I use MySpace as a marketing tool for my website and to generate clicks to the sites I affiliate for. I was wondering if anyone else is doing this, and how well it is working for you. Currently I have six "fake" profiles of models featured on my site. I actually get fan mail for these guys on MySpace! I think the guys who recognize the models already have memberships to the paysites I promote. Any thoughts? Thanks!
Come on, I know I'm not the only webmaster who uses MySpace for marketing! I would like to know how it is working for all of you.
Okay. Here's my opinion of the matter. I use Myspace to get the word out about our sites. It's actually my personal Myspace profile that advertises the sites, not a "fake" profile. The fake profiles generally annoy me and my friends that I have spoken about it to. Not that yours specifically do, just the ones I've/we've come across. I think having company profiles instead of "fake" model profiles advertising their wares is more of an appropriate use of Myspace. If you are getting model feedback, that's great and I am sure it offers traffic to your site. The profiles I am talking about are those that spam inboxes in Myspace and add everyone on someone's list.
:playboy: <--- hehe.
-Pickles
http://www.myspace.com/princesace if you'd like to take a look :-)
Nice page. Generally, I don't "spam" people on the friend's list. I've seen it, and it's annoying. I have six profiles up, and lord knows I don't have time to produce spam from all six of them. I use the page itself as a marketing tool, with links from the profiles to my site and directly to paysites via my affiliate link code. Every now and then (twice a month?) I will post a bulletin or blog with a link to my site, but that is hardly spam.Originally Posted by friskypickles
Agreed! We all know it's "Candy", "Mandy", "Brandy", and "Spamby" that are doing the spam. I am gay. REALLY gay. I get these Add Requests from these slutty whore girls that I really have no clue how they found me unless it's basically spam. The gay ones atleast did some research before spamming me haha.
I have a myspace for CorbinFisher but keep it pretty mellow. I don't post much in the way of bulletins and don't add anyone (I wait for people to send me friend requests, as opposed to send out any of my own).
I primarily created it because I wanted a CorbinFisher myspace out there before anyone else tried to create one.
What keeps me from using myspace as a big marketing tool is mainly the inability to be certain of anyone's age on there. Even though I review every single profiile of every single person that tries to add or message me to see that their profile states they are over the age of 18, it's hardly foolproof. So I'd rather not meddle with it.
Even any kind of "advertisement" of CorbinFisher via the myspace profile is rather mellow. I rely on people already knowing what CorbinFisher is before engaging with them on myspace (it's a good way to keep in touch with fans and chat with them), rather than use it as a tool to introduce CorbinFisher to potential new members.
CorbinFisher's Amateur College Men
I'm having great success with YouTube. I don't have the time right now to nurture the MySpace presence I've created.
I make it a point to report each and every one of the slutty whore girls who try to add me. (without fail, they are *always* spam for some cam site/spyware download/something of that nature) Myspace is getting really fast about deleting those profiles because I think they realize that the community could be very quickly overrun if they don't.
For a while the guy that ran Sugarboysl.com (remember that site? And remember how he had another site with clearly underage -- and stated as such -- guys in provocative poses wearing thong underwear?) was posting fake profiles for a bunch of his models (nearly all of whom would be in their late 30s/early 40s now) on Yahoo Personals. I busted him each time he did that, and eventually Yahoo got clever enough to either ban his IP addy or figure out how to stop him from doing that. Then, he started doing the same shit on Myspace. I wasn't as aggressive about busting him there, but somebody else did because I don't see the fake profiles with his pics any more.
Sponsor content?
Fake model identities?
MySpace profile, blog and bulletin Spam?
NOT KOSHER DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!
Seriously though, even on such a small scale it is by definition spamming. That's why nobody wanted to touch this thread. But that aside, there are two other issues you may encounter depending on who the models or sponsors are.
A lot of models have their own legit MySpace. If affiliates were to use sponsor content to create dozens (if not hundreds) of profiles for that one model, what would the model or their studio think of that? In the eyes of some, you may be stepping on their toes.
Another thing is using sponsor content to push traffic to your site and not directly to theirs. Granted, you are promoting them on your site but you are also promoting other sites too. Some sponsors may consider this to be content theft.
Like I say, depends on the sponsor. You may want to ask first. I can think of a few off the top of my head who would definitely can you for this.
I post here to whore this sig.
Dishonest porn marketing will kill myspace. Good. Bring it on! I haven't seen a single myspace page that didn't make my eyes and ears bleed. Thankfully no one has invented smell-o'vision for computers or I would be having nose bleeds too. Is it that hard to use a little design sense and restraint on myspace?
And just how are you promoting a porn site on youtube?
Well… I have no statistics to back this up, but I know that I have gotten quite a few member joins and DVD purchases merely from myspace…
I keep two myspace pages. One for me, Alex, my everyday page that is totally real and I have way too many “friends” on.
www.myspace.com/Starksie
And also one for me as Skyler.
www.myspace.com/SkylerDeVoss
I keep up on both of them and check both of them everyday. Both of which are truthful, with merely different pics and identities. I do however keep them separate… I try my best not to have overlapping friends and they aren’t similar in their layouts.
I have heard from many of my “friends” on my page made for Skyler that they have purchased multiple DVDs and have also bought memberships to www.SkylerDeVoss.com so it seems to be working…. The way I see it is this; if you have the time to make one up and keep it up then why not use it…. It is totally free and if it generates revenue then you might as well utilize it. (Why do you think Rupert Murdoch bought the whole thing?)
Love, Sky/Alex
And my eyes didn't bleed! Kudos on the use of restraint Skyler. :thumbsup:
LOL thanks!!!
I agree with you 100% I absolutely despise myspace pages that literally freeze your computer by merely trying to load... it's ridiculous...
In turn, both of mine are nice and neat...
Love, Sky
I feel strongly that fake Myspace pages are inappropriate. Skyler's got the right idea by setting up a personal Myspace and a "professional" one (which, btw, he thought of without any input or suggestions from us.) Several of our models have done the same thing, and it's worked very well for them.
If fans can contact models and interact with them (and not some person pretending to *be* them) that's a good thing and can help the model's visibility and also the visibility of the company he works for.
Myspace is a great resource for real people to meet each other and become friends. Yes, there are lots of people with fake pics, fake profiles, etc., but that doesn't make it right.
If you want to set up profiles for models, pay them something to respond to messages and maintain the profiles. The ones who enjoy their visibility will take the opportunity and run with it. Don't set up fakes. It just isn't cool. in my book.
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