I just got my first spam e-mail on Tribe.net today from this guy:
www.tribe.net/tribe/servl...eopleCard.vm
It was soliciting an online poker site. This was the first unsolicited e-mail sales pitch I'd received inside any kind of social software and feels like some kind of spam-free grace period just expired.
Is nothing sacred online? Seems like a silly question to ask about such an unregulated, guerilla-dominated medium, but lately I've been becoming interested in "ethical internet marketing" as more than an oxymoron.
Does anyone here profess to practice internet marketing ethically? What do you use as guidelines? Are there spaces that you consider to be off-limits or practices that you refrain from online? Why? What are the benefits and the drawbacks of working under an "ethical" model?
www.tribe.net/tribe/servl...eopleCard.vm
It was soliciting an online poker site. This was the first unsolicited e-mail sales pitch I'd received inside any kind of social software and feels like some kind of spam-free grace period just expired.
Is nothing sacred online? Seems like a silly question to ask about such an unregulated, guerilla-dominated medium, but lately I've been becoming interested in "ethical internet marketing" as more than an oxymoron.
Does anyone here profess to practice internet marketing ethically? What do you use as guidelines? Are there spaces that you consider to be off-limits or practices that you refrain from online? Why? What are the benefits and the drawbacks of working under an "ethical" model?
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Re: Using Tribe.net as a Marketing Tool
Mon, December 22, 2003 - 12:39 PMThis poker company method sounds "unethical," for obvious reasons, but define the boundries for "ethical" marketing of which you speak.
One other note - I think that Tribe can take certain measures to curb spam through their site - and I am sure they will. -
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Re: Using Tribe.net as a Marketing Tool
Mon, December 22, 2003 - 1:12 PMSomeone named "John" just posted a spam ploy on "starting a new business" on one of my tribe sites. I agree that these types of notices are unethical and annoying. -
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Re: Using Tribe.net as a Marketing Tool
Mon, December 22, 2003 - 8:46 PMYes, and Tribe could allow the moderators to remove those spammers...since we can identify the culprit (as opposed to smtp email communications), it should be quite easy to stop.. -
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Re: Using Tribe.net as a Marketing Tool
Tue, December 23, 2003 - 7:36 AMGood point. I removed him from my tribe and deleted his thread. -
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Re: Using Tribe.net as a Marketing Tool
Wed, December 31, 2003 - 12:05 PMHere at Tribe we're trying to implement tools that will limit non-trusted communications. Therefore in your messages you can ensure that any "unknown" messages are not included with your friends' emails.
That being said, this is a difficult issue. My guess is that self-policing will help greatly as we can't know about all the spammers who aren't using the service as its intended. But, please report these and we can follow up.
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Let Moderators Moderate
Sun, January 2, 2005 - 9:35 PMI like to shill for my business as much as most people, but hesitate to do so without context and offering insights I hope are of value.
Please, Darian et. al., do everything you can to keep this a spam-free environment and ye shall be rewarded.
Regards,
Keith
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Re: Using Tribe.net as a Marketing Tool
Fri, May 13, 2005 - 11:47 AMWhat about ethical use of tribe.net as a marketing tool? is this possible? For instance, you have a site about widget news, and there's a big widget tribe. You post links to your widget articles now and again.
This is far from spam and seems ok to me.
r
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Re: Using Tribe.net as a Marketing Tool
Mon, October 24, 2005 - 12:55 PMI do use tribe.net for marketing, however I do not email anyone unless they specifically ask me to. Most internet outfits nowdays can the spam.. that is they cancel anyone who sends out spam that they find out about.
I do make postings to the tribe.net pages, and if you have your settings such that you get email for new postings to your tribe, then you would indeed get my posting.. but because you asked to have postings sent, not because the marketer was targeting you. Actually I am not sure tribe has that setting as I have never recieved any email spam or otherwise from tribe.net -
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I use Tribe.net as a Marketing Tool
Thu, June 1, 2006 - 9:05 PMI certainly do use Tribe.net as a marketing tool, but ethically of course. I think the key thing to remember in being an ethical marketer is to take a look at what you're doing and see if it adds value. If it doesn't directly add value, then just be sure that it doesn't reduce value. Here are my Tribe.net marketing strategies:
Add Value
-Posting relevent comments to topics and adding a plug for your site (If relevant)
-Connecting and building relationships with people in your business niche for either doing a Joint Venture with, or recommending and sharing information or links with them.
-Start a tribe of your own related to your niche (If there isn't one already out there)
Not Directly Adding Value (But in my mind still ethical)
-Adding links at the end of any of your comments as a form of signature (indirectly I believe this adds value, because if it's your own website, then people will get an idea of who you are. It's common and accepted in most forums online)
If anyone has any other methods they use, please share.
Karl (aka Jambhala)
www.JointVentureNetwork.net
www.AffiliateSuperNetwork.com
www.ViralMarketingBuzz.com
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Spammers beware
Wed, June 28, 2006 - 7:30 AMI was accused of spam when I posted an introduction about me and my services in a related tribe. Isn't that the whole meaning? Let people know who you are and network with them. I can understand somebody getting upset about a stupid online casino spam, but really people - READ it first. It might be something useful. Didn't our moms always teach us to not judge a book by its cover?
P.S. I've been a member of Tribe for less than a month and I've meet some really great people that are looking to increase their businesses ethically. I've also signed up some tribe members for my services. THIS SITE ROCKS!
Shawn
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