Posted on Tuesday, 26th August 2008 by CopywritingCat
Joan Stewart, the Publicity HoundPreview », always has good tips to share. Today her ezine offered words of caution for LinkedIn and Facebook users.
When someone wants to connect, do you automatically say yes? After all, what’s the harm?
Lot of harm, it turns out.
(1) You could be inviting a spammer.
(2) You could get yourself suspended.
If you start inviting people you don’t know, they can respond, “Don’t know this person.” The system thinks you’re spamming and suspends your account.
(3) Your reputation is at stake.
You are known by your friends. Make sure you know them.
I recently un-friended someone I’d done business with awhile back. Every deal ended in disaster. One day she admitted she had credit problems and couldn’t pay a vendor with her card. I realize her questionable practices are going to hurt her reputation and I sure don’t want to be known as her friend.
When I get a friend request, I write back to ask, “How do we know each other?”
If I don’t get an answer right away, I ignore the request. I’m only interested in friending active users.
Sometimes I get a ditzy answer back, like, “Our names both begin with G,” or, “We are both women in business.” I ignore those, too.
When someone seems genuine, I respond with a message:
“Thanks for the add. I am a copywriter and website marketing consultant. Let me know if I can help you in any way. I invite all my friends to my free teleseminars so you’ll be hearing from me often.”
This message seems to work. I actually had someone send a nice note, thanking me for the message.
At least I know he’s alive and probably has the potential to be a good friend.
And I recommend Joan Stewart’s Publicity Hound ezine: she’s always got some keepers.
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