Comments on: The Death of Facebook

By: Mike.V

Mike.V — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 17:50:58 +0000

Facebook is imploding. I disabled my account again last week. Here’s a great video on the subject of Facebook promotion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag

By: Richard Ma

Richard Ma — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 02:16:21 +0000

Good points, I think it’s got a lot with them being driven by shareholders since they went public.

I remember having this discussion a while ago with a few mates and their own businesses from bloggers to other services. We pretty much agreed with your sentiments that it was risky, what they passed onto me was that overall reliance on a 3rd part like Google or FB can have it’s risks and what’s worse we can’t really insure stuff like SEO rankings or reach on FB.

It’s good that your producing good quality content that will still have organic reach and traffic to your sites.

Still gotta set up this meeting mate, but the rain is bad for detailing and it hasn’t stopped!

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:02:06 +0000

FB have dug their own grave long ago with this BS. I’m a firm believer in social means jack shit if the conversions to buying are low.

From such huge likes, how many are customer conversions?

By: Justin Fox

Justin Fox — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:36:06 +0000

Bang on Mark! I’m all over it (can’t help myself haha!).

By: Mark S.

Mark S. — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 23:54:44 +0000

Hi Justin, good to catch up with you over the weekend.

As i mentioned to you i am in the same boat with my online business. I am at the mercy of eBay and their ever changing algorithms and practices in the way they run their “Best Match” search listing system. The importance of being at the top of the search list is so great on eBay it can mean going from $1000’s in sales to what i am experiencing right now, very little in sales (75% drop to be exact over the past 12 months)

This is why its never good to put all your eggs in one basket. I made a decision to start my own e-commerce website, which is doing well and picking up the slack. However having neglected eBay for a little while, i now have to go back and pick it up there again as well.

I always wonder to myself how long i can ride the e commerce train. I have to re develop my website every 2-3 years which costs alot of money. They who knows, some new medium will come out and then i will have to jump on that band wagon as well.

In short, business is always evolving. Facebook will not be around forever IMO, and you need to start setting yourself up now to protect your business and its following by churning them to other social media. You probably already know this and are doing it right now anyway. Your a pretty switched on dude, you’ve been online most of your life! Don’t stress about it too much and just keep pushing forward. End of the day, you love what you do, its a passion and you got to keep that fire burning :)