Spam sucks. 

Not the canned precooked meat, but the electronic junk mail of the same name. 

Declaring that "Spam sucks" is hardly a controversial statement. Poll 100 random users on the Internet, and 99% will writhe in anger at the mere mention of the word ... 

The other 1% will be the spammers who are spreading the stuff around. 

Coaches should know better, but I still see many of them choosing to spam as a business strategy ... 

I see it often in Facebook groups. 

Overall, my group (The Coaching Jungle) is awesome when it comes to spam. It has very little of it for a group of almost 3000 members. 

But still, there are people who try to sneak around the watchful eye of myself and my admins, and spam the wall. 

They're usually the people who you never hear from, until they put spammy stuff on the wall. They post the same message in a bunch of groups and hope to get results that way. 

I rarely see successful coaches do this. They know how it can hurt a business.  More often than not, it's a coach who is doing very little business (but a "whole lotta spammin') 

We're quick with the boot in The Coaching Jungle.  A warning is usually given for a first offence, but as time goes on I'm getting less tolerant. 

I've seen what happens to good Facebook groups once they're overtaken by the spam monsters: 

I was in a large Facebook group for coaches before that had good stuff.  But slowly, after time, spam was allowed to be posted without any action by the admins.  After awhile, the group's wall resembled The Home Shopping Network (sell, sell, sell) and the group no longer gave any value. 

I tuned out, and lots of others did too. 

If you're looking for a Facebook group that gives pure value, and no spam, you can join The Coaching Jungle here: 

See you there, 

Marc

PS. I was a guest on The Big Movement podcast this week. I gave my thoughts on what it takes to grow a successful coaching business ... here's the link to have a listen: