Instagram Withdraw Symptoms Are Real
Instagram and Facebook went down on Sunday morning. The rest of the day will do what it does, maybe the platform will stay up until the next time it goes down, for hopefully only a short time.
The Internet goes down sometimes. It happens. In Twitter's early days, the big blue Fail Whale was common (that was for overcapacity, which is not the same problem Facebook has been dealing with with its suite of social networks). But Instagram? Facebook? They came after that, backed by loads of money, so the idea that they wouldn't work sometimes is incomprehensible. Worse, if all of your marketing eggs are in those baskets, you have no way to connect with your people - immediately - when you need to.
What Do You Do When Instagram Goes Down?
Feel the feeling. Remember this feeling, and how your brain is scrambling in order to think of how else you are going to reach your people to market to them right now. What are those tools you have?
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Plan B
Today's newsletter was going to feature a very well done Instagram account for a private seller of a townhouse, to show you a new style that real estate people could use, but....Instagram was down when we ran production, and we couldn't get the pictures. Plus, nothing would be on the other side of links. But, this is a new timely window of opportunity to get this message to you that we wanted to send the last time Instagram went down!
Our Next TuneUp Is Perfect For This
Last April, 2018, after Facebook's creator Mark Zuckerberg testified before the U.S. lawmakers and the U.K. lawmakers, where more was revealed of how lax Facebook was (and continues to be) with our privacy, Tin Shingle's owner deleted Facebook from her phone. Both the personal and business page apps. She uses Facebook on desktop only now.
Since then, she's been following Facebook news to learn how our business websites, phones, and personal details are extremely exposed and vulnerable by Facebook.
As an extreme digital marketer and teacher of how to use Facebook, could she exist and market on Facebook while not having it so easily accessible on her phone?
Yes. And she learned a few things about the Facebook experience that will help you continue to market there - but better. Register now for Wednesday's live broadcast of the TuneUp.