Sending messages to friends within the social network VKontakte is a very relevant topic today, since this resource is actively used to earn money, acting as an advertising platform. However, even having an idea for a newsletter, due to the high level of security of the site, it is quite difficult to implement it.
How to send a message to everyone through a general conversation?
Let's look at how to send one message to all VKontakte friends via a computer:
- Log in to your profile;
- Go to the “Messages” section;
- At the top of the window, find the search bar. On the right side there is a plus icon, click on it;
- Mark all your friends from the list, enter the name of the dialogue and click on the “Start conversation” button;
- Write a message;
- Pressing the Enter key will send the latest message to everyone on the list.
You can also send one message to all your friends using the mobile application:
- Go to the program;
- Tap on the cloud icon (in the lower center of the window);
- At the top right, find the square icon with a pencil, click on it;
- And select the “Create conversation” command;
- Add all recipients to it;
- Click on the “Continue” button, enter the name of the dialogue and click “Create”;
- Enter the text of the message;
- It can now be sent to all selected candidates.
How to write to VK if your personal account is closed
To avoid intrusive SPAM messages and communication with unwanted users, the VKontakte social network allows a person to block access to personal correspondence with him, limiting the circle of people who can write to him, for example, only to friends or to friends and their friends. This is an important and convenient feature that should be present on every social network, but it can lead to some difficulties. If a user who is not your friend urgently needs to contact you, and you have similar restrictions, he may have difficulty doing this. However, they are quite easy to overcome, and in this article we will look at how to write to VK to a person if his personal account is closed.
How to send without creating a conversation?
If you are interested in how to write one message to all your friends on VK at once, without resorting to creating a general dialogue, be prepared to use unofficial methods. In other words, use the services of third-party services.
You will have to act very carefully, because in this case you run a high risk of getting banned by the developers of the social network. Mass mailing in the Contact area is strictly prohibited.
Also, the services of unofficial programs are not always free. Well, and, of course, no one can guarantee complete security of your page, because you will inevitably have to provide its input data to third-party services.
If you are ready to take a risk, we will tell you how to send a message to all your friends on VK using the VK Assistant program
- Go to the website: https://vk-assistant.ru/;
- Register. Please note that when you enter your password, a message appears indicating that the connection is not secure, and therefore data leakage is possible. We recommend using the “left mail” (not necessary) for registration;
- Login;
- Click on the “Profile” button;
- Log in to the service using your VK login data, following the prompts;
- After successfully linking your VK account to your account on the service, open its main page;
- Click on the “Everyone” button and enter your text in the appropriate field;
- If desired, recipients can be sorted by gender or online/offline status;
- The last step is to click on the “Send” button.
Letters will fly to their recipients with lightning speed. Please note that it is at this moment that your profile will become most vulnerable to VK security services. If the latter notice suspicious activity, the page will be blocked automatically.
There are many services and programs similar to VK Assistant. None of them are safe and reliable, and therefore people work in them at their own peril and risk. We recommend using fake profiles for such mailings.
So, let's draw conclusions. To officially send one message to all VKontakte friends at once, you will have to create a general conversation. Individual mailing can only be done using secondary services, which is unsafe. Massive spam is a direct road to ban. Therefore, if you really need it, don’t send one message to more than 20 recipients at a time. And try to resort to “leftist” software as little as possible.
Mailing on behalf of the group through the free VKontakte application
The application is connected in the group settings
A “subscribe” button appears on the group wall. By clicking on it, users agree to receive private messages on behalf of the community.
After collecting a subscriber base, you can send mailings to them (look in the application settings).
- Fully automatic process
- Official (legal) format
- Useful for informing existing clients
- Convenient connection and intuitive functionality
- In addition to attracting members to your group, you need to motivate users to subscribe
- Content restrictions - ban on links and advertising. You can get a group ban for spamming.
- Users can unsubscribe if they are not satisfied with the content of the message received
The application is useful for notifying subscribers about events, activities, new offers, which can stimulate your sales and maintain customer interest. But this option is not suitable for attracting a new audience and distributing advertising material.
Zhdun
Newsletter
Although this functionality appeared at the beginning of 2021, I’m only now getting around to analyzing it. And this is no coincidence.
Since we have gained experience in managing them, and the mailing services themselves have upgraded their capabilities quite well. Therefore, I am telling you not from theory, but from real experience of sending more than 100,000 messages.
I draw attention to the phrase “on behalf of the group/public”, because it is only from this type of page that mailings can now be made.
And the logic of VKontakte is clear here. Groups and public pages are created for commercial purposes, when personal pages are tailored for personal tasks, rather than communication with the audience. But this is true, by the way.
The benefits are obvious
The key joy of any business is the high open rate of your messages, now I’ll tell you more.
In email marketing, this figure fluctuates around 20-25%, when in the case of VK the situation changes sharply upward and is about 80-90%. It can be roughly said that everyone to whom you send messages will see them.
Naturally, this is only the case now. After all, personal messages are not filled with spam, and the site itself does not impose any restrictions or strict rules.
Although I personally am sure that sooner or later there will be a separate folder for all messages sent to VK from personal messages. This thing is now implemented in G-mail and it is called “Promotions”.
We can harp on for a long time about the difference between VKontakte newsletters and email marketing, but let’s agree right away - this is not a substitute, but an additional channel of interaction.
And if the first ones are definitely wrong, then the second ones are lucky. True, this luck happened only a year after the official release of the mailings.
But since we are talking about the present, rejoice, there are auto funnels in VK. But they are not as sophisticated as you think.
Everything is just gaining momentum. But now we can identify the main branches of functionality that exist and will continue to develop:
- Variables.
Substitution of data into the text based on information on the subscriber page. - Moment of sending.
Selecting a good time and date for sending. - Auto series.
Sending messages one after another with a selected time interval. - UTM tags.
Tracking the sources where subscribers come from. - Statistics.
Analytics of sent, received messages and link clicks. - .
Adding and removing a participant to “subscription topics” based on his actions.
Moreover, the last point, which is the main point of any auto sales funnel, is now very poorly developed.
At the time of writing, there are about 6-8 customer segmentation criteria. And I don’t specifically list them, since maybe tomorrow the list will no longer be relevant. But in the next paragraph I will give information on where to track everything.
Send a message along with the gift
Another way to contact a stranger is to send him a message along with a gift. To do this you will need:
- Go to the page of the message recipient and click on the “Send a gift” button;
As you can see, there are plenty of ways to contact a user if his personal messages are closed. If you urgently need to “reach out” to a person, you can use all the above options.
Send a message along with a friend request
No user can disable the ability to add themselves as friends, and this can be used if you need to send a message to a person. In order for your message to be sent along with a friend request, you need to do the following:
- Go to the page of the user you want to contact;
- Make sure that you cannot send a message to him and click on the “Add as a friend” button;
When the user then sees your friend request, it will be displayed along with this message.
Please note: This method is not the most effective, since not all users check the list of friend requests on a regular basis, often doing this once every few days, weeks or months, which is why your urgent message may not be read by the recipient in a timely manner.
Preparatory work
If you have created your personal group and have already managed to fill it with unique and interesting content that you think will be interesting not only to you, but also to other users, then it’s time to start mailing. Before you send messages, you will need to do some preparation. So, carefully compose not only an interesting and attractive sample, but also check that it is written correctly and without sending messages “VKontakte” should be done carefully and with caution. If you have your own personal page and are the creator of a group, then we recommend using a second, third-party account to distribute invitations, which you are not so afraid of losing. You can register or buy a new account yourself; currently there are a large number of stores that provide similar services.