Many businesses have already experienced the wonder full and affordable Internet marketing opportunity MySpace creates. Learn what a MySpace Layout can do for your business. My Pearse Street Inc. Web Design, with virtually no advertising budget has grown from a one woman operation to a 10 employee operation with hundreds of clients. How has Pearse Street done this? By taking advantage of the MySpace social networking website at no charge.
You can't afford to ignore one of the Internets most popular websites. Since so much web traffic takes place on myspace it's a great place to profile your business. Skip paying for per impression or per click marketing and receive a whole page profiling your business for free. MySpace recieves more traffic then any other social network this is why I recommend starting here with your social networking. When you have the ball rolling move on to facebook, linkedin, digg, youtube and other free social media resources.
The first step is to make the decision to either create a layout yourself or hire a professional myspace design company. If you decide to create your own myspace layout first go to myspace.com enter an email address and pasword. MySpace will ask you some question name, location, companies, hobbies. Choosing your url is one of the most important steps of the process. You want to get myspace yourbusiness and you may want to create a second profile and get myspace.com/yourkeywords. You'll want to upload a photo to represent your business. I recomend a photo of a person at least until your done requesting myspace friends. Many more of your friend requests will be accepted if you have a face representing you instead of a logo.
If you decide to have a custom myspace designer handle your layout design you need to find out what you like. Browse MySpace and pay special attention to businesses on the social network. You may want to search for "Professional MySpace Designer" on a search engine and browse through design portfolios of myspace designers. Compile a list of customized myspace layouts to show your designer. This brings us to selecting a myspace design company. Yes you need someone who specializes in custom myspace design the pages are coded much different then regular web pages. Your designer should give you some choices, a basic layout, div layout, or myspace flash layout. Basic myspace layouts keep the format of the default profile but includes custom graphics. Myspace div layouts use the div overlay technique. A div layout places the layout over the deault myspace layout this allows you to basically have any look, feel and format you desire. The myspace flash layouts are similar to div layouts but with the inclusion of flash animation. MySpace Flash Layouts allow you to have highly interactive profile with moving animation and what seems like multiple pages. Compile all advertisement graphics, logos, etc. that your designer will need to customize your myspace layout. Customization really sets you apart from the many default myspace layouts.
Now that you have either a basic or custom myspace layout it's time to start the marketing. I recomend adding myspace groups that have your target as members. After adding the myspace group simply start adding myspace friends from that group. Myspace doesn't allow you to add more then 300 friends in a day so don't get to ambitious. Make sure you optimize the content on your myspace page for search engine promotion as the search engines spider myspace layouts. Once you've built a number of friends it's time to start sending your friends comments. Every comment you send includes your image linking back to your myspace page, this is great for your search engine promotion campaign. When you comment your new friends be sure to pitch your services.