Social Network Marketing: A Resource Guide to MySpace
Buddyname: MySpace
MySpace is the most popular website to meet new people in the United States and around the world. Their URL is www.myspace.com. The rate of new registrations at MySpace is about 300,000 per day and there are over 154 million users today. MySpace was founded by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe. They are now owned by News Corporation, which is located in Santa Monica, California. MySpace has regional versions that allow users of different languages to join MySpace.
MySpace has its own e-mail and search engine system. Also, a downloadable instant messaging system is available to users too. MySpace features personal profiles, photos, music, videos, blogs, and groups. You can use your mobile phone with MySpace on Cingular, MySpace Mobile Alerts, and MySpace Mobile on Helio. Profiles can be customized using HTML. MySpace users can see how many friends they have, who their top friends are, and a link to view all of their friends. To continue, the "comments area" allows users’ friends to leave comments. Bulletins are available for users to post messages to all their friends.
First, to join MySpace you register at the "sign up" link and fill in your email, address, and name. Second, create a password, select your country, postal code, gender, date of birth, check whether or not to allow others to see your birthday, and your preferred site language. Third, click on and read the "terms of service" and "private policy" links. You need to acknowledge that you have read their rules by checking the box to agree with these policies and terms. Next, click on the "sign up" button and type in the text from the image to verify your account. Then, you have the option to upload a photo or "skip" for now. Lastly, you have the option to email friends to invite to your MySpace account or "skip" for now and you are taken to your personal profile site.
Clicking on the "edit profile" link makes adding or editing information about yourself that you want to share with other users easy. For example, you can share your favorite television shows, movies, books, music, and heroes, by clicking on the "interests and personality" link. Furthermore, by clicking on the "account settings" link you can change settings such as who can view your full profile. Also, under the "account settings" area you can make an away message and have it shown when someone wants to send you a message.
The "add/edit photos" link makes uploading your pictures and turning them into a slide show easy. You can "add or edit/change videos" under that link and see which videos are top plays. The link "manage a calendar" allows you to schedule such items as; appointments, bill pay reminders, and vacations. Your "manage address book" link allows you to add your friends’ email addresses, phone numbers, messenger screen names, contact notes and MySpace usernames.
Gaining a base of friends at MySpace is made easy through networking, because your friends’ profiles allow you to look at their friends’ profiles. Your profile in return is seen by their friends, which expands your network of friends quickly. When you make a new friend just look at their friends’ profiles. Moreover, you will find interesting people that you can invite to be your friend by using the "add to friends" link.
You can click on the "invite" link and invite your friends to join MySpace. Again, once your friends join you can connect with their friends. Also, by clicking on the "search" link you can find a friend by their name, display name, or email in the MySpace site.
The classmate finder allows you to type in your school name, and then select your state and country. Next, your school name and town will appear on the new page. You can narrow your search for classmates by sex, relationship status, reason they are on MySpace, alumni, graduation year, years attended, Greek, department, photo or no photo, and optional keywords.
The affiliation for networking box allows you to search by fields like dance, fashion or television. Next, a sub field and role field allows you to narrow your search to specific areas of a field. Finally, you can type in a keyword to find certain networking fields.
In addition, you can use the browse tab which allows you to view other users. You can use certain criteria such as age, sex, location, relationship status, and reason they are on MySpace to find suitable friends. For example, if you are single you may want to search for people who are single and are on MySpace for dating purposes.
You can email prospective friends and ask them to look at your profile to see if they would like to be your friend. Also, the browse feature allows you to sort by last login, so you can view people that are online at that moment. Making contact is easy with other users, by using MySpace’s messaging system. Personal information like your email is kept private. Also, you have the option to show your online status.
You can start your own group or join other peoples’ groups. This can get your profile viewed more by people with the same interests and, therefore make you more friends. Also, you are able to comment on your friend’s profile, which in turn gets your profile seen by more people increasing your chances to make new friends.
You can add a song to your profile which can make your page more appealing too. Click on the "music link" and search for the singer or band you like. Then, look for the song you want and click the "add" button. The next screen asks you if you really want to add that song to your profile. Finally, click on the "yes" button and your song is added to your profile.
There are many money making tools available to use on the MySpace website. First, the friend adder FriendBot Suite 5.0 , which is available at www.friendbot.com allow the user to auto message, auto comment or auto approve friend requests. You can send event invitations to your friend list and requests for friends’ to join your groups. You can search bands, message only online users, and import friends from the page you are on, and import someone else’s friends. You can search by demographics and use age and gender filters. This suite is available for $55.50 and they even offer a five minute limit free download of their Friendbot Suite 5.0.14. They guarantee that you will like it or they will change the software to suit your needs.
Also, they offer a free download of Friend Bot Friend Accepter 2.0.6., which automatically approves friend’s requests and has the option of sending a message or comment back. FriendBot Extractor is another free download that lets you browse MySpace pages, and save users ids’ to a file, to be used alone, or that can be used with other products they offer. Furthermore, they offer a five minute free demo of their FriendBot Deluxe 4.0.16 which is available for $45.95.; this includes messaging, adding, commenting, posting bulletins, and inviting groups for events. Finally, they offer a free download of FriendBot Messenger 5.0 that is available for $24.95. You can search bands, target sexual preferences and import the friends of anyone to your friend list.
To continue, another friend adder that is available at www.adderrobot.com is the Adder Robot, available for a single user license for $24.95, a three user license that is available for $60.00 to run on three different computers, or a band license for five users for $90.00 that allows you to run on five different computers. You can add friend’s of a profile to your friends list. You can send messages and comments to your friends or other users’ friends. Bulletins can be sent with this program on a schedule like every hour or 30 minutes. You can invite all your friends to a group or event quickly too. You get free version upgrades and can download a free trial, before you decide to purchase their product.
In addition, adding friends can be done with AddMyBuddies, located at www.addmybuddies.com. They offer a free demo that sends real friend requests. They feature a Captcha Phrase Bypass, instant activation, search options that can add people with specific interests, and automated comments, that can generate lots of traffic to your profile.
Furthermore, AddnewFriends is a product available for $34.95 at www.addnewfriends.com that makes adding new friends simple. They offer a free download of their product to try before purchasing it, and target your market based on criteria such as; age, sex, geographic, and location. You can send out messages to targeted markets and a friend request at the same time. You can even set a list of blocked id’s that you don’t want to send to. Finally, you can use comments and messages you create, to contain links in them that point to your sites and your PayPal account for more sales and orders.
Layout creators are another way to get your site looking great and make you more money. They are a way to customize the look of your profile site. Many of these sites are free to use.
First, the site www.Myspace.Premade-Layouts.net is free to use if you do a quick registration. You can customize your cursors, contact tables, use glitter graphics, sound effects, and backgrounds. Second, the site www.Freemyspacelayouts.org offers free backgrounds that are animated, abstract layouts, artist/singer layouts, cartoon layouts, music layouts, and more. Also, they offer comment pictures, images and ways to spice up your contact table under the "MySpace Contact Tables" link. Third, free MySpace layouts can be found at www.starboo.com. You can get MySpace generators, MySpace codes, MySpace graphics, and MySpace animations and all for free at this site. Fourth, another free layout creator site for MySpace is www.generators.hot-lyts.com/myspace-layout-generator.php. You can make up your own surveys; they have tiny quote banners, and flash animations. Next, at www.mylayoutscreator.com they offer favorite sites menus, online icons, and MySpace games to add to your profile page. My Wicked Space is a site located at www.mywickedspace.com/generators/index.php that has Christmas themes, navigation bars, overlapping codes, marquee codes and more. Many of these sites allow you to customize your information which can lead to more traffic and sales.
MySpace features special sign ups for future stars in the music, film, and comedy industries. Users can search for local comedians’ gigs and see the admission costs, dates, and times. They feature a comedian forum, top comedians, and a comedian search. Comedians can sign up for MySpace under the "comedian signup" link located in the comedy section.
In addition, filmmakers can sign up for MySpace under the "filmmaker signup" link located in the film section. Filmmakers can submit their films to the Broadband Emmy Awards. MySpace features special sections like film classifieds, filmmaker forums, and screenings. Also, they list top filmmakers, and have a filmmaker search.
Finally, the music section features a place where artists can sign up. The have a featured artists section that users can listen to new artist’s music for free. The "music videos" link allows users to download featured videos, and check out who is Filter Magazine’s "pick of the week" artist. Also, MySpace has a "music forum" link, a "top artists" link, a "search" link, a "directory" link, and a "music classifieds" link. These features allow new artists to get their music out to users. Artists can upload their songs to their profiles and unsigned musicians can sell their music by using MySpace too.
