Sunday, August 25, 2013

The Disco Pants Strategy for your Website


A few weeks ago I found some pretty cool green pants at Topmen store in Sydney. Some friends were playing around with the idea that I should also wear some flashy silver disco pants one day.

Well, according to Betabrand online retailer, their most popular product are this silver flashy Disco Pants their customers love!!.

Checking their website and and interview with the Betabrand founder, I filtered what I today called "The thee Disco Pants Strategy Wins" for your website:
  • Offer something that produce a cultural movement!
  • Let users really own a piece of your website ( read below how).
  • Believe that crazy odd thing sells and can sells millions!
ahh and dot put those dirty disco boots on top of my "Burning Man" leather seat.

The brand: Betabrand, Online Retailer, Clothing and apparel.

The Product: Disco pants.





The "Model citizen" product pages allow customers to be the centre piece of a product page. Instead of having one standard product page, Betabrand allows for thousands of multiple product pages curated by users. This results on people sharing and uploading far more content than traditional product pages.

"Why does there just have to be a single Disco Pants page? What if there were 1,000 Disco Pants pages, and each one was headlined by whoever uploaded the most recent photo? When our Model Citizens share that page with their friends and family, they’re the lead model on our site. What we did was create a hack that enabled people to insert themselves as image number one in the gallery, and then that unique URL was something they could share with their friends and family.". Chris Lindland, Betabrand founder.



Betabrand - Disco Pants Product page
The technical Specs


You are not into Disco Pants...
What about those awesome Banana pocket ones...

NEXT


Why there is NO "DISLIKE" option on Facebook!


I do not know why! - Weekend coffee break -  Random thoughts

My Hypothesis:
  • Mark Zuckerberg parents did allow poor Mark to express "Dislikes"
  • Wrongly thinking that allowing for "Dislikes" will not create more Facebook connections and engagement.
  • Mark Zuckerberg massive fear to get "Dislikes" on his boring status updates.
  • "Dislike" in American culture is not acceptable.
Would you "Dislike" the couple above and "Like" the couple below? Or do we have to like everything shown up on Facebook feeds, status updates and comments?

Wake up Facebook! and get into the real world where we possibly comment equally on the things/people and activity that we do not really like in order to make it better or to avoid them.

Not having a "Dislike" option on Facebook status updates/posts is like always buying a Chilli that is not spicy! 

Facebook: Stop taking the spicy out! and get real!


and yes, we know there are some Firefox and Chrome extensions that allow you to add a 'Dislike" button but they come with adware and stuff that possibly you do not want.