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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2020 16:30:31 GMT
Geraint, you should be on Instagram. It is much more visual and you can use hashtags much more to build up a follower base. For your business, which is very visual,I'd say it's almost essential. Take lots of pictures of your stock and just upload regularly as a sort of diary process. Even taking pictures of you out and about scouring for stock produces a narrative that many buyers might want to identify with. You can build a relationship with your audience that is much more than just being a shop- Instagram allows you the opportunity to talk to your audience- and you can expand on the sort of things you like aesthetically for example. Just get into the habit of taking pictures all the time. Yeah you're right. I had a problem registering about a year ago and I couldn't contact anyone to resolve it. It was something to do with a duplicate email and I spent a fruitless four hours trying to get to the bottom of it. But I do need to give it another go..when I do I'll probably be here asking all sorts of questions as I'm not good with social media!
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Post by Charlie O. on Jul 17, 2020 16:45:38 GMT
Just set up a new e-mail. Your business really should have its own anyway.
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Post by tory on Jul 17, 2020 17:16:03 GMT
Definitely. Little details like that are very important - if I had to send an email to geraint@hotmail.com instead of geraint@weirdglass.com I would be suspicious.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jul 17, 2020 17:32:55 GMT
Because of the real possibility of getting twitter and instagram hacked it is suggested that you get a separate email for them, otherwise your personal email will be vulnerable
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Post by rayge on Jul 17, 2020 18:07:56 GMT
Yeah, I still get a nice cosy glow from Instagram. Too many ads, but nothing too disruptive. I really don't understand this. Why the fuck doesn't everybody use AdBlock? I know I'm a bit extreme in thinking 0.05% of an ad is too many, but why complain about them at all when there's a perfectly good free way of making them go away for ever.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 17, 2020 19:05:32 GMT
I use Twitter mainly to find out things like '25 years to the day since Elastica bassist quit!' That's Facebook kinda shit.
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Post by rayge on Jul 17, 2020 22:57:27 GMT
I never joined because of the 140-character rule. I'd use that up just clearing my throat
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 10:56:55 GMT
One thing I don't understand about instagram is it's for photos right, but you can also post photos on twitter..so what does it offer that twitter doesn't?
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Post by tory on Jul 18, 2020 11:01:14 GMT
You have a lot more character space and hashtagging is essentially much more acceptable. It allows the opportunity to properly talk about something whereas on twitter you only have 280 characters.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jul 18, 2020 11:42:03 GMT
Ignore him, G.
Instagram is for pictures, Twitter is for words. That's it. Nobody 'properly talks' about anything on Instagram.
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Post by Sneelock on Jul 18, 2020 14:02:56 GMT
sometimes a picture is worth ah unspecified number of words. Also, links are often provided! I love Instagram.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 18, 2020 14:41:33 GMT
I never joined because of the 140-character rule. I'd use that up just clearing my throat You'd go past that just defining "otolaryngology."
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 18, 2020 14:49:48 GMT
sometimes a picture is worth ah unspecified number of words. Experimental data cast new light on both Fred Barnard's advertising slogan and on studies such as Nicholson Baker's (1983) investigation of the size of thoughts. In my third experiment, participants described in words the same information expressed in a single diagram by others. From the average number of words used,the calculation shows that a picture is worth 84.1 words.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2020 15:10:42 GMT
Yeah, I still get a nice cosy glow from Instagram. Too many ads, but nothing too disruptive. I really don't understand this. Why the fuck doesn't everybody use AdBlock? I know I'm a bit extreme in thinking 0.05% of an ad is too many, but why complain about them at all when there's a perfectly good free way of making them go away for ever.
A lot of my weekly use of the internet is via my work laptop, which I can't download adblock on. And it doesn't take away sponsored posts in timelines.
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Post by rayge on Jul 19, 2020 15:55:58 GMT
And it doesn't take away sponsored posts in timelines. I'm probably being dumb and old, but what are these?
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