A Twitter Like Conversation on Facebook about SPAM


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This was one of the most interesting trades of a online social media I have seen. What makes it interesting is that Frank the original sender doesn’t know any of us. And despite sending the email which is actually spam he has a tremendous opportunity to as I say “Enforce his Endorsement”. I don’t endorse anything I can’t enforce.
I Frank seems to have taken my last comment to heart. I hope you do too. Sending facebook emails to your friends is a BAD thing unless you know them and they are expecting the email (thus giving permission and thus not spam).
But missing out on a great conversation from people is the worst thing you could do. As Seth Godin says the conversation IS the brand.
Frank received invaluable feedback by us who for the most part though justifiably critical were nice and offered suggestions for him to grow. Make  Franks lesson your own.
  1. Practice permission marketing.
  2. Enforce what you endorse!
  3. Grow from a conversation and build your brand.
August 7 at 3:00am
Hello,

You have been invited by Frank Voce to join our social network. To join, please follow the link below:
http://www.jvme.com/signup.php?signup_referer=FrankVoce

Warm Regards,
JVME Support

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August 7 at 3:33am
mmm, nothing says “breakfast” like a nice piece of spam.
August 7 at 8:45am
OK this is what it says (and YES Russell has a point) “Take a look around and enjoy yourself. Think of JVME as a clean, high tech playground for Internet Marketers like you and I. Make new friendships and business contacts while keeping up to date with everything going on in our world. We have a bunch of cool things coming soon, so keep coming back to our Joint Venture Social Network.”

JV= Money we could socialize anywhere. Talk about better partnerships difference between JV and CPA programs etc. But Playground?? Hmmmm No time to play :)

August 7 at 12:27pm
spammers = desperate
agreed Russell.
I’m sending to all so maybe someone get’s IT!

This here is like you “Making a internet marketing Newsletter” and going into gmail and selecting all of your contacts and sending a professional newsletter to all of them.

Who sent this anyway? I want to delete you as a friend so i don’t have to get these anymore and waste my time opening them!

August 7 at 12:48pm
@David it’s also like a morbidly obese man coming to your door uninvited and telling you that you should join his fitness club because it’s a place full of healthy, motivated, knowledgeable, and hard-working individuals.

I don’t understand why people think they can get people to join a social media program when they make it obvious right off the bat that they themselves don’t know how to use social media.

August 7 at 12:54pm
This site has some sort of auto invite feature which sends a message to your contacts from what I can tell. So yes slightly spammy but it’s not really anything worse then the ones that login to your gmail and email all your contacts.
August 7 at 1:36pm
lol… I agree Russell!
those aren’t much better… I agree with that Reed…
No one want’s to be bugged unless they “Opt-in” or ask for it.
Did You send this Darren?
August 7 at 1:38pm
Hell no David get that thought out of your mind. LOL! Check the original thread :)
August 7 at 1:40pm
ok… alright. lol…

I would love to hear what other people think of this in the thread?

Thanks to Frank I get these everyday and don’t even want to look at the website i am so sick of it! lol

August 7 at 1:57pm
this is the ONLY time I have ever seen conversation/community grow out of a spam plug like this… good job A*TEAM
August 7 at 1:59pm
that’s because WE ARE SOCIAL MEDIA!
August 7 at 4:13pm
Holy crap I think you’re right David… I can feel zaibatsu emerging from within….
August 7 at 4:15pm
lol… I think I know what you mean but wikipedia confused the hell out of me!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaibatsu

You can feel industrial and financial business emerging from within? anyone want to chime in and make a new friend and explain? lol

August 7 at 4:51pm
Wow I never knew what that meant before… his handle just got even cooler… I was referring to http://twitter.com/zaibatsu
August 7 at 5:15pm
Is this conversation like the facebook version of twitter? LOL!
August 7 at 6:10pm
exactly… yes lol
August 7 at 7:07pm
Am I in the wrong place? I thought this was the facebook version of adult friend finder….
August 8 at 12:39pm
Hi Guys , I send the invitation
If for you it looks like spam you are free to delete me as FB friends.
August 8 at 1:34pm
Frank you should stop sir. It is in fact spam on FB. No need to do that.
August 8 at 1:37pm
I agree with Darren… I understand you want to grow your business using facebook frank.

Try starting a group instead and inviting people and then letting everyone know about the group.

Hope this helps Frank.

August 8 at 1:50pm
Also Frank, if you believe that this website/group is valuable, why don’t you try making friends with people. If your website/group really is valuable and your friends enjoy it, they will promote it for you.
August 8 at 1:52pm
very true :)
Today at 4:26am
Also share knowledge for free that pertains to this group. I have done a 101eBook ideas to promote my ebook about writing ebooks. It was free. I have done niche marketing Idea’s and Motivational idea’s to promote self created or affiliate programs.

If they like it (via your group or fan page) they will buy and refer to others about your free material.

Today at 4:32am
Also Frank if there is one thing I think we all have in common (the people who responded) is that we GIVE A DARN!

The average response is usually ERASE and drop you as a friend. Out of the literally billions of messages trading back an forth on FB alone if you think this strand of messages is a BAD thing or coincidence then your wrong.

Take the advice don’t take the advice but remember this Frank feedback doesn’t come often on the web. Why? Because it is easier for people to call someone an ass in the comfort of their homes and erase the email and drop and block you.

Welcome to the land of permission marketing.
I hope you mentally double optin on this message and the others in the strand.

August 9 at 12:53pm
I only signed up to this website and then it asks me if I wanted to invite some friends to it automatically. I don’t know if any of you has received more than message from me, i hope not.
If this is the case then it comes from the website not from me, anyway I do apologize for any harm I did to all of you.
I’m really not that kind of Marketer even if I have a hard way getting to the success side.
Hope that helps :-)
August 9 at 11:42pm
@Frank Thanks for being cool while we made an example out of you :)

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