Is StreamAlive really selling socks now?!!
The latest news from StreamAlive.
Hi there!
In this newsletter…
What you thought of #UnmuteTheAudience
How’s the weather? What’s the time?
Why we’ve created a Merch store to sell socks
Thanks to the 17 people who voted!
Last week we talked about how we arrived at our new #UnmuteTheAudience messaging and we asked you what you thought about it.
We’re going to take this as definitive evidence that almost everyone (well, 16 out of 17 voters) loved our #UnmuteTheAudience mission!
This week we’d like to know if you’d be interested in a live session about one of the topics below.
How’s the weather? What’s the time?
People love Magic Maps and being able to visualize where the audience is joining from. It’s a great way to break the ice in any meeting, and you don’t have limit the question to “where are you joining from?”.
You could try…
Which city would you like to visit?
What’s your favorite city?
Where did you last go on vacation?
Which country eats the most cheese per capita?*
We’re working to make all our interactions a little bit better and inject some more fun and wow moments that will delight your audience.
One of the improvements is providing a pop-up on each location that shows the time and the weather. It’s a small addition, but it’ll add a little extra magic when you run the interaction.
This Magic Maps enhancement is available to all users right now.
*It’s Switzerland, btw
Why we opened a Merch store for StreamAlive
You’re not a proper YouTuber or streamer until you’ve got your own line of beauty products, your own beverage brand, and your own merch store.
But having a Merch store isn’t just for influencers, even businesses can have them.
We’ve been thinking about opening a Merch store for a while now.
Why?
Because when we were at the Zoomtopia and TechCrunch Disrupt events, people loved our t-shirts.
Like this amazing guy 👇
When we’ve been on calls, people have asked if they could get a StreamAlive t-shirt or mug, or sticker with our “Connect& Interact& Include& Engage” message on it.
So we’ve finally gone ahead and launched our Merch store. (We’ve used FourthWall.com after a recommendation by the Ecamm community).
Now the goal of the Merch store isn’t to add another revenue stream.
In fact, we’ve set the prices so there is zero margin on any sale. It’s sold at the cost FourthWall charges.
The reason we’ve created a Merch store is to reward people like you who want to support StreamAlive and see us succeed.
(We ❤️ you all!)
We have a vision of rewarding our users with points or credits in the Merch store when they do things like upgrade to a paid plan, share the interaction maps, polls, and word clouds on social media, or just generally talk about how StreamAlive makes their live sessions more fun.
The Merch store is a way for us to give back and say thank you to our community. We’re not there yet with all these points and credits options, but if you do write about us on social media, let us know, you might get a free pair of socks out of it!
Of course, if you like anything you see in the StreamAlive Merch store, it’s all for sale and can be bought by anyone.
Catch us on our social pages
If you haven’t already, check out our social media pages to stay updated on our quirky takes on the latest social media trends and the occasional piece of engagement-related advice.
All the best,
Peter and the StreamAlive team
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