Editor’s note: We are facing an unprecedented moment in American history. Our government and multinational technology monopolies have made it clear that our people are targets of the vast surveillance state they have built.The deep state seeks to imprison those who share meme, Blaze Media Journalist, and even leading presidential candidates. It’s time for us to take back control of our privacy and digital communications. This guide gives you the tools to do just that.This is an excerpt from a larger guide.
Many of us use social media for business and advertising. Maybe you’re a real estate agent, a plumber, own a construction business, or you’re an author, illustrator, or filmmaker. You probably use a combination of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, and Instagram to promote and attract clients. These are valuable tools for growing your business. I’m not saying you should quit social media, but you should avoid relying on these platforms completely.
If something goes wrong with Facebook or any social media platform, you don’t want to end up in a situation where all your materials are there and there’s no way to contact your customers. As Thomas J. Bevan so well explained:: “Twitter is a flyer, not live. Don’t give more than you have to. They won’t appreciate you. They won’t love you.”
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What happens to your contacts if Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn closes your account? How do you contact your customers, followers, and connections?
If you have a lot of followers on Facebook or Instagram, you don’t want to lose the means to communicate with them because employees of those companies decide they don’t like your religious, political, or philosophical views. . It has nothing to do with your business. Therefore, try to communicate directly with your customers through email. If you’re removed from the platform or denied service because you hold the wrong opinion, you can get back on immediately.
If you already have an email address and use a CRM system like Mailchimp, HubSpot, Salesforce, or Oracle, make sure you have backups and full access to them. Again, it is undesirable for all customers to be locked into the provider’s services if one of them decides to deny access because their religious or political views are unacceptable. Make sure you have an offline backup exported to a .csv or Excel file so you can import your contacts into another service or quickly contact your customers or subscribers.
some work is being done Data portability issues, especially in light of the EU’s GDPR regulations. I hope this gets easier, but for now he doesn’t have to put all his eggs in one basket.
- Work on building an email list for direct communication and keep a backup. This is good business anyway.
- Export connections from other platforms as much as possible to make them available.
- LinkedIn has a way to export all your connections to a spreadsheet, but only a few have email addresses attached. So at least you have a record of your connections, but if you have 1,500-2,000 connections and only 15 emails, it’s not very useful. Again, this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use LinkedIn. i use it. But you should definitely build a more robust email contact list.
