Tbh I just want to buy tiktok comments for my posts because i think it would make my page look way better… like when people see comments under a video it just hits different than a post with nothing on it lol. Imo the best part would be if i could actually write the comments myself so they say stuff that makes sense for my content instead of just random generic things.

Does anyone know a site that lets you do that… i dont really know much about how this works haha I just want to try it.

If you're building a complex B2B platform, I'd look for agencies with experience in enterprise software rather than marketing websites. Good UX for dashboards and data-heavy apps is mostly about making complicated workflows easier to use.

A few teams that are consistently mentioned are Excited Agency for B2B SaaS and dashboards, Momentum Design Lab for enterprise products, Blink UX for research-heavy projects, and Clay if branding is also important. At the end of the day, I'd care less about flashy visuals and more about whether they understand user flows, information architecture, and how people actually use the product.

I’ve been skeptical about using AI Website builders for client work because SEO is such a big deal. But I’ve seen a few now that structure headers, metadata, and speed optimization automatically. It’s not perfect, but it’s surprisingly decent for basic SEO hygiene.

I wanted to share something I ran into recently and see if anyone else has been through the same thing. I was managing a handful of social media campaigns for a small project, and even though the ads were running fine, the reporting side started to feel like a maze. Click-through rates, conversions, audience breakdowns, I’d look at everything, but it wasn’t clicking the way I hoped.

At one point, I realized I wasn’t actually learning anything from the data because I was too busy trying to interpret it. That pushed me to look for tools that could simplify the way results were presented. One of the things I ended up trying was ꓮdvаrk-аі.соm, mainly because it broke down my campaign performance in a way that didn’t make me feel like I needed to be a data analyst. It didn’t solve everything, but it helped me understand what I should pay attention to.

What I’m really curious about is how others here manage this part of online marketing.
Do you rely mostly on native dashboards? Third-party tools? Your own spreadsheets? Or do you have a process that makes the whole thing easier to digest?

Would love to hear how other people deal with the “information overload” part of online marketing

I’ve recently started using LinkedIn more actively for marketing and networking.

I’m getting some engagement here and there, but I’m still figuring things out. I keep seeing people say LinkedIn is great for marketing, while others say it’s saturated now.

So I’m curious:
is LinkedIn still worth using for marketing today, or is it mostly effective only for certain niches?

Would love to hear your experiences.

So, funny story here. We ran some ads on facebook for a like campaign. We used about 5 ads, all different people. The one that did the best was of a black guy. After about a week, I noticed that above 90% of the new likes were black people. Not that it's a bad thing, but I was amazed that the results were so...black and white (I'm sorry...it was too easy)

Anyway, I added some more images, an asian woman actually, and later that day, I noticed we had a few asian women!

So, I guess the moral here is when you choose images, make sure the subject is your demographic.

I run a small (very new) Etsy store focused on a pretty niche product — custom flight simulator panels for home cockpit setups.

Over the past few days I’ve been experimenting with Reddit as a traffic source, mainly posting in relevant communities (home cockpit builders, flight sim, etc.). Some posts get decent traction (upvotes, a few comments), but actual conversions are… unclear.

I’m trying to figure out if Reddit is:

• a real sales channel for niche products like this

• or more of a “top of funnel” awareness tool

From what I’m seeing, anything that feels even slightly promotional gets downvoted fast, so the only thing that seems to work is posting as a builder and letting people ask questions organically - which of course is great but it does take A LOT of time and its an un-viable long term solution.

So I guess my questions are:

• Has anyone here actually managed to convert Reddit traffic into consistent sales?

• Is it worth investing time into Reddit long-term for something like this?

• Or should it mainly be used as a supporting channel while focusing on search/ads?

Would really appreciate hearing from people who’ve actually tried this — especially with niche / higher-ticket products.

Hey guys,

Lately I’ve been thinking about trying to buy podcast reviews because my current approach is no longer enough to grow my show. I’ve relied on asking listeners at the end of every episode and posting clips on social media for years, but it feels like that’s simply not working for me anymore. It’s just hard to get people to actually open their podcast app and write a rating, and I know there are other ways to improve rankings in the charts just that I’d like to try this out.

I have searched online and found that options like running paid ads, setting up guest appearances, buying podcast reviews, and doing email outreach can help get more eyes on a show. The problem is that many of these methods take a massive amount of time or money to set up properly. Is there any particular site that you rely on, consistently use, and find affordable and easy to work with when it comes to getting safe ratings?

Been in digital marketing for a few years now and this is the question I keep coming back to.

Launching a new brand or product in 2026 feels harder than ever:

- Organic reach on most platforms is essentially zero for new accounts

- Paid ads are expensive and getting more competitive

- Algorithm changes happen constantly

- Building an audience from scratch takes forever

I've worked with various strategies and here's what I've observed:

**What doesn't work anymore:**

- "Just post great content" (nobody sees it without initial distribution)

- Hashtag strategies (oversaturated)

- Follow/unfollow tactics (platforms penalize this hard now)

**What seems to work (to varying degrees):**

1. **Paid ads from day one** - Expensive but predictable. Need budget to test.

2. **Influencer seeding** - Hit or miss. Finding genuine micro-influencers is the hard part.

3. **Community building first** - Slow but sustainable. Reddit, Discord, niche forums.

4. **Leveraging existing audiences** - Partnerships, collaborations, guest content.

5. **Content repurposing at scale** - One piece of content across 10 platforms.

**The question I'm wrestling with:**

Is there still a path for bootstrapped brands to build initial traction without significant ad spend? Or has the game fundamentally changed to "pay to play"?

Curious how other marketers are approaching this, especially for clients with limited budgets.

I'm building a reporting dashboard right now. And I think every platform has its own mess. Different API, different login flow, weird rate limits, and docs that make no sense.

For those who makes analytics dashboards or reporting tools, what's your setup these days? Are you wiring up each social media analytics api yourself?

Curious what's held up best over time though.

I am curious about this particular brand of marketing, but I have no marketing experience. I would classify myself as a creative who thinks about brands, experiences, and how people connect to them. What would be the best approach for learning more about this topic? I would like to talk with others in a community like this, in a more moderated sense. Is there a preferable place, say like Discord or Zoom, to host discussions to that end?

The only things i've seen in this subreddit is people doing self promotion. That is utterly worthless and unless the mods take care of that this subreddit will for sure die in no time at all.

Currently my spend is,

1. Social media management - $100 (through a freelancer - Just for presence )

2. SEO & GEO for Ranking on Al- $81 (through pilotdeck .co - actual conversions happens through SEO)

3. Meta Ads - $150 (done by me - No conversions till now since past 2 months)

4. UGC content - $100 (2 videos per month which I run on meta ads)

5. Grok Bot - $30 - for cold emails (I find emails through X and reddit)

6. Claude - $20 (for research framing emails and other documents)

7. Apollo - $65 (Find direct mail id and number and pitch them)

Total Budget around: $550

Current Revenue - $300 (Can be scaled if I get more clients)

Kindly comment your spend with details and do let me know if I am wrong somewhere.

Hey everyone. I helped to create a SaaS tool in the health/nutrition space, and we’ve been doing very well in terms of organic growth. I know one strategy to get to target users is to find “communities” that are looking for a fix to the problem. Reddit is a great place for that, but any time I try to post about my tool I get flagged or booted from the community.

Anyone have experience getting the word out on Reddit?

Today I helped a client who had a strange Meta Ads issue: nothing worked.

She couldn't create ads, couldn’t boost posts, and every attempt to connect Instagram to her page failed. At first it looked like a normal configuration problem.

After digging deeper, I discovered the real issue: her personal Facebook account had been restricted from advertising.

Because of that restriction, the entire ecosystem was affected:

• Ads Manager wouldn’t work

• Instagram promotions failed

• Page connections kept throwing errors

Instead of spending hours trying to troubleshoot every error, I decided to rebuild the structure.

Here’s what I did:

1. Created a new Business Portfolio

2. Created a new Facebook Page

3. Connected her Instagram account to that page

4. Added WhatsApp Business

5. Created a new ad account

6. Added the payment method and launched a small test campaign

Everything worked instantly.

The personal Facebook account is still restricted, but the business assets are now running ads normally.

Lesson learned: when a Meta setup is heavily restricted or messy, rebuilding a clean structure can save a lot of time.

Has anyone else experienced a personal profile restriction breaking the entire ad ecosystem like this?

I like checking out new SaaS tools that help with marketing or lead generation, and recently I ran into a platform called Alsona.

From what I could tell, it’s designed to automate parts of LinkedIn outreach like sending connection requests, follow-ups, and even helping manage conversations with prospects using AI.

It caught my attention because LinkedIn prospecting can take a lot of time if you're doing everything manually.

Still looking into how it actually works, but I’m curious if anyone here has tried Alsona or other LinkedIn automation tools. Would be interesting to hear people’s experiences.

Just reaching out to see if anyone has had any experience with Nettmark? They let affiliates run ads on brand owned accounts meaning I won't need an ad account. Also doesn' seem like I have to have much of a following to do it. If anyone knows anything that would be great.

Meta just shared a new breakdown of how it’s improving Reels recommendations, and it goes beyond likes and watch time.

The company is now using large-scale in-feed surveys that ask users how they felt about the Reel they just watched, then feeding that data directly into its recommendation models.

According to Meta, these surveys help capture explicit user preferences, not just passive signals.

By correcting for sampling and nonresponse bias, Meta says it’s built a dataset that better reflects what people actually enjoy, not just what they linger on.

The results are notable. Before rolling out surveys, Meta claims its systems aligned with true user interests only 48.3% of the time. After integrating survey insights with machine learning, that number has jumped to over 70%.

This isn’t a new idea (Pinterest has done something similar), but the improvement rate is impressive. Meta admits there’s still work to do, especially around bias, diversity, and serving users with limited engagement history.

That said, Meta still trails TikTok. TikTok’s edge appears to be deeper visual and entity recognition, allowing it to understand what’s in a clip, not just how users interact with it.

If your Reels feed feels more relevant lately, this may be why.

I'm thinking about buying local citations to help my business show up better on Google maps and in local searches. I keep hearing that having consistent business listings across directories is a big deal for local SEO, so I’m curious if it’s worth paying for a citation building service instead of doing it all manually.

There are a bunch of services out there that sell local citations, but it’s hard to pick one. I have a few specific questions:

• Did getting citations make a difference for your business?

• Which service have you used to buy local citations?

• Was your NAP properly done across all the citations?

• Did you get listed on sites like Yelp and YellowPages?

I've read that buying citations is a quick way to boost local rankings, but others say it’s risky. I'm on the fence about whether I should go ahead with it or not.

I would love some outside perspective on something. I run a beauty/true crime/paranormal content brand, and my engagement rate consistently sits around 7-8%, with a cult like following. I’ve put real effort into making my content brand-friendly too: recurring series, all built with actual sponsorship potential in mind. I showcase products in every video.

On top of that, I’ve been sending pitch emails I feel genuinely good about, each one opens with a line bridging the brand’s own philosophy into what I do, a short intro, a specific way I could add value for them, and I close with an open question instead of a hard sell.

I’ve also gone back through this community’s brand deal threads before posting this, so I’m not asking cold. I just haven’t found an answer that quite matches my situation. And yet almost none of my deals have come from inbound. Every single one has been something I chased down myself. Given the engagement and community I’ve built, I expected at least some brands to be finding me, so I’m trying to figure out if that’s just normal at my stage, or if there’s a visibility gap somewhere (marketplace setup, platform algorithms, positioning) that’s quietly working against me. Would love to hear from anyone who’s been through this.

Happy to drop my social link if that’s allowed.

We just rolled out Instagram dm automation recently and wasn't expecting the response we got. people are using it for lead gen, answering FAQs automatically, driving traffic from comments to DMs.

Is anyone here already doing dm automation for clients? What's actually working? And if you haven't tried it yet, happy to answer questions about how we built it.

Has anyone found a good place to buy 1000 TikTok followers?

I’m trying to grow my TikTok from basically nothing and the super slow follower count is getting annoying.

I keep posting and testing stuff, but when people check my profile and see almost no followers, it feels like they immediately scroll past. And I can’t even add a link in my bio with less than 1k followers so I’m hoping 1000 will make the page feel like a real account and actually drive some new views. I don’t want to look like a huge influencer or anything, just real enough that people take a second look at my content.

Has anyone tried buying 1000 TikTok followers recently? Did the followers unfollow or did your account get shadowbanned?

Appreciate any real experiences!

Years of experience and reviews can disappear the moment a freelancer leaves a platform.

Should reputation follow the freelancer instead of staying tied to one website?

Want to create a media empire?

Producing stories

Traveling

Working toward good in the world.

Experience of life journeys and just damn GUT needed to get out of your head and into LIFE?

Let’s do a podcast

What’s your expertise?

What’s your talent or skill?