(This is a guest post by Steven Cravis. Steven Cravis is a composer, producer and web marketer. Follow him on Twitter @StevenCravis!)
One tool that I think is great, and is overlooked by many myspace users with lots of myspace friends, is the Status/Mood update.
On your Home page of being logged into your myspace account, every time you click ‘Update’ (to the right of the Mood link right under Status), you can change what it says, and you will appear to many (depending on their settings) of your myspace friends on their myspace Home page. It’s kind of like a game of leap frog where whichever users have clicked and updated ‘Status’ the most recently will show up on top. You can do this as many times as you want while you’re logged in. Therefore, frequently clicking ‘Update’ status, such as every few minutes, can be an effective way to get out a message to lots of people, and a good habit for social marketers.
I sometimes post sentences like “has 13 free legal music downloads at download.com/stevencravis” because CNET’s download.com is a really helpful place for exposure of my original music and people have thanked me and told me that they’ve really highlighted the link (since myspace doesn’t let you make it a hyperlink within the status/mood message) and gone to the site to download the songs.
Keep in mind it has your myspace name there so if I write a status like ‘wishes you a great weekend’ it will display something like “Steven Cravis wishes you a great weekend” but without the quotes.
My only recommendation to Myspace to improve the status functionality would be to allow hyperlinks like twitter allows, which should not cause any problems now that myspace has such strict anti-phishing protections for external links.
(Note from Michelle: All these points apply to Facebooks status update as well, if that’s your preferred social network. You should be on both for maximum visability!)
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I can think of more effective ways of getting your message across instead of constantly updating your status, i.e twitter
I agree it’s definitely another medium to communicate, but as I use more of twitter I use less of the myspace & facebook updates. Why? Because it’s redundant and my facebook & myspace and any other social network site has broad mix of “followers” aka “friends”. This is bad, why would I want to annoy my friends with my marketing messages?
Status updates assume:
1. people actually read all their updates
2. people want to hear about your marketing messages
To get your short marketing messages to a targeted audience — stick with twitter.
andy
incomepie.com
twitter.com/incomepie
if you can’t or won’t (that is hesitate) notify people about your music, your upcoming events and other music related activities, whether they be “friends”, strangers or Not such great friends, then Why communicate with anybody at all?
a good website and a good way to hear actual music examples (like myspace MUSIC page) should be enough, don’t you think? some of these social network devices seem to get out of hand sometimes. I’d rather be playing great venues 6 nights (or days) a week and making a LOT of money than to sit at a desk, slaving away at a computer for what seems to be too many hours. Bill Thurman
http://www.myspace.com/billthurman
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