MySpace Marketing Is Alive And Flourishing

It used to be quite easy making money with MySpace, the social networking service that has been with us for 7 or 8 years since its inception. You probably know that although it has declined in traffic and rank, being overtaken by Facebook and Google, and having its staff reduced considerably, marketers are still active making money online using MySpace. 

The thing is though; it is not as easy now as it was years ago, to market your business within MySpace. The networking site suffered numerous complains from many of its users in the past, about practices that marketers performed while using the social site, to promote their products and services. These continuous abuses of the social network in question, prompted MySpace to change their terms and conditions to make it extremely difficult for marketers to promote directly to other users within the site. 

Their procedures were revised and tightened to eliminate what often other users termed “spamming practices”. But clever marketers know how to get around these new terms and conditions, and only the very best can still become very successful doing online marketing, while indirectly using MySpace, even though it is really very expensive having their profiles launched in that platform. 

How can they, the clever marketers, get around the tough current policies of the social networking site? Well, they know how much they can go before risking getting banned or having their accounts frozen or even deleted from MySpace. They need to protect and save their friends from getting promotions directly within the network. They know that the problem can be solved by inviting their friends quietly, to visit their own websites outside the MySpace social platform. 

The marketers that succeed within the social networking platform, refrain from adding too many friends daily, or MySpace reacts immediately and bans them. They also stopped promoting to friends directly within the site, or to anyone else for that matter.Instead, they concentrated in giving value on a daily basis, lots of value to their friends or groups of followers. 

Tactics for promoting within MySpace now have to be very different; more tact is required now. They know that now what they must do is to give plenty of free advice and content to those friends they have in MySpace in order for them to stay loyal and decide to visit the marketers’ own websites outside the social networking site. 

So, what they really do often is consult MySpace terms and conditions, which are strengthened frequently to protect their users from being marketed to, and get a plan of action to avoid being banned within the site. This way, provided that the free content and helpful advice to their friends continues, their friends carry on visiting the marketer’s websites outside MySpace, to buy the solutions to their problems and thus helping the marketers make their profits from their efforts to help friends and subscribers. 

While you have your friends in MySpace, if you are actively marketing to them outside the networking platform, you can invite them to join your forums, or get them to subscribe to their favourite marketing letter that deals about their problem or that finds a solution to their pain or problem or desire. But in any case, your awareness that MySpace can detect your practices and delete you or ban you from their social site, must be constant or you risk expulsion. 

Being vigilant about these issues, can give you the financial rewards you are after, even with a social networking site like MySpace. Remember they don’t care much for what happens outside their site, but are extremely protective of their user’s rights within it.

G Calvo