4 Hot Effective Ways to Advertise Your Business on MySpace

MySpace is a great place to advertise a business, whether you're a shoemaker or a cook, you still need to get the word out to people.

MySpace is used for a variety of different reasons, with making friends and dating being at the top of that list. Advertising yourself or your business on MySpace isn't exactly what pops out at you when you think of MySpace, but there are rock bands that advertise themselves through their MySpace page and other areas of MySpace.

For those of you with no clue what MySpace is, here is a brief description, MySpace.com is a free social networking service that has over 40 million active users.

The members of MySpace can build a contact list of friends, send messages to each other, send bulletin notices to all their friends at once, and create an attractive page for their friends and others to visit.

Although MySpace is mostly made up of teenagers and people in their early twenties, it also attracts middle age and older people as well.

OK if you really want to make this advertising work on MySpace, the first thing you need is a method to attract people to your page. You can do this by...

1. Adding friends to your friend's list by using a free friend adder that's being used by MySpace members, which you can add to your profile page, or you can purchase a service that will automatically add friends for you. One of these paid services is at friendautomator.com which runs at $40.

If $40 is too big of an investment for you, you can use the free version which is easy to use and very effective too.

2. Join groups with similar interest to yours, like if you are seeking business associates, you can join lots of groups that are relevant to business, or sports if your interested in sports, or whatever it is you're trying to spread the word about.

Add friends from every group you join and post new topics in those groups and reply to topics also. In a lot of groups you can advertise whatever it is your promoting.

After you've built a large friend list, the promotion part is quite easy because you can...

3. Leave comments on their page with a link to your product or service and whoever visits their page will see your links and possibly click on them. It's best to leave lots of comments on your friends page who has a huge friends list, that way it will increase your exposure.

Another thing you would want to do is...

4. Post bulletins regularly about updates on your service or products, or just some type of news that you would want to get out to all of your friends at once.