MySpace Whore

After my initial hatered for myspace I am beginning to think that it could well turn out to be a very useful marketing tool. I still firmly believe that as a social community site itsfeatures are poor….

I have these last few days been whoring myself on myspace. This is the term used for a strategy to gain more “friends”, who are all potential contacts/affiliates/customers. It is a strategy which involves asking your contacts to post bulletins to all their friends asking them to add you, in return you do the same. It appears to work as in a relatively short time I have got over 1,000 contacts - as a random target figure I would like to have somewhere in the region of 100,000.
The quality of these “friends” is a different issue. This strategy only works if your friends have themselves lots of friends. The most likely people to respond are those who are doing the same, people just looking for large number of contacts, not only people they wish to interact with. This probably means my contact list is populated by lots of people completely unintersted in me, and who are themselves trying to sell me or sign me up to something! Thats why if you are after numbers I think you need VERY large numbers due to the poor quality of them…..

All that being said I firmly intend to continue. I have already spoken to a couple of people who have proved to be good networking contacts so it had been a worthwhile exercise already.

You’re here so you might as well take a look at my myspace space! myspace.com/unlucky_t

Today I will do a little more whoring, and more boring admin, accounts etc… *yaaawn*