---- The first thing you must have is a form to get your visitors email addresses. You will increase your sign-up five-fold if you give them some sort of incentive to give their email address. Promote this by posting bulletins.

---- Syndication code. MySpace users are Web savvy. They know how to edit basic html and add it to their MySpace page. You want to have a pre-made banner ad with a link to your Web site and supply the html code so that if one of your MySpace friends wants to post your ad on his/her page, doing so is very easy.

---- There must be an obvious link to your Web site.

---- A reason to come back. Have fun on that one.

---- (Look into bum marketing)


Random Wisdom

Here's a little wisdom so you don't have to learn the hard way:

1. The most important advice I can give you is to never send unsolicited messages to other MySpace users. Not only are they ineffective because MySpace users are some of the most spam-immune people on the planet, but most will flag your message as spam. It only takes a couple of these before your account will either be deleted or its functionality severely limited. All your previous work goes down the drain.

2. Stay away from corporate-speak on your page. Talk like you're talking to a friend, not like a business.

3. Adobe Flash works great as eye-candy, but MySpace has limited a lot of the action script, such as being able to click links. Tell your Web developer that all "Get" functions do not work. He will know what that means.

4. Your MySpace page needs to look clean and must be very easy to read. You can make your own layouts, or use pre-made ones at a lot of Web sites, such as MySpaceSupport. (not affiliated with MySpace.com)

5. You have the option to disable html in your comments. I do this on all my accounts because people not only spam with lots of advertisements but also place huge images on your page that take a long time to load.

6. Post bulletins consistently. On average, only about 20% will see the bulletin you've posted. So, if you have time, post at least one bulletin a day about your product. Also, make sure that you delete your previous bulletin.

MAKE YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION THE BEST IMPRESSION

Anybody else besides me focus on messages more than creating profiles & invite friends then commenting?

I mostly do bulletins, If you take the right approach they are still golden.

Umm...this thread is more than two years old.

-Danielle