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KevinJardine
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3 months ago

An event to learn from

I organized an event in my Star Central world, offering a starship trip to Naos, one of the brightest nearby stars. 37 people expressed interest. I worried about how the tour would work across multiple sessions, how to fit people into my starships etc.

I need not have worried.

Only two people showed up. Both had their microphones turned off. They ran around at random pushing buttons and were gone in five minutes. Probably little kids with miniscule attention spans.

I haven't given up on the idea of astronomy tours but obviously I'm going to have to do my own promotion to adults interested in astronomy and not depend on Meta's event marketing.

😆

Would love to team up with someone who has some marketing expertise.

EVENTS

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    KevinJardine
    Start Partner
    3 months ago

    Although I am glad that Meta promoted my event on Facebook, it seemed that people understood "I am interested" as just another like button with no expected follow through.

    I have created a new Facebook page on mapping the Galaxy in VR and am running some ads on Facebook to promote it targeting people with an interest in astronomy. If I can build up a promotion list of the right kind of people, maybe my next event will be more successful.

    https://m.facebook.com/61583347815194/

    I'm determined to keep hammering away at this. Science content creators on YouTube have millions of subscribers (I myself have content there with hundreds of thousands of views.) VR content can be much more compelling. There has to be a way to build an audience for it in Horizon Worlds.