Things I learned about marketing today

1. You can’t legally buy a list of names and emails and send your e-newsletter to the people on it.  Turns out you can’t buy “permission.”  A person has to give her permission specifically to you or your company, in order to email things to her.  Otherwise, it’s SPAM.  And we all know how much we detest SPAM.

2.  There is a website called Ning that will let you set up your own private social network.

More to follow after I figure out how to set up a social network around doing business plans.  I hope I’m not the only person who thinks this is the best idea ever.

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One Response to “Things I learned about marketing today”

  1. Lee Doyle says:
    January 14, 2009 at 10:37 am

    A social network on business plans? Now there’s a fantastic idea! Please do it, Christy!

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