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Morpheus · 08-06-2006, 04:10 AM

Hi I'm just getting into Myspace advertising. I believe I read something that you couldn't solicit people to buy anything from you, but you could solicit so that people could link back to your page. Right now I'm just trying to promote my blog, www.ThePoetryBlog.com, which I don't think is illiegal.

I was wondering do all those companies and people that have massive amounts of friends have to friend each person individually and manually?? Is there some sort of software or do they just hire kids from China to manually do this?

TSS · 08-06-2006, 04:18 AM

We had a profile for my business back in late 2005. We had at the end about 2500 friends and most of them wanted to be our friend instead of vice versa. We had a banner linking to the site that was a cool flash based banner about SIRIUS Radios, which we sell. It was a banner that friends asked us for the code to. We got quite a bit of sales from it. There were a few times I had posted a bulletin and such to advertise a particular Sirius Product that were we offering.

Then in Feb of 2006 I tried to login one day and Bam, the profile had been deleted. There was a lot of work to get it to the point that it was and it must have been deleted for advertising from Myspace. It was a big blow and it's happened to others. Some go way overboard with advertising and it hurts them ultimately. It's a fine line. The problem is, you won't know from Myspace if you are going over the line until it's too late.

Morpheus · 08-06-2006, 04:23 AM

Wow that sucks! No message or anything? Well I guess they can't send you a message to a deleted profile hah.

TSS · 08-06-2006, 04:40 AM

No message, the only way I really discovered how it happened was my talking to another person on Myspace who had it done to them. In the whole scheme of the people on there for networking purposes we were in the bottom 10% in terms of being on there for business. It may have been our name on there that was the issue though.

Aletheides · 08-06-2006, 01:08 PM

www.adderrobot.com

If you haven't learned this from TSS yet: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Make more than 1 profile.

PHPMine · 09-27-2006, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Aletheides

www.adderrobot.com

If you haven't learned this from TSS yet: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Make more than 1 profile.

not just that, but i would keep a list of my friends so that if that does happen, you can easily email them to add you gain. the real ones (i mean actie ones, does who actually care, etc) would then join you immediaetly on the new profile.

btw, has anyone seen if it really is against myspace TOS to promote your biz there? i was going to put affiliate banners on my site. should i stay away from that?

ianternet · 09-28-2006, 03:38 PM

i created an article on myspace marketing - check my site and my articles - other than that I think it will be hard to market on myspace

Aletheides · 09-28-2006, 10:55 PM

I would target poetry groups or you might think about making your own.

Ann C · 09-29-2006, 12:50 AM

youtube might be also good option for video marketing, IMO.

Aletheides · 09-29-2006, 02:24 AM

Ya get poetry vidoes and run a water mark on the bottom right/left.

BasementGuru · 09-29-2006, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Aletheides

I would target poetry groups or you might think about making your own.

Yes indeed target those groups and you will have good converting traffic

If your profile is complete and add value to your friends you wont get deleted

From personal experience you can add up to 400 friends a day without getting noticed by Tom and his minions