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With around 200 million users, MySpace can be an amazing opportunity for marketing your products or services if you do things the correct way.  But if you don’t know some of the major secrets behind doing your MySpace marketing, then you can easily mess up and possibly ruin your reputation along with the reputation of your company.  The following tips will likely help you to avoid this catastrophe. 

One of the first secrets I want to share with you today should be a no-brainer, but some people just don’t get it.  That secret is, if you are trying to build a list of friends, people almost always want to accept friend requests from real people, and not companies.  I have seen people’s MySpace pages where the page and maybe even their username is just an advertisement for a company.  I have a retail website called RockitRigs.com that we market on MySpace.  Of course our MySpace page mentions our company, but the pictures on our page are pictures of me, my wife and my brother-in-law.  We share stories about ourselves and how the company came about.  As a result, we show people that they we are requesting them to be friends with real people and not an advertisement.

A second huge secret that will make or break you on MySpace is giving people a compelling reason to be friends with you.  I use the example of my website RockitRigs.com in this article in order to show you that this can be done, even if you are promoting a website where you sell actual goods.  I admit that we had to be a bit creative in order to give people a compelling reason to be our friends, but what we eventually did works out pretty well.  We invited people that had interest in our products and told them that we give away free Rockit Rigs gear each month to some of our MySpace friends and some of our FaceBook friends.  So, we invited them to get stuff for free that they already had interest in buying, and all they had to do was to accept our friend request in order to have a chance to win every single month.  Since we are offering stuff for free, many people are accepting our friend requests instead of deciding to mark the spam button.

A third thing I would like to share with you today has to do with something that I already mentioned, and that is, you need to target your market on MySpace.  If I send a friend request for my Rockit Rigs website to an elderly woman who has joined a knitting group, then it is extremely probable that she will mark my request as spam.  What we do is market to people by which groups they have joined and occasionally by which famous people that they are friends with.   So, for our Rockit Rigs website, we target groups of people who are part of groups related to the products we sell.  And if I was promoting a website for learning real estate, I would focus on the many real estate groups as well as maybe target the friends of Robert Kiyosaki and other real estate gurus on MySpace.

A fourth thing I want to share with you concerns the amount of people you request as your MySpace friends.  There is software available that allows you to easily request hundreds of people per hour on MySpace, but if you get carried away, then your account can easily be shut down by MySpace, here’s why:  Let’s say that you request 500 strangers to be your friend.  You show them that you are a real person and you give them a great reason to be your friend.  Out of these 500 people, are some of them still going to mark the spam button?  Of course some of them are, and I wouldn’t be surprised if over 75 of these people still mark the spam button.  Now, if every day you decide you want to invite 500 friends and you get 75 spam complaints, then that number of 75 spam complaints is going to be highly visible to MySpace even though the other 425 people either just declined your request or actually accepted you as a friend.  Chances are that with so many spam complaints, your account will likely be shut down, making it so that you have to start all over again.

And now for the last MySpace marketing secret that I would like to share with you today:  It is better to request smaller numbers of friends each day on multiple accounts than to risk having a single account shut down because you are getting 75 spam complaints per day.  You see, MySpace doesn’t mind if you have multiple accounts built with them on MySpace.  I know of some people that have various accounts for different marketing purposes and then I know of other people that have 10 accounts, that all look the same, all for the same purpose.  They do this because they are impatient like most marketers.  Why only settle for a few free leads today when you can take a couple of extra steps and get 30 free leads today?  If you are considering setting up multiple accounts for the same reason, just realize that you will need to have different email addresses for each account.  The rule on MySpace is that you can only have one MySpace account per email address.  By following this secrets to your MySpace Marketing, hopefully you will be a few steps closer to accomplishing your marketing goals.

Daniel Pereira

By the way, for more free training for your MySpace Marketing, you are going to want to read Dan Dimit’s book that teaches MSM along with more tips to your MySpace Marketing.  You can sign up for that book for free on the left of this blog post. 

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