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And yet I listened to a podcast once where a tax accountant explained that Instagram Search is her strongest lead pipeline.

At my dayjob we do women’s health, actual clinics with real doctors. Many of our users come from Instagram and TikTok ads. Because yes people will in fact choose their doctor based on a good Instagram/TikTok presence. In fact any time I mention the brand to female friends who live in our target markets they go ”Oh yeah! I’ve seen your ads on Instagram”. It’s never search, or a billboard, or a blog, or youtube, or even me telling them about it. They recognize us from Instagram and Tok.

It’s a wild world out there my friend. Makes me wanna yell at clouds every day.

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Backing this up. Google is presently most feeling threatened by TikTok, not OpenAI.

Because an entire generation of new American adults does not use web browsers, like much at all.

Want a burger? You probably open Chrome, go to Google or Kagi and type “Burger $myCity”

People under 25 use TikTok and Instagram and just look for “burger” and are blasted by 300 10s videos of real people munching and smiling. Like a perfect commercial and entirely crowdsourced.

That’s the new internet. The kids only know ‘content’. They don’t know what the fuck an HTML file is.

I'm curious to what extent this is honest to God actually true. Maybe the very first time I ever move to a new city and want a burger, my first thought is find some directory service telling me where burgers can be found. Right now, I have a kitchen and a grill and would make the burger myself as a first choice, and if not, I've lived in the same house for seven years now and have a great dive bar a block away I can walk to that my wife and I have hung out at forever where we know the owner and staff and they make terrific burgers, better than anywhere I've been in the city in the now nine years I've lived in this city.

Do people really just perpetually not know where to get something they want in the place they live?

> Do people really just perpetually not know where to get something they want in the place they live?

No but a) people travel and b) the young post-college demographic is usually new to the area. By virtue of being young and freshly out of college. They really don’t know the city yet!

Personally when I travel my search for burgers goes straight to Apple Maps.

Wonder what that accountants ability to keep clients around looks like vs. Intentful Google searches, and what that market would look like.

You have to take the serious consideration that winning customers from tiktok is going to be a wildly different persona than from google.

Churn and burn practices are for folks who've not seen the 5th year of their used to be sustainable market crash when arbitrary platform dynamics change and they don't realize they've been working with the wrong type of client that whole time.

I work in Healthcare as well. It's just a giant farm so folks will take anyone who is alive and insured. I could see TokTik do well there.

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