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Marketing Your Band On MySpace
By: Mr. Blue
With contributions by: Mr. Black
All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2006.
The author, as well as any and all companies related to or affiliated with www.SpaceHogs.net, cannot and will not be held
responsible for any profits or losses you may experience as a result of following any of the advice contained in this eBook.
The information contained herein are the opinions of the author and promises or guarantees as to the amount of money you
can make following this advice are not expressed nor implied in any way, shape, or form. We will also not be held
responsible for any outcomes regarding your MySpace accounts, whether they be positive or negative.
IMPORTANT:
You MAY resell or distribute this eBook. You are encouraged to give it away or sell
it to everyone and anyone! The purpose of this eBook is to help YOU make money
so after you read it, whatever you decide, just know that you're authorized to sell
this eBook and keep 100% of the profits :-).
MySpace...you've surely heard of it. Some of you probably have an account that you use
to keep in contact with friends and loved ones. Others may only know of it as "that place the
predators hang-out". But if that's all you know about MySpace you're really missing the BIG
picture.
MySpace is the largest online social networking portal on the internet with 61+ million
registered users and over 50 million unique visitors per month, and the site is STILL growing.
MySpace is currently the second largest destination, by page views, on the entire internet.
The MySpace visitor demographics are nearly an equal split between men and women, with
50.2% being men and 49.8% women. The primary age of the site visitor is between 16 and 34
years of age.
There are 1.4 million registered bands on MySpace. The site reaches more men than
ESPN.com.
The site attracts approximately 220,000 new registrants DAILY!
All that, and you still won't have to talk to more than 5 people to find someone who says "I
hate MySpace". It's ok...let them dismiss it, while you and I take advantage of one of the largest
opportunities in Internet Marketing you may ever to come across.
Did you know that MySpace gets 2 ½ times the hits that Google search gets? GOOGLE!
And people are writing it off! Don't you make that mistake.
There are many other "social networking" sites too. MySpace wasn't even the first to come
along. Friendster was first, and Hipster, Facebook and Hi5 to mention only a few. Many of
the tactics we'll go over can be successfully applied to these other social networking avenues as
well.
First things first...I'm not sure what you know about MySpace, so for starters we're going to
assume you know nothing. If you do know a bit about social marketing your learning curve will
just be higher and faster.
It is important for you to understand one thing before we get started. It is against the
MySpace "Terms of Service" to do any marketing on their site with the intention of profiting. The
actual verbage is "...may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those
that are specifically endorsed or approved by MySpace.com" and "Commercial advertisements,
affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may be removed from Member profiles without notice
and may result in termination of Membership privileges."
What does it mean? If you haven't been to MySpace yet, I suggest you go now...
www.MySpace.com . Look on almost any profile you find and you will find people promoting
something. You're promoting yourself, your band, and some blatantly selling items on their
profile, some with affiliate links and some more discreetly. Everyone is essentially marketing
something. Your interpretations of these rules will be your guide to what is "black hat", "white
hat" or that gray area in between.
So let's get started already!
Let's look at the squeaky side of MySpace marketing... if there ever was one.
I told you there are millions and millions of registered users right? Of course, that's why
you're still reading. So where are they? Well everyone has a profile. So make yourself one. And
since you're wearing your "white hat" you can do your best to tell everyone who you are while not
telling everyone anything personal. HUH?!
Of course you never are going to put your real first and last name on MySpace. That's just
silliness. And not your phone number or address or where you work. You've probably heard
about employers Googling your name to find out about you when you apply for a job. YES,
MySpace profiles come up on Google searches. So be very selective about what info you divulge
to everyone.
Personally, I don't even use a real email address. It's not required to register. They do
send a verification email, but it doesn't have to be used to activate your account. But if you ever
want to change your email or password, you will need to be able to sign into your email to verify
it at that point. For that reason, many users create free hotmail or yahoo email accounts to use
with MySpace again using no real personal information.
If you've been poking around MySpace you're probably wondering why everyone's profile
looks cool and unique and yours looks so blah! Well trick it out! You can go to any one of the
thousands of sites that give away free codes, graphics and stuff for your profile page. Search
Google for MySpace Layout and you'll see what I mean.
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Go ahead and make your profile "yours". This is what social networks are - a chance to tell
the world who you are and what you're about in a one page profile. Add music, images, videos,
voice recordings, text, Blogs...just about anything you can imagine.
If you do happen to go on to become a full fledged SpaceHogger after reading this report
you will gain access to our customization tools that are contained within our exclusive member's
area and are unlike any tools that you can find at any of the free MySpace resource sites. You
can even watch our training videos once inside that will show you EXACTLY how to customize your
profiles using these resource codes.
By now you're probably getting impatient with me and wondering how the heck you make
money doing this. Relax, we're getting there.
Ok, so you've got a profile... and let's make up a topic for the sake of our example. Let's
say you're totally into Xbox 360 and playing games. You wouldn't be alone right? In fact if you
go to Google and search for the term "MySpace Xbox" you'll get this: Results 1 - 10 of about
3,650,000 for myspace xbox. (0.06 seconds) . Yes, over 3.5 million results. So you realize
quickly you're not alone on MySpace. There are others into Xbox.
Now what? Well you can start visiting the profiles one at a time, and you can click the
"Add Friend" button on each one. It sends a request to the user to add you as a friend. If they
accept, you become "friends". Then you do it another few thousand times and you've got a list
of friends interested in the same thing as you... you can call this a "niche." It works well, but it
takes time.
We'll come back to this in a minute, but let me tell you about a few things to save you a
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ton of time. Friend "bots" or "adderbots" as they're known are robot programs or "bots" that will
go out and send these friend requests for you, hundreds at a time. Sounds great huh? There are
many out there and they all have their up's and down's. The official bot of SpaceHogs is called
Badder Adder and we highly recommend grabbing a copy by visiting www.badderadder.com
today!
Several complete videos demonstrating in detail how to use some of the advanced features
of Badder Adder are included in the member's area of SpaceHogs.
Another quick way to get friends for free is to visit and join a "train". More commonly
known as a "whoretrain." This is a place where you join up to let others know you're trying get a
lot of friends in a hurry, and you know they want the same thing. Now this type of friend adding
is completely untargetted, but you can build a friends list of thousands in a week this way.
A few good train locations are: www.friendgetter.com , www.friendstorm.net ,
www.mstrain.net , www.rideatrain.net and http://myspacetrains.blogspot.com/
Ok, back to your niche. So you add a few thousand (or more) friends that are into Xbox
360. One of the keys is to remember, this is a "social" network. So socialize! Comment on
your new found friends sites, visit their websites, read their Blogs, join their groups. Groups?
Ahhh yes, join the Groups.
Across the top of every MySpace page is the top navigation bar. On that bar you'll see
"Groups". Click on it, and then search Xbox. Guess how many "groups" there are on MySpace for
Xbox? 3100!
The largest Xbox related group has over 31,000 members, second largest nearly 20,000,
then 16k, 11k, 10k....you get the idea. Literally hundreds of thousands of users that have joined a
group devoted to Xbox. Some are general "Gamers" some are "XboX Live" junkies... but all are
into your niche.
Join some groups. This is another great way to find friends interested in your niche.
Now if you just start "spamming the PS3 out of everyone" in your group, you're going to
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get banned and likely deleted from MySpace in a hurry. And there are a few ways to deal with
that. Depending on which hat you've decided to wear...remember the "black hat"... well you can
have 50 profiles, all Xbox related and just continue to market and get deleted, market and get
deleted, all the while making money. Or you can be more subtle about it and stay more within
the rules all while wearing a pretty clean and attractive white hat :o).
In this scenario you'd be wearing the "gray hat" which is somewhere in between "white
hat" (methods that don't really break the rules) and "black hat" (methods that outwardly violate
rules, terms, or conditions for the sold purpose of individual gain). So you have all these
friends... you're chatting with them, slowly gaining credibility, knowledge, and maybe posting in
your Blog... (yes MySpace has Blogs too). And you send a message to your buddies saying "hey, I
found this great cheat code site check it out!"
Now go to Google and do a search for "Xbox Affiliate" and you'll get the idea. There are
hundreds of Xbox related affiliate programs. Cheat codes, hardware, software, accessories...
everything. All you do is sign up as an affiliate and send you MySpace friends interested in Xbox
some affiliate links to products they might enjoy. Anytime one of them makes a purchase you get
an affiliate commission... money in the bank!
You're still in that "gray area" here because you're marketing for profit and remember it's
against the MySpace TOS. But let's be creative. Let's make a small site...related to Xbox. Maybe
an Xbox Blog of your own or an Xbox game review site...
You invite your buddies day after day to your site, and on your site you can market
whatever you want. There's not really much objection to mentioning your own website to your
friends if you do it tastefully and aren't over-aggressive because after all, your website could be
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your hobby or interest, and hobbies and interests are things that are perfect to talk about on your
MySpace profile :o). You can have Google Adsense advertisements on your website, affiliate
links, build a mailing list... and you're driving free targetted traffic there using MySpace!
Ok, let's take a step back and review what we've gone over real quick.
Make a profile or make a bunch of profiles
Be specific and target a niche, or be general and add tons of untargetted friends
Use a `bot' to speed up the process
Pick which `hat' to wear and get started
Use profile searches, groups and advanced search techniques to target your desired friends
Decide how aggressively or passively to market
Use affiliate programs to generate revenue
Drive traffic out of MySpace to your site
Use Adsense, affiliate marketing, pay per lead ads, & more to generate revenue
All that and we're just getting started! We've really only discussed one niche I picked out
of the air Xbox.
One of the big revenue generators these days is completing surveys and getting others to
do so. This whole methodology above can be duplicated to get your new friends to generate
income for you either completing surveys for you or encouraging them to get others to complete
surveys to make money of their own. This tactic is starting to get a little played out but it still
works nonetheless.
Sites like www.SurveyScout.com will pay you to send them affiliates, as opposed to sites
like www.LeaderMarkets.com who pay you for getting surveys to be filled out.
So, with Survey Scout you're not trying get anyone to do the surveys, you're job is to get
others to do that, by showing them how to sign up and make money themselves. You make a
percentage, and so do they. Everyone benefits...nice!
There's a whole section devoted to making money with surveys inside the member's area
of www.SpaceHogs.net.
Let's look quickly at another example.
Most people think that MySpace is a huge untargetted market. But that's just because
they don't know how to use the tools available to narrow it down and find targetted leads.
How about one of the most popular tactics, marketing on MySpace for a local band.
MySpace is widely known for its wide assortment of bands that use it to promote their
craft. This is an opportunity for you even if you're not in a band!
How? All right, let's go back to the MySpace toolbar at the top of the page. Back to
Browse.
Now look at the bottom of the top section of the Basic tab. See the Postal Code
section... And the miles of box? Put in your zip code. Now put 50 miles in the miles of box.
Up above in the between ages: box, select 21 as the young and 50 as the old. Also select Both
under "Browse For:" and then click update.
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This will return all the men and women that are over 21 that are within 50 miles of your zip
code. Get to work on building your friends list. Let's pretend you market yourself to bands in
your area as a promoter. For the price of $100 you'll build them a list of people on MySpace
within 50 miles of their hometown (or wherever their gig is). Then for a recurring fee you'll send
out comments, messages, bulletins and event invites to "their list" at a given schedule for "x"
amount of time before an event. Poof you're a promoter. After going through the SpaceHog's
course you'll have no problem whatsoever promoting bands on MySpace because we'll teach you
every trick in the book and even a few that aren't yet in the book :o).
Speaking of making more money from MySpace, but not "on" MySpace... ::alert Black Hat
Tactic ahead::
You can make a profile, add friends using a bot and whoretrains. Get to say 10,000 friends
(in a few weeks) and sell that account on eBay for $100 or more. Make 100 accounts with 1000
friends and sell them for $10 each... you getting the idea yet? Making MySpace accounts and
adding friends is a cinch once you've got the knowledge we're ready to give you in our exclusive
member's area at SpaceHogs!
Perhaps your specialty is graphic or web design? You can offer your services customizing
other people's profiles on MySpace for a small fee. Even if graphics & web design is not your
specialty after watching our training videos you'll be able to make the coolest MySpace profiles for
your clients quickly, easily, thoroughly, & efficiently. We will turn you into a MySpace MACHINE!
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These are just a few of the many ways you can monetize your MySpace efforts. I'm going
to bullet-point a few more without going into detail about them. But the point is, there is such a
tremendous opportunity here.
Contests & Games
Surveys
Jokes & Riddles
MySpace Resource Sites
Profile Customization Services
eBay
Well we can't teach you everything in this brief eBook about MySpace marketing, but
hopefully we've peaked your curiosity and got your creative juices flowing. If you visit
www.SpaceHogs.net you can find out how you can get access to the full 80 page eBook, tons of
step by step training videos videos, profile editing tools, and a very active members only forum
where every single tactic we've discussed (and about 40 more) are outlined, detailed,
demonstrated and discussed. Access to the discussion forums alone is worth far more than the
cost of membership!
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The MySpace marketing platform is changing daily so don't wait! Get in on it now
and you too can "Hog Up MySpace Profits!"
www.SpaceHogs.net
