How to Get a Free, Autographed Copy of The Art of the Start

Facebook reduced the number of people that a developer can invite to add an application. The limit went from infinity to ten; thus, it is much harder to achieve critical mass. However, if a developer can evangelize people to invite ten friends each, the outlook is brighter. The question is, “How do you get people to do this?”

As the saying goes, there’s more than one way to skin a cat (with all due respect to PETA). Here’s my offer: if you install Truemors for Facebook, invite ten friends to install it, and post a few truemors, I will send you an autographed copy of The Art of the Start. You might wonder how I’ll know if you installed Truemors and invited ten people. The answer is that I am going to trust you.

There’s one limitation. I will only ship books to addresses in the U. S. because I don’t have the bandwidth to figure out shipping and customs to every country in the world. Note: I said I will only ship to U. S. addresses. For example, if you live in Kazakhstan and have a friend or relative (“Borat”) in the U. S. who can get the book to you, go for it.

Please proceed by installing Truemors. After you’ve invited ten friends and posted a few truemors, send your name and address to this email address. This offer is limited to the first two hundred people.

Let’s see if I get disabled by Facebook for doing this. :-)

Comments

[Ady]

Shit,

I ordered a copy of the book, to keep it as a reference in my library, from Amazon just before reading that. :-()

Adil

hostingPride Networks (www.hostingPride.net)
Please use our service otherwise how we gonna survive.

[John Koetsier]

Ditto Grzegorz's comment below.

This blog was a lot more interesting when every third post wasn't promoting your new site.

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John,

Please provide me and other readers your list of blogs with higher signal to noise ratio than this blog.

Thanks,

Guy

[Ron J]

App installed, trumors posted, friends invited, email sent! I look forward to receiving the book (I hope I was within the first 200?..). Thanks.

[Justin]

Viral begging?

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One man's begging is another man's evangelism.

Guy

[Grzegorz Daniluk]

Guy, I do not understand. Why are you losing your marketing guru credibility for promoting this web site?

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For three reasons:

- It's in my DNA to evangelize stuff. I cannot not do it.
- I need to make a living.
- Would you rather read the theoretical ramblings of someone who never has to actually build and market things or someone who is on the firing line?

I hand you a way to get a free book for five minutes of effort, and all you can do is complain?

Guy

[Mukund Mohan]

Guy
Making your own viral campaign. Good thinking. I already have your book. Would like autograph though, or an itunes version of the book. :)

Mukund

[Paul Young]

Guy, I feel left out. I thought your favourite country was Canada!

[Mario]

Sorry I live in Europe.

Is Facebook the next best thing?

I just noticed that you also have a profile at Linkedin with "no invitation welcome." I would I thought you were more friendly.

By the way Linkedin just added another feature to invite your friends in the list of mail you use; for example AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.

They need to move fast, don't you think?

Mario Ruiz
http://www.oursheet.com

[Wilco]

Yes I can read, however...
Is this one of those instances where Canada is counted as the US, too? Shipping costs are identical as far as I'm aware.

Anyway - good luck with getting this rolling. See if I can invite a bunch of people now.

[Carl of PseudoPower]

Wow. Great Idea!

I'm on it!

I have a feeling this still stir up the internet melting pot.

[Rayc22]

Does this mean I can't avoid facebook anymore? Aiks!

[Carl Lingen]

Guy-

Members application allows us to only invite 10 people per day. So tomorrow anyone should be able to invite another ten people. This will take around a week for me to do, but I have a pretty close networked group of friends so I can have them invite their friends as well. Hopefully you will get around 200 people signed up from 1 lead.

Good Luck.

[Tim McCormack]

So I did it, in spite of your view of us MBA's. =^)

By the way, I see someone posted about this at 1:18 am. Giving some people the jump on your announcements?

Good luck getting Truemors rolling. The honeymoon period is over, and now we get to see how much traction it can pull over a long period of time.

Tim McCormack
iRent2u.com - The Online Rental Marketplace

[Roger Anderson]

If I already have a marked up copy can I send it to you to sign?

Or maybe I'll get the free copy and sell it on eBay.....