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Build Value Ladders. Win Sales, Profits, Customers

How do you bring an open audience all the way up to people who are purchasing products or who are VIP customers? The answer is simple – the value ladder. Some people call it the ascension path or a funnel where they have all kinds of other words for the idea that you build an audience through free content. In …

URL debugging on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter– so images in your social posts show up right

You don’t want your social shares looking like this: Your featured images should be 1600×840 to fit in the Open Graph and social posts, like this one from this migraine doctor. Fortunately, the social networks have validator URLs we can test before making posts. Here’s Facebook URL validator, which will give you additional warnings on errors to fix. And here is Twitter’s card …

Getting banned by Facebook is a nightmare

Even if their bot accidentally did it and it’s not your fault. Usually trying to reach them is an exercise in futility. See the screenshot below for what it’s like. You need to be able to protect yourself– to diversify. Snapchat reached out to us, offering our community $150 in free ads, and they are supporting a course on Snapchat …

Why Most Small Businesses Fail on Facebook

Most small business owners are terrified to press the red button. Not because it’s going to initiate some catastrophic event or set off the emergency alarm, but because they are paralyzed by the camera. Small business owners that can’t make videos are like sprinters trying to win a race with shackles around their ankles Facebook is a film to play …

Our leader was accused of exploiting third world labor

by MYTCH PLETE A few months ago, the social media community had been on fire about a comment made by Mark Williams, an executive at LiveWorld, Inc., on a post of Dennis Yu, Chief Technology Officer at Content Factory, saying that hiring offshore at $3/hour rate is exploitation. Ironic isn’t it? Considering his role at Wal-Mart was managing the negative …

The Real Story of the Latest Facebook Scandal and Zuckerberg’s Hearing

The media continues to contort this Cambridge Analytica-Facebook story. I was just on CNN International to shed some light on this “scandal.” This is what you need to know about the Facebook Fiasco. 1) Facebook cannot solve this problem. There was no data breach. It was never possible for Cambridge Analytica to use that data for personalized targeting. This is …