon instructions so your minions can find and join you in live mobs.
3) If you own a website that's been mobbed, use these My Mob Listing instructions to make your mob look great in our ranked lists. You can add a great graphic, description and title to lure more mobbers to your site.
4) If you use bookmarking sites like Digg, Del.icio.us etc, try posting mobbed sites instead of naked ones. People may just dig your posts better if they have more fun reading them. If you're not sure how to post a mobbed site, it's simple:
a) go to the site you want to post
b) copy the address from the address bar
c) go here and paste it, click "Start the Mob!"
d) you're in the mob now.
e) copy the new address and post it to your favorite ranking/bookmark site
5) Finally, talk it up! The more people who mob, the more that will come. That's how mobs work.
