0071: Do This To Get Better Responses To Your Online Questions

Raw transcript:

i’ve got a little gift for you this this
episode one thing that you can do
to get more help
get it faster
and have a better experience when
looking for guidance especially on
social media and i will share that with
you in this episode of the vo heroes
podcast
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a couple of years ago facebook made a
subtle change in how they notify people
you can sign up for notifications on
facebook on other social media channels
and i’ve seen this trend happening with
those social media channels as well let
me describe it to you it used to be that
if you set up notifications on facebook
that
while you weren’t on facebook while you
were sleeping while you were working
while you were doing anything but going
down the rabbit hole that is facebook
and other people were posting
you could choose between all posts and
highlights and following friends and
certain groups etc
they would send you an email
that
in the email had the entire post
if it was you know five paragraphs long
that’s how long the post was if it was
just one sentence that said good morning
that would be what they would send you
but a couple years ago they made a
change now when you get any notification
of a post or a comment or a reply
on facebook and again this is happening
on most of the social media networks as
well
they’re only sending you the first
dozen words maybe maybe less
maybe one line i don’t know exactly how
their algorithm is but they’re certainly
not sending you the entire thing
you know what they’re doing is they’re
creating an open loop they’re like what
the heck uh you you get this
notification you go wait wait what else
did they say i want to click on it i
want to go
uh so that’s from their perspective
what’s going on but
it also disappoints people on a regular
basis they’ll click on read more or more
or whatever the link is to go read the
rest of the post and then i didn’t want
to read that i would have loved to have
just you know seen it in my email in my
inbox and then just like gotten rid of
it or whatever
that’s on your end of the transaction
right facebook wants you to go to
facebook so you can see more ads and and
be sold more stuff you want to be
efficient with your time okay so
say you’re looking for help
on facebook
here’s the one thing you should never do
you should never waste that real estate
space
you should never waste those first few
words with things like
hey everybody hope your day is going
great or
wow it’s a really dreary day here in los
angeles but i have a question
or
um i know this has probably been asked
here a million times but
i was wondering
or
i used the search function and i didn’t
find anything so i’m asking that
listen that real estate is precious it
may be the difference between somebody
going and checking out or answering or
helping and not
because of the constant disappointment
of clicking on that read more button and
feeling like it’s a waste of your time
right
so use that real estate and get to the
point
ask your question right
what digital audio workstation do you
recommend uh you know i can’t seem to
figure out which email list
to list provider to use or even more
compact
i’m picking an email list provider help
me
or email list providers which one
question mark you can always
expand
what you’re asking in the actual message
but what you’re doing is you’re taking
advantage of that really precious real
estate in front of people’s eyes in
their inbox
and giving those people who might be
able to help you
a motivation to do so to click on that
link and read more and see what you know
see how they can help and so on it’s a
great way of increasing the engagement
in your posts and your comments and your
replies
don’t waste that real estate that’s the
big that’s the if you want
better answers if you want to get to the
to the the people who can really help
you get to the point that’s my big tip
for you today and it’s not just facebook
it’s all the other social media channels
as well who abbreviate their
notification stuff yeah okay great so
i appreciate you watching and listening
i would love it if you would gently
stroke the like button just ever so
slightly and let people know that you
like what you’re seeing here great if
you want to subscribe to this podcast or
to the channel on social media where you
found this and if you know of an actor
or a voice talent who would benefit from
this please feel free to forward to
share etc i’d really thank you for that
thank you thank you thank you i’m david
h lawrence the 17th i thank you so much
for watching and listening this
particular episode of the vo heroes
podcast
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