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Do you ever feel like you really need to take a temporary break from seeing one your friend’s posts in your Facebook Newsfeed?
For example, you might have a friend who generally posts interesting things that you really enjoy seeing but they have a habit of getting overbearingly political during election season.
Well, as luck would have it Facebook provides a way to take a temporary (30 day) break from seeing such a friend’s posts in your Newsfeed. [Read more…]
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Question from Rita: I hope you can help me Rick, and I really could use a quick answer.
I received an email that appears to be from PayPal. It says a buyer has sent me $122.56 for an item that was purchased from my Etsy store.
I really need to find out whether this email is real or a fake. [Read more…]
Question from Mike: I love your newsletter, Rick. I read it every morning!
I hope you can answer a question for me.
The battery in my trusty Lenovo G570 laptop has gone bad and I need to replace it.
I really love this laptop now that I’ve taken your advice and put Linux on it.
I’d really like to keep using it if I can, but I don’t want to spend a fortune on a battery for it.
If you send out a Substack newsletter you might be struggling to figure out the best way to grow your subscriber list.
After all, it doesn’t matter how great your newsletter content is if no one is receiving it in their Inbox.
In this post I’m going to explain how I almost doubled the size of my Substack’s subscriber list from a little over 8,000 subscribers to over 14,600 in just one year. [Read more…]
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Question from Kayleigh: I’ve noticed that sometimes when I look at someone’s profile on Facebook there’s no “Add Friend” button.
I don’t know if it’s always been that way because I just started noticing it a few days ago.
Is there a way to hide the “Add Friend” button from my own profile? If so, how do I do it? [Read more…]