I’ve always been kind of a Facebook prick.
By that I mean, slow to accept people’s friend requests (unless I know them)… quick to unfriend people at the slightest whiff of nonsense (inane political rants… posts that are nothing but a big image with some flowery lame quote on it… adding me to a facebook group without my permission… inviting me to like a page when I don’t know the person or the business it belongs to… inviting me to events I have no interest in… and the list goes on).
Any excuse to unfriend someone will do.
Sometimes, I randomly unfriend people just for kicks.
And, I always wish the people who drama queen on there about how they are going to unfriend people (for whatever reason — not enough interaction, too self promotional, etc) would start with me.
Seriously.
They’d be doing us both a favor.
Then there’s the jackanape friend requests.
Like, the people with no picture.
Or, have a logo as their picture.
Or, chicks who are too hot to be living in my town.
(Who knew there were all these hot chicks in The Burgle — oh, wait, that’s because they are fake flakebook identity thieves…)
Anyway, it’s amusing sometimes.
But, mostly, a time suck.
That said…
It astonishes me how many people on there would be great email marketers if only they stopped bowing at the alter of social media and, you know, sent emails to their list.
There aren’t a lot of them.
But, they’re there.
And, it’s a shame they don’t get email.
In the October “Email Players” issue I show you an example of one of these people… how they are probably leaving all kinds of money on the table… and, how you can take what they’re doing on fruitcake book and apply it to your emails.
But time is short, babycakes.
She goes to the printer Tuesday.
After that… too late.
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Ben Settle
