Hank Leber
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Podcast Appearances
I had no money when I started the company.
Yeah.
Sure.
So we had a really fast run.
We found that what we were doing with automation on social was really helping drive web traffic for small businesses and early stage companies.
A lot of likes, favorites, follows, retweets, comments, mostly on Twitter, but it could work on like Pinterest and
tumblr but twitter was really working well for us and you know we're charging a thousand dollars a month for the service uh we were bringing really high quality traffic to our clients and customers and uh the growth is really happening rapidly like you mentioned we got to a
May 29th, 2015, I believe it was, we lost all of our Twitter accounts that we were running.
It was thousands at the time.
So... Oh, that's right.
It was 2016.
We've had a whole other year since then, 2017.
It's been a blur.
Yeah.
So May 29th, 2016, we literally had zeros across our dashboard on the back end looking at all the accounts.
And I thought...
man, something must be wrong with the dashboard because there's just no way.
There's just no way we could have lost thousands of accounts overnight.
And it turns out we did.
They were all suspended and it took us a few weeks to figure out why.