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Marketing Strategy. Is it Legally Ok ?

by notolldog
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Hi guys. I need help.

For testing purposes, I made a mock Facebook page. I made-up a guy, gave him a first & last name and uploaded a copyright-free stock photo of a guy and made-up some info about him (although I "do not" show his info on the page).

Right away, people started friend requesting me. It's getting an average of a dozen friend requests a day. Yesterday was 17 requests. A lot of them (friends) are also liking my posts.

This took-off from day one and I have no clue why? The "only" posts I have on my timeline are posts thanking every individual who sent their request. That's it.

The page is only a personal account, it's not a page offering any product or anything.

I started it 4 or 5 days ago, I have 122 friends.

This was only for testing purposes to see if anyone would respond, and they're liking something but i don't know...so I asked them...

I asked them to tell me - by message, on my timeline or on Twitter - what they want, and what they would like this page to give them, and I told them I'd like to give that to them.

So my question is, "Are we allowed, as Marketers, to market and make money under an alias on Facebook, even though I'm receiving all these friend requests myself?" Can anyone help me on this please?

Thank you,
Rob

P.S. I realize I'm unable to do personalized videos to them because I don't look like the alias
#legally #marketing #strategy
  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    I reckon it is spambots.
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    Cheers, Laurence.
    Writer/Editor/Proofreader.

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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Yep, you're talking to FB bots.
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  • Profile picture of the author notolldog
    Thank you guys.

    Really? Wow, how does that work?

    So these visitors aren't real, or is it that there is software auto-posting?
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  • Profile picture of the author notolldog
    Great. Thank you Froggies.

    Yeah, they just keep comin. There's no way I can do that haha

    Well, I learned something

    May I ask you, what should I do with the page? Delete it, or try more tests? Enforce some kind of ninja Marketing tactic?

    Thank you
    Rob
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  • Profile picture of the author gingerninjas
    Hi,

    I did the same thing for a business i once worked for - I didn't want to have my personal account linked to the business page, and so I create a first and last name, chose 1st January for the birthday and mocked up the rest.

    I would agree that you're probably getting spam bots liking your page as there really is no other real incentive for them to follow you.

    I too was interested what would happen. I know quite a few people who have two pages, one is an alias just to test and manage social media sites. It's quite common in marketing circles.
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