A little experiment I'm gonna try. First I'll use: several MySpace accounts Clickbank hoplinks (shortened with tinyurl.com with a custom ending or similar) FriendBlasterPro that exceeds 50 friends a day A very short article on each niche I've found five niches; Real Estate, Pets (dogs), World of Warcraft, Mafia Wars and Guitar playing. I'll use one account per niche and write a few short paragraphs on my profile and provide a link to a Clickbank hoplink. I plan to add no more than 200 friends per day per profile. The idea is that I'll send a friend request and a message to a person from a group that corresponds to a niche e.g. a friend ID from a Real Estate group will be sent a friend request and a short message about Real Estate and adding me. Then they'll add me and/or view my profile page and check out my short article and hopefully click on my hoplink and buy the guide or whatever. Does anyone here believe this will work? I know this is a heavy breach of their ToS (friend adder bot) but I'll be using time delay (wait 12-15 secs after adding/sending message). If I can send perhaps 200 friend requests and messages per day x5, I am potentially communicating with 1000 potential customers. [recent update - will be sending 200 friend requests/messages per day per account but with only 3 different accounts, if I make money I'll do it on more] Ideas? Questions? Respond to this thread. Regards, Seb
Hi Seb - This sounds interesting. I've never tried this or anything similar so I'm glued to your thread watching for results. Good luck !
Thanks for the support, simplyjo! I'll be creating the MySpace accounts today and sending friend requests etc. tomorrow. I've been sending requests to MySpace members in a Mafia Wars related group and sending them friend requests and messages and plan to send 200 maximum today. Starting date; 21 August 2009 I have no idea how much I'll make but since I'll be sending requests to 1000 people daily (at least that's what I plan, it might have to be 150 per account per day so maybe 750 a day), even if 1% of the 1000 buy a product that's 10 people. I'll get around $20 per product sold (depends on the product obviously), that's still $200 a day. Wish me luck!
Very interesting method that brings lots of targeted traffic with little effort. Keep us updated on your results!
Sounds interesting, but time consuming (well, tedius and repetitive at least) - If you don't work, you won't make money. It's not like SEO, PPC, or Ezine, where once you have the system in place it earns you money for a while without any work. Good luck!
You are from UK and Myspace take only US advertisers now, can be a problem to use them. They need US CC as well as US address. Virtual office in US needed at least.
DPParadise, I'm not sure that you've fully understood. I'm not advertising on MySpace, I'm adding people on MySpace and sending them messages to get them to view my profile where I have posted Clickbank hoplinks. And ParthS, yes it will probably take an hour or two to setup the profiles and write some content, but the friend adder runs in the background and can send 50 friend requests and messages in less than half an hour.
Good luck with that SeBrantigan. It definetely sounds like a pretty clever strategy. One question, do you know if there's an anti-spam policy on myspace that might affect your strategy? Have a nice day
Yes there is an antispam policy, people will probably report you anyway but you just enter a CAPTCHA code to unblock your account. I did it several times on another account with a money making niche. If you try and make your account human as possible and generally try to have an interest in the niche, you're a lot less likely to be reported for spam and more likely to get sales. If you use the money making niche it's likely that what you're promoting is thought of a scam and therefore you may get blocked more often, which is why I changed niches.
Only problem is the target market is probably not going to be found socializing on Myspace... you forget the first rule of marketing which is to find the target market.... This has been tried by many many IMs and often ends in failure. In fact I believe Google is not re-signing with Myspace, due to the fact that their ad performance has been beyond dismal with Myspace. Good luck though!