Marketing guy here who's passionate about real conversations. Just want to remind everybody– tools, tricks and tactics should help you remove the tedious "bookkeeping" aspects of your marketing/sales job, but PLEASE, PLEASE engage people as human beings.
Spamming people with stock messages is polluting the communal pool, and everyone suffers for it. When you find someone with purchasing intent, TALK to them. Ask questions. You don't need to punch everyone in the face with your sales pitch.
I couldn't agree more. Sending out automated sales pitches is spamming people and that's the main reason I didn't add auto-reply feature in the code. I go through the tweets that get added to the spreadsheet and try to engage the ones who might actually benefit from using our product with my personal twitter account.
The tool is here to help you find the people who might be interested in your product easier (look through 30 tweets instead of 100s). It's not supposed to/should not be doing the actual sales pitch automatically.
Spamming people with stock messages is polluting the communal pool, and everyone suffers for it. When you find someone with purchasing intent, TALK to them. Ask questions. You don't need to punch everyone in the face with your sales pitch.