Watch Your Likes, Amazon S3 Training (with PLR rights), Challenge Starts Sunday!
Published: Fri, 09/16/16
Today I'm working and then taking my daughter shopping for her annual campout with the school. This year they're going about 5 and 1/2 hours away and ziplining, rappelling, rock climbing and doing all sorts of fun stuff in the river. That means mama has to shell out for the gear!
So today, I wanted to let you know about a FB thing you need to be aware of because it really made me irate earlier before I knew what was happening.
I'd already talked to y'all about etiquette stuff on Facebook, like not tagging people randomly or in a pushy manner - and not adding them to your group without their permission.
But today another thing happened without my consent. Could be happening to you, too. Apparently it's not the person's fault but the site's fault.
I'm sitting on FB (working, I swear lol) and suddenly a notice pops up that says, "So and so thought you'd like this page. Your support will help him connect with more people on Facebook who will like this page, too."
I actually clicked on the notice to go to the page (otherwise I would never have known this had happened to me) - and it gives me two choices: Click Ok or Unlike Page.
Wait...you mean it LIKED the page FOR me?
Yes... yes it did. It didn't just say, "Hey, here's a page you might like!" It actually went ahead and liked the page FOR me without me giving it instructions to. So it looked like that marketer did it. I was not happy with him.
And guess what?
That little tickers on the right sidebar of your feed? It shows you what all your friends are doing on FB. What comments they like. What pictures and pages and posts they comment on or Like.
Now, it looks like I endorse this individual (a marketer who I have not spoken to that I know of who has 328 mutual friends). I don't Like or endorse this person's business. I don't KNOW this person enough to do that. I DO give people a chance and network through friendship online - but liking a page to me is much more than that - it's liking their business, it's aligning myself with them, etc.
I don't like the concept of social media speaking on my behalf and as a MARKETER, you have to be very cautious about what it's saying for you and what you force others to say by using these tactics. It wasn't this guy's fault in this instance, but you need to be aware of this situation because people will get angry with you if you do it, too.
I discovered that it happens automatically when someone turns their personal Facebook profile into a business page. Anyone you're friends with - well, FB automatically turns that friendship into a Like. But to me, that's a gross leap for them to make because honestly, there are some people who are friendly and nice but I'd never endorse their business.
And I HAVE checked to see what other people have Liked (mainly to see what other good resources are out there). I will admit that on ocassion, I've seen the kinds of pages (marketing pages) they liked and said, "Hmmm ok," because then I knew they were into hyped up spammy stuff.
So no thanks. I don't want FB deciding what will be showcased as far as what I like (and endorse).
Go to your Facebook Profile and click on the More header and go to Likes. See what all you've had FB Like for you. I have cleared my entire likes section and left a few I genuinely read a lot:
- Millionaire Mindset (I like their memes)
- Hiring America (had to like it to try to win a cool laptop for my son in a contest)
- Book Cover By Design (she does my fiction)
- Low Carb Traveler (love Lynn Terry's advice)
- E Brian Rose (founder of JVZoo and good entrepreneurial mind)
- Kristin Hannah (my favorite fiction author)
- Muncheye (the marketing launch calendar most people use)
- JVZoo (the main platform I use)
- Texas Rangers (the only sports team I care about)
Notice any automated likes on your list? Clean it up!
Also - MANY of you have asked me where I host my stuff. I host my blogs on Hostgator (hate that it got taken over by people who don't do as good of a job but I'm too lazy to switch). I host my sales pages and launches on Amazon S3.
Why?
Because Hostgator crashed every. single. time. So Amazon S3 is EXTREMELY cheap (I pay about $1.30 a month) to host my sales launches and then plop the URL on JVzoo to process sales.
Unfortunately, I abhor learning new tech stuff so I just had a friend set up Amazon S3 for me and hand me the controls. That meant I couldn't teach you guys, which sucks.
But Sue Fleckenstein released a course (also comes with PLR rights) called How to Use AS3 and if you use this coupon code, you'll save $5 between now and Monday: saveons3
http://buyplrtoday.com/amember/aff/go/tiffanylambert?i=148
It includes:
- Report - How to Use Amazon S3 - 3,330 words and 16 pages
- Editable ecover in 2 styles
- Ready to use Slides
- Video slides + MP4 Video
- Tweets
- 5 Social Posters
- Handy Cheatsheet
Are you signed up for the Build a Business Using PLR 21-Day challenge yet? We start Sunday (you can start and pause whenever you like) but get signed up here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/bigplrevent.com/indexplruse.html
And don't forget the new Walmart Hottest 25 Toys PLR that just launched yesterday - it'll only be on sale for 6 more days and then it goes up to $25:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/bigplrevent.com/indexwalmarttoys2016.html
See? I'm using S3 right there ;) Love it!
Tiff ;)
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