RE: [businessnetwork-338] Business Case Study opportunity

Just don’t do it at all.  J

Since this is a business focused meetup, I see nothing wrong with such messages from members. But it would be good to limit the messages to 1-2 per week.

- Raheem

Brian Blum <[address removed]> wrote:

These types of spam are now starting to show up more regularly on several of the Meetup group mailing lists.  These members may be unaware of netiquette, but I suspect they know full well that they are crossing the line.  Want proof?  Have you ever seen an apology after someone slaps their wrists as I'm doing now?

 

So, what's the solution?

 

Do organizers write them back to explain netiquette?  I suspect it would continue anyway, and if not those users, new users.

 

Do organizers eject and block those members from the group?  I suspect new members would do it, and ejected spamming members would rejoin with new email addresses.

 

Does Meetup.com have a policy?  Would they ban violators?  Again, I suspect ejected spamming members would rejoin with new email addresses.

 

Do we just su ck it up and delete the messaegs?  If there's no way to control them, and more spammers discover that Meetup is just another free channel to reach a market (in fact, a targetted market where members of their target group voluntarily keep their email addresses up to date) eventually, members will tire of the barrage of spam and will leave the groups, resulting in the decay and eventual death of those meetup groups and possibly of meetup as a whole.

 

Can organizers individually contact and manually verify new members before allowing them into the group?  I know it's time and labor intensive, but it's the only solution I can think of to mitigate against this problem.

 

Does anyone else have any ideas?

Lucy Dee <[address removed]> wrote:

Hello, 15SecondPitch meet-up!

My name is Lucy and I work in Social Media/Web 2.0/Internet Marketing. My company is in search of businesses (small, mid-size, or large) with viable customer email mailing lists.

The goal of our study is to prove that we can increase your company's sales with the simple implementation of our marketing campaign/techniques.

Your customer/client mailing list doesn't have to be very active (we have methods to easily resurrect it). If you're the type of business that sends out greeting cards to clients during the holidays or birthdays, then this the ideal opportunity to you.

We ask that your business have:
- 200+ viable customer email list (Ideally, 1000+)
- a product or service to offer

We only want to work with 3 - 5 businesses. (Anything more is too much of a workload for us.) We will make preferences towards the businesses with the larger email lists.

We will not borrow/use your list after the Case Study is over. Your list remains with you and your business.

We just ask in return for our effort, we receive:
- a testimony from your business (profiling our successful venture)
- a small retainer, as well as percentage of the sales after the marketing campaign is over.

If this sounds good to you, please email us.

We know businesses suffer a "red period" throughout their fiscal year. Our case studies are meant to prove that we can eliminate that red period by keeping your business "in the black" for years to come.

Thank you!
Good Luck this year! I hope to see you at the next meet-up!

~ Lucy
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