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> we prompt them to share their new page with friends immediately after signup

Does this actually work? I've seen a few places that do this but I've always assumed it's probably a poor performer (and makes your site looks spammy) because people haven't had a chance to evaluate if they want to tell their friends about your site.

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Yeah, there was actually an article on this - I'll see if I can dig it up later.

It evaluated the performance between asking them to refer right after sign-up vs. after they have tried the product for a while.

The message we currently use is something along the lines of "Now that you have a brand new link blog, it's time to get an audience", or something like that.

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