How to Send a Friendwide Message to Over 100 Friends

Here's the easy way to send out your message and avoid the 100 limit.

1) Write a blog or forum post with your message and information. Your title will be the subject line of the email so make sure it does not include any words that will get picked up by filters at yahoo, hotmail, and google. (The top filter words are listed at the bottom in the tips section.)

2) Click "share" at the bottom of the post

3) A box will pop up, and click "more options" at the bottom

4) If you have 100-499 friends then click "share with friends" and select "all." Then write your email message and click "send messsage."

5) If you have more than 500 friends than you will need to select groups of 500 at a time. If you share with more than 500 friends, then the email will be blocked. You will not receive a message saying this, but the system will automatically block any group of more than 500.

I personally have a list of 2500+ friends, and I use this process about once a week. It only takes about 5-10 minutes to break it up into groups of 500, and it guarantees that the email is sent to everyone.

At the end of the day this is better than sending a friendwide message because...

1) It has a better open rate and click rate because you are promoting a sta.rtup.biz url to its members.
2) It has a better response rate because members are more likely to respond by leaving a comment as opposed to sending an email back to you.
3) It is easier to respond with all of the responses at one web page as opposed to 20-40 emails.
4) If it is a forum post, then everytime you or one of your friends makes a reply it will be promoting on the home page of sta.rtup.biz.

Few tips on having a shared forum have great success...

1) Make the title a question that will appeal to people on this site.
2) Answer the queston yourself in 5-15 sentences and strategically place your link to your site or profile.
3) Do not use any of these words that will get your email send to the junk mail box in your title or post. Here is a list and what to avoid: http://www.internetbasedmoms.com/ezine-publishing/avoid_spam_filter...

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Permalink Reply by Elmer De Luna Loredo on May 21, 2009 at 5:01pm: Hi..it's fantastic.. a great sharing to members like me who are not very good in the use of the internet.. thanks elmer; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Arthur Rego on May 21, 2009 at 5:02pm: Thanks for the valuable content as it was much appreciated

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Permalink Reply by Sherry Dossey on May 21, 2009 at 5:09pm: Thanks so much. Always happy to learn something new and you seem to post a lot of good info.
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Permalink Reply by Solveigh on May 21, 2009 at 5:15pm: Thank you a lot for this article, it's very helpful.

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Permalink Reply by Capt. Bob Atkins on May 21, 2009 at 5:18pm: Thanks for all the "Tips"! At my age!! I can use all the help I can get!

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Permalink Reply by Rosemary Smekal on May 21, 2009 at 5:18pm: Very clever, thank you!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by AZONA-THA-PRODUCER-SLA-YER on May 21, 2009 at 5:36pm: thank you; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Eva West on May 21, 2009 at 5:39pm: Thank you for this idea and also for giving us the words that are to be avoided. The only question I still have is, how did you get 2500+ friends? Blessings, Eva; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Margarita I. Cruz-Amaro on May 21, 2009 at 6:02pm: This sounds awesome ,

thank you....

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Permalink Reply by Consuela Greene on May 21, 2009 at 6:34pm: Great idea. Thanks; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RAJAT BHATIA on May 21, 2009 at 6:39pm: This is a great post, as i am launching my new venture next month it will certainly help me to do something similar. Can anyone suggest, apart from SEO is there a way i can mail my web details to millions of users for awareness and business purposes.
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