I’ve recently noticed an uptick in hacked email accounts. I’ve received quite a few messages from people I know that are clearly spam. How Can You Tell It’s Spam? I typically notice them when I get an email from an address that I recognize, it typically doesn’t have a subject, and if you look at [...]
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This is Not the Way to Market Using Facebook Questions
Here’s why: This arrived in my email inbox. That’s an unsolicited business message (aka SPAM). I don’t know the person who sent it (at least not well.) We don’t have any kind of personal relationship. It’s annoying. Honestly, what a dumb question. It’s not about me. It’s about what you want to sell me. Your [...]
Lots of Scams on Facebook Lately – Be Careful!
Have you seen this one lately? What about this one? Or even this one? What do they all have in common? They’re all scams floating around Facebook. This past week there have been a boatload of account hacks. After the spammers get into your account, they proceed to plaster your friends’ walls, inbox, etc with [...]
The Facts About Email Spam
It never ceases to amaze me when I get emails from direct sellers who I don’t know that either: Solicit business Ask for a donation to some cause Are one of those email forwards (photos of our troops, this will give you goosebumps-type email) Really? You’re filling up my email box with this stuff when [...]
What is “Spam”?
You hear me talk about spam a lot on this blog, and how you should avoid it for your direct sales or network marketing business. Yet I sometimes get questions about what actually constitutes “spam.” I do actually extend the concept of spam beyond the legal definition as it relates to your business. So here’s [...]
Are You a Lazy Social Media Marketer?
Success with social media doesn’t happen overnight. Yet far too often we see business owners try to circumvent the process by sending out mass communications through social tools that amount to little more than spam. I had this happen to me this weekend. I received a mass email through Facebook from someone I don’t know [...]
How to Spot Scam Email
Last week I received a message in my inbox with a subject line that said it was from Facebook, and that my password had been changed. The message invited me to click on the attached zip file to get my new password. Now I knew immediately that this was spam, and I posted a warning [...]
Stop Sending Event Invites that Don’t Apply!
I’ve written about this topic before. But clearly the holiday sales enthusiasm has caused some folks to forget, so here it is again: DO NOT SEND FACEBOOK EVENT INVITES TO PEOPLE THAT YOUR EVENT DOESN’T APPLY TO. Recently I’ve received a slew of events to holiday shopping events all over the country. I live in [...]
