Pm'ing a newbie (read!) - includes a pm template 3rd post

[Green Beauty]

Making bussers feel welcome once joining is a very rewarding job, and sending a pm is one of the best ways to do this. But it can sometimes be very hard to work out what to say to someone especially if they have not made any posts yet. Here are just a few idea to help you to string a pm together if you are having a mind block and need a bit of help.

Introduce yourself

Have a look at their profile, does it have a location there. Do you live near there, have you been on holiday there? If so a breif mention of that may be an idea.

Do they have any interests in their profile? If so what are they? Is there anything you could include in the pm about these interests?

Does it say if they are a student? Ask what they are taking.

Try not to send a pm alot of questions in them, you want to be welcoming but at the same time you don't want to scare them (and asking lots of questions can quite easily do that).

Have they made a first post? Perhaps you could include responses from that post within your pm.

Include a welcome cow, and explain it's tradition if you so wish.

At the end of the email it would be a good adea to end it with this link Welcome wagon

For example: From me and all the other members of the Welcome wagon welcome to bus!

This will help to raise publicity. (if you don't know how to create the link it is here, just copy it

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[url=http://buslist.org/phpBB/groupcp.php?g=11885&sid=6c0a1ddf7b37d0c89d8097c8746ed9d9]Welcome wagon[/url] 

Fell free to add if you have any pm'ing techniques to share.

[jo_alone]

And also check the spammers link above in the stickies - you don't want to be welcoming possible spammers that haven't been splatted - as I have been known to do

If you spot one, just post in there and an admin will sort it.

Jo

[Green Beauty]

Ah yes thats a good point jo.

Here is a rough template, for a very basic pm.

Hello I hope you don’t mind me pm’ing you, I just wanted to welcome you to bus. My name is .... and i've been a member of bus for around ..... months/years, it really is a wonderful place and I hope that you will find what you are looking for. If you have any questions feel free to pm me and I will do my best to help out. I hope you are well.

And again, on behalf of me and all the other members of the Welcome wagon, we are pleased to have you on board.

Take care.

*insert name*


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Obviously it's nicer to send personalised pm's to people, but if you are running out of time, this is better than nothing, just copy and fill in the gaps