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My friend has a restaurant and showed me the ad he wanted to promote on Instagram about a pizza coupon was suspended for breaking the guidelines, they mentioned gambling or something. I was quite impressed. When you see that one of the "magnificent 7" is dysfunctional to that level, it's hard not to think we're living the last decades of American economic hegemony, by now propelled mostly by inertial monopolies than anything else.

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The big ad networks want a cut from business users and will actively suppress posts from business accounts that haven't paid up.

But instead of paying Instagram for reach, consider taking the same budget and spending it delivering samples and coupons to other local businesses mid/late morning. Bonus points if you make the coupons unique for each delivery so you can track which local businesses are your biggest fans. Office managers are generally receptive to this kind of cold call and you can leave a catering menu. Catering gigs can keep your kitchen busy during the off hours.

> The big ad networks want >> unique for each delivery so you can track

> it's hard not to think we're living the last decades of American economic hegemony

Bit of a stretch to correlate this with Instagram suspending some guy

You see, they had to start at the conclusion and work backwards to somehow justify how they "arrived" at such a take.

Remember, we've been in "late stage capitalism" for over 100 years

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