This morning I got a chain Facebook message from a direct seller about a status update game that’s being planned. Remember the “What color is your bra” game a few years ago? Ladies just posted the color and it made people wonder what was going on. This was something similar. Now at first I was [...]
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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 [...]
Don’t Be a “Pouncer” in Social Media!
I had an interesting experience today that I want to share with you, because I think it provides some object lessons related to the way we approach people via social media about our businesses. This weekend I posted about a product from a direct selling company that I used to make something I purchased from [...]
Don’t Abuse Facebook Chat
I have such mixed feelings around Facebook Chat. On the one hand, I love knowing who is online. It makes me more effective in terms of sending out the right messages at the most effective times of the day. On the other hand, it’s incredibly distracting to be in the middle of something and have [...]
How To Deal With Negative Comments On Your Blog or Profile
Ever get that comment on your blog or social networking profile that made your stomach feel a little funny? Maybe it was critical of something you said. Maybe it bashed another commenter on your wall. Maybe it was completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand. What do you do about that? We talk a lot [...]
10 Signs That You Are a Spammer
No one likes to think of themselves as a spammer. Those are icky people that live in their mom’s basement and have nothing better to do than hack into our email accounts and send our friends messages about buying “male medication” from Canada, right? Think again. A large majority of direct sellers are joining the [...]
