Facebook/Myspace Advertising

[AllConfidence22]

How did Facebook and Myspace get their name out there? Did they have a large amount of investors or was it a start from scratch sort of deal? Also whats the best way to get your website's name out there without spending a whole lot of money doing it? (I'm a college kid, going to class for 17 units and still starting my own website)

[Future of Edu]

How did Facebook and Myspace get their name out there? Did they have a large amount of investors or was it a start from scratch sort of deal? Also whats the best way to get your website's name out there without spending a whole lot of money doing it? (I'm a college kid, going to class for 17 units and still starting my own website)

You can read FB's entire start up process online. Its everywhere. FB did great in a local market by word of mouth. It was never a plan to be multi-milliondollar, 200 million user site. When they realized they could be, they were able to get an investment of about $2mm and go from there.

Anyway, for the whole story, just google it.

Enjoy Life,
Nick

[AndrewSquire]

How did Facebook and Myspace get their name out there? Did they have a large amount of investors or was it a start from scratch sort of deal? Also whats the best way to get your website's name out there without spending a whole lot of money doing it? (I'm a college kid, going to class for 17 units and still starting my own website)

Facebook was very smart about promoting their business. They used an interesting method of promoting their website internally. How they achieved that was basically allowing people who sign up to import their e-mail contacts and notify their entire contact list inviting them to join them on Facebook.

As far as investments go they didn't start from scratch to my knowledge because their technology and designs weren't cheap so they decided to get capital from venture capitalists.

The best way to promote your business without spending money is by obviously advertising as well as creating SEO friendly coding and design. SEO is really important for online businesses/websites because it allows search engine traffic to be directed to your site. The press is also a difficult place to gain publicity unless you got something that's really bold in intentions or logic you most likely don't wanna take this route.

Hope that helped some.

- Andrew

[brogers614]

Facebook was very smart about promoting their business. They used an interesting method of promoting their website internally. How they achieved that was basically allowing people who sign up to import their e-mail contacts and notify their entire contact list inviting them to join them on Facebook.

As far as investments go they didn't start from scratch to my knowledge because their technology and designs weren't cheap so they decided to get capital from venture capitalists.

The best way to promote your business without spending money is by obviously advertising as well as creating SEO friendly coding and design. SEO is really important for online businesses/websites because it allows search engine traffic to be directed to your site. The press is also a difficult place to gain publicity unless you got something that's really bold in intentions or logic you most likely don't wanna take this route.

Hope that helped some.

- Andrew

how do you create SEO friendly coding and design? I have been reading but still don't get the concept yet

[AndrewSquire]

how do you create SEO friendly coding and design? I have been reading but still don't get the concept yet

There's lots of ways and it varies from search engine to search engine. Google has things called Crawlers and Googlebots the more content you have the longer they spend on your site which helps, in addition to back link counts etc.. I'm not an expert with SEO I have yet to learn more about it but just read up on it.

[AllConfidence22]

Hey thank you guys for your replies. I just find it amazing that Facebook was able to take down Myspace. Myspace was at one time the #1 correct?

[AndrewSquire]

Hey thank you guys for your replies. I just find it amazing that Facebook was able to take down Myspace. Myspace was at one time the #1 correct?

Myspace sort of stole the limelight from Friendster, but to be honest Myspace and Facebook are both considered Social Networks, they both are in worlds of their own in terms of business so in my mind there is no better one it really just boils down to your intentions on the website.

Facebook has is open source, allowing anyone with potential to make something of it. FB also uses entirely different coding which really shows in performance when up against Myspace.

[Mr.Brain]

will go into advertising on both, but don't want to do so before i get a solid visitor base.

[Businessman101]

To get your site out there... LEARN SEO AND LINKBUILDING!!!!
Create good content and become a "Hub" for something (info, facts, how to's, friends).

Just do something well and do it alot!