Category: Social Media

All Your Eggs in One Basket? Why Facebook’s Outage is a Wake-Up Call for Small Businesses

Social Media Outages: Why Your Small Business Needs a Website

Remember the great social media blackout of 2021? Like a scene from a dystopian novel, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all vanished for several hours. While many scrolled through Twitter in a frenzy (hello, Twitter!), small businesses definitely felt the pinch. Fast forward to the widespread outages in March 2024 and the recent glitches this week—the message …

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Fake Google Reviews: What You Need to Know

Fake Google Reviews: What You Need to Know

I’m a long-time reader of the business insights articles a results-driven online marketing agency sends me excerpts from via email. Today, I clicked through to read the full content of an article about fake Google reviews. The article was an informative, easy read. I enjoyed it most of the way through, but toward the end …

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Cushion the Blow of a Facebook Hack

Hacked on Facebook Help

The only surefire way to NEVER have your Facebook account hacked is to not have a Facebook account. But there are some preventive measures you can take, as well as procedures you can have in place to help cushion the blow if it does happen to you. [Updated 11/17/21 to include information on adding Trusted …

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Facebook Changes 2018: The Sky is Falling!

OK, the sky isn’t really falling. But there are some major changes taking place over the course of this year at the biggest social platform on the planet. Shades of things to come First, Facebook vowed to crack down on what they call ‘engagement bait‘ as part of the process of improving the news feed …

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Coming Soon to a Facebook Group Near You

With Facebook nearing 2 billion monthly active users, it’s evident that Facebook is the world’s largest social network. As Facebook’s reach becomes even more global, its intended focus over the next decade is to bring the world closer together by empowering people to build and support communities on Facebook. Guided by that intention, the platform …

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