Myspace Guerilla Marketing
By Bryan Clark on Jul 23, 2007 in Uncategorized
I wanted to pass along to you some tips I got recently from “The Internet Genius”, Ben Cope.
Ben and I had a nice long talk about marketing strategies and when he mentioned Myspace, a light bulb went off in my head. He then explained some great ways to market your site to an audience of more than 80 million people. I can’t think of a better place to get your site seen.
-Guerilla Marketing-
- Get Friends - Most of you have over 100 people on your Myspace page now. That’s a great start, but how about introducing yourself to friends of friends? You want to meet as many new contacts as possible. You want friends, and you want them now! Be sure to target your friend requests though. You want people that are like-minded and that you may actually get to visit your blog. Don’t be tempted to use a Myspace friend adder either? These automatic adders are a sure way to get your account closed.
- Change “My Blogs URL” to your site address; ex. “http://onemansgoal.com”
- Change “URL Where The Image Is Located” to the the address the image is being stored at. If you use Photobucket you can copy the html code directly off of their site and all you have to change is #1 and #3
- Change “My Blogs Text” to what you want it to say when people scroll over. It can be anything!
- Comment - What I want you to do is… every time you get someone that accepts a friend request or adds you to their friends COMMENT! Send them a comment thanking them for adding you and personalize it by saying something that relates to them, their page, or anything else that comes to mind
- Use Your Button - You’ll be commenting anyway, why not use that sweet new button you made? Use it for bulletin posts, blog entries, comments, and everything in between. It’s your free piece of the Myspace advertising pie! You can use this piece of code to insert your button into comments. Just copy, paste, and make the changes I have listed below!
<a href=”http://MY BLOGS URL” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://URL WHERE THE IMAGE IS LOCATED” alt=”MY BLOGS TEXT”></a>
One more thing!!!
Some users have opted not to display html in their comments. This means that the code I gave you will not work here. You can see if they don’t allow html because right above the comment box (in red) will be some text telling you. No text? Fair game. If they do have the text though, you should still comment when they add you or vice-versa. Instead of including your button, include the URL to your blog.
Well readers, that’s it. It’s pretty simple and I’m somewhat surprised I didn’t think of it without the help of “The Internet Genius”. They say the true mark of a genius is to remember the simple things that most overlook. It held true here. Thanks Ben!
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