Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into your company. The first couple of years, students love your program. Positive feedback, extraordinary student outcomes, employees love the mission. You are quite literally […]
If your coding bootcmp (or any other endeavor) is dependent on the goodwill of Reddit mods in this age of dumpsterfire Reddit … Then maybe you need to rethink your marketing/ PR strategy
The article specifically states that the founder of a competing code boot camp became the mod of the subreddit and proceeded to wage a negative PR campaign against them. They weren’t dependent on reddit for their PR, a malicious actor came in and used Reddit to spread misinformation and bullshit about them, which then showed up in Google searches.
How would you run a company such that you would be immune from that?
LLMs rely heavily on Reddit data to draw conclusions. How would you prevent them parroting the bad information from Reddit?
Search engines feature Reddit posts heavily when searching a company, especially for larger subreddits. How would you prevent Google/Bing/DDG from putting the negative posts right next to your company website?
I can’t see any way a marketing or PR strategy can outweigh that in the modern day, so please enlighten me
If your coding bootcmp (or any other endeavor) is dependent on the goodwill of Reddit mods in this age of dumpsterfire Reddit … Then maybe you need to rethink your marketing/ PR strategy
The article specifically states that the founder of a competing code boot camp became the mod of the subreddit and proceeded to wage a negative PR campaign against them. They weren’t dependent on reddit for their PR, a malicious actor came in and used Reddit to spread misinformation and bullshit about them, which then showed up in Google searches.
And got slurped up into chatgpt
How would you run a company such that you would be immune from that?
LLMs rely heavily on Reddit data to draw conclusions. How would you prevent them parroting the bad information from Reddit?
Search engines feature Reddit posts heavily when searching a company, especially for larger subreddits. How would you prevent Google/Bing/DDG from putting the negative posts right next to your company website?
I can’t see any way a marketing or PR strategy can outweigh that in the modern day, so please enlighten me