MySpace Music

September 25th, 2008 by Scot, under Making Money, MySpace. No Comments

Today MySpace has changed the way they display music on profiles. This creates a unique money-making opportunity for you if you can do any kind of basic CSS web design.

Most of the artists have had their MySpace profiles custom designed with the old MySpace music player set to float over a certain position on their layout. Now with the new code the music player is either in a weird place or not showing at all.

This could impact an artist quite a bit considering their music cannot be played. If you can do it in a hurry, shoot off some e-mails to these people offering to fix the problem for $100 and with a couple lines of code they’re back in business. I would imagine they’d be quick to have it fixed without having to get back in touch with their designer, etc.

And by the way, the new MySpace Music is pretty cool.

MySpace Friends Overnight

August 14th, 2008 by Scot, under Making Money, MySpace. 6 Comments

MySpace profiles can be very beneficial for your online marketing effort.

• Profiles can be very targeted to specific niches
• You have a direct line of communication to everyone on your friend’s list
• MySpace users are sticky, they check updates daily
• It’s free!

But, unfortunately setting up a MySpace profile isn’t always the easiest thing in the world to do. If you’re like me, you’d much rather be spending time on other things than social networking with people who don’t really matter, quite frankly. Traditionally if you wanted to add MySpace buddies en masse, you’d use an Adder Bot or just go out and spend a few days spamming every person you could find across your demographic.

That’s entirely too much work. Even though it’s worth it, I’m just too lazy to go about adding friends that way. I’m about to share a secret with you that will make everyone who purchased an e-book about adding friends on MySpace shutter…

Use Craigslist. You’re going to use the same method I outlined in “Making Money Online With Craigslist” to pull this off.

Step One: Create a MySpace account
Use a female who is decent-looking but not too hot. Natural. Rip the picture from another MySpace profile in a different state. Fill the profile out and drop in a theme from a corny MySpace theme directory. Make the profile private so the potential friends do not see your friend count until you’ve got 50+ friends you can display.

Step Two: Create An E-mail and setup auto-forwarding.
For this I’m using a GMail account because they offer “Vacation Fowarding”. This will only forward a message once so if the Craigslist user responds to the auto-responder they won’t be auto-responded again. Add a message like “Hey thanks for sending me an e-mail, if you’re serious add me to MySpace and send me a message“. This will go outside of Craigslist so you don’t get flagged. Add your MySpace link and approve batches of 10 at a time so they don’t think they got jipped.

Step Three: Post on Craigslist
Post an ad on Craigslist in the personal section with your picture. Don’t mention MySpace in your ad copy. Don’t make it seem spammy and you will get responses. In a big city expect 100+ in the first 30 minutes.

Step Four: Post a few more times throughout Craigslist.
Posting a few times is better than adding 500 friends manually through MySpace, trust me. These friends will be targeted to whatever locale you’re posting to, obviously.

Step Five: Login to your MySpace profile in 24 hours.
You’ve got a lot of new friend requests to approve, of course. Then sit back and breathe a sigh of relief that you didn’t have to go manually add everyone yourself.

Now, take care of marketing, or you could even sell the account on Digital Point. An account with 2,000 friends goes for anywhere between $100-$200.