Social Media Shutdown. What Would You Do? | FilmingLife®: The Podcast for Photographers & Filmmakers
In this episode of FilmingLife®: The Podcast for Photographers & Filmmakers your hosts Courtney Holmes and Kylie Purtell chat with Australian Photographer
Karen Webb about what it’s like to wake up and find your Facebook
business page has been shut down with no warning.
You’ll hear Courtney, Kylie & Karen chat about:
• Why Australian facebook pages were banned so suddenly
• The impact of losing one of your business communication channels
• Steps you can take to make sure you have a way to communicate with both booked & potential clients outside of social media
• The importance of setting up an email list and customer management software, as well as which newsletter provider you could use
Karen Webb is an Australian photographer based in Albury, NSW.
Her Facebook was suddenly shutdown 2 weeks ago when it was caught up in the Facebook/Australian Government stoush over the Governments new Media Bargaining laws. You can find out what happened here.
Along with Karen’s business Facebook page, other important information pages were also caught up in the ban, including local health & emergency services pages, the national weather service page and charity pages that provide vital access to support.
As of 26th February 2021 Facebook has reinstated all news & other pages, including Karen’s, but it’s taught Australians, and particularly Australian small-businesses how dangerous it can be to rely on Facebook as our only source of information or communication.
It’s reinforced the need for making sure we have multiple ways to stay in contact and reach our clients, and we recommend Mail Chimp and Flodesk for email marketing, as well as Studio Ninja for customer/business management.
You can find out more about Karen via her website - www.capturebykaren.com.au - Facebook & Instagram @capture_by_karen
