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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am6yWXWy9QA All the Stories! (From 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 effective. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://webandbeyondcast.com/ for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post), or feel free to contact me here about any other questions or comments. In this Cast Ray Sidney-Smith, Host Show Notes Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. The world’s largest retailer believes shopping has changed forever: Morning Brief Apple Reduces App Store Commissions to 15% for Small Businesses Starting Next Year - MacStories Apple Podcasts launches new embeddable web players for shows and episodes - 9to5Mac Small Business: Owning the Future - The New York Times Join Web and Beyond Community! Raw Text Transcript Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key phrases. Read More Raymond Sidney-Smith 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,