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The Myth of Privacy in Business Marketing

26 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Dotty Scott. This content was uploaded by Dotty Scott. This is a YouTube video titled "The Myth of Privacy in Business Marketing" (created 2026-01-26). The excerpt is a single-speaker monologue (labeled SPEAKER A) discussing small-business use of Facebook: the tradeoff between privacy and lead generation, the decline of organic reach for business pages, the platform being "pay to play," and the speaker's reliance on automated posts rather than personal engagement.

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You continually balance preserving your privacy with wanting to get leads for your business. There really is no balance there. Either you're using it or you're not, and you need to make that decision and then stick with it in your business. If you decide to use it, you need to fully use it. Now, it used to be, especially on Facebook, so we're talking Facebook here, which is the most common one. You would have a business page in which you would put all your business stuff, and then you would have a personal profile in which you would post stuff that your friends and family would, would want to know about you and what's going on in your life. However, it's been many years now that business profiles get no traction unless you pay. They really are pay to play, and that's not what I'm all about. I don't want to have to pay Meta to get get a basic post out to the people that say they want my posts. And it just simply doesn't work. I hardly ever use my business pages on Facebook. Any post that you see there is posted from automation. It is not posted by me personally.