DISQUS

vveerrgg · 2 years ago

Alot of the early adopters have left to continue the conversations they've started on myspace in other environments, or on their own website. But for generating that introduction, mySpace is hard to beat. But having a place to take fans that is outside of myspace is the real secret.

I consider mySpace a feeder site to funneling traffic into the projects or web destinations that are less crazy... 5000+ friends on mySpace doesn't have much value unless you can get them past that "1 click" call to action you're looking enact.

Amber · 2 years ago

In your opinion, what constitutes good "MySpace marketing" beyond just putting up a MySpace page, adding a bunch of friends, and posting a bulletin or two? (Without going into 'stop spamming me you annoying SOB' territory.)

Or is that pretty much it?

Christopher S. Penn · 2 years ago

Adding a bunch of highly relevant friends, subscribing to their various blogs, and using said friends for demographic information for your podcast and/or blog. If you can direct your audience to your MySpace page, you don't need to do things like Kiptronic podcast surveys - all the information is self-identified in their profiles.

And bulletins & such help. Also, comments that are highly targeted and link-rich.

Clarence · 2 years ago

I don't know if I can really subscribe to it being a viable marketing tool, bruh -- even for the mainstream. Consider that they have to find you before being able to get down with your hustle & flow.

Once they do, are they looking to capitalize on your format online? (i.e. clickin' past the initial page to get down with the crux of your brand?) It's a tough sell, really.

You could be talking about marketing where you are the initial contact (i.e. adding friends who have to accept the invite) -- if people accept, then the model you posit is on-point. I'm thinking the mainstream might be about collecting, rather than connecting or being marketed to. Thoughts?

Christopher S. Penn · 2 years ago

They don't find you, Clarence. You find them. Check this out:

On Google, type in:

"comic book" site:blog.myspace.com

Results 1 - 100 of about 13,800 from blog.myspace.com

These are all the people who blogged about the term comic book on MySpace. Narrow it down:

comicazi site:blog.myspace.com

Results 1 - 13 of 13 from blog.myspace.com

13 people specifically talking about Comicazi. These are people you need to add as friends, and connect them to your hustle.

Pick any superhero and do the same. Find the people who are talking about what you're talking about, and connect up with them - and then connect with their friends. The power of a social network isn't just the raw number of people out there - it's also who they network with and who you DON'T know that they do.

Once connected, get them off MySpace as quickly as possible as Vergel said - to a place where you control the marketing and content.

Amber · 2 years ago

Also, comments that are highly targeted and link-rich.

With that point, I think it's a really delicate balance. To be honest, I find those kinds of comments annoying. It smells like a sell. It smells like someone just trying to get their message out and not really giving a crap about who they're talking to. Yeah, sure, they decide which friends to send the comment to. But it still seems really phony, and I usually delete those comments. My MySpace profile isn't anyone else's marketing platform.

Christopher S. Penn · 2 years ago

Except Rupert Murdoch's :-)

Amber · 2 years ago

Touché

Matt Searles · 2 years ago

I'm sorta with Amber accept that I think how you market has got to be congruent with the values of your brand.. and if you're the brand, your own values. 90% of how I get marketed to on myspace alienates me from what's being marketed to me.. but there are a few who do it well.. well I think "wow, that's cool."

The other thing I'm thinking is.. when you think about viral marketing.. there's the question of the value of your mark.. to put it a certain way.. Do you think that the people leaving MySpace.. they could be the more valuable people in terms of being the more opinion leader types.. I mean I suppose it depends on what your target segment ought to be and all that good stuff.. but just as a general thought...

The other thing I think.. which sorta goes against what Amber is saying.. is that I kind of feel like MySpace is the land of crass marketing.. I mean the crap that's being sold to you all the time... that creates a kind of ecology where I imagine you can be pretty bad, value wise, and still not alienate people.. just cause there may be a higher threshold for this.. though I'm basically speaking out of my butt.. not really knowing.. just my sense...

Ron · 2 years ago

I think that myspace can be a good source for promotion. It certainly is free, and the number of people who could potentially listen to your music is mind blowing.

Mya · 1 year ago

I have been selling stuff on myspace for a while, I have only been using the bullitins. I might go to posting an email to 300 people a day, I'm not sure how that works though.

I think myspace only allows you to post personal messages to 300 people a day if I remember.