Social Marketing

(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, [...]

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I didn’t have the technical know-how to build massive linking networks, and while my business was doing well, I didn’t have money to burn on paid link campaigns.
In the meantime, I put up a few products for sale in different niches, and they did ok.  It was passive income, just [...]

The more traffic you have to your site, the more visitors you get, and the more often you are able to expose new people to what you’re doing.
One of the fastest ways to get traffic to your site is by getting outside websites to link to you. When other sites link to you, you [...]

Stories of interest that might require some thinking:
Sell things that aren’t “real”: Techcrunch on Virtual Goods
Greasers v. Socs being played out: MySpace v. Facebook

You’ll notice I don’t talk much about MySpace marketing these days.
The truth is, I haven’t seen anything worth mentioning.  A lot of ebooks promising untold riches promoting CPA offers through comment spam…  that’s soooo last year.
MySpace marketing changes darn near every week!  It’s a beast to keep up with.
I’ve got one friend I talk to [...]

Because today’s my birthday and I’m feeling great, I’m offering a discount of 66% on Friend Laser.  It’s $15 instead of the regular $45 - but only till midnight PST tonight.  That leaves about 9 1/2 hours left.
If you’re not certain what Friend Laser does, watch the video here.
Enjoy!

There’s been a lot of talk in the blogging and IM world recently about spamming & etchis (but then again, isn’t there always?).
That said, the comment thread on this post got me thinking about the issue.
Think about MySpace (or other social networking sites) “spam.”
You immediately have a scenario in mind of what constitues spam on [...]

One of the most important things about marketing online is making information about yourself and your products available to potential consumers in as many forms as as possible.
For example, some people may be happy visiting your homepage, while others could be MySpace junkies and prefer to check what you’re up to there, others still might [...]

I’ve been hearing from Willie Crawford (you can read his blog here ) since I got started online that the best way to network, grow your business, and make friends is to attend seminars.
Now, part of the reason I work at home is ’cause I don’t want to have to be out and about all [...]

**** This message went out to one of my email lists tonight and I thought I’d share here as well. ****
Hey ,
This is an incredible news story I happened upon and wanted to share with you:
Basically, it talks about how department stores will be implementing new technology into their fitting rooms that allows [...]