AdParlor: How It Stays Profitable As The Facebook Platform It’s Built On Keep Changing – with Hussein Fazal
Have you ever had an outside force change completely and nearly wipe your business out? How do you regain your balance in a situation like that? How do you even sleep at night?
To find out, I invited Hussein Fazal, co-founder of AdParlor, an ad network built on the Facebook platform. Remember the time Facebook decided it wouldn’t share user data with ad networks? That could have wiped him out, but he remade his business and grew bigger. Or how about the time the Scamville scandal damaged other Facebook ad networks? He found a way to reshape his business again and grow.
Listen to this interview and you’ll hear how he did it.
Hussein Fazal is the co-founder and CEO of AdParlor. AdParlor is a leader in managing large facebook campaigns. It offers a full-service solution for managing advertising on Facebook Ads (right-hand-column) for the large spenders on the platform. While it helps all types of advertisers, it specializes in growing facebook applications – having delivered well over 30 Million installs on a CPI (cost per install) model.
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