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	<title>Comments on: How Facebook Can Monetize Birthdays</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: David Meyrowitz</title>
		<link>http://www.jbryanscott.com/2008/07/13/how-facebook-can-monetize-birthdays/#comment-50</link>
		<dc:creator>David Meyrowitz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Guess I missed the boat on seeing this promptly

"I believe I have adequately offset this in my calculation by assuming only 10 clicks on each Birthday Link (as opposed to my projected 68)."

I think an average of 10 per user bday-wall-posts is high. You got 68, but most of the "active" users don't have more than 50 friends. I think you need to apply your conversion rate to the average number of friends per user, than take a reduction to reflect that you're more popular than the average user. This brings down the 324M # to, I'd say conservatively, 108M. Still, this is an 4% revenue increase for Facebook and worth pursuing, but not as lofty as you project.

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<p>&#8220;I believe I have adequately offset this in my calculation by assuming only 10 clicks on each Birthday Link (as opposed to my projected 68).&#8221;</p>
<p>I think an average of 10 per user bday-wall-posts is high. You got 68, but most of the &#8220;active&#8221; users don&#8217;t have more than 50 friends. I think you need to apply your conversion rate to the average number of friends per user, than take a reduction to reflect that you&#8217;re more popular than the average user. This brings down the 324M # to, I&#8217;d say conservatively, 108M. Still, this is an 4% revenue increase for Facebook and worth pursuing, but not as lofty as you project.</p>
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