I got this over the weekend from a Facebook connection who is an author. It’s not an author I’ve done work for or am going to do work for. I’m deleting the author’s name because I don’t want to completely out the author.
I do feel compelled though to advise against what this author is doing in terms of social media.
Here’s what she wrote on my Facebook Wall.
“Hey, Nettie!
How are you doing? Have you seen my new book video on YouTube?”
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Why do I think it’s not a good idea to graffiti someone else’s Facebook wall with marketing spam about a book?
Because it’s not good manners to just splash your marketing message all over the walls of folks on Facebook before you ask them if you can do so. I deleted the message and the messenger from my Facebook account and so what it really did was alienate me from the author and any book by the author.
If you want to market your book, that’s great. I encourage it! Really! But there comes a point when enough is enough and usurping someone’s Facebook wall to graffiti a message about a book on YouTube is enough. It’s impolite and it’s disrespectful.
My advice is to not do this to your connections on Facebook even if you do have a book. One way to get them to talk about your book is to authentically engage them and go from there.
Just because there is a wall doesn’t mean you should use it for your own marketing spam purposes.
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