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MySpace has quickly become THE place for online marketers to hangout and make huge money at the same time. While many still deny the fact that social networks are the future of online marketing, the reality is that the best way to sell a product is word of mouth. And where’s the best place to spread the word? MySpace, of course.
There are many ways to make money with MySpace. Some more effective than others, but truth is that you can sell anything. Why? MySpace is currently the 5th most popular site on the web, imagine how many hundreds of millions of people hang out there – it’s literally a goldmine to market your product.
One of the key methods of selling your products on MySpace is to send out bulletins. First you would need to create a friendly profile that reflects your product, but isn’t all spammy. Once you have that, it’s up to you. Either build up a huge database of friends (some people have MILLIONS of friends), and hangout with them, always giving out special deals and spreading the word of your product. Remember, building up an actual relationship with your client means that he trusts you. Once a purchase was made, and the client is satisfied, you can easily offer a discount on another product and he (the client) will buy it.
That’s always the main key of successful Social Marketing – getting lots and lots of loyal friends/clients. While you would want to try other networks, remember that MySpace holds 80% of the Social Networking space.
So why is it the best?
Reasons are obvious – have you seen the pimped out myspace profiles? You can easily customize the HTML and CSS of your page and create a short url for it. This is incredibly useful, as you can make a profile that would reflect an “intriguing” part of your site, but at the same time leaving users wanting more.
It’s not always about selling though.
While many do use their MySpace profiles for marketing affiliate url’s, others actually make the profiles to get targeted traffic to their websites. Let’s say you have a mortgage website – everyone knows that mortgage keywords are extremely expensive and are amazingly rewarding with AdSense. You can create a profile that would put you in a position of a Mortgage Guru. Write in the profile that you can help out with mortgage problems and whatnot, then make the profile link to your website – and voila, you have yourself a goldmine. Not that you won’t have to do hard work though. But once you build up a steady reputation, people will start coming to your website through your profile or even directly, and these types of loyal customers are usually the ones that click ads and bring revenues. Not to mention that you can sell pretty much anything to them.
Although once you have a steady profile and a bit of friends, the catchy thing is to make people come to your profile. Yes, you can post in classifieds, attend events and post lots of comments on blogs within the social site, but ultimately it all comes down to your Avatar. Remember, an avatar is the first thing people see/hear about you. Make sure it stands out amongst others.
Making money on Social Networks is one of the best ways to get free and highly effective advertising – and that’s a fact.
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Social bookmarking has become a powerful tool for many online business people, and you are losing a lot if you do not know how to use social bookmarking for your website’s advantage. Take note that almost everybody has been using this traffic generating tool, so you have to make the most out of social bookmarking.
Social bookmarking is one of the top techniques that you can use to promote your website and build more traffic. If you’re not involved, it’s time to get with the program!
Social bookmarking started for me when I joined a few of the top social bookmarking sites. You may think this is all you need to do to get involved, but trust me – there is more to social bookmarking than simply joining the social bookmarking circles!
The first thing to do is visit a few of the top social bookmarking sites: Digg, del.ici.ous, Furl, and Yahoo, just for example. You can do a Google search for these to find them if you’ve never been there before.
Then, sign up for a free account with each of these. When signing up for an account, you will have the opportunity to select buttons that you can add to the end of each of your blog posts. This will allow readers of your blog to “Digg” your post over at the Digg social bookmarking site.
When someone clicks on your Digg button, it will bring them to the Digg site, where they would login with their account username and password. The blog post or article would then appear as a URL, and the person who clicked “Digg” will have the opportunity to post a comment about your post.
This can do nothing but good things for your website. If everyone gives your post a Digg, think of all the links in Digg you will have pointing back to your site. This will certainly increase your traffic when someone goes onto Digg looking for a post on a topic that interests them.
This is where I initially went wrong in my social bookmarking efforts. You don’t want to stop after just joining these social bookmarking sites and leaving a button on your blog posts for everyone else to find and click. You want to get actively involved in the social bookmarking process by becoming an active member of these sites.
What I mean by being “active” is that you want to visit these sites, and find topics of interest to you, or topics that relate to your online business. Once you find other posts on your topic of interest, then you have the opportunity to bookmark, or “favourite” those posts, and add a comment.
Doing this can really increase your traffic, as evidenced by my own increasing website stats just by doing this one thing alone. If you “favourite” other people’s sites and they “favourite” your site and you each comment on other’s posts, then you will soon have a network of links pointing back to your site.
This important piece of the social bookmarking puzzle is something I didn’t even realize myself until I got involved with my latest social bookmarking site called “Squidoo”. Apparently, Google just loves Squidoo at the moment, so I jumped on the bandwagon along with others I know joining the site.
The great thing about Squidoo and sites like MySpace is that you can create a “lens” which is just like a mini web page, or landing page that gives visitors to that lens a quick overview of what you have to offer. This will hopefully entice them to click your links and bring you more traffic.
I’ve made darn sure this time that after creating my lens I did not just leave it at that. I have visited other lenses on my topic of interest, added those lenses to my “favourites” list, and sent comments to others in hopes that others will visit my links as well. So far, this has increased my traffic very quickly and I may even reach a personal goal thanks to this technique alone!
Next, I am going to try creating more than one lens and link one to the other, which will hopefully entice visitors to read one of my lenses, and then click on to the other, increasing my traffic even more!
The thing to watch out for when using social bookmarking sites is that you don’t want to be a spammer who is out there just to get your links seen and clicked. As with anything in internet marketing, like forum posts, no one likes someone who is just there to advertise themselves. You want to offer valuable information, and make a valuable contribution by offering good advice, and great content.
Finally I would like to say a big thank you to the guys at Digg, del.ici.ous, Furl, Social Bookmark World and Yahoo, for producing such a great site. Not only for the traffic that it produces but for also providing lots of really useful bookmarks. My only criticism is the lack of categories which means that some suggestions are not always well matched although there is a search facility.
Social Bookmark World is such a great site which not only for the traffic that it produces but for also providing lots of really useful bookmarks. Since you use the Social Bookmark World, you no longer need to page through thousands of results to find a needle in a haystack. Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/social-marketing-articles/how-to-use-social-bookmarking-sites-to-your-advantage-1632049.html
