This is an answer from a Facebook friend to “John Doe”:
There are over 500 million pages indexed in Google for the word cards, each page means nothing to me. Why do you think your pages are any different? Is it because we are members of the same Facebook group?
When I need a solution for cards, I will turn to my network of people that I like and trust to find it.
Likewise, I listen to people who I like and trust. Only they could ever convince me I may need a {offenders key word} solution, when I didn’t otherwise know it…I could only ever consider doing business with someone I really liked and trusted..
That said, if the desired outcome of you introducing yourself to me was to have me buy from you, do business with you, or in fact collaborate with you on any level, from where I sit, as your target, your strategy is counter productive.
I will never listen to anyone who tells me they are interested in building a relationship with me followed by
shoving a self serving link in my face. The approach instills distrust in fact, making it even harder for you
to become someone I like or trust beyond such an introduction.
This is not social networking, It’s spamming.
To think that the caliber of people who have all congregated in our social traffic group see your approach
other way is miss-guided.
I have done you a favor and deleted your wall post off the group wall and from my personal feed so not that many people have seen them. This provides you another opportunity to introduce yourself with a mind set of being “Interested”, not “interesting”.
I am confident if you make the most of the opportunity you will be enlightened by the results. I would love to hear about your journey of discovery when you have arrived…
That’s when I can see us building a genuine relationship that will deliver your desired outcome and a hell of a lot more.
