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I'm not blaming anyone, I'm advising people not to introduce single points of failure into their business. You need to either ensure that any dependencies can b
by jonathanstrange 4y ago
I'm not blaming anyone, I'm advising people not to introduce single points of failure into their business. You need to either ensure that any dependencies can be replaced easily (which is hard) or diversify these dependencies in a way that failure of one of them is not catastrophic. For example, if you rely on advertising you need to diversify to Facebook, Google, Bing, Amazon, and other online advertisers instead of relying on only one of them. As I've said, it's common sense, so my apologies for stating the obvious.
- ryandrake 4y agoIt's common sense and obvious, yet whenever it gets mentioned, the messenger gets dunked on for victim blaming or whatever. Nobody's saying "don't use Facebook for your business". Rather, it's "Don't utterly rely on Facebook for your business to function (or on any other free service where you don't have a formal business arrangement with)." Somehow, this is a controversial opinion on HN.
- jcforbes 4y agoPlease educate me on how to get the potential clients to switch platforms that they use to view pictures?
- jcforbes 4y agoAdvertising only works if you advertise where the potential clients are. In my industry that means Instagram. I also do use Google ads and youtube, but the return there is a drop in the bucket compared to instagram, literally a rounding error.