The Extra Shot

Are you old enough to remember when Twitter was just text? Or when Facebook had a 'status update'? If so you might get a burst of nostalgia with Instagram notes. They're popular with teens, could they be popular with the older generation too? May King and Amanda are joined by special guests Abi Sea and Tim Lewis on this week's show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You can now create your own stickers on Instagram and use them in your stories. How could businesses use this new feature? May King and Amanda discuss some options in this episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Turns out, TikTok isn't just for youngsters and it isn't just a social network. May King and Amanda discuss how search isn't just about Google and Bing anymore and what we can do to make our content discoverable on social. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Threads is launching its API. The thing that connects it to third party tools including scheduling and social media management. Are we about to be hit with a flood of scheduled marketing posts? Will it make Threads a less exciting place to be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Would you like to engage like no one was watching? Back in September, it was rumoured that Instagram would let you hide your post engagements from other people.  It doesn't seem to have been rolled out but would it be a good thing? Do you fear engaging with accounts? Maybe you worry about a backlash? Maybe you just can't keep up with replies? Maybe you prefer a one-2-one conversation in direct mes...

Back in August we reported on a new feature which thankfully, doesn't seem to have made it to Instagram yet. The feature would allow you to quickly tag multiple people in a post. Who loves to be tagged in irrelevant Instagram posts? Not me! But Meta seems keen on tagging and there isn't a day that passes that I don't get a notification that I've been tagged, with everyone, in a Facebook group or o...

Amanda looks back on a 'classic' episode where we see Twitter change it's name to X. Were we impressed? Maybe not but Barbies extensive marketing did get out praise, and we had a disagreement about Nike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Businesses are great at promoting their events and launches before they happen, but they often forget to promote them during and after. May King tells us why this is a crucial part of FOMO creation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda took a week out of the regular day-to-day of running her business to plan the future of the business. Did it work? What did she do? What did she learn? May King asks her all the questions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this bonus episode, May King and Amanda discuss the addition of social links to Google Business Profiles. Why is linking to social important? Why are Google Business Profiles important? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Instagram is officially testing a new feature that will let you share your stories with select groups of people. A fabulous feature for businesses that serve more than one type of customer. Plus this week's internet winner is a bunch of Twitter/X users who are quietly protesting one of the platform changes. The loser is a rather bizarre TikTok Meme generator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

FOMO is usually associated with an event. Whether it's a launch, an online summit or an in-person meet-up, people who don't attend get the FOMO. But FOMO creator and co-host May King tells us that you can actually create FOMO about anything you do. And she tells us how. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reddit is taking away the ability to opt-out of personalised ads on the site. Except for in some countries (we're guessing EU countries). It says that users will see better, more relevant ads as a result. Which is great for advertisers, but do people really care if they see relevant ads? We're not sure... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Would you pay to get rid of ads on social media? TikTok is testing a new subscription service that offers and ad free experience. But will people be willing to pay to get rid of ads there. May King & Amanda discuss this topic with their friends on LinkedIn. They also talk about this week's internet winner, Canva, that just launched a rake of easy to use AI tools. And the internet loser... Learn mo...

Is everything just a vanity metric? Even your sales figure? May King is away creating FOMO this week so the show is a bit different. We get into the nitty-gritty of vanity metrics. What is a vanity metric? Can any metric be a vanity metric? Including sales revenue? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imagine you bought something from a shop, when you got it home you found out it was faulty, but when you bring it back to the shop they won't help you out unless you pay them for customer service. Is this what Meta is doing by asking businesses to pay for their 'Verified' service? May King and Amanda get ranty in this bonus episode of The Extra Shot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

We can only hope that this was a flight of fancy from Elon Musk. In a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Musk suggested he may start charging everyone a small monthly fee to use X. Apparently it’s a bid to combat bots. The problem is, whilst it may help get rid of bots, it will definitely help get rid of humans. It reminded me to cancel my premium account. However, who th...

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People are posting and engaging on social media publicly less than they ever have before. Which leaves the social platforms with a problem. Less content, less engagement will make the whole place less interesting for users. And, it means less space from ads. So Instagram are testing the option to hide your like engagement from users. Will this encourage more people to engage, knowing that their bo...

Meta, X (formally known as Twitter) and now TikTok are all vying to be the one social network to rule them all. Like WeChat in China they want to *be* the internet. We think it's a bad idea. But there's a rumour that TikTok is about to ban links to external e-commerce sites like Amazon, they deny it but it would make sense if they want to be the ONE. There's fun news too. Amanda talks about one bi...

Reg Friddle works with managers to make their lives easier. In this episode we talk about the challenges managers face and how to get out of the cycle of firefighting and micro-managing Subscribe to Reg's Webinar here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElcO2tqj8jH9XelfTRFjRiIxzocOzTvsDZ#/registration And visit his website here: https://www.preferred-future.com/ Learn more about your ad ch...

This week, May King and Amanda are joined by Reg Friddle. They discuss how the Rolling Stones won the internet and how scammers on X lost it. The hot topic of the week is how to get more comments on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elon Musk says he's getting rid of the block feature on X (formally Twitter). Is this a terrible idea? May King and Amanda talk about the people they block and why we really need this feature. We also talk about the new CEO and some of Musk's other weirdness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, May King tells us why it's important to create content for the lurkers on social media. Who are the lurkers? Why do you need them? Why is talking to them important for FOMO? Find out. This is a replacement episode for this week's LinkedIn Live because someone (looks at Amanda) messed up the recording. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May King and Amanda discuss a new way to tag on Instagram. Which could be super useful or terribly spammy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices