2007-11-15 08:46:51 · 3 answers · asked by Kit Kat Realtor in Dallas 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Advertising & Marketing ➔ Other - Advertising & Marketing
Its against the Terms of Service.
Im fairly active on forums for online businesses such as CafePress and the subject comes up often. You have to be real careful about casually mentioning what you do.
2007-11-18 14:42:59 · answer #1 · answered by Gandalf Parker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All you have to do to find prospects is to begin searching for people who have interests related to your area and looking to move soon. You can then add these people to your friends list. If you become the center of information (special cultural events, museums, festivals, etc) for your area, people will naturally gravitate to it. You can also link to a blog or website that has more information. I would avoid trying to sell real estate in MySpace, but you can provide information and education that is well within the Term of Service.
This is a significant advantage over other methods of finding prospects, as it allows you to do so completely free of charge. Furthermore, MySpace has built-in mechanisms that help you to contact these prospects and to warm them up for selling.
One of these mechanisms is a “bulletin.” A bulletin is a message that you send out to all of the friends on your friends list at the same exact time. Regardless of whether you have 10 friends or 40,000 a bulletin will reach them all in a matter of minutes. Next time they open up their profiles, they will all have that bulletin you sent.
How can you use this in your favor? You can send out a bulletin about something related to your business; and then use that to lure them into reading your MySpace.
You can also send out private messages to individual users. This is a good method to use in conjunction with a database. If you are taking the time to invite people individually, also take the time to add them to a database, along with some notes about them. If you think they might want something particularly, you could always send them a private message to let them know you are a seller. You can then offer them a discount if they are interested.
2007-11-19 07:00:43 · answer #2 · answered by Mark C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the very least it is good to have a page that links to your website. Since Myspace is so popular the inbound link can help your main site with search. Also it is a social network, so if you make friends there, you may make a sale down the road to someone you meet there. Check out ( http://www.salesandmarketinghelp.com )
They have a lot of great articles and information to help any sales or marketing program.
2007-11-19 00:05:33 · answer #3 · answered by marketingexpert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋