The MySpace Marketing Funnel - Getting Massive Niche Traffic Through Social Networking

Are you using MySpace to market your business?

Last month, Hitwise reported that MySpace was recently responsible for creating over 8% of Googles traffic.

So what’s so special about MySpace? Besides just being a massive traffic generator for Google, it’s Web 2.0. Instead of the old school of discussion forums and static websites, the whole place is a social networking hang out. There’s groups, user profiles, blogs, and a ton of other stuff all interconnected.

So other people can see what other people are interested in, browse into groups of interest, and easily pull in a group of people with similar interests to build a community.

In the offline business world, word of mouth and networking are the most effective and money-saving types of advertising any business can have. You’re building trust, relationships, and people tell other people about something they like. It’s a huge “viral marketing” traffic funnel.

Well MySpace is like that online. The biggest difference is that your possible networking circle contain millions of people throughout the whole world. You don’t have to get dressed up and spend time going to functions and spend hours and hours to build relationships with just a small group of people. Although offline face-to-face networking is very effective, just remember that the key is communication…something that you can do effectively online - even without body language :)

Even after I read the Hitwise article, I still didn’t do anything with MySpace. After all, it’s focused on a trendy young market. All I could think of were niches related to music, teen idols, or gaming (and a lot of illegal stuff related to those). I know that I was thinking narrow minded and I stayed in a state of ignorance for quite a while.

How could I leverage MySpace for my internet marketing business?

I recently was able to get a hold of some videos on how to build traffic using MySpace. It’s a 4 part **FREE** mini course. After spending less than 30 minutes watching and analyzing them, I had a good grasp of how to do niche marketing using MySpace. I learned how to do niche marketing analysis and ways to boost traffic to my sites.

I haven’t read the terms on MySpace, but so far, I’m not thinking about using MySpace to link to a bunch of affiliate programs or to replace my websites. One of the ideas that I got from the videos is how to get tons of people, that are interested in what my websites offer, and lead them to my sites. As I always say, a website without targeted traffic is worthless.

Since I received these videos for free, I would like to offer the same thing for the readers here. So you can go here to freely download these MySpace marketing videos. (Sorry these videos are no longer available).