{"id":2162,"date":"2008-10-11T13:01:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T13:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:58:15","slug":"sending-facebook-event-invitations-rsvps-is-time-well-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/facebook\/sending-facebook-event-invitations-rsvps-is-time-well-spent\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending Facebook event invitations, RSVPs is time well spent"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re creating events on your Facebook page for speaking engagements, book signings, teleseminars or anything else you want to promote,\u00a0don’t miss an important step—emailing the invitation to a select group of your friends, or all\u00a0of them, using the email function on Facebook.<\/p>\n

If you have thousands of friends,\u00a0that’s a\u00a0time-consuming chore.\u00a0But it’s worth it.\u00a0Here’s an example that shows how those invitations made my cash register ring the last few days\u00a0(and it’s still ringing).<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, I created an event at Facebook called “How to Promote on Twitter” because I wanted my friends to know about\u00a0the teleseminar series I’m hosting on Oct. 13 and 14 on\u00a0How to Use Twitter to Amass an Army of Followers, Customers & Valuable Contacts–and Promote<\/a>. I have more than 1,500 Facebook friends, and it took Chris Buffaloe, my assistant, more than an hour\u00a0to email them all and invite them to the event.\u00a0 Facebook lets you invite only 100 people at a time, which can be tedious.<\/p>\n

When\u00a0one of my Facebook friends, Adam Urbanski,<\/a> the Marketing Mentor, got the invitation, he RSVP’d:<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\u00a0I haven’t seen Adam in several years so I went to his Facebook profile page and noticed he’s a pretty popular guy because he has more than\u00a03,500 friends. And there on his wall was a one-liner, letting all his friends know he had written my wall for the Twitter teleseminar event. The link to “How to Use Twitter to Promote,” by the way, is a hyperlink.\u00a0His friends can\u00a0click on it, read my invitation and, if they wish, register.<\/p>\n

\"Adam<\/a><\/p>\n

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As soon as Chris emailed my invitation, I received more than a dozen registrations for the teleseminar @ $77 each. That’s about $924 in revenue, just from sending one invitation.\u00a0\u00a0Granted, the topic is hot right now, and lots of Twitterers want to know how to use the site to promote instead of posting lame tweets about what they had for lunch.\u00a0 But emailing\u00a0invitations and receiving RSVPs results in hundreds more eyes reading your invitation and\u00a0even more mutual friends\u00a0seeing the topic.<\/p>\n

Boost attendance for your events<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you’re sending Facebook invitations for your events and seeing no results, these could be the reasons:<\/p>\n