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I'm trying to figure out which Facebook plugin works better for starting conversation with my website visitors. Facebook provide two different ways:
1) The "Message Us" plugin (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/implementation#message_us_plugin) - this button sent the user user to Messenger (web or app).
2) The Page plugin (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/page-plugin) - It lets embed Facebook Page on a website and start conversation without leaving the site.
All these plugins can be represented as website widgets. There are some examples: 1) http://blog.jparkislandresort.com/ 2) http://www.band-brand.us/
Which way is better? Which widget is more convenient for the visitors? Thanks!
We all know about Show HN, Product Hunt and so on, but are there any not IT/Internet communities, where I can reach out to a big amount SMBs? For example some food or flower delivery services, cleaning companies or something like that.
Thanks in advance
Six month ago I had to make a choice if I should try to get initial traction on US market or just make money on my local market. We didn't have any investment and our burn rate was about $4000-$5000/mo. So all that time we were focusing on revenue but not growth. In our case we could start selling just in local market, not in the US.
Despite being profitable (we've made $33 000 and our costs have been $24 000), we don’t have growing customer base and every single deal takes huge efforts.
At the moment we have some competitors which have awesome growth rate (more 300% per month), but they are still not making profit. Probably if we had not focused on making money on local market, we would have been out of the game. However for investors we are not interesting and I feel that we've spent too much time on product features.
So my question is what is better for startup: growth or making money?