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Playbooks

Plans for launches, busy days and bad days.

The comment-to-DM playbook for product launches

Ask people to comment one word, and everyone who does gets your link in a private message. Here is how to plan it, what Meta allows, and the small details that decide whether it works.

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A crisis-day checklist for your comment section

A recall, a shipping meltdown or a complaint that takes off: the comments move faster than anyone on your team. Here is what to do in the first hour, the rest of the day, and after.

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The holiday sale comment playbook: Black Friday to Christmas

From the week before Black Friday to the last shipping day before Christmas, the same questions and the same scams arrive in waves. Here is what to prepare, what to answer, what to hide, and when to change your answers.

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An agency’s playbook for comment moderation across many clients

Moderating comments for one brand is a routine. For twelve, it is an operation: access, rules per client, who decides what, and a report the client actually reads. Here is how agencies set it up so it runs without heroics.

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Scaling a winning ad without losing control of its comments

Duplicating, raising budgets and opening new placements all change where comments land and how many people read them. Here is what each scaling move does to the comment section, and how to keep up.

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Safety reports and recalls in your comments: respond, don’t hide

"The buckle snapped and cut my ankle." A safety report in your comments is information you may be required to act on, not a reputation problem to hide. Here is how to answer it, who to tell in the US, UK and EU, and how to run your comments during a recall.

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Hateful comments and raids: protecting your customers and your team

Slurs under a customer’s photo, a pile of abuse aimed at a staff member, a group arriving together from somewhere else. Here is how to protect the people being targeted, which platform tools help during a raid, what to do with threats, and how to look after the team reading it all.

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Setting up a comment moderation rota for a small team

Comments do not keep office hours, and "whoever sees it first" means nobody on a Saturday. Here is how two to five people can share comment duty: coverage hours, shifts, handoffs, alerts in Slack or Discord, and who decides what.

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