Is Pinterest losing interest in Small Businesses?

One of the sad facts about Social Media sites are as they grow big they basically seem to forget were they came from. As they grow they look towards the bigger companies and larger contracts leaving small businesses with less options, tighter restrictions, no safeguards and a we don’t care attitude.

After reviewing the complaints people have including myself it appears that customer service is hugely lacking. Direct questions are no longer answered. customer service has a cut and paste approach and the big company takes on an adversarial attitude they would rather prove you wrong then do what is right.

After pointing out errors in their judgments and requesting a resolution all  communications ceased.

The problem was for years I’ve used buy-able pins with very limited success. I devised a method to organically build traffic to my website. Recently I started getting sales with more frequency and they cut me off. I complied with them and they used some old pins that were dead links “in my feed” as examples. None of the products they listed were on my website. When I let them know the dialog ended.

I checked the BBB rating for them it is an “F” which is very poor. Even Walmart has a “D” which is far better. The most common complaint was customer service complaints.There was no person to speak with and the majority of any responses were cut and paste from the website. These dot coms become disconnected with the community that helped build them up and consider us all information and data sources to be exploited and used. as more of this comes to light there will be more congressional hearings.

In the User agreement it says boldly we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone and we can remove you and work at anytime for any reason.We had those kind of policies in the south during segregation. The internet is no longer the free place it used to be as these Behemoths decide out policies for Social Interaction. A peer to peer system that eliminates these middlemen, that allows encryption of our data and ensures our right to privacy in our communications will be  at the forefront in our futures.

I won’t be spending any Ad dollars with anyone that stifles the free expression of thoughts ideas and products with censorship and political self righteousness.

 

Adapting to the Digital Age for the Middle Aged.

If you are over 50 like me and have ever thought of having an online business or generate income online it can be a confusing and frustrating experience.  We will be exploring ways that people just like us including myself to create a buffer against the high cost of living using low cost and no cost techniques to create wealth and enjoy a care free lifestyle offline.

There are many subjects we could delve into however eCommerce  is going to be the focus of this discussion.

I searched for at least a year then came upon an eCommerce platform that had everything I could ask for rolled up into a user friendly package. I was able to create a website get a domain name , merchant processing including all the popular ones like pay-pal and Amazon pay. Through organic(free self generated) ads placed strategically online I was able to sell my targeted products with a high conversion rate without having a huge amount of useless traffic. It pays for itself and pays a few bills. I’m not even trying that hard. I’m just following the advice of the folks running my platform. Throughout this series of blogs we will explore the path I chose to create wealth in the digital age and how this lifestyle can benefit those who want to have more freedom in choosing what they do with their time.

Click Here for a great example! He created an automated t-shirt company with no money had over 1400 dollars in his pocket in 3 weeks!

CLICK HERE!  for a complete tutorial on how to create your very own online t-shirt business.

Ok so the T-shirt business is sooooo great because it requires no inventory! You choose the design, you choose the prices and styles. Through an app in the platform you link up with a T-shirt printing company and sub out the work. You simply collect the money and do the accounting. The best part is its free to try for 15 days before you buy and you can quit anytime. Give it a try and let me know if you need any help! 🙂

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