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Re: Would you "spam" to get big fast?

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Post by scrob2aqe2 » Fri, May 25, 2007, 7:59 AM UTC

scrob2pgd wrote: post #9

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Re: Would you "spam" to get big fast?

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Post by brlewis » Fri, May 25, 2007, 5:36 PM UTC

master54 wrote: post #2

I'm not referring to those blatant buy-a-mailing-list-and-spam kinda process. I'm talking about the more subtle invitation "spam" executed by the likes of plaxo, hi5 etc.

Like this?

http://blog.plaxo.com/archives/2005/12/

Doesn't sound like spam to me.

Re: Would you "spam" to get big fast?

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Post by medfoer » Sat, May 26, 2007, 6:38 AM UTC

sharpshoot wrote: post #3

I would advocate spamming even if its cringeworthy. Bebo and MySpace would be nowhere without a) birthday alarm traffic and b) a mailing list of 500,000 people respectively. Similarly facebook spammed all of harvards mailing lists. In business you make one decision - which is to make it big or die. Even if spamming hurts - if you have a compellign enough service go for broke. Even spamming counts.

thanks sharpshoot you get the useful part of letting people know