I'm having trouble ethically with this question.
For a product I'm working on and collecting beta users, a good channel can be Meetup (as people openly tell you what they're interested in).
I've found a couple groups of potential users and have gone through the list of members, done a bit of personalizing at beginning of a message and pasted the generic, up-front information on my product (it's free to do BTW to sign up).
No one responded back saying was spam and I've had ok results. My dilemma came when I saw someone I know going on a social network, pinging individually different potential "customers" for their own thing, and they would ask them a question. When the potential customer answered, usually they would find a way to slide in a pitch for their product.
Example: If the person I know sold golf clubs, they asked to each person individually: "Who's your favorite golfer." The potential customer responds "Rickie Fowler," then the person responds with, "Sweet, we actually sell his driver here, check it out."
They had people commenting it was spam, but I'd use relatively similar tactics for these Meetup groups I targeted and now struggling with "IS it spamming or hustling?"
I hate spammers and thus "do unto others etc." is how I go about my life. This may be an area of "If you have to ask if it's spam, it is spam," but wanted to know others thoughts.
For a product I'm working on and collecting beta users, a good channel can be Meetup (as people openly tell you what they're interested in).
I've found a couple groups of potential users and have gone through the list of members, done a bit of personalizing at beginning of a message and pasted the generic, up-front information on my product (it's free to do BTW to sign up).
No one responded back saying was spam and I've had ok results. My dilemma came when I saw someone I know going on a social network, pinging individually different potential "customers" for their own thing, and they would ask them a question. When the potential customer answered, usually they would find a way to slide in a pitch for their product.
Example: If the person I know sold golf clubs, they asked to each person individually: "Who's your favorite golfer." The potential customer responds "Rickie Fowler," then the person responds with, "Sweet, we actually sell his driver here, check it out."
They had people commenting it was spam, but I'd use relatively similar tactics for these Meetup groups I targeted and now struggling with "IS it spamming or hustling?"
I hate spammers and thus "do unto others etc." is how I go about my life. This may be an area of "If you have to ask if it's spam, it is spam," but wanted to know others thoughts.
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