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[–] 148 points 1 year ago (28 children)

You have to meet clients where they are. These days, clients are far less likely to find you if you only have a site with no social media presence.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    which is the dumbest shit in the world. why the fuck are people on facebook?

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Well marketplace basically killed Craig's list, so that's one reason.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This one irks me. I grabbed an Auto-Trader paper today as I was reminiscing about how local trader-papers used to be a thing. I got my NES and Saxophone that way. I still have one of those. -Then craigslist ended that and now that has been replaced by a website that requires membership to read the listings.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    We gave away computer parts on Craigslist a few months ago. It was a no-stress transaction and the receiver was a sweet old-school computer person building a basic machine for his kids to play Minecraft. Would do again.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    You could say the same about any social media site really.

    The whole point of social media is to communicate with other people. Facebook is the largest one, so if you want to contact a business or person, they're more likely to be on Facebook than any other site. Probably the main exception are younger people (and companies run by them), where they're more active on TikTok and Instagram.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    I guess... But if your web presence is only on Facebook and that's the first result I see then .. hard pass

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That's my daily battle. I'm looking for something in my country, and there are these "businesses" that only show on Facebook or Instagram, both of which are entirely blocked at the network and device level in my house. So I'll never do business with them. If you don't have an actual web site with relevant information, I just keep looking.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Demanding a small business has their own website before you do business with them is peak Lemmy.

    This site is way out of touch with what the typical person has the knowledge or time to do.

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I can say you've probably spoken for me in this post.

    I'm old enough to be that guy that wants less people in his life. I'm fine with what little friends I have, my family and my dog's. The rest is noise, and I'll deal with it only if I want to, otherwise, there's plenty of animé, books and documentaries I can fill my solo time with, for the rest, I'll always have the main 3 I mentioned.

    I guess I did turn into that "grumpy old guy" I 🤣🤣

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The silver lining of having friends that won't leave those platforms for nothing in the world is being able to interact with those businesses through them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You're absolutely right. I also found that, by leaving those platforms, now I know who my real friends are. Back then it was all chat, social networks and no personal interaction as such. Today, we call each other regularly, get together way more often, and when we say "later man" it can mean any time when we call or meet again, so I get to go back to my own stuff without being constantly interrupted by people constantly sending memes or saying "hi" on some shit platform just to see how long I take to respond.

    When I want to get my fill of what's going on in the things that do interest me, there's Lemmy, Mastodon, Nostr and actual news (many, so that I can decide what I believe in the media without following political inclinations).

    I can honestly say that my mental health, and my life as a whole, has improved exponentially since I made this move. I also get to deal with BS like people trying to justify staying in some platforms, maybe rile them up a bit, and then move on without a care.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Even for companies that have sites, they often get more people contacting them through social media instead of their site. Social media sites tend to have better SEO.

    That's especially the case for younger people as they search Instagram and TikTok more than Google. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2024/03/11/genz-dumping-google-for-tiktok-instagram-as-social-search-wins/ ).

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I guess understandable for initial discovery, but it's on the lawyer if they didn't hand out a contact card with email phone and whatnot to all clients

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