Keep Your Head and Avoid Facebook's Guillotine
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The Internet is a great tool to build your business but if you stop and think for one minute about who controls your advertising destiny you will realize it is out of your hands. Now don't get to frazzled because the Internet is also very competitive and if you have been following a good marketing strategy you don't have all your eggs in one marketing basket. Below is a perfect example why you need more than one marketing strategy.
Over the past couple years I have been using and teaching people how to use Facebook to generate free leads for their network marketing business. Facebook has been in constant change and some changes have been extremely beneficial to myself and others who use it.
When I first started you could invite about 25 people to be your friend, you could only add 100 people to your group at a time, and you could only send a single message to 20 people. Last year at this time you could invite about 100 people to be your friend which allowed many people to accumulate friends very quickly, now people are struggling to add 5 per day!
The news for marketers only gets worse Facebook has implemented some new rules and I sure some of you have seen what I am talking about. Facebook is shutting down the ability to invite friends!
Today a partner of mine called me and asked me if I knew what was going on and I did a little investigation and what I discovered was a way to get 100% friend acceptance on Facebook. Let me spell out the problem first.
Facebook is now looking at the ratio of how many you invite to how many do not accept your invitation and of course this limit is not public knowledge. If you have to many not accepting facebook will ASSUME you do NOT know the person and you are breaking the rules and facebook will SHUT down your ability to invite and accept friendships on facebook for an undetermined amount of time.
So how do we get around Facebook's anti marketing rules?
What we now need to do is to make sure that we have 100% acceptance. I know sounds pretty difficult but i is rather easy just requires a little more thought (not a bad thing)!
Do NOT Send anymore friend requests!!
nstead send a personal message to a person you believe has something in common with you such as they belong to the same group or have similar interests.
Briefly introduce yourself, mention how you found them and why you are contacting them. Then ask them if it would be ok if you became friends on facebook and if they are interested to please send you an invite.
You will now just be taking the volunteers and facebook will now ASSUME you know everybody!!
Here is a copy of what I found in Facebook's Help Center:
Why didn't my friend request go through?
Facebook is a place where people connect and share with friends, family, classmates, coworkers, and other people that they know personally. When you try to connect with strangers on Facebook, it undermines Facebook's mission and can make other Facebook members uncomfortable.
If you have been prevented you from adding friends on Facebook, it is likely because many recent friend requests sent from your account have gone unanswered. This may be because you’ve asked strangers to be friends or because you’ve engaged in other behavior that Facebook users have reported as unwelcome. When you are allowed to use this feature again, only send friend requests to people that you already know to avoid having additional limits placed on your account.
Hope this helps!
Your Friend,
Paul Sorgi
About the Author: Paul Sorgi
Member Since: 04/23/2009
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Thanks Paul this is very useful for Facebook
I think that is a excellent solution.
Thanks for the info Paul
Glad you altered me to this. Hope not tooooo late! Like your work-around for it though
Interesting
I know a couple of people with the "friends" issue you describe. Interesting that the protocol you describe is exactly what we use over in aSmallWorld and it works very well. They are verrrry picky about people friending people they don't "know". LOL!
Thanks Paul
Another great read loaded with plenty of just good-ole common horse sense information. Thanks again
Great insight on face book Paul, Thank You!!!
Thank you Paul,
Great points... Have a Blessed Day,
Danny & Laura
Thanks
Sue Facebook is always changing the rules! I am glad I could be of help.
Your Friend,
Paul
You've found the solution Paul
To all that spamming of the free ebook ! Way to go.
Hey Joyce
How have you been? I don't really know what your referring to but I'll take it as a compliment!
Your Friend,
Paul
Yes Paul for sure.... Being
Yes Paul for sure.... Being to aggresive on facebook will get you the facebook slap!