At first blush, this questions seems a bit ridiculous.  Me?  Buy friends?  Ok, maybe I am a bit if a social outcast.  Perhaps I should be nicer and not such a misanthrope.  I guess I should bathe more often. 

But, think about it.  You spend oodles of money purchasing leads.  You spend even more time and money mailing, calling and prospecting those leads looking for the gold nugget that is the sale.  A new site,www.usocial.net claims that each face book friend, if marketed correctly will yield $1.00 worth of revenue to your business.  The cost for 5000 friends (the maximum Facebook will allow to add at one time) is  $654.00.  That’s not too bad considering these leads are supposedly tailored to your particular marketing niche.  Not a bad investment even if you only get a 1% ROI.

 

Now the flip side.  ( those of you who have no understanding of music media prior to CD’s and MP3’s I’m sorry)  My wife was telling me about an incident on her Facebook page where she got a request from someone she didn’t know.  Apparently, she was found through a mutual contact.  My wife did not accept the request, but wrote a message instead questioning how got her information.  The woman stated that she got my wife’s Facebook info from a mutual friend and that she wanted to promote her business.  My sweet patootie  gracefully declined any further contact from this person.  I asked mi esposa bonita “Por Que?” (Why?).  She stated that she gets enough junk on Facebook from her real friends.  Why would she want to be sold crap through Facebook each day from someone she hardly knows.  If it was someone she had a relationship with – even an acquaintance – she would be more apt to buy.

I guess the decision is up to you.

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