Though I'm risking that I may come off like the guy standing on the street corner with the cardboard sign telling you "The World Is Ending", I feel obligated to tell you all about Instagram's latest tactic of preventing hardworking entrepreneurs like yourself from scaling your business through the inbox: ☠️ 365-DAY DM RESTRICTION ☠️ (I promise I explain how to avoid this for FREE at the end, feel free to skip ahead if you don't care for the background 😉) It sounds too terrible to be true, but after previously banning people from DM'ing for 7 days or even 30 whole days, Instagram has raised the bar to 365 days. Don't believe me? Take a look at the screenshot shared at the end of this post in one of the various Manychat community groups I'm a part of... For those of you who don't speak Spanish, the message (which replaces the text box that would otherwise allow you to write your DM's) says "You are unable to send messages for 365 days. Something you sent goes against our Community Guidelines." And while the button below allows you to view those community guidelines, what it does NOT allow you to do is appeal this restriction. All you can really do is watch that number count down (364... 363... 362...) as your business literally crumbles in an instant. But wait, there's great news here. While I have personally seen DOZENS of individuals affected by this messaging restriction, always where the last message sent was an innocent link (i.e. your Calendly booking link or link to Shopify store)... There have been a sum total of ZERO users receiving this ban when sending links as buttons within Manychat. Why, you may wonder? Well, while Meta is never transparent about why they punish people for minding their own business, it's pretty clear that Meta's AI security algorithms start to view links as potential spam when you're consistently sending the same or similar links day after day. Fortunately, Meta did publish a whitepaper years ago explaining how they penalize users for suspected bot activity. In that whitepaper, they made it clear that the key to avoid being mistakenly caught in that net is avoiding behaviors that others use for spam. Since Manychat DOES have a monthly cost, and although negligible it's too much for someone running a bot farm of 10,000 automated accounts to use (that would be $150k/month as of right now), using Manychat to send the links as buttons is the best way to separate yourself from the herd and make it clear that you're sending safe links.

As soon as a business owner begins their scaling journey with Manychat, it's only a matter of time until they encounter Meta's dreaded 24-hour and 7-day rules. If you're not familiar, I'm sorry to be the one to break the news... You can't DM or otherwise contact anyone in your Manychat contact list unless they've messaged YOU in the past 7-days. Even worse, you can't send any automated messages if it's been just 24 hours or more 💀 Because of this, there are countless businesses owners like myself with tens or even hundreds of thousands of contacts in Manychat that I can't even use... Good news! 🎊 If you leverage Instagram's Broadcast feature, you'll be able to collect opt-ins everyday that allow you to send targeted BLASTS directly to the DMs to anyone who's opted in.... every. single. day. All you need to do is apply and integrate the opt-in to your flows. Using this feature, we were able to bring one of our clients, @officialtravelsquad, over SEVEN THOUSAND DM subscribers in just under two weeks (example opt-in attached). What does this mean? That whenever they want to reach their most engaged audience with an 88% open rate (email marketers will lose their mind here), it's only a simple flow and button press away. If you aren't currently using the broadcast feature, be sure to comment below or DM me, and I'll help you set it up free of charge 🥳

CONGRATS! 🎉 Not only for joining the Inner Circle, but for being at the forefront of a new and industry-shattering marketing strategy called "Conversational Marketing"! Conversational Marketing lies at the intersection of Social Media, Direct Marketing (i.e. email and text), and even A.I. 🤖 If any of the above feels a bit intimidating, then you've found the right community to help YOU scale your business to previously unseen heights! Think about it, how much revenue are you missing out each month from not optimizing your social media inbox? We've seen immediate results as high as 3x conversion on day 1 from implementing the proper frameworks, ALL of which will be shared here in this group! Now that you know what WE are all about, we'd love to get to know YOU! So please, introduce yourself in the comments below, along with a picture if you can manage it so we can all get to know each other in this community of DMIC 🙌🏼 - Gabriel and the rest of the Premier Scaling team ❤️