{"id":2574,"date":"2019-06-10T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T04:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:46","slug":"marketing-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/marketing-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I follow THOUSANDS of people in the education sphere on social media and the things that go viral within my echo chamber sometimes crack me up. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:6543810510607970304\">Cara North made a casual Monday morning observation on LinkedIn<\/a> asking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> You know the best way to start your day on LinkedIn? With messages from new connections who want to sell me their instructional design services.  I have a great network and I already know who I would recommend\/ask if I had some work to be done. Does anyone else get these often? Do these actually work?!  I call these the &#8220;pop-up spam ads&#8221; of LinkedIn \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cara is a regular poster of high-quality content related to our field, but I doubt many of her posts have received the attention of this one. Turns out everyone is annoyed when a contact (most often a new contact) reaches out with canned solicitations &#8211; especially those asking to set up a time to talk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I add about 20 people per week to LinkedIn from the invites I receive and about 5 times a month, I get an immediate solicitation in my LinkedIn messages or email from the new contact. 99.99% of the time, it&#8217;s a product or service that has NOTHING to do with my work. I consider this spam and immediately unfollow the contact, and apparently so do most others in my network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I follow THOUSANDS of people in the education sphere on social media and the things that go viral within my echo chamber sometimes crack me up. Cara North made a casual Monday morning observation on LinkedIn asking: You know the best way to start your day on LinkedIn? With messages from new connections who want&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}