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I am rekindling the Freedom Newsletter with a few changes!

Expect it to continue as a free service for the time being.

✎ Expect two to three segments per email, plus a business shout-out (reply with your business!)

• True or False - The segment where I destroy some of the marketing advice every business owner has heard (and thought was true).
• Newest Freedom Tool - A quick recap of the newest Parallel Economy tool on the internet, what it does, and whether or not it can serve your business.
• Social Media Tip - Real steps I take when I promote my clients' businesses.
• What I Learned this Week - Whether painful or pleasurable, let's see what I've experimented with this time and how it turned out.
• Website Work - If you haven't done this to your website yet, you should.
• Article Spotlight - Article I found that gives you insight into growing your sales.
• Email Marketing Mastery - Guidance to add more power to your emails.
• Take-away - Actionable steps to try this week to further your business.
• Gab Guidance - I wonder what this section is about...
• Ask me Anything - Answers to your burning questions.
• Productivity Trick - Lose the fluff so you can work less and earn more.
• Top Thread - Favorite social post with worthwhile content.

The setup looks just like reddit. It boasts free speech, but you can download it using the Google Play Store. For their sharing links they include Gab, Gettr, Insta and Twitter. You can comment, upvote, downvote, and post. 👨‍👩‍👧 You can also join or create communities. Some of the communities are political, but there are others such as Crafts, Books, Gaming, Gardening etc. So if you are looking to market your business, and your audience falls into one of the bigger communities, you can certainly use this platform to grow your traffic. 🖥️ While it is a desktop friendly site, you cannot upvote or downvote unless you are using the app. If you view it on your desktop, then you have options to like or dislike instead, which makes it look more like a social feed.

The basis of Retalk_ is to ask questions or post within a community (based on the community's subject matter) and get comments from other users. 👨‍⚖️ This original post can be judged using upvotes or downvotes based on the users of that community. The comments can also gain or lose popularity based on these votes. So, if you were an author, you might post your new book in the Books community.

🤔 My personal thoughts: While it seems like there are a lot of people in each of the more popular communities (between 1,000-4,500), it still seems like a relatively small scope of people. I think you'd be better off spending time elsewhere. Have you used retalk? If so, what did you think?

Oh the woes of using Google for your business listings. I set a lot of clients up on Google Business Listings. ✔️ It's free, people can find you easier, and the reviews are often consulted by potential customers before they call you (Don't get me wrong, I'd like to toss Google out the window, too).

However, I've had a major issue with them not posting reviews from my clients. I asked on Gab if there were any alternative review platforms that were legit and not woke. This question got shared by @Gab and thus I gained many (mostly useless) responses.

Here were the decent answers...and some I came up with.

1. 🚪 Nextdoor - An app to promote your business locally. Their business pages are legit (they require business verification before they let you post as your business) and you can collect reviews. Downside: It will limit you to more localized customers. Plus, they're still woke.
2. ✈️️ TrustPilot - A review collecting tool (many similar forms are out there) where you can request a review and display them on your website. Downside: You have to pay monthly forever to keep them displayed. Also, your customers will need to create a TrustPilot account to leave you a review. The reviews are put through an algorithm before posting so that "suspicious" reviews don't get shown. This makes me suspicious too. There is a free option.
3. 🔶 Fera for Shopify - This app is $25/month but they make it really easy to display product reviews, store reviews, and request reviews all within the app.
4. 👦 Site Reviews for Wordpress - Free app where you can use shortcodes to display reviews and collect reviews. Move reviews into categories to further focus on specific services/products.

Final Thoughts: I will be using Site Reviews for my own website right now in hopes of one day having a tool for business owners to have their own business page that is not censored.

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I've always had a passion for web design as well as advertising. Over the last year, I opened up my business to take on clients for social media, email marketing and website design. Many clients that I represent are Christian small business owners who aren't sure who to trust. Now I support these businesses while working from home and taking care of my family. Feel free to reach out for personalized business services.

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Do you use keyword research for your website traffic? It can sound like a detailed and difficult thing, but a few minor adjustments can provide significant results.

3️. Open up a Word document to write down each of the phrases and how much search volume it receives monthly. 📊 You are shooting for phrases that get between 200 and 5,000 per month search volume. If your business is already receiving a lot of traffic, you can try to "rank" for key phrases with a higher volume.

4️. Once you have a list of overall business related keywords and products/services keywords, look through your website's copy. ✏️ See where you can use these phrases in headings, text, and especially for webpage titles. If your website allows you to include meta descriptions, use it there too. And finally, rename images to match these key phrases.