BUILDING YOUR FRIENDS LIST "You have to be a friend to have friends" is an applicable saying. You may stay on the home page of Adlandpro but you will most likely be sitting alone. Invitations are sent from a persons profile. If you followed the previous thread: http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/thread/789274.aspx you are ready to move on. You should read that first for "Finding Friends". Use your green arrow and return here if you go read. *********************************************************** MAKING FRIENDS ON FORUMS You may want to be a quiet reader for awhile but if you have an opinion you soon will find yourself making a comment or discussing an issue. To make it easy, go read this by clicking and when you are finished use your green back button and it will bring you back here. This is information compiled by several contributors in Adlandpro. http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/thread/390611.aspx ok, now you are back and that takes care of posting on forums to get friends. INVITATIONS Here are some samples, and then we will discuss. 1. Hi my name is Mary. Can we be friends? 2. Hi my name is Mary and I want you to look at my business.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. You can also join XXXXXXXXXXXXXX and makes thousands of dollars. Here are more of my programs to join. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX http://wwXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Call me after you sign up and I will send you more business offers. 3. Hi my name is Mary. I see you are from Ohio too. I visited the museum there once and enjoyed it greatly. I would be honored if you would join my friends list? Please visit my profile so you can learn who and what I am about. I see you like gardening so I will send you a personal message with some forums of interest to you. 4. Hi XXXXXX Its nice to see you here in Adlandpro. It would be an honor to have you join my friends list. Could you share a little more about yourself as it would be great to learn more about you and your business. So what do you think??? Let's learn from each other What's good and what's bad??? **************************************************************** If I'm not your friend come invite me: http://community.adlandpro.com/go/mahofst/ I'm mentoring for free:

Inviting friends to join my to see what Panda Picks to talk about today.

Mary, The second one is an instant turn-off, and I'll admit responding to an invitation very similar to that with 'no thank you, it seems that you're looking for a mailing list, not a friend'. Usually when I invite someone I make reference to where I saw them. Number 3 is okay for sending to a person new to Adland. The others know to click on your profile to find out about you. The part about sending info is good; you've told them to expect to hear from you. Now just remember to follow up! Number 4: Why not do your own homework and find out about their business by studying their profile and their site and then going to them with specific questions instead of asking them to tell you about their business? Isn't that why we post the sites and info?

Hi Mary,

WOW! You did an excellent job here ~ all the explanations are very nicely written and easy to understand. I think this is great for our new people and it will surely be a huge help to them!

Thanks for caring and sharing Mary as always!

God Bless You,

Love Marilyn

Hi Lorraine, Very good, I have never refused an invitation but I do ignore those who send ads and requests to join their programs. Let's hear it from some others

Now Marilyn, You really didn't like all these invitations!