Comments on: Marketing With MySpace.com

By: Evanonymous

Evanonymous — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:50:32 +0000

I know this is kind of late to post, but i have enjoyed the fruits of my labor with myspace. I have added alot of people in hopes of increasing our fanbase and have successfully increased it drastically. We work really hard on our music and I refuse to work less on the marketing. I live in Missouri and I am a rapper,and statistically there is no market in the lower half of the state for this genre of music. with this social network though I have gotten our music out to several states and booked several shows. I am excited to see what 2010 brings us. If you like rap music come check us out and leave a comment.

By: Robbo

Robbo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:49:04 +0000

I wish I knew how to market. I’ve been adding friends since a couple of months ago and still no customers. Hmm.

By: Lex

Lex — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:31:20 +0000

Is anyone still rockin’ their business with myspace? It’s interesting that all the talk is facebook and twitter, but myspace is still one of the biggest sites in the world. It can’t be doing that badly.

By: Roze

Roze — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:05:49 +0000

Thanks so much for this article, and thanks to everyone who has posted comments. This is very encouraging and has helped me decide which direction to take in marketing on MySpace. My initial instinct was to join as many online communities as possible, but it’s good to know that I only need to grow a meaningful presence on a few of them in order to see results. My eStore is brand new, and I have no adveritising budget, so this is going to help me a great deal.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:38:59 +0000

I use Myspace for marketing my Used Clothing Store… I started my page and worked on adding friends before my store even opened, I started out searching for locals over the age of 18 and just browsed their pages, anyone who seemed like they may be interested in saving money or buying clothing was someone I sent a friend request to… over time I started narrowing my focus down to the Teen Mothers, Single Parents, Grandparents, etc, as I know from personal experience that people in these situations are GENERALLY tight on money and look for ways to save whenever they can… It has worked out so far, and I have gotten customers from myspace this way… and I plan to continue to fine tune my marketing plans for Myspace to help improve my technique and grow my popularity and customer base

By: Richard McDuff

Richard McDuff — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:47:17 +0000

I have just started to market on myspace and the traffic to my websites have increased incredibly. I have also become addicted to finding new friends, this has become a full time job, but I actually enjoy it. I wish I had of joined myspace a while back. This was a very informative article thank you

By: Nelson

Nelson — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:55:44 +0000

I am encouraged by what I am reading. Most of the comments are going down the right track. One key thing I will add to the mix is this. MySpace should always be treated as a non-selling environment. This is the only way you will ever connect a company/product/service with an end user. MySpace as a marketing platform should be looked at as building a community of brand loyalists around your product. The big brands that do this first are going to have the leverage over the next years over their competitors. We have developed a methodical and systematic process to build out a social network on MySpace and manage all the bulletins, messages, comments, and pictures. We take it a step further and build out a video distrubution strategy and combine it with a blog distribution strategy. Our service is a premium service, but it is as robust and comprehensive as I have seen in the marketplace.

By: Nick Jag

Nick Jag — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:11:32 +0000

I agree with Peter (post above) in that you do need an adder. We’ve been using MySpace as well to market some music and it really does help to have MySpace automate some of the process. Not even necessarily for sending out new friend requests, but just contacting your current friends and letting them know what’s going on. It’s too bad MySpace doesn’t incorporate some feature (better than bulletins) for bands to message their fans. Maybe the fans could opt-in or something to it. That would be a neat feature to have.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:14:22 +0000

I have used myspace for over two years now.

I was able to market to the 25 and under music fans for a venue in the bay area.

I have over 10,000 demographed friends.
with over 1000 hits a day.

I also run 10 other bands.

basically I make $40,000 a year doing about 30 hours of work a week… which includes running the shows and being there…

One thing most people don’t talk about is the software needed to truely drive the traffic otherwise myspace is worthless…

you need an adder… a play count faker and view increaser… and a custom layout

By: ZX_Appeal

ZX_Appeal — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:51:35 +0000

My stepmother left a comment on a friends profile and mentioned the shop’s name. It was indexed by Google on the second page. It seems odd because most of MySpace is dynamically generated and not very well indexed. I know for a fact the comments are indexed by search engines. Having lots of friends and leaving comments frequently would be a good tactic. It doesn’t take musch to leave a keyword or two in an innocent comment and I don’t think a friend who knows you own a business is going to consider it spam if you leave your unlinked web address or business name printed in the text of your signature.