Twentieth Raymond Quinn Facebook Post 4.15.2024

Part of my marketing strategy is cross pollination between LinkedIn and Facebook.

I will repost one or two of these FB posts in my LI feed every few days. Those on LI who are writing or thinking about writing a book, may want to follow my experiences marketing and producing my book.

I quickly discovered there is a 3,000 character limit for normal LI posts, which I exceeded my second attempt. So I went to plan B; putting the Facebook posts in LI "Articles", each of which allow up to 125,000 characters.

My first attempt three days ago failed. Every time I opened an LI Article template, the page froze. The only solution was to close and reopen Chrome.

LI support gave me three options, two of which were use another browser and/or try incognito in Chrome.

Both worked, but since I live in Chrome, and didn't like the inconvenience of either of them, I considered the third alternative: Remove all browser extensions in Chrome.

While that may have worked, I need some of those extensions, and decided to first turn all of them off rather than removing them. I would then turn them back on one at a time, testing to see if that fixed the problem.

It did until I closed and reopened Chrome. While they were all still off, the frozen page problem was back.

Don't give up, can't give up, keep trying!

The next step was removing them one at a time, checking to see if the problem persisted. About a half dozen extension tests later, I found and removed the culprit.

So what does all this mean to you writing your book, possibly using social media sites to promote it?

If your eyes glazed over at the mention of character limits, browser extensions, and/or incognito tabs, get use to it.

These and many others are normal annoyances, some of which (not all) get easier to deal with the more you encounter and discover solutions and workarounds.

But that takes time, in this case for me, three days waiting for LI to tell me what to do plus time to experiment.

All the technology that so enables us, occasionally disables us. If your not comfortable with technology, commit to becoming so.

If you don't, your alternative is to pay others a lot of money to do what you don't know how to do, don't want to learn to do, or both.

And that will be a subject for the next post.