Wednesday, February 25, 2009

There's Still Barf On My Face Book Wall!

I thought maybe we could put a dint in this sucker but I was wrong. I thought if we did a podcast with Frank and Mike called "don't barf on my wall" that people would listen. Frank even did a video of the same title and posted it at you tube. It seems all our efforts may have been in vain.

Why you ask?

Because I'm still getting barfs on my face book wall everyday. They even show up in my inbox.
I'm weary of all this scrubbing and I'm out of cleaner.

What's a barf you ask? A barf is some one who posts an ad for their business on your wall the second they meet you. They don't bother to check your profile to see that you already have 2 businesses that you are working, or ask anything along the lines of getting to know you or offer something of value to you to start the friendship off.

No their first course of action is to barf an ad for their business on your wall.

It is kind of like meeting someone at a party who before they shake hands with you they throw up on your shoes. Aren't you charmed to meet them.

Or the telemarketers you slam the phone down on. Or the vacuum cleaner salesman you threw out of your house for being obnoxious.

So I posted this on my Face Book profile.."don't lead with your business..get to know people first" thinking I had finally come up with a slogan people would grab.

Maybe THIS would work I told myself.

Three people showed up and said they agree with me and said good things.

Then a fourth guy showed up, said he agreed too... and then he posted a barf on my wall for his business.

This is amazing I thought to myself.

Who taught people to do this? Are they getting results this way?

I'm starting to think it is some sort of barfing virus going around that has no cure.

Maybe there's a Face Book secret society that meets at midnight dressed in black hoods that circle a bonfire chanting "must barf on wall..must barf on wall". Yes a bunch of Face Book zombies who just can't help themselves.

I can always tell when I'm chatting to people when they are going to burp up their business on me. I haven't even asked them anything about their business but here we go. It's like I'm standing in front of them and I can see that queasy look on their face. "Look out..here comes a barf"


I don't know what to do to stop this tidal wave of puke coming at me from every direction.

Maybe I need to run across America like Forrest Gump. I'll call it the "Face Book anti-barf run". All the anti-barfers could join me and we could all get in shape at the same time. We could finish up at the White house and have some sort of focus group discussion.

Although I'm sure the president has better things to do.

Maybe I'm just going to have to face it. It never stops.

I'd ask you to pass this article around but your probably busy cleaning up barf off your own wall.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lance, cool post. Love the image and the secret society thing. You know what I do sometimes for fun? I actually respond to this barf and see the whole auto-dm thing. It's hilarious having a "dialogue" with a robot!

Anonymous said...

Hi Lance,Glenn here.I totally agree with you,about the barf thing.Its just fascinating,how some think,thats now networking marketing,and it aint.There's no common interests,in even trying to get to know you better.I know what you mean,as that happend to me aswell.The key to successful network marketing is,building genuine relationships with people,transforming friendships that last a lifetime.Abundance of success to you in your business.May your business explode massively for you.Regards Glenn Smit

Michael Eisbrener said...

Lance,

You are 333% correct, maybe more. It is not just facebook but all sites. I get people pitching me exactly what I am doing all the time. Every once in awhile I have asked if they know how to read. They get indignant and I just delete them. I haven't come up with a workable strategy yet. For now I just ignore them. Doing otherwise appears to be similar to trying to teach a pig to sing.

Michael Eisbrener
iceburner

seanbmarketing said...

Yes Lance. I've been in network marketing for a month now and I am seeing this constantly. These guys just start off with some cheeky pitch, trying to make me laugh, but I know better. Do these people not listen to the pros of what NOT to do? They will learn eventually I guess. I just sit back and enjoy the show they put on for me, trying to get me into their biz opp, EVEN after I tell them I just started in one. It's funny and sad. They need to learn. L8R.

Seeking to give value to persons,
Sean Browne
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RECEIVEVALUE@SEANBROWNE.WS

Anonymous said...

I like this and understand what you mean. I was taught from my Senior Partners not to Barf on people. I have even tried to let them know nicely to get to know me first. Sending back there information to them. If you find away to detour them let me know. LOL If they would stop and look to see how many sign ups they have from Barfing, I would bet they have none or they made their prospect have the deer in headlights look.

seanbmarketing said...

Hahahahahhaha. Lori, you are right. I don't see who can enjoy all this barf. If they do, I'd love to know what they like about it. LOL@the deer in headlights look. Hahhhahah. When I read that, I did the expression and remembered a commercial I saw.

Seeking to give value to persons,
Sean Browne
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receivevalue@seanbrowne.ws

Adrian Hines said...

Lance this is hilarious but so true. I had this guy to call me yesterday pitching me on his business. I stopped him dead in his tracks and asked him a rhetorical question, ".....I know you aren't pitching me on your business are you." It caught him off guard completely. LOL Its still a lot of rookies out there. Thats why Attraction Marketing will NEVER be saturated.

David Lee Y S said...

Well done! I LOVE THIS!!!
All is so true... and I LOVE this, "It never stops." How GREAT it will be if it really stop and they just really care about the one they connected with. :-)

In Gratitude,

David Lee Y S

seanbmarketing said...

I know, right David? When will they learn?

Sean Browne
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=125478080623

seanbmarketing said...

I know, right David. When will they learn?

Sean Browne
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=125478080623