Friday, January 12, 2007

myspace secrets - creating a winning myspace marketing strategy.

There are more than 1 ½ billion page views daily on the Myspace servers. If you want tostand out you need to focus on your primary goals & objectives thendevelop a winning strategy.How do you do this? it’s necessary to put together a businessplan.
This plan can basically be an overview of what you wish to achieve.Below you will see various ways to determine your goals and transform them into profits. you must Write down your responses so you can refer to them and build upon your overall strategy.
Writing as you go will help get your creative juices flowing and keep you headed in the right direction. Think about it, write it down and put it to work.First and foremost you must determine your primary objective and what you want to achieve.
do you simply just want to sell your products or services, share specific information, generate page views for your site, create a large opt-in emaillist, or introduce something new to market? no matter what it is, it’s necessary to write down your objective before you start.
Clear goals in the beginning help in the later stages. Believe it or not the vast majority of people marketing on the Internet have noclearly defined goals. To be far superior it is important that you do. This meansasking yourself some vital questions and writing down your response.
This is absolutely necessary if you wish to jump ahead of 95% of people selling online.set daily and weekly goals and adhere to them...writing them out and sticking them behind the monitor will help you stay focused.
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

top myspace marketing examples

I will admit when I first stumbled into MySpace I really didn’t think it was much more than a bunch of horrendously ugly pages with really cheezy music. However if you are willing to dig a little deeper you can find some legitimate companies and organizations who are using MySpace. If you’re ready let’s dive in

Chances are if you are like me you think MySpace is slanted towards the teen and early twenty-ish demographic. While I don’t place too much stock in how truthful people are when they enter demographic data, I can say MySpace has a lot more than just teenagers. One of the key factors you’ll need to accept if you are going to take advantage of marketing opportunities on MySpace is it’s a hangout for the hip and trendy set, and not neccisarily just teens. If you’re potential customer is more likely to drive a Toyota Scion instead of a Chrysler Mini-Van then you are in the right spot.

One of the first thing MySpace did right was get popular celebrities (or their ‘people’) to set up spaces. For example the pages of Ryan Seacrest, Madonna, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Simpson, and Oprah seem to be legitimate profiles. Whereas those of Condoleza Rice and George Bush hopefully aren’t fooling many people. Once the right celebrities are involved fans will follow with the hopes of getting added as “friends”.

Some other important areas of MySpace center around music, TV and pop culture. Fox saw this coming and for 2006 set up profiles for the American Idol contestants, for example see Chris Daughtry’s page. Other well known musicians who are on MySpace include LL Cool J, Mary J Blige, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and The Pussycat Dolls. The tie in to clubs and music so strong it’s quite common to come across DJ’s or bands who are heavily promoting themselves on MySpace.

Next let’s look at some examples of corporations and big businesses who are using MySpace. The energy drink Red Bull has a page as does Aquafina, however traditional soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi aren’t, and if they are they are hidden pretty well because I went looking for them. In my opinion this is pretty serious oversight on their part. One of the more interesting examples of corporations in MySpace comes from Wendy’s with a page named squarevision. If features the square Wendy’s hamburgers in a series of flash movies.

While some corporations are clearly dipping their big toe into the waters at MySpace there are still plenty of opportunities there, and since Steve Rubel who now works at Edelman who has MySpace as a client I’ll pass along a few suggestions.

  • The first thing I’d like to see is official company or celebrity profiles identified. It would really be helpful to know if I was looking an something that has been authorized, a devoted fan site, or something put in place by a clever prankster.
  • Next I’d like to see MySpace try to woo more “legitimate” businesses into area. Soft drink companies, car companies, movies, TV shows, even candy like Orbitz and Mentos seem to be a natural fit.
  • Next how about showcasing some of the more interesting, well thought out or well executed MySpace pages. For example Squidoo sends out the Squidoo Lens of the Day
  • Lastly would an official MySpace HTML/CSS editor be too much to ask, all sorts of people are developing all sorts of tools on their own, and I’m not so sure I trust all of them to not do something funny to my page like putting in a hidden link or two


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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Can Marketing On Myspace Bring Good Results

Ok So you have been asking?

Can you really be successful from using myspace to market a product or service??

well before I go off on some tangent and say how great this new social network media really is I can give you an example of one of my students who is pulling in about $455.00 US per day. Now he is selling a physical product that is really popular at the moment (no im not going to give any secrets away!) but its the way his message gets across in myspace automatically and causes massive curiosity, and before you know it, anyone infront of his ad are forced to go to his website and pull out their credit card and pay up before you can say "show me the money!"

Now You can't make money straight off Myspace. You can make money with its marketing aspects. Myspace just happens to be a medium that is conducive for viral and clever ideas to take off. So what you need to ask yourself is, do I have what it takes to make money with viral marketing?

What it really comes down to is the fact that it is not about making money on Myspace, it's about making money from a noteworthy idea. And also the way you put your message across to anyone in your marketing environment. Just like email, Myspace just happens to be a vehicle that MAY or may NOT compell people in your network to pass on your message with other people in their network.

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Sunday, January 07, 2007

Are You A Whore?


LOL I have had some pretty intresting comments and emails since I posted this. LOL.

But before anyone gets offended, please read on and Ill explain just what I mean.

If you havent heard about MySpace and “whore trains” and other terminology that’s thrown about. A whore train Essentially is a list of people, you add yourself to the list and repost the list and the cycle continues, sort of like chain letters in a sense. So why would I want to join one of these trains? Well, you can make hundreds of “friends” in a very short space of time. The more trains you join, the more friends you will make!

Marketing via MySpace can be very powerful, especially if you’re product is targeted towards a very general audience (if it’s targeted towards young teenagers who are into gothic/emo/rock music then even better!) for example, if you run a image uploading website, then you’re bound to get alot of traffic by plugging your site to a list of a few thousand people, guaranteed. One of my contacts used MySpace to promote forums a while ago, he could get anywhere between 100-1,000 new members on a forum in a matter of days by clever MySpace promotion.

In order to market via MySpace you use something called a “Bulletin” which is basically a message you can send to all your contacts at once. It’s important to make your message stand out, so people will notice it and click it. No matter what anyone tells you, don’t have titles like “MySpace is closing down”, “Free dirty pics” or something totally irrelevent for the content of the message for 1 simple reason, you’re not attracting your target audience. If you had a title like “FREE IMAGE HOSTING FOR YOUR PHOTOS!” then you’re essentially pre-qualifying your audience, they click the bulletin and what’s inside matches the title. If you have “MySpace is closing down”, sure people will click but they sure as hell won’t be bothered to visit your site! It’s also wise not to send out hundreds of bulletins each day, people will get pissed off and become immune to them…..just one every few days/week should suffice.

Now, depending on the type of site you have……you may need to offer the person something in exchange for visiting your site. E.g If you run a Forum and are looking for new members, tell them that if they sign up you will comment all their pictures or something!

So what are the best MySpace whore trains? In my experience the best ones are listed below…

http://www.myspacetrain.com

http://www.virtualwebgames.com/myspace/index.php

http://www.projectmyspace.com

http://erbio.net/

http://screwspace.com/?page=train



You can also make money by selling your account if you have a successful onel …i’ve seen 1 myspace account sell for nearly $1000 that had xx,xxx amount of friends.  That some nice coin!!, But it just goes to show you with a little be of ingenouity and success you can cash in by not only selling a product or service, you can sell your account that you might not need and make some good money as well.

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