At MySpace Social Networking And Internet Marketing Are One And The Same

Social networking is particularily well-suited for internet marketing, and for this reason alone marketers have targeted the genre with a vengeance. In fact, bad marketers have over-worked most of the major social bookmarking websites, and the trend is unlikely to continue. Okay, the difference between us and them is that we are “good marketers”. If we stay within our bounds, we should do quite well.

Define your agenda at MySpace clearly

If you don’t go to MySpace with a purpose, you’ll spend most of your days clicking on ugly-ass profiles and listening to music so Gawd-awful, you may actually contemplate doing something drastic. An obvious “intention” you can hone in on is promoting a specific website. Preferably, this should be a website you already own and one that is well-suited to the “Entertainment” category at MySpace.

Don’t overplay your hand.

Obviously, if you plan on contacting your “friends” all the time with some bullshit information, they won’t remain friends for long. You have to be subtle. Establish a laid back persona, and market continously without being overbearing. Try to be “comical” or entertaining in some way. Leave comments that people will actually appreciate and thank them wholly for being a friend.

People are people offline or on.

People like being treated with respect. Make sure to try and respect the people you’re attempting to network with/market to and you might have excellent success. Certainly, the numbers of friends that have top MySpace profiles are extremely large blocs of people that, when motivated, can become powerful forces. But they didn’t get their profiles big overnight.

You always need more friends

Adding friends is the main key. I’m shooting for around 100 per day or so. I’ve managed to get 204 friends. Some of my friends are sorta scummy, but hell, you gotta start somewhere

MySpace Marketing is a marathon and not a sprint.

If you’re willing to spam MySpace, you can probably build up much faster, but for promoting a website, there’s no reason. The problem of needing more visitors to your website is permanent, so turn MySpace into a permanent marketing solution. It doesn’t take much to update the blog on MySpace or add friends, so you can set aside some time each day to get the job done.

So far the “payoff” has been minimal, but the time invested has, too. We’ll see how it all develops in the new year.