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How to market on MySpace

To the savvy online marketer, It is completely obvious what a goldmine MySpace is. With free access to over 215 Million users and an easy profile set up, the potential to make extreme profits through effective and creative marketing is limitless. For those who are in the know, money comes pretty easy. And unfortunately, for every successful marketer on MySpace, there is a basketful of novices.

First let us start with the novice to Myspace. If you are doing these things to your MySpace proflie, you can kiss your conversion rates, opt-in rates, sales, and even your profile itself goodbye.

1. You have a crazy layout that you think is cool but really it’s too distracting or takes too long to load so people leave before they even start reading.

2. You are blatantly selling using banners, blinking opt-in pages, huge “in your face” videos.

3. You have awkward layouts where the readers’ eye generally doesn’t know where to look next.

4. You have too many links to too many of your websites.

Look, It’s understandable where you are coming from and to your defense, we have all been “that guy” at one time or another. If you want to have success with MySpace marketing, don’t forget the fundamentals of sales.

You have to keep in mind that it’s not about you. It’s about getting into the mind of your targeted prospects. Just because you think your site looks “pimped out” doesn’t mean your prospects want to see that too.

Put yourself in your prospects shoes. If you ran into a site that was filled with huge banners, countless links, and multi-colored blinking neon fonts, how would you react?

The message that a site like that puts out is, “Thanks for coming onto my page, now I am about to hard sell you on my opportunity”. And of course, the last thing your prospect wants, is to be pitched yet another business opportunity.

Just as there is a definite blueprint for online success, there are also a few simple guidelines you can follow to see massive results using MySpace as an effective marketing medium.

1. Keep it simple. Choose a layout without pictures repeated in the background, more than 2-3 color schemes, and has well aligned content boxes. The most common mistake people make is to think they have to create a stunning, dazzling profile.

2. Remove any blatant banners, links, or ads from your page.

3. Focus on selling you. Use the About Me section to sell you as a person. Tell your story. Find a way to connect with your prospects. Get into the mind of your prospect and tailor your message that answers some of the questions they might be having.

4. Remove your business overviews. You can link them to those later on once you establish a relationship. Remember, it’s all about relationship building!

5. If you are going to include videos, put up videos of you or something you want to share that shows your character. Make sure it brands you as someone people would like to join. Be yourself and people will connect with you. They’re out there.

6. Re-size your videos so that they aren’t “in your face”. This is also a good move because by re-sizing them, it doesn’t affect your layouts alignment.

7. When looking at your page ask yourself, “Does this look professional?” Does it look like a sales page or does this person really have something to offer and help me in the process?

8. Never accept or give comments with huge annoying html. Some of these postcard size comments are nice and “cute” but for business, they are unprofessional. And it ruins the clean outline of your page.

9. Add 1-2 links that lead to your capture or business page written into your story. Don’t make it distracting. You want to be saying, “Oh, and by the way, here’s my link if you want…” not “Click Here, Click now, if you don’t you’re a loser. HuHuHuWahahaha”.

10. Browse around. Here’s a challenge, keep your existing profile. Make another profile following the guidelines mentioned, then split test the results.

MySpace is just one marketing medium we can all take advantage of to make that money we deserve. Learning to use them in the right way can increase your profits dramatically while preserving the integrity of the platform. Let’s remember, keep it simple. Always think about your prospects first, then take action!
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How to promote your home business with RSS

RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. Syndication means republishing an article which comes from some other home business website. A RSS feed is a way to publish updates. RSS gives benefits for both the publishers and the readers. Here are some:

1. The feed is quick, so the receiver gets the news in real time.

2. It saves the surfing time. Especially when the feed has the summary of the article, so the reader can decide if he will read it.

3.The receiver decides, from which home business websites he will subscribe the feed.

4. No spamming. RSS feed does not use email, so there is no spamming threats.

5. To unsubscribe is easy by just stopping the feed.

6. RSS can be used as an home business advertising medium. And it is better than emails because there is no spamming threads. RSS advertising is highly targeted and the receivers very motivated.

7. Photos and graphics will not be displayed in RSS.

A. How To Start A Home Business RSS?

Basicly there are two things, which a starter will need: an RSS aggregator or reader and RSS feed and the RSS feed comes from the RSS supported website. The RSS aggregator reads the RSS feed from the other website.

There are two types of aggregators, downloadable ones and online ones. The home business marketer gets the online aggregator free but you have to for the downloadable types. Both types allow you to decide which feeds you want to receive. Normally more advanced internet marketers pick the downloadable one, which gives more freedom for the customization.

B. 3 Easy Steps For RSS Feed.

1. Select RSS aggregator, if you are a beginner the online modell is okay, because it is very user friendly.

2. Scan the home page of the target web site for RSS. It contains RSS code, which you need to enter into the aggregator. Copy this code. Syndic8 publishes the directory of the sites, which support RSS.

3. Paste the code, with the URL of the website, into your aggregator.

Now you are ready to receive and to read the feed and new posts appear in real time, when they are published in the sending website.

RSS has many advantages for the home business marketers, because they can choose which feeds they want to receive. Now they are updated in real time about the products and services or websites that interest them. The marketing becomes very focused, because RSS does not use mass distributions. Small home business marketers can link social sites, personal blogs and websites, which would most probably be interested about their products.

It is clear that RSS is very effective in the information management and in the home business marketing.
Juhani Tontti,B.Sc., Marketing. Put RSS To Profit For Your Home Business. When You Have Done That Visit My Home Business Site To Find More Useful Info. Just Click Here.

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How to understand RSS

RSS can be extremely confusing to use. If you have ever clicked on the button to subscribe to a RSS feed you will be aware that your browser will take you to a page displaying XML.

This is very confusing to most internet users as they will not know what to do at this stage. So if you did not know exactly what this was and how to use it you would be very confused and probably not ever want to subscribe to a RSS feed again. Basically what I am trying to tell you is that this is not a very good way to collect subscribers. Let us look in detail what the alternatives are.

You can create a page that will show the XML code formatted so that it can be understood. This is a presentation page. You need to also explain to the reader that they can subscribe to the feed with a RSS reader.

Alternatively you can use a service like Feedburner. It will make your feed easier to use, more powerful and useful. Some important things that it can do is keep track of how many people have subscribed to your feed. Most options to subscribe are covered within two clicks. It will automatically ping the directories like Technorati and the other sites to keep them informed that your site has been updated. If for some reason you start another blog you can simply replace the location of the feed in your Feedburner account without losing any subscribers. It also has some advance features that you can also make use of.

Finally, make sure that you have good sales copy to get people to subscribe to your feed.

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How to get more visitors with RSS feeds

RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. Syndication means republishing an article which comes from some other home business website. A RSS feed is a way to publish updates. RSS gives benefits for both the publishers and the readers. Here are some:

1. The feed is quick, so the receiver gets the news in real time.

2. It saves the surfing time. Especially when the feed has the summary of the article, so the reader can decide if he will read it.

3.The receiver decides, from which home business websites he will subscribe the feed.

4. No spamming. RSS feed does not use email, so there is no spamming threats.

5. To unsubscribe is easy by just stopping the feed.

6. RSS can be used as an home business advertising medium. And it is better than emails because there is no spamming threads. RSS advertising is highly targeted and the receivers very motivated.

7. Photos and graphics will not be displayed in RSS.

A. How To Start A Home Business RSS?

Basicly there are two things, which a starter will need: an RSS aggregator or reader and RSS feed and the RSS feed comes from the RSS supported website. The RSS aggregator reads the RSS feed from the other website.

There are two types of aggregators, downloadable ones and online ones. The home business marketer gets the online aggregator free but you have to for the downloadable types. Both types allow you to decide which feeds you want to receive. Normally more advanced internet marketers pick the downloadable one, which gives more freedom for the customization.

B. 3 Easy Steps For RSS Feed.

1. Select RSS aggregator, if you are a beginner the online modell is okay, because it is very user friendly.

2. Scan the home page of the target web site for RSS. It contains RSS code, which you need to enter into the aggregator. Copy this code. Syndic8 publishes the directory of the sites, which support RSS.

3. Paste the code, with the URL of the website, into your aggregator.

Now you are ready to receive and to read the feed and new posts appear in real time, when they are published in the sending website.

RSS has many advantages for the home business marketers, because they can choose which feeds they want to receive. Now they are updated in real time about the products and services or websites that interest them. The marketing becomes very focused, because RSS does not use mass distributions. Small home business marketers can link social sites, personal blogs and websites, which would most probably be interested about their products.

It is clear that RSS is very effective in the information management and in the home business marketing.
Juhani Tontti,B.Sc., Marketing. Put RSS To Profit For Your Home Business. When You Have Done That Visit My Home Business Site To Find More Useful Info

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How to display feeds on your site

This article is intended as a guide for webmasters who want to display automatically updated content on their website in the form of RSS feeds. In this article I will cover the easiest method to implement using javascript for displaying RSS on websites to create additional dynamic content. This will allow you to display headlines from syndicated content around the web on your website.

RSS to Javascript.

By far the easiest method is to use client side javascript to parse and display the headlines on your site. To achieve this all you need to do is cut and paste some HTML or javascript code into the web page where you want the RSS feed headlines to display.

To achieve this there are several sites that offer a free service that will allow you to select a few options to choose your feed source and display formatting parameters. You will then be presented with some javascript code that you can cut and paste into your website.

Now before I give you the address of the sites that offer this service freely there are a few points I need to clarify with you. Although you will achieve your goal of displaying dynamic content on your site in a few short minutes there are some downsides to this method.

Javascript is not search engine friendly.

As you may or may not already know, javascript is not visible to search engine spiders. They will not see the RSS feed you have parsed into your site and so this will not benefit you if you are doing this to better your search engine rankings.

You are using a third party service.

The second potential downside is that although the javascript is on your site you are actually calling a script on another server. This could lead to a couple of potential problems. If the server is busy it will mean the news feed will take longer to display on your site. The other point is if the third party server fails or disappears altogether then your feed will not be displayed at all.

In summary there are a few downsides, but if you do not code and want some feeds on your site quickly then this is the way to go. Ok, so now you understand what is involved here are the links to the sites that provide the free RSS to javascript service. All you need to do is follow the on site instructions.
Feed2JS
RSS2HTML
RSS-to-Javascript
FeedSweep
RSS Xpress Lite
Allan is the webmaster at http://www.newsniche.com an RSS resopurce for webmasters. Learn how to use RSS to attract and retain visitors to your site.

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