Brian McCullough

Well Maybe

I have personally setup over 40 Myspace accounts for individuals that want to grow their business, promote a product, film or album. I have seen many business fail at utilizing Myspace and many succeeds. I have also helped other media companies setup MySpace accounts for their clients and they think it will be clever to use a friend adding bot to invite friends to their Myspace and fail miserably. There are a few keys to making your Myspace a success that I will share with you today that will help put your MySpace over the edge.

1. Fill up you account
   1. Fill out all the information on you account, don’t be shy, this will help people find you easier.
   2. Make sure all your information stays up-to-date, again this will put your profile at the top of many Myspace searches.
   3. Most importantly USE YOUR MYSPACE BLOG!!!!!!
   4. Upload videos (Important too) Don’t forget the 100 other video websites out there.
2. Interact
   1. Myspace has other services for a reason, so use them, and do not forget to make comments when possible. (Many of their services are listed below)
   2. Few things to remember when you comment
      1. Leave your signature i.e. your name and website address
      2. Comment often
   3. 
3. Broadcast
   1. Ask you closer friends on Myspace to announce your Myspace via their bulletins
   2. Join other social networks to promote you Myspace and website
      1. Facebook (Great for networking, Create a Facebook Group)
      2. Twitter (announce ever update and get the Firefox URL poster) SEE twitter.com/mccullough
      3. Vox (Posts get pick up in Google news)
      4. Wordpress (Blog, great for SEO)
      5. Mashable (To stay up-to-date with social network news)
4. Non-Traditional PR
   1. Internet Press Release (Contact Interloop Media)
   2. Start a blogger campaign, meaning invite popular bloggers to blog about your MySpace experiences (Contact Interloop Media)
5. Inclusion
   1. Include a link to your Myspace on you current marketing materials
      1. E-Newletter
      2. Website
      3. Flyers

I hope this gives you insight on creating a Myspace profile, other then what I listed above I have a few legal trade secrets of my own for making Myspace profiles super popular not to mention good looking. I will be publishing more on social networks as the concept is huge on the Internet today.

Best!

I can still recall the first time I had ever heard of Facebook. I was on a college break in Palm Springs hanging out with a friend from University of San Diego. We where talking about MySpace and she said “…but are you on Facebook?” I was like uh. She went ahead and gave me the tour, I went to sign up and unfortunately my school was not open for registration, many were not. So I put my name and school in the Facebook database and months later was invited.

Back then Facebook was a social network grouping people and schools within a clean interface (unlike MySpace’s GUI) with a ever growing list of new helpful settings, functions, and applications. Unlike it’s competitor, Myspace, Facebook had very little downtime, much less spam and always seemed to have its users in mind. These things and more have set Facebook up to become the multi billion dollar website or as Mark Zuckerberg calls it “Social utility” that it is today.

Today there are tons of social network communities to choose from, trust me I know, I joined about 15 of them over the weekend. I was very impressed that every site had their differences, this made my social network excursion interesting. The biggest downfall, for me, was that once I was signed up I did not know how to start “socially networking”. Many sites wanted me to start by uploading all my email addresses into their database. I do realize that uploading contacts is important for growth, however; only bother me with it once or twice, and not till I do it, after a while this became annoying.

A few of the sites listed their steps of interaction for me, overall they where:

1 Add friends, mainly by uploading your contacts
2. Update you profile information
3. Interact

More Like!

1. Upload Free Leads
2. Fill In Free Targeted Information
3. Help Grow Content to Attract Advertisers

For me I would say that two factors determined which sites where my favorite; first was the look and feel and second was the usefulness. I put a * next to all of networks that satisfied my initial experience.

Sites that I have joined in the past or over the weekend - *favs

Lets see how many I use…

I often get people asking me how they can improve their reputation on Google and Yahoo. It is also often that people come back a month or two later to ask me the same question and the answer is always the same. Consistency is the number one key to personal SEO. If you do not feel like being consistent I would recommend Nthebook.com for only 10 bucks a month they buy Google and Yahoo ads for your name for you.

Looking to get better results for your name?

• Start a Blog
  • MySpace Blogs
  • Blogger
  • VOX
  • Word Press
  • Or all 4 : )
• Get on the right networks
  • LinkedIn
  • Nthebook.com
    • For just 10 bucks a month this site will buy ad words for you

• Get Involved Online
  • Answer some questions on Yahoo
    • Sound Intelligent
    • Use you signature
      • Name : Brian McCullough
      • Blog URL : bpmccullough.com/blog
  • Try to get you name on Wikipedia
    • Chances are you will be deleted
      • NO Glamour
      • NO BS
      • Check out other Individual entries
      • Think historically, accomplishments, awards, you must have references and be relevant
  • Write an Article (Very Effective)
    • There are 1000s of eZine site out there
      • Write about what you want people to see when searching for you
      • i.e. Business Tips, Investment, Education, Politics
  • Make a small personal website
    • Mine would be bpmccullough.com
    • Buy your domain for 10 bucks at Godaddy.com
      • Get domain privacy so people can’t see your home address
      • Use the Godaddy website tonight application
      • Learn basic HTML

Total Cost $20 + $4.50/month for Website Tonight

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