Have you been invited
to connect on different platforms in hopes of receiving new leads for your
business?
Why are we online
anyway? Humbly speaking from my standpoint, I am online for business purposes
only. Of course in doing so, I also realize that I need to be somewhat social
at the same time.
A few years ago, I
joined Referral Key to check it out, because I was receiving many invitations
to join it. And I am still receiving requests to connect with people. I have
yet to receive any real tangible business from it.
Recently, I have been
inundated with invitations to join Alignable. For quite a while, I just deleted
all the invitations, because I thought it was just like the first one. Then I learned
from a fellow online marketing expert that it was connected with LinkedIn in
some way. So I joined and set up my profile.
What happened next
was beyond my wildest imagination!
Suddenly my email was
crammed with messages from people accepting my request to join Alignable. Many
were positive, but a lot were not.
After one of these
precious connections of mine stood up in a networking meeting this week telling
everyone that he was very upset with me for inviting him to join Alignable, I
suddenly realized that this was not what I expected to happen.
So I changed my
passwords for Google and LinkedIn and deleted my Alignable profile.
There are many
different programs being developed to help us get "more and better leads
than we could with LinkedIn or Facebook." In my humble experience, they are just a
nuisance.
In my humble opinion,
anyway.
Please accept my
sincere apology for dragging you into this platform. If you receive any
invitations to join, be careful...you will be inundated with emails and many of
your connections that are automatically invited will be very upset with you.
Christine Till
The Marketing
Mentress
Thanks Christine.I started getting requests from people who were sending to an old email. Deleted
ReplyDeletegood on yoiu Rene!
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