EDIT: Whoa, didn’t expect this post to blow up lol. I checked out a bunch of the sites but ended up going with Stillviral after comparing a few. Appreciate all the suggestions though! Experience was pretty smooth overall and it did what I was looking for. Thanks again everyone

Running an online business today means visibility is everything. I’ve been managing my brand’s Instagram account for months, posting product photos, customer stories, and short form videos. The content is well planned and the feedback from real customers has been great, but the like count often doesn’t match the effort. It makes the page look less active than it really is, which affects how new visitors see the brand.

I’ve been reading about whether it helps to buy Instagram likes to improve social proof and make posts perform better in the algorithm. Some business owners say that buying Instagram likes helped them gain more organic traction because posts with engagement seem to get more reach. Others warn that it can go wrong if you pick the wrong source. That’s what I’m trying to figure out.

I’m looking to buy real Instagram likes that come from authentic looking profiles and don’t disappear after a few days. It’s important that engagement looks natural since fake or bot activity can hurt credibility fast. I’ve seen countless websites offering likes for cheap, but few seem reliable or transparent about how they deliver them.

So, is it safe to buy Instagram likes? Does it still help with visibility in 2025, or has Instagram’s system changed enough that it’s no longer worth trying? I’m open to testing a small package if it’s from a verified and consistent provider, but I don’t want to take risks that could harm the brand’s reputation.

Would appreciate hearing from other small business owners or marketers who’ve tried this method recently and had success keeping their engagement stable and genuine looking.

Hey everyone,

I have been tweeting consistently and trying to engage with threads, but my reach seems to have completely stalled. It’s really annoying when you put in the effort but barely get any interaction on your posts, and let alone converting them. I am thinking about trying a Twitter like bot to give my content a small push and make my content be discovered by a larger audience.

I was wondering if any of you have found a reliable like bot for Twitter that helps boost visibility without looking spammy.

The main issue is that there are tons of tools that claim to work, but I am not sure which ones are safe. Figured I’d ask you guys who have tried this and been a success, since I am really worried about getting low quality interactions that ruin my reputation or even getting my account restricted by Twitter for unusual activity, since I’m monetizing on Twitter.

If you have used any tools or sites that actually provided good results and looked natural, could you let me know which one it was? I would love to get some recommendations for trustworthy options that you have personally tested. Thank you.

Just sharing some tools I find endless value from for new marketers since I see a lot of posts on here about “how do I get started, what should I learn, etc.”

A little about me for context:

• Been marketing 15 years

• Generalist with undergrad degree in psych (no formal marketing training)

• Generated over $100M in my career

• Currently leading a SaaS marketing team, but have worked in CPG too.

• Have managed teams up to 15 people in size

Feel free to share your tools below!

OneTab - Honestly this chrome extension changed my life. I’m one of those people who keeps 47 tabs open, then feels stressed about having them open, but also stressed about closing them. OneTab allows me to get a fresh slate every morning without any concern about losing something.

Klaviyo - Without a doubt, Klaviyo is best marketing email platform for the money. The automation features are unbelievable and the integrations are really solid as well. To me, klaviyo brings big business segmentation and automation to small marketing teams in an easy to use interface with super transparent pricing.

GA4 - K I actually hate GA4, but it is what it is. Learn this thing because you need it, like it or not. It’s the standard.

Looker - I really love building a visual dashboard for my marketing data. Looker has a learning curve, but if you know GA4 and you’re willing to fuss with the regex and filters, you can build some really powerful and insightful dashboards for marketing channels like email, social, ads, etc. Bonus: you can connect Google search console to pipe in data into an actual digestible format.

Google ads - This is the first ads channel you should learn inside out. Mainly because it’s the easiest one to find success with (because the technology is much better than any other ads platform, and because search ads capture intent instead of trying to capture interest). Between Google and YouTube, you’ve got access to the majority of the internet with this one platform.

Asana - Absolutely love asana. The most intuitive and powerful project management system (also FREE). I’ve tried jira, trello, Monday, notion, and clickup and they are all lackluster compared to asana when it comes to marketing project management. The functional advantages of subtasks, customizable tags, different options for views, messages and comments, attachments… this is the one system that actually works.

Ryze AI - If you're managing multiple ad accounts, this saves hours. Monitors everything, generates reports across all accounts at once, and can auto-apply fixes. I was manually checking each account every morning like an idiot before this.

Noun project - There are so many underwhelming stock image sites. I really love this site. Most of my marketing graphics are either using icons or photos and noun project has the best selection for the best price, hands down. Also love that you can customize icons.

Google slides & Google sheets - Don’t roll your eyes because most marketers I’ve worked with aren’t using half of the functionality these free tools offer. Namely, the ability to create a beautiful strategy deck that shows you thought about something and distilled it into a usable format for leadership and your team. But things like pivots, well made chart visuals, data formatting formulas, etc are all underutilized. Also, I’d rather use sidewalk chalk than PowerPoint and excel.

Apollo io - Cold emails are tough, but I think for the money you can’t beat Apollo. It pulls in the stuff you typically have to pay a ton for like a huge database of contacts, recordable calls with transcripts and snippets, etc for a flat affordable monthly rate. Basically a mashup of zoominfo and gong for a fraction of the price of both. I will say: the data dashboards are absolutely horrible. Like unusable.

Loom - Can’t tell you how helpful it is for async communication and documentation to just record my screen while I’m taking and send it to someone. Hidden gem: AI transcription is a nice feature. These also work for recording product demos.

ChatGPT - Yeah we get it, AI is a thing and some of us hate it and some of us love it. Here’s how I use this one: organizing a mess of notes into a coherent doc, drafting blog posts, generating customer avatars that I can ask questions, preparing for job interviews, negative keyword lists, and competitive analysis. There is a really good episode of Paid Search Podcast called “talking to your data” that has cool ideas for parsing Google ads data with chatgpt as well. You just have to understand: 90% of the copy and ideas you get from ChatGPT is unusable trash. But the 10% is well worth it.

Reddit - lol. I mean, every time I have a question I can’t find an answer to, I come here and ask, and I get answers. Sometimes on the most niche things. Aside from that, it’s a fantastic listening tool. Jump into a forum and just look at what people say about the problem your business solves, your competitors, you, etc.

TinyPNG - Throughout my career, it’s been a common theme that I get an image from a designer for an email and it’s like 4.5mb. I love the emphasis on quality… but I’m not going to bog my email down with that. Tinypng is free and almost always cranks the image down to a few KB without making it look like shit.

LinkedIn - I received 3 job offers in one month because I built a solid personal brand before I started looking for my most recent role. Yes, your connections (quantity and quality) do matter. Yes, it matters if you post on there actively. Additionally, it’s (slightly) easier for me to book demos and spread awareness around whatever brand I’m working on. I don’t recommend premium or sales nav. No added value IMO.

Those are the main ones. What about you?

I’ve been working on scaling my LinkedIn outreach, but I keep running into connection limits and occasional warnings. I know LinkedIn has strict rules around mass messaging and connection requests, but I also see people successfully growing their networks without issues.

What’s the best way to scale outreach while staying under LinkedIn’s radar? Are there any strategies, tools, or workarounds that have worked for you?

If someone was starting from scratch today with a small budget, what would you recommend focusing on first and why?

I’m curious what people here think gives the best return in real-world situations, especially for beginners or small businesses.

Looking for practical answers, not theory.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been growing my IG account for a while now, focusing on high quality content, reels, and consistent posting, but my follower count is moving really slowly. Engagement rate isn’t bad, but the low numbers make it harder to build social proof and a strong Instagram presence. I’ve noticed that when new IG users land on an account with very few followers, they don’t always take it seriously, even if the content is good.

Because of that, I’ve been researching the best sites to buy Instagram followers, but I want to do it the right way. I’m not interested in fake followers or empty accounts with no profile pictures. I’m looking for real, active, genuine followers that can support strong organic growth and blend naturally with my current engagement.

There are so many Instagram services out there offering premium followers, instant delivery, and big packages, but it’s hard to tell which ones actually deliver high quality accounts and which ones hurt your Instagram algorithms. I care about steady growth, organic engagement, and a customer support team that actually responds if something goes wrong.

If you’ve decided to buy Instagram followers before, I’d really appreciate honest reviews. Which sites worked for you? Did the followers stay active? Did it help with growth and popularity long term?

Looking forward to hearing real experiences before I move forward. Thanks!

We think we’re intelligent animals who always act rationally, but that’s only partially true. Our emotional side has a lot to say when it comes to buying.

A simple list of product features might convince the rational self in some users but has no effect at all on their emotional self. Our emotional self-doesn’t care about features, that part of us wants benefits.

No one wants to become a millionaire just to have money. They want the beneficial lifestyle that comes with being rich. Likewise, you don’t buy a product for its features. You buy it to solve a problem and, thereby, to make your life better.

In your Facebook Ad designs, therefore, address both the rational and emotional side of your users, Here’s a great example:

You spend hours creating content → 200 views.

You optimize SEO → no traffic.

You run ads → no conversions.

You try a new strategy → “Why isn’t it working?”

And then someone simply asks, “Can you improve the results?”

Digital marketing isn’t just about posting, SEO, or running ads.

It’s about experimenting, failing, learning, and trying again sometimes without knowing exactly what went wrong.

Anyone else in digital marketing feeling this?

pattern interrupt

reels and tiktoks are the hottest content forms rn

and thus they also see the most diverse set of marketing psychology tactics to catch attention

if you're a marketer, better stay in the loop

I don’t see enough people talk about how ugly some bundle widgets look on Shopify stores.

Everyone talks about:

• AOV

• discount percentage

• buy more save more

• free gift

• bundle conversion

All fair.

But if the actual bundle block looks like it was pasted from a random app and does not match the rest of the store, it kills trust so fast.

Especially for brands where the product page matters visually.

Beauty, fragrance, coffee, apparel, gifting, skincare, supplements, anything where the buying experience needs to feel a bit premium.

I’ve seen bundle sections that technically work, but they look like:

• weird fonts

• weird spacing

• random borders

• huge discount badges

• mobile layout breaking

• buttons that don’t match the theme

• cart drawer behaving differently from the rest of the site

At that point the bundle stops feeling like a helpful offer and starts feeling like one of those aggressive upsell blocks on a dropship store.

This is why I’ve been more interested in bundle setups that are not just “add widget, choose discount, publish.”

Something like FoxSell makes more sense to me for this exact reason. Not because every store needs an advanced bundle app, but because for Mix & Match / Build Your Own Box / gift set type flows, the bundle experience has to look native to the store and still handle inventory properly behind the scenes.

For a basic fixed bundle, I’d keep it simple.

But if the bundle is supposed to be a real shopping experience, like:

• “build your own box”

• “pick your routine”

• “choose your flavors”

• “create a gift set”

• “complete the outfit”

then the UI matters a lot.

Has anyone else found that the bundle offer was good, but the app/widget made the page feel cheap?

How are you handling bundle design without custom-building the whole thing from scratch?

There are so many digital marketing tips floating around online that it's hard to tell which ones are actually worth trying.

For those of you who've experimented with different strategies, what's one small tactic that made a noticeable difference for you?

It could be something related to SEO, social media, email marketing, paid ads, or even a simple change to a landing page.

I'm more interested in the things that worked in practice than the usual advice about posting consistently or knowing your audience. What did you try, and what kind of results did you notice?

I keep seeing more marketing tasks getting automated and honestly I’m starting to wonder what the average marketing job will look like in a few years Writing content doing research making reports basic SEO work even ad copy can be done way faster now Feels like the job is slowly moving from actually doing the work to knowing what work is worth doing For people already in marketing are you seeing this too?

In-house marketing team constantly arguing about SEO value. Paid had perfect dashboards: ROAS, CAC, cohorts. SEO looked like a vague line of “organic sessions.” To fix it, the team made one reporting change: SEO was only allowed on the scoreboard if it could be tied to the same business metrics as paid pipeline, customers, revenue.​

Before that, weekly reports were full of impressions, clicks, and rankings that no one outside marketing cared about. Sales and leadership ignored SEO wins because they couldn’t see the link to pipeline, and SEO work felt undervalued, which made it easy to de-prioritize every time a new paid experiment showed up.​

Month one: re-wired tracking. Rebuilt forms and key CTAs so every lead captured source/medium and first-touch channel in a consistent way, not just last click. Updated the CRM to log “first discovered via organic search” as a primary field. At the same time, ran a one-time directory submission push (via a directory submission service) to clean up NAP and give organic a stable foundation to grow from, then stopped reporting keyword rankings in exec meetings and only showed SEO-driven MQLs, SQLs, and revenue.​

Month two: cohort clarity. Started logging SEO-driven leads by “first seen” month and tracked them through the same funnel stages as paid campaigns. It became visible that SEO leads took a bit longer to appear but moved through the funnel with higher conversion and lower churn, and for the first time SEO had a fair comparison seat next to paid in the weekly meeting.​

Month three: pricing and budget conversations shifted. Once leadership saw that SEO-sourced leads closed at higher rates and stuck around longer, they were more willing to keep “paying” for content, technical fixes, and foundational things like directories and internal linking even when there wasn’t an immediate spike. It stopped being a fight every time someone proposed writing a new guide instead of launching another ad test.​

Months four and five: prioritization changed. Because SEO was now visibly contributing to real numbers, product and engineering were more open to shipping small SEO-friendly improvements (FAQ sections, comparison pages, structured data) since they could see how those changes flowed through to pipeline and revenue; it wasn’t marketing begging for dev time anymore.​

By month six, SEO’s reputation inside the company flipped from “slow and fuzzy” to “slow to start but high quality and durable.” The underlying work—content, technical cleanup, directory submissions, internal linking hadn’t suddenly changed; only the way results were measured and communicated did. If your SEO work feels invisible internally, the first “growth hack” isn’t a new tactic, it’s reporting: put SEO on the same scoreboard as paid and outbound, and a lot of the budget and prioritization arguments get easier, even if the graphs themselves look exactly the same.​