All the Stories! (From Snapchat Stories to Twitter Fleets) – Web and Beyond Live – November 23, 2020

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Snapchat Stories to Twitter Fleets) - Web and Beyond Live -
November 23, 2020 Now that every major social network has a Stories
format, plus Google has launched Web Stories for WordPress, I spent
this Web and Beyond Live describing the differences among the
various Stories formats. Each week, President of W3 Consulting and
Managing Director of W3C Web
Services (https://web.w3cinc.com/) Ray Sidney-Smith broadcasts
live to update you on the latest small business digital marketing
and business productivity technology updates you need to be
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0:09 Hello, everybody, and welcome to web and beyond live. This is
November 23 2020. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith, President of W three
consulting and managing director of WCC web services, which
provides affordable WordPress, hosting, as well as web hosting and
domain name registration services for small business. My goal each
week is to come to you and talk about digital marketing and
productivity technologies that help you market and manage on the
web, mobile, social media and beyond. And today, what I'd like to
do is I'd like to cover some just quick news. And then jump into a
topic that I've been getting a lot of questions about, and that are
stories, the whole format of stories, kind of how stories work, and
so on, and so forth. So I wanted to just talk a little bit about
the particulars of stories, and how that can be useful to you in
your business, and kind of some productivity tips for being able to
create stories faster and better, especially especially as I start
to think about stories more myself in my own business. So let's
talk about some of the news, I wanted to cover just a quick few
items that I think are going to be important to you going into the
next few months. One is that Yahoo Finance recently put out, and
they had a video where they were talking about the fact that
Walmart put out their recent third quarter earnings results. And
they noted something very important in the report, they talked
about how resilient consumers have remained throughout this
particular season, related to the pandemic and responding to the
pandemic. Now, Walmart has made tremendous inroads in terms of
making sure that they were amping up their walmart.com digital
presence. And so their digital retail experience is, is just really
blown up for them. They've also worked on making sure that their
their in store systems are matched up with their curbside delivery
functions. So I'm sorry, curbside pickup functions. So you're
capable of doing more curbside pickup, and just kind of
streamlining those operations. And it's really interesting, because
the CEO was making a note, in essence, to say that they're not
changing,