Recently I setup a facebook group for Kung Fu film fans in my area of Greater Manchester, it's something that i've been planning on doing for a few years now. The aim is to get a proper group website organised but I am using facebook to rally numbers initially, if it takes off and quite a number of people join then i'm hoping that people will be encouraged to start up screenings and events. But at the moment the numbers aren't growing and no one is passing on the word.
It is quite de-motivating when you don't see the numbers change at all, and also when fans who do join the group don't tell others about it....i've started putting up adverts for it on places like Gumtree and i'm going to hit some of the martial arts film forums and plug it there also. Hopefully that will generate some numbers for it.
However, my brother showed me this video earlier on of why I should persist with it even if the numbers don't grow for a while.....because they will grow eventually.
Watch it, it's quite amazing how the trend catches on after the third person joins in.
oh, and if you know any peeps in the area who are into martial arts movies....do us a favour and tell 'em to join the group. ;)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=128924747134055&ref=nf
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Mate, hang in there it takes a bit of time and persistence and just a few people to send to all friends. I will find the link that helps people select all friends easily on facebook and if you send that it encourages people to get others involved. I have a few friends into martial arts, mainly wing chun, so I will forward the details on for you :D
this is the code, they just need to go to invite people on your page and then in the url bar paste this code and press enter and it will select all friends!
javascript:elms=document.getElementById('friends').getElementsByTagName('li');for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === 'object'){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}
hope that helps x
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