Is The Any Interest????

[freydaddy]

Looking for some input on Myspace accounts....Would there be any interest for anyone to purchase Myspace accounts? If so how many friends in an account would there have to be to make it worth it?

Any input is appreciated.....

[JohnG]

I don't really think there would be much interest in buying MySpace accounts on sheer friend numbers as anyone can just go out and buy a friend adder and do this themselves. If you had a MySpace account setup for a specific site or promotion that has a proven record of attracting visitors and converting that would be a different story. That's my opinion.

[freydaddy]

thats kinda what i thought as well, the only thing about getting a friend adder is they recommend only sending out about 400 request a day or your account will more than likely be banned, therefore getting a huge friend list to market to would take someone along time to achieve.......

[JohnG]

True enough, my general opinon on MySpace marketing is it is more work than it is worth but that is just from stories I have heard.

[losercore]

I can say the right approach at the right time has worked for me. I use to try and run 10 different accounts and all that crap and then i srated one that was just cool. Everyone wants to be my friend and i don't have to go out spamming for friends. When I send out bulletins they get read and i get signups all the time.

You just have to do something a little different and a little cool. BTW this is poker related

[JohnG]

Just a guess but did you create some really hot poker babe or something and make up a fake life for her????? That would be cool, lol.

[Graham]

Another thing... Myspace can ban your account at any time. They did that to one of my accounts where I never added a person, I just accepted friend requests. They have also banned other of my accounts. I say screw myspace!

[NewPokerGirl]

I also made quite a few accounts on myspace and got alot of traffic and quite a few signups from horny guys that wanted to play poker with me. Out of maybe 50 signups I got 0 RMP's....I wouldn't pay $10 for an account with 10,000 freinds on it and here is my reason:

1. Just because it says you have 10,000 freinds doesnt mean anything. The people that build these accounts up send spam bulletins all the time and all a person has to do is see one of these spammy messages and they hit a button and you are taken off their friends list, but that person is still on yours but you can't send them bulletins anymore.

I would say if someone had 10,000 freinds only 1000 of them would get the bulletin in most cases and only 50 of them would read the bulletin and maybe a few of them would signup. If you do things yourself and find an edge like a "myspace Illinois texas holdem tournament league" and really devote some time and effort to making freinds and chatting on a regular basis it you could get a bunch of rmp's.

To sum it all up...buying a myspace account is a waste of money in most cases. Building something yourself and putting some time and thought into it could be profitable....IMO

[Jeremy]

The amount of friends we have is in the xxx,xxx range on multiple myspace accounts. And I concur with NewPokerGirl, having 10,000 friends is such a small sample size and if trying to convert for poker rooms, it is doubtful you will see even 1 conversion.

The problem with myspace is that a large majority of the users are kids, don't gamble, or don't have the means to purchase anything online. So for online gambling it is not a lucrative market.

For adsense and getting them to click stupid advertisements......thats another story.

[freydaddy]

I dont use myspace for marketing purposes, i take one of those funny comments you can find all over the web, and embedd a link back to a site, and blast it out. i dont think the links carry much weight, but they are one way links, and some of those myspace pages have good pr, plus i get alot of visitors from myspace doing this. So for me i dont use myspace for conversions, this may be a waste of time, but it takes all of 2 clicks to do it, so it cant hurt, IMO.....