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As I say so often on this site, automation is a tricky subject. The right kind of automation can save you hours every day, while tedious manual tasks chug away in the background without your input. The wrong kind of …

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Welcome Them Website

If you’ve read any of my other blog posts for other sites, you know I’m generally quite cautious when it comes to automation on social media. It’s a tricky thing to get right, and I generally urge newbies to err …

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Facebook Ads Theory

Facebook measures reach in several different ways. In order to understand reach in general, you need to know how it’s measured and what actions can affect it.

The Three Types of Reach

Let’s start simple. Reach, in general, is defined …

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Instagram Influencer Marketing Example

Most of the time when we talk about buying or selling particular social actions or metrics, we go back to the si mple ones; likes, follows, comments, and shares. General advice is to avoid doing it unless you’re sure of …

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Automatic Likes on Instagram

The internet abounds with articles about purchasing automatic like services, buying likes from Fiverr vendors, and using the various gray-to-black hat automation apps to test them out. PetaPixel experimented with a like-and-follow growth bot on Instagram and found it mostly …

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Facebook Chat Bot Illustration

Over the last year or two, Facebook has been heavily pushing Messenger. What began life as the ability to direct message people on the platform has evolved into a stand-alone app. Today, if you even try to check your …

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Facebook Post Reach Low

Reach is one of those major concerns that affects everyone using social media. Reach is, quite literally, the number of people you reach with a post. On Facebook, specifically, there are three types of reach.

  • Organic Reach. These are
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Cross Promoting Examples

Cross-promotion and cross-posting on social media can be done in two ways. It can be done manually, or it can be done automatically. You’re reading a site focused on automation, so I’m a little biased in leaning towards the automatic …

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Facebook Friend Requests Amount

Automation isn’t just for Facebook Pages. There are plenty of reasons why you might want to grow a personal profile as well.

  • You’re a public figure and you’ve slipped through the cracks, able to grow a profile rather than a
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Automate Facebook Page

Automation is a tricky business. On the one hand, you have tools that have basic automation functions like scheduled posting or ad management. On the other hand, you have those software suites that create and run dozens or hundreds of …

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