Followers: 6,147 Close to the beginning of my project, I talked about what a business account on Instagram will get you (namely, statistics). As your account grows, it seems like Instagram will “level you up” in terms of what you can/can’t do. Here’s the list …
Followers: 6,038 Last week I posted about making my first Instagram collaboration for pay, but they don’t always go so smoothly. Soon after that company contacted me I was contacted by another person looking for a post-for-pay type deal. The Initial Approach It was going …
I started doing Amazon Reviews in November of 2016. My ranking at the time was past the 7 million mark (Amazon has a lot of customers). I started tracking my reviewer ranking in March, when I reached a rank of #190,607 and five months later I’ve reached the rank of #36,658 with 52 reviews and 195 upvotes.
In honor of being in (at least) the top 5% of reviewers on Amazon, I’m going to comb through all 52 of my reviews to see which ones were the most helpful and why. Continue reading Amazon Reviews Milestone: Reviewer Ranking Under 50k
5,774 Followers First of all: The fact that over five thousand people care about pictures of me and my computer completely baffles me Second of all: Today I was approached by a company who wants to pay me to make posts about their company Third of all: I’ve …
Amazon Ranking #51,485 After doing this for a little over six months, I’ve pieced together some bits about the Amazon ranking algorithm. There’s no way they update the ranking every single day There have been periods where I’ve gone up to 32 days without my …
The simple desire to be liked is a social tool that bridged over to social media as quickly as the “like” button was added to posts and has exploded into something that can completely take over someone’s life. I’ve heard girls in line at Starbucks genuinely upset about exes liking their boyfriend’s posts, I’ve read articles about youngn’s getting together to form “like” groups that will propel pictures to viral stardom, and Black Mirror released an episode this year where everyone lives in a society where the number of likes you get as a person determines your quality of life: where you can live, and what places you can go to. For some people, it seemed less like “dystopian reality” and more like “reality.”
Watching likes roll in is quite literally as addictive as a drug, sparking feel-good hormones in your brain and allowing you to easily waste and hour or two just refreshing your screen hoping to get more attention. If you’re trying to grow a social media account, then the “likes” mean even more because they are a predictive tool for how the account is going: more is always better.
Whether you have 200 followers or 20k, here are a few things that are symptomatic of needing a little time off from your notifications: Continue reading Instagram: Symptoms that Your Instagram Account is Trapping You
Amazon ranking: #51,485 I’ve talked previously about Amazon’s policies about reviewers and how it’s changed in the past year. As an ardent rule follower, the idea of being on the wrong side of the government really irks me (it’s weighed about equally with my curiosity …
I had a brand reach out to me about a month ago that does tutorials for development. They asked if I’d recommend them to my followers, I said I couldn’t unless I actually knew what they did (trying to be ethical and authentic here) and …
Continue reading Amazon Reviews: Encouraging Contact from the Other Side
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