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    * Im Chat Bots

    Has anyone ever used a IM Chat Bot to surf Aol Google Yahoo etc and sell hosting.

    If so was it successful and where did you buy it from? Is it legal?

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    Would YOU buy something from someone that sent you an unsolicited advertisement via IM?

    That's your answer.

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    I was thinking more of sending a bot out there to collate potential customes to contact directly than letting it close the deal.

    Bot: Doyou have a website

    Yes

    We provide hosting from $5.00 a month would you be interested

    Yes

    Ok I will have someone contace you to discuss

    That type thing i suppose

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    I have never used IM Chat Bots, all tho i don't think it would work you would most likly get alot of fraud.

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    Its really not that expensive just to hire people to run some chats.

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    Ok where would i go to for these people

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    You would go to a place called WHT or any other forum.

    I believe your already here, check the employment forum

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    Not a good idea. In order to sell on IM you need to have someone who can answer any questions. If the potential buyer has a question, the bets a bot can do for him is send him to some strange link to a page on which he might not know what to look for. Selling on IM or IRC is as difficult as a cold call. I did this when we first started out, and decided that it wasn't worth it.

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    I've successfully written some AIM bots in Java using the jaimbot framework -- have your coder take a look if you're really set on getting an AIM bot up.

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    If you spam the wrong person on instant messenger, they may attack your website. Just a word of warning, I would highly advise against this type of advertisement.

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    What's next? asking for bulletproof mailingservers ?

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    Most run on AIM , right ?

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    Ugg, I would hate if someone contacted me on my IM trying to sell me something, its like telemarketers.

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    I believe that would be considered unsolicited spam and you could be penalized for it.

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    Quite frankly I block everyone I don't know from contacting me through IM. If you're not on the list I don't see your IM. Not to mention I would be particularly annoyed if a bot tried to contact me and make a lead out of me. I view this as an underhanded marketing tactic and would never do it.

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