How can you invite people by email to join a Facebook Group?

Question

Dan Leveille · Accepted Answer

If you are a Group admin, or the Group is public and allows members to invite others, simply click the "Invite by Email" link in the sidebar of the Group:

ChatGPT · Answer

Inviting people to join a Facebook Group via email can be an effective way to increase membership. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to do it:
Step 1: Prepare Your Email List
1. Identify Recipients: Gather the email addresses of the people you want to invite.
2. Segment Your List (optional): If your group has a specific focus, consider segmenting your list to target the most relevant individuals.
Step 2: Create an Invitation Email
1. Subject Line: Make it catchy and relevant. For example, “Join Our Community on Facebook!”
2. Greeting: Address the recipient personally if possible.
3. Introduction: Briefly explain who you are and the purpose of the Facebook Group.
4. Highlight Benefits: Explain what members will gain by joining the group (e.g., community support, exclusive content, networking opportunities).
5. Call to Action: Include a clear invitation to join, such as “Click here to join our group!” 
6. Link to Group: Provide a direct link to the Facebook Group. You can find this link by going to the group and copying the URL.
7. Closing: Thank them for considering your invitation and offer to answer any questions.
Step 3: Send the Email
 * Use your email client to send the invitations. If you're sending to a large group, consider using email marketing tools like Mailchimp or Constant Contact for better management and tracking.
Example Email Template
[code]Subject: Join Our Community on Facebook!

Hi [Recipient's Name],

I hope this message finds you well! I’m reaching out to invite you to join our Facebook Group, [Group Name].

In this group, we share [briefly describe the group's purpose and benefits, e.g., tips, resources, support]. It’s a great place to connect with like-minded individuals and gain valuable insights.

To join, simply click the link below:
[Insert Facebook Group Link]

We’d love to have you as part of our community! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

Best regards,

[Your Name]
[Your Contact Information][/code]
Step 4: Follow Up
Consider sending a follow-up email a week later to remind those who haven’t joined yet.
By following these steps, you can effectively invite people to your Facebook Group via email!

Anonymous · Answer

If you have their email address, you can use that to look up their profile on Facebook and add them to your group directly. Or just send them a link to the group.

But I think you already knew that. :D

Facebook hasn't allowed mass inviting to groups for a while now as far as I know. And you wouldn't want to do that either if you don't want people reporting your group.

Bilal Hussain · Answer

No need to send an email to invite peoples unless that specific person does not have an account on FB. On your FB Group, there is an option that you can send them an invite Individually or as a group.

Alka Verma · Answer

I am the admin of a FB group. Since the last few days I'm unable to add my friends to this group as their name does not show up when I type it for adding them.

Namrata · Answer

Whenever you invite a person to a Facebook group, that person gets a notification that they are invited to join the group. They will be able to preview the group and check out the ongoing discussions for some time. This will help them decide if the groups adds value to their life or not

This is what happens in the preview mode

P.S. Even I didn’t know about it until a month back when I saw this discussion between various admins on how to ensure that members in the preview mode join their group, in a Facebook group namely, Growth and Monetization for Facebook Group Admins

Antho Ma · Answer

To invite members to join a Facebook group using email,

just send email messages to all your friends asking the to join your group.

in your email , a URL for the group should be included.

Thanks

Aria Evans · Answer

Okay , so the problem is probably one of these things. . . it's either their Facebook is all messed up , or they're not actually accepting the invite, you know ? I've had that happen a million times, people just ignore stuff . Or maybe they're not even on Facebook anymore ? Like I invited my aunt Carol once, and she's. . . well she's probably not even on the internet honestly, ha . Sometimes Facebook is just being stupid too , it glitches out sometimes, right ? I swear it's gotten worse lately. Maybe they didnt get the notification . And its possible I messed up the invite , thats happened , I've accidentally added the wrong email address before its mortifying . Also , is the group set to private? Its so annoying when they dont let you in easily. Ugh , I'm having a hard time remembering how I set up this group its a bit of a mess. Plus , maybe their privacy settings are super strict , blocking all invites . Man Facebook is so complicated. It could also be a bunch of little things adding up- maybe its the timing, maybe the servers are down , maybe the internet itself is broken. It's one of those things. Seriously though its frustrating. I spent like ten minutes trying to get my cousin in last week . He's pretty tech-savvy , he still couldnt figure it out so who knows what is going on. It's probably something simple but so annoying .

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Anne B Blockley · Answer

Facebook boggles my mind. I’m not on it. The main reason is because I connect in real life to the people I care about. There isn’t anyone from my past I need to find. Anyway, back to your question, from what I know people join the groups because they are something they are interested in. I suppose it’s a way to meet people. Hope that helps!

Christina Williamson · Answer

Steps

2. Once there, you will find a 'calendar' symbolizing an icon labelled 'Events.'

3. Click on a button which says "Create an Event."

4. Announce on the Event application, the agenda you would like all your friends to come to.

5. Type in the names of the people whom you would like to invite into the "Guest List."

6. Click "Send Invitations."

Simran Grover · Answer

Sure.

In fact, there 3 wonderful ways to do that.

1.Cross Promotion

Trust me, it always helps. For this, you must connect with other community admins of your niche and see if they are open to you talking about your group in their Facebook group.

If they are okay with it, then way to go! Now, since you don’t want to come across as all spammy or promotional, refrain from dropping your group’s links unnecessarily. Talk about it and share it only when you feel you are providing value to the members of that other group.

Also, make sure that you don’t talk about your own Facebook group in that other group and walk away. That is definitely rude. For that matter, you might want to stay, provide value to members, and then also promote this group in your own Facebook group.

2. Promote your Facebook group on other social channels

Maybe you can talk about it in your Instagram story, post, or Youtube channel (if you have one). Again, make sure do not sound too promotional. You only want to create awareness about your group. If people find value, they will surely join it.

3. Ask influencers (in your niche) of other social channels to spread the word about your Facebook group

This is an amazing way to attract so many members since the influencers already have a highly-engaged audience. If the influencer himself/herself is a part, the members would automatically want to join.

Hope this helps!

In case you wish to know more other such easy tactics to grow your Facebook group, feel free to check out this answer [ https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-great-tips-for-growing-a-Facebook-group-fast/answers/235212684 ]. :)

Muhammad Mudassir · Answer

Hello,

1. Offer your members valuable content and targeted offers.
2. Interact with your members and ask questions.
3. Ask your most dedicated fans for help in growing the Group.
4. Set clear rules so your members know what to expect.
5. Send links to the Group to Facebook users you think would be interested.
6. In these way you invited youre members.

Sotiris J Bassakaropoulos · Answer

Often Facebook groups can get out of control with lots of fake accounts and spammers joining the groups. The admins can not keep up with all the trash and tend to neglect the group or only add a few people every few days. If you are in a group with lots of members that you have invited and no one to approve their join request. That could probably be the reason why they have not got in yet.

Anonymous · Answer

Alternative to the already existing answer, you can use free versions of email marketing softwares like MailChimp. Upload your email addresses and create a list for them. There are wonderful templates available. Pick one and create an information update about your FaceBook page, its creation info, what it is about etc. Look for opportunities "To Give Rather Than To Get". Always remember, add some value and provide something useful to the audience. Customer appreciate such things. They will be tempted to take interest in your page and activities. Provide a link in the email body so that people conveniently gets re-directed to the FB page.

The advantage of this method is that by reading statistics from the email marketing software, you can know, how many opened your email, how many took actions on your email like clicking the FB link etc. Accordingly you can plan your next steps that is, sending reminders, experimenting with the subject line & making it more appealing, making the email template more interesting & compelling etc.

Hope this helps.

Robyn Lockhart · Answer

I’m pretty sure from my own experience that you can only invite if they are your friend already; otherwise they have to have request to join, and you can then accept. Also if they were added and left, you cannot invite again, they have to ask to rejoin.

Its not so much the status of the group, (mine is open too) so much as if they are your accepted friend, and haven’t already turned you down. This stops people annoyingly spamming every FB user with group invites! That’s the reason friend requests are limited too.

Rana Annantram · Answer

Open the Group on Facebook and look o. The main dashboard you'll find a button which says “Invite” Click on it and mark the number of people you want to reach!

Sasha Gacesa · Answer

You shouldn't invite them at all.

Private group means that you will offer some extra content in this group, something people can't access just like that or for free, otherwise why would you make your group private - see what I mean here?

You will offer a membership in your private group as a bonus or privilege (prize) to a particular group of people, not to everyone. This people should buy a product from you or to do something else to deserve access to such extraordinary and fancy private group.

Of course, you will set the visibility of this group on “public”, but to become a member of the group any individual striving to achieve this privilege should fulfill some criteria or to take some product or service from your offers, to do something special, respond to your CTA, take a challenge, anything but nothing.

I do hope that you do understand that my answer is aimed to an online business professionals, not to some art or hobby group based on its members enthusiasm. I love art and hobbies, to not get me wrong, but this is not what we are talking about now.

So, you will not invite people to join but reward them by giving them an access to your group. Perhaps this sounds wrong to you but wait for a while and you will understand. Also, the private group usually have less people to support, so you can work with this group of individuals closer, commit to each of them more than you could be able to do in a public group.

I hope you will get something out of my answer even though it's perhaps not exactly what you have eventually expected.

Kinch Reindl · Answer

I’m not sure how many contacts you have so here are some ideas.

If you can email them all do so using the BCC field so as you don’t let everyone see everyone else’s email address and simply ask them to like or follow your page.  Include the url to your page which you can copy from Facebook when looking at it in a browser.  (Test the url in a new window before emailing it out).

If you have a large list and want to invite them as well as other people who “look like them aka a look alike audience) you can through Facebook’s advertising page adsManager upload all the emails address and have Facebook create a group of people who are similar.  (This will cost you money since you are basically advertising).

You can then run an Advertising Campaign to gain likes.  (If you have something to sell or educate people maybe skip the likes and go for a conversion ad or a click your link ad type).

Sotiris J Bassakaropoulos · Answer

Tell them the benefits of joining your groups. Facebook allows you to add your friends to groups so if you see your group is relevant to them as them if they would like you to add them..

Don’t add everyone as you will only piss them off lol.. So if your group is about buying or selling cars in New York don’t add your friend who is a Yoga Instructor in Australia…

But if you have a friend who owns a NY based car dealership ask him or add him and he will probably thank you :-)

You can also post your group link and benefit of joining in large other relevant Facebook groups as long as you are not competing directly with them.

Kakuli Guha · Answer

Apne Facebook group ko promote karne ke liye, aap apne friends aur family ko invite kar sakte hain. Uske alawa, aap apne group ke baare mein interesting posts aur updates share karke logo ko attract kar sakte hain. Kuch groups mein, aapko kuch special content ya offers bhi provide kar sakte hain jo logo ko group mein join karne ke liye motivate karein. Aur haan, kabhi-kabhi aapko apne group ke baare mein logo ko seedha poochna pad sakta hai, aur agar unko interest hota hai toh wo aapke group mein join kar sakte hain.