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by dumbfoundded 2886 days ago
Here's some feedback from someone who isn't a competitor of your's.

I'm guessing you're using facebook ads to hand out surveys to targeted people. If that's not exactly what you're doing, you should be aware of the fact that your business model's value is to bypass people from going into the facebook ad manager, creating a survey, selecting a few interests / demographics and then hitting enter.

There's not a lot of value in this business model, especially given that if I did this using facebook, I would have the actual audience instead of your summary of it.

Next piece of advice, be less emotional. Someone criticized you. Don't take it personally, address their points or don't, I don't care, but as a potential customer, I look at this message and immediately am turned off by it. The message above does make some good points and you just try to drown it out with emotion.

Last piece of advice, I actually think there's a lot of value in talking to people directly. If you could actually "talk to the people from the office building in front of it" and then scale it, that might have value but from your website, I have no clue if that's what you're doing and I actually get the impression that you're not.

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I am actually not using Facebook Ads. I am using lead generation tools to find prospects and contact them using text messages. No ads are involved in the process.

"The message above does make some good points and you just try to drown it out with emotion." - sorry, but I find post above my response to be a self-promotion and invalid judging. I have no issue with answering questions, no matter how difficult they are. But a competitor should have more class than just "assuming" and basing a line of offense on that. There is a difference I think in asking valid questions and using the assumptions by a competitor to attack my business.

"I have no clue if that's what you're doing and I actually get the impression that you're not." - we can target people that work for a company located in an office building for example. As mentioned previously, I am using text messages to reach the people. This is just an example of targeting we provide.

How do you get the mobile numbers of the people who work in a particular building? That sounds impossible.
You can get a mobile phone for people that work for a company, or for a division (if it is a different entity). There is quite a lot of companies providing that data.