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2:29 am
January 25, 2013
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QuoteHello.
I have a big gig coming up on Sat June 21st in Portland. I created a Facebook event and tried to invite my Portland Facebook friends using an html invite all code but got this message from Facebook: "You have exceeded the maximum number of people you can invite to this event". It stopped at a 1000 invites (where I have around 3000 total peeps to invite total). It does the same on my personal page and music page. Has anyone ran into that problem lately ? Any solutions ? my gig is in 2 weeks. Fustrating...Thanks for your help guys.
Eric John Kaiser
"Parisian Americana" made in Portland, OR
http://www.ericjohnkaiser.com
Hey Eric,
Honestly, I don't personally use Facebook invites at all precisely for those kinds of reasons. You can't control the platform and many people just ignore invites (I'm one of them). I haven't opened an invite in years.
So in short, I would be focused more on building a local list as quickly as possible and emailing those people for MUCH better results. That said, I could imagine a couple of possible workarounds...
- If you have other band members maybe each member could create an invite and invite 1000 people.
- You could try scraping the IDs of those people and then creating an event page of your own that was email driven and advertise just to the scraped IDs. Your ad headline could literally be "You're Invited". It will cost you a little but teh audience will be so small it won't be much.
Let us know how you make out.
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8:02 pm
January 25, 2013
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Thanks a lot John. I actually send out email blasts from my mailing list also. I'm just trying to approach promoting the gig from different angles and some peeps on Facebook are not on my mailing list.
I'll also still post the event on my Facebook newsfeed. I'm just surprised of that new situation with that new "limited" feature on Facebook. It's frustrating and email is definitely the way to go.
Thanks again for your help,
Eric
7:05 pm
June 7, 2011
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Sounds good. Definitely nothing wrong with backing up your promo with FB activity. Just didn't want you to feel that you were out of luck purely because of the limitation. Lots of way to get in front of people on FB 
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