Can MySpace – with a user base of over 100 million strong – used as a competitive marketing tool, without breaking the rules?
Honestly ….? NO.
Although the concept of marketing with MySpace is dangerously close to violating MySpace Terms of Use. Article 8, paragraph 2, § 2 clearly prohibits "advertising or solicitation of any Member to buy or sell products or services through MySpaceServices ".
But the wording leaves some room for maneuver. She does not really promote their products or services on your MySpace profile. Instead, you can link to your MySpace profile to promote your site and your products and services and then just sort of … * Ahem *… enter your website (heavy) on MySpace. Right?
Of course MySpace is not designed for use with a lot of sympathy for advertising purposes in any case when waterconsiders that MySpace is commonly known as a means to promote relations. Yes, it is unclear if Joe grayscale guitar and can use MySpace to hype their belt (and ultimately to sell CD) because I can not MySpace blue widgets to sell?
But this double standard is just the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface of sales promotion accounts to hide a MySpace Leviathan terms of use violations, particularly around the issue ofautomate adding friends to your list of MySpace friends.
MySpace Whore Train
It all started when the MySpace resource sites are starting all over the web provides a means to create lists of friends at MySpace Ginormous very quickly through special automated scripts. These became known as the script (* giggle *) "whore trains.
It was quickly passed to the opportunity to make your own whore train to create the copy and paste a ready made toptook the script and send it through the MySpace bulletin system.
Of course, these services are all free. There is no money in it. It was not long before someone thought, "Hey, why not! Sell a program that does the same?"
In fact, long MySpace friend adder software you can actually buy, install on your computer and use it from there to jam to your friends list faster than you can say "I add."
But wait, that's not all .. Now you can with affiliate programs and earn a commission when the sale of this friend adder programs.
As of this writing, you do a Google search for "whore train myspace friend adder automatically if you find script as the eye can see.
Yet, incredibly, all the form above is still a serious violation of the Terms of Use MySpace. If you do not know, Article 8, paragraph 2, section 4 of. MySpace> Com Terms of Service explicitly prohibits:
"An automatic system uses, such as using scripts to add friends or send comments or messages;"
Ooops …. Uh-oh …
The seller on Ebay Myspace
But despite all this self-friend add things that are illegal, I marketer MySpace gung on this side of Pluto is to use some kind of whore train, Friend Adder program pump their friends list. And all they are doingrate of 3500 per week! (MySpace reportedly has imposed a daily limit of 500 friend requests.)
So you can compete with anything without jumping on the bandwagon? Probably not.
And it is dangerous? Of course.
With people now create MySpace profiles for the sole purpose of collecting thousands of friends and then sell the profiles on Ebay (I'm not kidding), the potential for abuse is enormous. [And yes, it is expressly against the MySpace Terms of UseYour Profile (Article 8, paragraph 2, paragraph 9)] to sell.
The bottom line is the MySpace profile will be removed from you when the friend add, profile-spam newsletter too damned far. They can also use a special filter that you use the domain name of the website all links generated through the system of MySpace (which means it's all bulletins and messages). So a word to the wise: Moderation is the key.
Interestingly,But MySpace is probably one of the few places online that you can get a list build a mailing list (let's face it … it's what you do with all the railway company whore), without attracting users to opt to be hung in a sort a tribute to their noses.
But if you enter this, be aware that many MySpace users will assess your own automated friend request with an agenda of their own. For example, many will likely shottheir list of friends because of vanity, and will never visit your MySpace page, your website or to be aware of any newsletter sent campaign.
Still other promoters may even like you. It will be a situation similar to a door canvassing is greeted by a happy housewife who immediately launches into a sales pitch of his.
This creates a mailing list in less than expected.
But hey … This is what you get when youbreaking the rules. : O)