Let me pull on my asbestos shorts... Now... I see everyone and their mother talking about doing this and that with MySpace bulletins... Are MySpace bulletins a "short message" (how long/short? What format can it be?) to "friends" within MySpace? How long such bulletin normally stays in the "friend's" bulletin inbox? What are examples of good MySpace bulletins? What content seems to draw people? I presume there can be live links in it. Can it be HTML, or is it sort of a BBCode-ish? Can you post a link to some successful MySpace bulletins? Thanks!
It stays in the freinds bulletin inbox (top 5) til others spam yours down from it.. then they can also click on view all bulletins but thats not as effective... good myspace bulletins are bulletins that are related to myspace and not totally unrelated advertising ;p
A myspace bulletin is a message that you create on myspace.com The message has a title that you usually want to be catchy so people open it. And the main page. The main page can handle embedded content such as images or even flash. The purpose of a bulletin is that that one message that you make is viewable by all your friends and can't be deleted. When they say they market it it's because they build profiles with thousands of friends then send out a bulletin saying hey look at my cool new graphics with a sample of their graphics (ie layouts, glitters) and their friends see it in the bulletin say cool and visit their site.
^ what he said, i might add, people steal account logins, and post bulletins, thats why you'll see people ask if the bulletins are legit, meaning if they're being posted from hacked, phished or just 'whored' or 'marketed accounts. 'whored' or 'marketed' accounts are safer to send from, wont give your company/website a bad brand. a successful bulletin usually is promoting another myspace account, telling them to add to their friends, or some of the following words, if not all: "omg", "LOLZQ!" "HAHAAA".. etc. Myspace related sites seem to do well with bulletin posting, as well as proxy, and content based sites. ive done quite a bit promotion for video type sites, which just post videos, and people enjoy the video so much, end up visiting the site, but to the very least, it'd help put that name in their head.
Thank you. So, a MySpace bulletin first needs to/should lead the "friends" to the bulletin originator's MySpace page - then in turn, if the content is compelling enough, to the marketed web site? If such marketing is to be successful, one must make sure their MySpace profile/site/page is very compelling, correct?
Sure , the myspace page has to fit the message you are trying to send. Succesful myspace pages are either funny or very engaging. Celebrity myspace pages usually do well also. To one of your earlier questions: the code used is simply normal HTML. I use bulletins to promote my website: content that is. Since bulletins get deleted after 10 days it is useful to combine them with the myspace blog - so people can see the type of thing your profile is about. I usually send out the exact same message that is also in my blog.
I get responses and thanks for the ones I send out. But that does not mean everybody reads them - just that a decent percentage of people do.