Joshua Canter is vice president of digital advocacy at McGuire Woods Consulting, where he uses digital tools to influence legislation and shape public policy. His work spans multi-million dollar ad campaigns, interactive platforms, organic content, and full-scale omnichannel strategies — all focused on driving real-world impact.
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Political Facebook ads keep getting more and more difficult.
Once upon a time, the only thing you need to run political ads on Facebook was a business page and a credit card. The 2016 Presidential election changed all that.
Facebook has added numerous new policies to prevent misuse.
This is a short episode, adapted from an article I wrote 5 years, about the importance of engaging with positive comments on social media. It’s as true today as it was the day I wrote it. So I wanted to share it with you, my podcast listeners.
One of my favorite podcasts, Reply All, just did a whole episode trying to track down something that wasn’t showing up on Google. If they had remembered that Facebook, while first and foremost is a social media channel, is also a search engine, they could have saved themselves a whole lot of time and energy.
Step Up Your Social Ep. 7
There are 5 keywords that, when used in a post on Facebook, automatically limit your post’s reach. Facebook has labeled the tactic in question as “Engagement Bait.”
While Engagement Bait first started being penalized in the Facebook algorithm over a year ago, Facebook just recently began applying their penalties to video content, as well as to text.
You start a new Facebook brand page. It’s only natural to invite everyone you know to like the page.
The problem is, you’re actually hurting your page’s future growth when you invite people who like you — but don’t care about your brand — to like your Facebook brand page.
If you run ads on Facebook without first building quality audiences, it’s like you’re standing in the street, throwing expensive flyers in the air, and hoping for the best.
Facebook offers you the opportunity to microtarget based on tons of different factors.
“Stories” are the Facebook response to Snapchat — fun, quirky bits of content that disappear after 24 hours.
Throughout the Facebook Universe — WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, people are currently sharing over a billion stories every day!
Instagram Stories alone has over 400 million daily active users — more than twice as many as Snapchat.
Joshua Canter is vice president of digital advocacy at McGuire Woods Consulting, where he uses digital tools to influence legislation and shape public policy. His work spans multi-million dollar ad campaigns, interactive platforms, organic content, and full-scale omnichannel strategies — all focused on driving real-world impact.