00:00 Hey, what's up Diego here. Hey, so I have a question for you. Have you ever shared a direct link to a Facebook post or Facebook video and the people that you shared it with had trouble opening it? Because it went to the wrong place or whatever, so the--
00:19 Like for example, you share a link to a Facebook live video that you did and um, and you share it to a Facebook group or whatever it is, and people will click on it on their phone, we'll click on a link and it'll open up the browser on their phone so they can see the live video on a browser instead of the app that's installed on the same phone.
00:40 Does that ever happen to you? Now for me, it's really frustrating when this kind of stuff happens because when you're trying to build a business and you want people to consume your content, you want to make sure that there's as little friction as possible, right?
00:56 So, um, I, I've actually been, this has been a problem that I've had for quite a while and I don't know how, I didn't know how to solve it -- at least up until a few days ago when I watched the live video from, from my man, uh, Maxwell Finn-- he's a, he's a great, a great advertiser, which if you don't follow him already, he's a great, great person to follow. He's, he shares a lot of knowledge and information, gives a lot of great advice for creating advertising campaigns --
01:30 Um, and um, and anyway, I was watching one of his Facebook live videos and he was promoting this contest that he was doing and which was, which he linked out to and enough direct Facebook, post, right? Um, so in that other Facebook post, he had all that: the contest details, how you enter that sort of thing. Um, and uh, and what was interesting is when I clicked on that link, um, I was expecting to go right to the, uh, to the, um, I was expecting to go to the browser and then have to find, fin- finagle a way to get back, get it back into my Facebook app, which was on my phone.
02:16 Um, but instead what happened is it had sent me to a, a like a, like a page or just like a single landing page sort of. Um, and its sole purpose is to detect which platform I'm using -- to detect whether or not I'm using an android phone, an iPhone or an iPad or if I'm on my desktop computer. And so, and so as soon as it detected that I was on my android phone, it automatically started to redirect and it redirected me to my app. Which was pretty cool. Um, and, and as I was doing the research into this, cause I saw the page, the landing page that was on and I saw that the-- the domain. So I checked it out and I tested out the tool for myself. Not only is it free, doesn't cost anything at all, it's super easy to use, very quick. And it's, um, it's super sweet
03:08 And I actually, I want to demonstrate that with you today. I want to show you exactly how it works, what you need to do and how you would use it afterwards. Okay. So, so I'm going to go ahead and transfer over. Let's go and transfer over to this screen. Cool. Okay, so-- All right, so I've usually, what you would do is you would click on this timestamp, you click on it and it'll take you to a direct link
03:48 up here, that you can copy and paste a direct link to that post. So you share with other people a here. Here we go. So here is that. Let's go to the generator. All right, so let's go to the generator. This is called a QR code generator. Okay, cool. So, so we opened up the QR code generator and we're going to click the 'open an app' dropdown. Click Facebook, select the Facebook QR code generator app. Then we're going to paste that special link we just got, we're going to click generate QR code.
04:25 Then a couple seconds-- oh pretty pretty quick, it'll generate this custom link that you can use that when people click on it, they will automatically redirect to the [Facebook] app on their iPhone or on their android. Or if they're on a desktop, it'll open up the the browser. And, uh, yeah, it's, it's pretty sweet in that it does this, this way. Super quick.
04:51 So yeah, we're actually going to test it out. First things first. We're going to go and try this. So let's go ahead and copy the link location. We are going to type that in. As you can see, direct detecting and redirecting. Found out I was on desktop and it redirects to the location. And as you can see, here it is. So that's actually pretty cool. All right, so let's go ahead and, okay.
05:23 Now the reason why this is actually pretty helpful is because if you have a list of followers, let's say they're in an email list or they or they're on social media, maybe you have a youtube channel, um, or Instagram or whatever it is, or Twitter, if you have have followers that are cross platform, you can use the same link. Okay. So it's the same link to share with your followers and it will automatically connect them to the ideal, um, most beneficial platform for that link.
06:02 So if you share Facebook live link or you share Facebook posts or whatever it is, and somebody opens it up on their android phone, it'll open up that post on the android app specifically. It'll open it up right there, boom. Just, just instant. As opposed to having to load Facebook on a browser, load the whole thing from scratch and then load the page, which takes a lot longer. And it's not convenient because some features don't exist um, on the Facebook browser version (the mobile browser version) that exist in the [Facebook] app.
06:36 So like I said, it's super, super sweet. You can take that one link, you can shoot it out to your email list, you can shoot it out to your youtube, following your, your guys on Twitter and on Facebook, wherever it is, and it'll automatically connect them depending on how they're actually, uh, how they're reading that link in the first place. So it's super, super sweet. Um, but like I said, this is totally free. It doesn't cost anything to use. It's super quick to use.
07:02 Hopefully, uh, this can help you, especially if you're running a business like me, I can guarantee you that you'll find that use for this. I think this is really awesome. Um, but yeah, if, if this is something that you find helpful for you and your business, feel free to let me know. I'd love to know about it. I'd love to chat about it. And, uh, hopefully, we will talk soon.