Blog Title: Myspace Cash Machine

"MYSPACE IS FOR KIDS!!"

I know I've heard it too! But you know what I am actually using it to benefit my business! I am adding 50-100 new "friends" to my network each and every day and actually building a great group of people that are vocal and really helping to build a great framework for my biz.

You see these social media sites are no longer for TEENS/TWEENS they are actually great places to network for us as business owners. Here's why I use MySpace...

• The fact that MySpace has tons of groups in all categories is just ONE of the reasons I use MySpace.
• The second is the fact that I can Bulletin all my friends at one time with my message and not get told I'm spamming them.
• I get to post BLOGS on there... with KILLER TRAFFIC... Just imagine using one of the top internet sites to link to your main sites/blogs. It's a massive traffic booster. MySpace remains consistently at the top of my "referrers" for my blog and site traffic! Thousands upon thousands of visitors daily through MySpace come through and see your blog post and then click to your site.. great way to increase traffic!

Here's some tips:

1. Don't make your page private, if you want a private one create two sites one for private family/fun and the other for business. I have both!
2. Make your theme business appropriate. A good solid background with some color and then a "coordinating" extra color. You can see mine here!
3. Keep your profile professional. Note your capabilities and your services but don't make it a sales letter. No one will add you as a friend if you are marketing to them.
4. Blog about your business. Blog about what you offer as services, blog about your affiliate products. Write reviews etc. What I currently do is take several of my blog posts from here and put it into my blog on MySpace too. Just like if you wrote the article and submitted it to article directories. You get the traffic back to your main site if you'll put in your resource box on the bottom of the article!
5. Always link to your sites via your MySpace account. MySpace pages get into the Search Engines very fast as well as the blog posts!
6. Don't add a captcha to your add friend request setup. It's highly annoying for people to have to sit there and type it into the box when they're trying to add you as a friend! It really turns people off.
7. Don't private message all your friends that is SPAMMING I don't care if they are your friends.. use the BULLETIN board feature instead!
8. HAVE FUN WITH IT AND SOCIALIZE!

Till next time.. stay safe and as always have fun!

Lets get started.

First thing we need to do is create a few profiles, obviously. To save time, you should know that you do not need to create REAL e-mail addresses. To make it easy to remember.

Here are a few pointers on what to include in your profile.

- Make your sex female (we all know sex sells).

- Make it a CUTE female. This by no means, means a porn star look-alike. This looks FAKE. Get the girl next store look. Cute but conservative.

- Age range from around 21-25.

- Make your zip code one from a LARGE city (this tends to get more searches)

- Make your profile BELIEVABLE.

- Get a MySpace Layout from a MySpace layout site (all you need to do is copy and paste the code) - go to google and type in "myspace layouts".

- Copy your profile info into a word file and save it so you can just copy future profiles having to do with the same area. For example, I have word files for profiles for Making money online, smoking, dating, etc. That way when I am making profiles to market that specific area, I can just copy the profile quickly.

- Add more than a single photo (trust factor)

OK, enough for the profile. So now we have the profiles set up (say 5 profiles to begin with), what do we do now? How do we actually make money?

MySpace basically targets large groups of people for you which makes it VERY easy to make money. They do this in a couple ways.

Lets say I made 5 profiles that I plan to market something to do with a "quit smoking" product. So how do we find people that may be interested in this product?

Well in the search field in MySpace there is an option to search only for members who smoke. So what we would do is do a search for only members who smoke and market a product to them that guarantees you to quit smoking with no withdrawl.

Doing this with a MySpace tool is going to save you a HUGE amount of time, but if you don't have the money you can do it by hand - which will take a long time.

Once you reach the limit for your first account you just hop right on the second account and keep going.

With the program I use, I can send 400 messages per account which takes around 30 minutes. So with 5 accounts I can send 2000 messages to at least semi-targeted people in around 2 hours. Think you can make money doing this? You better believe it.

Not only does the search include an option for smoker or non smoker, but body type (large [fat loss product], athletic [protein or muscle building product], slim [weight gainer or muscle gainer], etc), amount of money they make a year [make money product for low income people], age, sexual preference, etc etc - I'm sure you get my point.

Not only does MySpace include a variety of search options but they have TONS of groups on ANYTHING you can think of.

So lets say I created 5 profiles, set up for someone who LOVES dogs. MySpace probably has hundreds of groups that have to do with dog lovers. There are thousands, tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of people to some groups.

So I would do a search for a dog lovers group. I would then pick a group I want to market to and scroll down to view members of this group. It then lists all of the members of that group.

With the MySpace tool I use, it automatically collects all of the IDs of the people in that group. So with my 5 accounts I can automatically send out 2,000 messages or 2,500 friend requests marketing a product about how to make your dog live twice as long and happy (or whatever).

If you are doing it by hand you can just go through the members and copy and paste or manually add friends.

I'm sure you can see where I am going from here. MySpace is not limited to what kinds of groups they have. They literally have groups on anything - making MySpace a wide open field for tons of marketers to make money.

One of the biggest things on MySpace is music. There are probably hundreds of thousands if not millions of musicians on MySpace trying to get there name out there. Do you think there are any affiliate programs revealing secrets on how to get a band or musicians name out there better? Or how to get signed easily? You bet. The possibilities are really endless.

One of the best things about MySpace is that they allow HTML and CSS in the profiles. What this means is that you can quickly and easily build targeted lists.

For example, I am a member of aweber. I jusy copy and paste the code in my profile (so people can sign up for my list) and instead of marketing a product, I market the fact that I will give them FREE information on whatever area I am targeting - building a list.

So for the dog example, my profiles will say I am a dog lover and have been working for dogs for years. If you want to learn some information on how to make your dog live 150% longer that is not known to the public, just enter your name and e-mail address and I will provide you with the confidential FREE information. Then just work in your affiliate links once you get the trust built in future e-mails (after a few free tips) and you will start seeing many sales. Make sure you include that there information is 100% confidential and will not be spammed or shared with anyone else of course.

This is a GREAT FREE and EASY way to build a HUGE and TARGETED list on just about any area you can think of.

Alright, well that should be at least a start for a lot of you who have little or no idea of how to market successfully on MySpace. Is there a lot more tips and tricks to it? Sure, but this short mini-RJ members only guide should be enough to get you started and make some sales.

Good luck, and I hope you enjoyed my little free mini-guide.

Enjoy, and go make some money with FREE marketing.

Matthew Sherborne started marketing on the internet in 1998 with his first website devoted to his commercial diving business. Matthew accumulated real-life knowledge of using low-cost advertising techniques and continually searched for new and innovative marketing methods. Through all of his research looking for the perfect system of promotion, he's discovered the most successful method has always been word of mouth advertising. With that knowledge he's been an enthusiastic supporter of searching and utilizing viral marketing techniques.

Since selling his diving service business in 2002 he's traveled from San Diego to Hawaii and finally to the San Francisco Bay area. Working a variety of labor intensive jobs, above and below ground and water, he decided in early 2005 to put 100 percent of his effort into internet marketing.

Since that time he's focused exclusively on the most effective low-cost marketing techniques to boost his online business. He now offers the very same techniques that's made him successful and yielded incredible results. Matthew has a passion for marketing and it shows as he shares today's most radically effective promotional techniques.

Matthew will take you behind the scenes to show you exactly how he makes his lucrative income and how he markets his own business online. With his "nothing held back" philosophy you can expect to get all of the inside secrets and sales boosting tactics to use on your very own online business.

Question: I read your ebook, "MySpace Cash Machine", and it is excellent. How did you get started marketing on My Space, and how did you find all of the techniques for marketing on My Space?

Answer: I got started marketing on My Space quite by accident in late 2005, in fact if not for a musician friend of mine, I would have missed it entirely.

He sent me to his My Space profile and told me how he was receiving some great exposure to his website from linking there. I'd heard in the media that My Space was literally exploding in popularity and that was enough for me to take the opportunity seriously enough to learn more. I discovered not only was My Space fast becoming the most popular website online, it held the potential to reach millions of people for free.

After some research I found that the most commented on and popular profiles were the ones that focused entirely on one subject and did so enthusiastically. Then I carefully studied what others were doing on their My Space profiles in regards to sending bulletins, comments and setting up profiles. My ultimate goal was to uncover exactly how they were making money.

I then replicated the successful money-making techniques by fine tuning my profile and website offer. By targeting one specific high-paying niche, it maximized results and brought more income. I then looked for other high interest topics within My Space and started experimenting with a variety of niche topics with different themed profiles designed to funnel people to websites exactly suited to their wants.

Question: Why do you think My Space is such an effective place to market your business? Why would you recommend My Space?

Answer: For starters, My Space currently has more than an 80 percent market share over all social networking websites. This accounts for a total number of profiles in excess of 100 million and My Space is currently ranked the 5th most visited website on the planet. As you can imagine the sheer number of people on My Space makes it an extremely attractive place to find hungry customers.

Coupled with the fact that My Space allows you to customize your own webpage with HTML code and CSS to give it any kind of look you want and link to outside sources is irresistible. Imagine the potential of having a popular profile centered around a lucrative keyword and linking it to your own Adsense monetized website or sales page.

Once you've got a popular profile it becomes an incredible opportunity just waiting for you to plug in to it. Through the use of groups, forums, messages, events, comments, blogs, videos and classified advertising you have a multitude of ways to reach people interested in your products and turn them into your customers.

You can use My Space to get targeted customers for virtually any product you have to offer and you can grow your opt-in lists to continue the selling process. The best part is, you can use My Space to tap in to the most powerful kind of marketing ever known, word of mouth.

Question: What marketing technique do you find to be the most effective, and how do you use it? Would you tell us one or two of your best marketing tips?

Answer: As a marketer, the most important key to remember is that your My Space profile is created to attract viewers to your website. To do this, you must determine the most remarkable aspect of your product and turn that into your own persuasive story. Your whole profile must reflect your unique story and be structured so that it not only appeals to your target audience but compels them to find out more.

Your My Space picture is often the first thing that people see; make sure you have one that stands out. The best pictures stir up an emotion in its viewer. A good rule of thumb is to select pictures that are relevant to your product and audience. My favorite strategy is to use a movable gif that is a little larger than the average and captures the viewer's attention.

You'll want to spend time selecting a strong headline for your profile since it will appear next to your picture. It will also be visible from comments you leave on other profiles and on the My Space search function. It's important that you use proper search engine optimization techniques in your headline and throughout your profile's content. The headline should reflect your overall strategy with important keywords.

Leveraging the efforts of many is key to building a profitable My Space marketing business. One of the best ways to market your offer on My Space after you've established your profile is through the use of groups. You have the opportunity to start a group on virtually any topic you want. When you start a group you have control over who can join and its content. To get your group started send a bulletin to everyone on your friends list. Once you've got a loyal following to your group, people will gladly share the information with others.

If you want to send viewers to a specific offer, sending bulletins to your My Space profile's friends list will get you instant results. You can use bulletins to offer something of perceived value to gain the acceptance of friends and have them become outspoken advocates for your product.

Commenting on popular profiles will get people coming to check you out. People on My Space love to share things with each other. If you have a unique video, funny picture or contest, you can post it on popular profiles and really spread your message. Once the word is out, its potential to spread is limitless.

Question: What trends do you see in marketing on My Space? What do you see in the future of My Space?

Answer: My Space has grown so fast due in large part to its success facilitating direct person to person interaction. Whether it's sharing pictures, videos or content, people are moving away from disruptive media sources and embracing those that involve user generated content. You can expect to see more consumer created media begin to appear on profiles and anticipate more people willing to share it.

In the near future people will not only research a particular product, but go to My Space to learn about the product's creator. Building relationships and connecting with others of like mind is what My Space is all about . For savvy marketers, this means allowing the consumer to feel like they have a direct connection with you.

Marketers who expose others to non interruptive sources of information will have the greatest success, as quality content becomes the accepted norm. Competition will intensify among traditional advertisers as the ad dollars spent on social networks approaches the billions. With its massive success My Space will branch out to being viewed via cell phones and expand to other countries like China and Japan.

Most importantly, successful online marketing will transform to become continually viral. Instead of buying a product based on brand alone, consumers will seek out and follow the recommendations of others. Marketers who have framed their message to be extraordinary will benefit from having it shared and heard worldwide.

Question: What projects are you currently working on, and where do you plan to take your business from here?

Answer: My future is focused primarily on helping other small business owners strategically place themselves in their market to stand out among the corporations without spending a fortune. The objective is to build resources that bridge the gap between consumers and marketers and generate customers who become outspoken supporters.

I plan on taking my business forward by concentrating on the most effective new forms of media. You'll hear a whole lot more of me as I venture into online video, audio products and viral promotions. My business plan incorporates a series of interconnected products all pursuing the goal of pushing the marketing boundaries to new limits.

Matthew Sherborne started marketing on the internet in 1998 with his first website devoted to his commercial diving business. Matthew accumulated real-life knowledge of using low-cost advertising techniques and continually searched for new and innovative marketing methods. Through all of his research looking for the perfect system of promotion, he's discovered the most successful method has always been word of mouth advertising. With that knowledge he's been an enthusiastic supporter of searching and utilizing viral marketing techniques.

Since selling his diving service business in 2002 he's traveled from San Diego to Hawaii and finally to the San Francisco Bay area. Working a variety of labor intensive jobs, above and below ground and water, he decided in early 2005 to put 100 percent of his effort into internet marketing.

Since that time he's focused exclusively on the most effective low-cost marketing techniques to boost his online business. He now offers the very same techniques that's made him successful and yielded incredible results. Matthew has a passion for marketing and it shows as he shares today's most radically effective promotional techniques.

Matthew will take you behind the scenes to show you exactly how he makes his lucrative income and how he markets his own business online. With his "nothing held back" philosophy you can expect to get all of the inside secrets and sales boosting tactics to use on your very own online business.

Question: I read your ebook, "MySpace Cash Machine", and it is excellent. How did you get started marketing on My Space, and how did you find all of the techniques for marketing on My Space?

Answer: I got started marketing on My Space quite by accident in late 2005, in fact if not for a musician friend of mine, I would have missed it entirely.

He sent me to his My Space profile and told me how he was receiving some great exposure to his website from linking there. I'd heard in the media that My Space was literally exploding in popularity and that was enough for me to take the opportunity seriously enough to learn more. I discovered not only was My Space fast becoming the most popular website online, it held the potential to reach millions of people for free.

After some research I found that the most commented on and popular profiles were the ones that focused entirely on one subject and did so enthusiastically. Then I carefully studied what others were doing on their My Space profiles in regards to sending bulletins, comments and setting up profiles. My ultimate goal was to uncover exactly how they were making money.

I then replicated the successful money-making techniques by fine tuning my profile and website offer. By targeting one specific high-paying niche, it maximized results and brought more income. I then looked for other high interest topics within My Space and started experimenting with a variety of niche topics with different themed profiles designed to funnel people to websites exactly suited to their wants.

Question: Why do you think My Space is such an effective place to market your business? Why would you recommend My Space?

Answer: For starters, My Space currently has more than an 80 percent market share over all social networking websites. This accounts for a total number of profiles in excess of 100 million and My Space is currently ranked the 5th most visited website on the planet. As you can imagine the sheer number of people on My Space makes it an extremely attractive place to find hungry customers.

Coupled with the fact that My Space allows you to customize your own webpage with HTML code and CSS to give it any kind of look you want and link to outside sources is irresistible. Imagine the potential of having a popular profile centered around a lucrative keyword and linking it to your own Adsense monetized website or sales page.

Once you've got a popular profile it becomes an incredible opportunity just waiting for you to plug in to it. Through the use of groups, forums, messages, events, comments, blogs, videos and classified advertising you have a multitude of ways to reach people interested in your products and turn them into your customers.

You can use My Space to get targeted customers for virtually any product you have to offer and you can grow your opt-in lists to continue the selling process. The best part is, you can use My Space to tap in to the most powerful kind of marketing ever known, word of mouth.

Question: What marketing technique do you find to be the most effective, and how do you use it? Would you tell us one or two of your best marketing tips?

Answer: As a marketer, the most important key to remember is that your My Space profile is created to attract viewers to your website. To do this, you must determine the most remarkable aspect of your product and turn that into your own persuasive story. Your whole profile must reflect your unique story and be structured so that it not only appeals to your target audience but compels them to find out more.

Your My Space picture is often the first thing that people see; make sure you have one that stands out. The best pictures stir up an emotion in its viewer. A good rule of thumb is to select pictures that are relevant to your product and audience. My favorite strategy is to use a movable gif that is a little larger than the average and captures the viewer's attention.

You'll want to spend time selecting a strong headline for your profile since it will appear next to your picture. It will also be visible from comments you leave on other profiles and on the My Space search function. It's important that you use proper search engine optimization techniques in your headline and throughout your profile's content. The headline should reflect your overall strategy with important keywords.

Leveraging the efforts of many is key to building a profitable My Space marketing business. One of the best ways to market your offer on My Space after you've established your profile is through the use of groups. You have the opportunity to start a group on virtually any topic you want. When you start a group you have control over who can join and its content. To get your group started send a bulletin to everyone on your friends list. Once you've got a loyal following to your group, people will gladly share the information with others.

If you want to send viewers to a specific offer, sending bulletins to your My Space profile's friends list will get you instant results. You can use bulletins to offer something of perceived value to gain the acceptance of friends and have them become outspoken advocates for your product.

Commenting on popular profiles will get people coming to check you out. People on My Space love to share things with each other. If you have a unique video, funny picture or contest, you can post it on popular profiles and really spread your message. Once the word is out, its potential to spread is limitless.

Question: What trends do you see in marketing on My Space? What do you see in the future of My Space?

Answer: My Space has grown so fast due in large part to its success facilitating direct person to person interaction. Whether it's sharing pictures, videos or content, people are moving away from disruptive media sources and embracing those that involve user generated content. You can expect to see more consumer created media begin to appear on profiles and anticipate more people willing to share it.

In the near future people will not only research a particular product, but go to My Space to learn about the product's creator. Building relationships and connecting with others of like mind is what My Space is all about . For savvy marketers, this means allowing the consumer to feel like they have a direct connection with you.

Marketers who expose others to non interruptive sources of information will have the greatest success, as quality content becomes the accepted norm. Competition will intensify among traditional advertisers as the ad dollars spent on social networks approaches the billions. With its massive success My Space will branch out to being viewed via cell phones and expand to other countries like China and Japan.

Most importantly, successful online marketing will transform to become continually viral. Instead of buying a product based on brand alone, consumers will seek out and follow the recommendations of others. Marketers who have framed their message to be extraordinary will benefit from having it shared and heard worldwide.

Question: What projects are you currently working on, and where do you plan to take your business from here?

Answer: My future is focused primarily on helping other small business owners strategically place themselves in their market to stand out among the corporations without spending a fortune. The objective is to build resources that bridge the gap between consumers and marketers and generate customers who become outspoken supporters.

I plan on taking my business forward by concentrating on the most effective new forms of media. You'll hear a whole lot more of me as I venture into online video, audio products and viral promotions. My business plan incorporates a series of interconnected products all pursuing the goal of pushing the marketing boundaries to new limits.

MySpace; you've surely heard of it. Most of you probably have an account that you use to keep in contact with friends. 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 and the primary age of the site visitor is between 16 and 34. There are 1.4 million registered bands on MySpace and the site reaches more men than ESPN.com. All that, and you still won't have to talk to more than 5 people to find someone who says "I hate MySpace". That's fine. 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.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

It is important for you to understand that it is against the MySpace "Terms of Service" to do any marketing on their site with the intention of profiting, but that does not mean you may not market "something". Look on almost any profile and you will find people promoting something. They're promoting themselves, their bands, and some blatantly selling items on their profiles, 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.

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There are millions and millions of registered users on MySpace. Everyone has a profile. So make yourself one (or a new 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. You are never going to put your real name, number address, etc. on MySpace. Don't even use a real email address. It's not required to register or verify an account. If you feel you must, create free email account with yahoo, google, or msn 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. 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 marketer, there are many more tools, resources and such below.

By now you're probably getting impatient 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 over 3.5 million results. 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 ton of time.

Friend "bots" or "adder bots" as they're known are robot programs or "bots" that will go out and send these friend requests for you, hundreds at a time. There are many out there and they all have their ups and downs. I use two different programs: You can find and grab copies by visiting my website. Several complete videos demonstrating in detail how to use some of the advanced features of these programs are included in the member's areas.

Another quick way to get friends for free is to visit and join a "train". This is a place where you join up to let others know you're trying to get a lot of friends in a hurry, and you know they want the same thing. Now this type of friend adding is completely un-targeted, but you can build a friends list of thousands in a week this way. A few good train locations are listed on my website.

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. 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 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 al 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 sole purpose of individual gain). So you have al these friends. You’re chatting with them, slowly gaining credibility, knowledge, and maybe posting in your blogs, you send a message to your buddies saying "hey, I found this great cheat code site - check it out!"

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, etc. 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. That’s 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 tastefuly and aren't over-aggressive because after al, your website could be your hobby or interest, and hobbies and interests are things that are perfect to talk about on your MySpace profile. You can have Google Adsense advertisements on your website, affiliate links, build a mailing list. and you're driving free targeted 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 untargeted 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.

Most people think that MySpace is a huge untargeted market, but that's just because they don't know how to use the tools available to narrow it down and find targeted 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? 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 and 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.

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. With some training, you would have no problem whatsoever promoting bands on MySpace.

Speaking of making more money from MySpace, but not "on" MySpace, here is another tactic you can make a profile, add friends using a bot and trains. 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. are you getting the idea yet? Making MySpace accounts and adding friends is a cinch once you've got the knowledge.

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 learning how to do it, you'll be able to make the coolest MySpace profiles for your clients quickly, easily, thoroughly, & efficiently. Turn yourself into a MySpace money making machine!

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.

I can't teach you everything you need to know in this brief about MySpace marketing, but hopefully I've peaked your curiosity and got your creative juices flowing. If you visit the sites I have provided, and use the tools and resources you can find tons of step by step training videos, profile editing tools, and a very active member’s only forum where every single tactic we've discussed (and about 40 more) are outlined, detailed, demonstrated and discussed. The MySpace marketing platform is changing daily so don't wait! Get in on it now!

Check out MoneyInCollege.com for more info.

MySpace; you've surely heard of it. Most of you probably have an account that you use to keep in contact with friends. 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 and the primary age of the site visitor is between 16 and 34. There are 1.4 million registered bands on MySpace and the site reaches more men than ESPN.com. All that, and you still won't have to talk to more than 5 people to find someone who says "I hate MySpace". That's fine. 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.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

It is important for you to understand that it is against the MySpace "Terms of Service" to do any marketing on their site with the intention of profiting, but that does not mean you may not market "something". Look on almost any profile and you will find people promoting something. They're promoting themselves, their bands, and some blatantly selling items on their profiles, 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.

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There are millions and millions of registered users on MySpace. Everyone has a profile. So make yourself one (or a new 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. You are never going to put your real name, number address, etc. on MySpace. Don't even use a real email address. It's not required to register or verify an account. If you feel you must, create free email account with yahoo, google, or msn 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. 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 marketer, there are many more tools, resources and such below.

By now you're probably getting impatient 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 over 3.5 million results. 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 ton of time.

Friend "bots" or "adder bots" as they're known are robot programs or "bots" that will go out and send these friend requests for you, hundreds at a time. There are many out there and they all have their ups and downs. I use two different programs: You can find and grab copies by visiting my website. Several complete videos demonstrating in detail how to use some of the advanced features of these programs are included in the member's areas.

Another quick way to get friends for free is to visit and join a "train". This is a place where you join up to let others know you're trying to get a lot of friends in a hurry, and you know they want the same thing. Now this type of friend adding is completely un-targeted, but you can build a friends list of thousands in a week this way. A few good train locations are listed on my website.

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. 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 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 al 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 sole purpose of individual gain). So you have al these friends. You’re chatting with them, slowly gaining credibility, knowledge, and maybe posting in your blogs, you send a message to your buddies saying "hey, I found this great cheat code site - check it out!"

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, etc. 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. That’s 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 tastefuly and aren't over-aggressive because after al, your website could be your hobby or interest, and hobbies and interests are things that are perfect to talk about on your MySpace profile. You can have Google Adsense advertisements on your website, affiliate links, build a mailing list. and you're driving free targeted 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 untargeted 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.

Most people think that MySpace is a huge untargeted market, but that's just because they don't know how to use the tools available to narrow it down and find targeted 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? 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 and 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.

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. With some training, you would have no problem whatsoever promoting bands on MySpace.

Speaking of making more money from MySpace, but not "on" MySpace, here is another tactic you can make a profile, add friends using a bot and trains. 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. are you getting the idea yet? Making MySpace accounts and adding friends is a cinch once you've got the knowledge.

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 learning how to do it, you'll be able to make the coolest MySpace profiles for your clients quickly, easily, thoroughly, & efficiently. Turn yourself into a MySpace money making machine!

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.

I can't teach you everything you need to know in this brief about MySpace marketing, but hopefully I've peaked your curiosity and got your creative juices flowing. If you visit the sites I have provided, and use the tools and resources you can find tons of step by step training videos, profile editing tools, and a very active member’s only forum where every single tactic we've discussed (and about 40 more) are outlined, detailed, demonstrated and discussed. The MySpace marketing platform is changing daily so don't wait! Get in on it now!

Check out MoneyInCollege.com for more info.