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OnlyFounders
Honestly real conversations with founders who are building businesses, communities, and movements while breaking patterns, and leading with radical truth. No varnish. No script. Just showing up as humanly possible with your host, Anne Gillaspie.
Anne is a the CEO & founder of Fix & Form | A Denver Branding Firm, co-founder of 10toLaunch building launch ready brands in just ten days, and Anne Speaks where she takes the stage as a thought provoking keynote speaker. She is raising three incredible kids with her partner in crime in Denver, Colorado.
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061: Vanity Metrics vs. Reality: The Ethics of Buying Followers and Beating the Algorithm
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In this episode, Matt and Anne tackle the murky world of social media vanity metrics, debating whether a high follower count is a valuable business asset or just a digital mirage. Anne shares her temptation to artificially inflate her audience to serve as a resume for her speaking career, while Matt strongly cautions against the ethical and algorithmic consequences of buying bot followers. They also explore the strategic differences between B2B and personal branding, why boosting top-performing organic posts works for some but not others, and how understanding platform "buckets" can help you predict a video's virality.
🚨 Stuff You’ll Want to Remember:
- "If you're not posting every day, someone else is. And social media is a numbers game. It eats data. So you have to feed it." — Matt
📡 Where to Find Us
- Anne → Fix & Form - LinkedIn
- Matt → ChipBot - LinkedIn