If you check my recent posts you will notice my MySpace experience and experiments described. At this time I accumulate friends using free software and update my MySpace blog re-posting setting entries from this very website. I target users by their interests and try to add friends who share interests similar to mine. I am also in the process of joining ceratin groups to join their discussions.

I am not yet sure how effective this marketing technique will be in my case and if it is worth spending time with my other websites. My target is to get a source of visitors coming to my sites through MySpace – I do not want to sell anything to other MySpace members and to bombard them with affiliate offers (at least now). It seems to become a complete waste of time. Here is the bulletin case study from David Turnbull for those who think that it is an easy task to generate affiliate sales via MySpace mass bulletin system:

First, I selected an appropriate offer from Azoogle.

ID: 1876
Name: Superb Rewards – Free IPOD Nano (Brand New!)
Payout: $1.40

Why did I choose this offer?
- Pays for just the E-Mail; a simple action that can be completed by 99% of people.
- Decent Payment ($1.40); One of the higher paying iPod offers so I thought it was a good choice.
- Good Reward (iPod Nano); iPods are all the craze lately, some may say it is saturated but a lot of people still don’t have, and want an iPod.
- Appeals to my demographic; It’s usually the younger people wanting iPods, so 18-25 is usually a good range.

I have a MySpace account with 5400 friends (as of now) and I posted a simple bulletin with the following fields:

Subject: WOW!!! THIS IS SO EASY!!!
Body: Anyone with a MySpace account can get a FREE iPod just by entering your email address into this form!!!” CLICK HERE!!!

Of course, I linked the CLICK HERE!!! to my advertisers web address.

The Results?
Nothing too spectacular. I got about 10 people clicking on my Link and half of them completed the offer, so I didn’t make too much.

Why? Probably because I’ve used this account for advertising in the past and people have become wary to avoid my bulletins. I did convert at 50% though, so that’s very good – I just needed more clicks.

Here is some motivation to get started, as MySpace Bulletin advertising definitely can work.

You have 100 Accounts with 5000 Friends each.*
Post a bulletin on each account.
Each gives $4.20 (Just 3 Conversions!)$420 in your pocket.
That is a very rough example, but definitely possible.

Bulletins get buried fairly quickly also, so if you post 3 a day, and say you get an average of $2 per bulletin.

You have 100 Accounts with 5000 Friends each.
Post a bulletin on each account 3 Times a Day.
Each gives $2.00
$2.00 x 3 = $6.00
$6.00 x 100 Accounts
$600 in your pocket

For those looking for the quick route you could also check out ScreenNameForum.com – this forum allows you to purchase accounts or bulletins.

*You may not have 100 Accounts with 5000 Friends each, so maybe cut a deal with other MySpacers (basically revenue sharing) and decide to advertise one Azoogle offer together and then split the profits accordingly.

Summary: The idea to have 100 accounts with 5000 friends each does not attract me much, but after my first experience of using auto friend adders I am sure that there are enthusiasts out there who have that amounts of fake accounts with that amounts of friends.

So, MySpace marketing is not that profitable as it used to be a year or so back (according to experienced MySpace users), but it works. It is a matter of scale now I guess.
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I search for other ways to market the web sites all the time, but can’t find the magical formula so far. The Internet is saturated fast with all types of web projects – brilliant and rubbish – at the rate of 100,000 per day. I have focused on researching MySpace recently.

I have generated a simple page or profile that should be my ‘business office’ with MySpace.

It is recommended to make an extraordinary profile to attract more visitors to your website, but after browsing many profiles I doubt if I am creative enough to invent anything fancier than all that variety of profiles out there.

As my prior goal of joining MySpace was to drive traffic to my web site I tried to make a link to this website stand out in the profile.

Next step is simple – I need friends. Preferably niche targeted and hand picked. And it is a time consuming process. So, I started with the easiest one. I turned to the existing automatic friends generators (they automatically send friends requests on your behalf):

- badderadder (once the leader it has received much negative feedback recently)
- spacestation (fee based – about 40.00$, one hour trial version – sounds really funny)
- friendstorm (not sure I would like to use that)
- socialnetbot (free, but does not want to work. I tested it on two PC’s for a few days before I gave up). p.s. The software works fine – it was my fault. Conclusion: remember to always read FAQ carefully.

So, as at this point in time I am not sure yet what generator to prefer I also explore manual search for friends. MySpace allows to manually search friends within a specific niche – you can tune the settings yourself. Time consuming – yes, but more efficient.

I have sent a number of friends requests to my hand picked MySpace buddies. And you know, there was not a single response or approval – reminds me of sending ‘personalized’ link exchange offers. I am not discouraged, but I am sure that if you go this way with MySpace promotion – it is a slow and painful process (opposite to spamming your fake friends with mass bulletins, comments and messengers from a number of fake MySpace accounts. It does not mean that this or that way is bad. I think the right solution is to try to make use of both.

I also add a few of my blog entries to MySpace profile. See it here and here: it is fast and easy.

Summary: Yes, MySpace is a place to make a fast buck with spamming the members, but I am afraid that this technique is likely to stop working shortly. MySpace and affiliate networks are set to put an end to this.

And MySpace is a place to traditionally network mildly promoting your web sites, services and products. This technique is likely to last, but it is time consuming and I do not expect any results soon.

I am to test MySpace groups and forums still, but now I have a general idea how this all works. All you need – a nice profile, friends, creative ideas to market your services and time… as with any other way of promotion.

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Short and memorable domains are not available for years. They were picked up back in the 90’s. Yes, you can buy a nice domain name at a secondary market. But the starting bid is about 1 million dollars. If you have the funds and are ready to spend this amount of money then there are nice domain names available for you.

Stil there are much more cheaper services in this field .You will be able to register domain name without problems.
Successful domain name businessmen are not numerous. Those names that you can find mentioned in the Internet also started their domain empires back in the 90’s.

It was my opinion that an average online entrepreneur has only two opportunities to enter the domain name market:

- buy brand new domains. Choose whatever you like… from those names that are not taken yet.
- buy expired domains. Probably, not with nice and memorable names, but with some links, expired traffic, and a high probability not to be sandboxed. I have discussed the issue of expired domain names before.

But a recent discussion of a domain name market made me change my opinion. I am not sure if it works – it is on my list of techniques to test, but the webmasters who joined the thread state that there is still some room on the domain name market and it makes sense to search for domains that will provide you with type-in traffic (type-in traffic is a term describing visitors landing at a web site by entering a word or phrase in the web browser’s address bar rather than following a hyperlink from another web page, using a browser bookmark, or a search-box search.).

Your task is:

- to carry out a proper keyword research. You should target two keyword expressions
- to register those domains in your name if they are available
- to park them with any of the leaders of the market (Sedo, DomainSponsor, Fabulous)
- or: develop simple websites with the links to products coming from the companies you are affiliated with
- to get your share of advertising revenue
- to start from the beginning and get more domain names with type-in traffic.

When you are ready to buy a few domain names check for the best deals where to buy domain names.

Summary: I am sure you will not make a fortune if you by 10, 20 or even 100 domain names. I do not expect a domain name of two keywords will generate hundred of dollars in revenue monthly. But if these domain names pay for themselves within a month then the idea is definitely worth your time and effort – it is a fact that there is no easy money online.

You need to repeat you keyword research once you find a working recipe and use some atumatic service to manage your multiple domains in bulk.
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