Using Forgotten MySpace And YouTube In Promotion

Using Forgotten MySpace And YouTube In Promotion ---------------------------------------------------- Social media marketing is a powerful way for businesses of all sizes to reach prospects and customers. Your customers are already interacting with brands through social media, and if you're not speaking directly to your audience through social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest, you're missing out! Great marketing on social media can bring remarkable success to your business, creating devoted brand advocates and even driving leads and sales. The idea isn't new: "Social networking" has been around forever. It's the simple act of expanding the number of people you know by meeting your friends' friends, their friends' friends and their friends' friends' friends. And MySpace isn't the first (or the last) Web site to take the concept online. So why does MySpace have more than twice the traffic of Google within four years of its 2003 launch? Fifty-four million people have profiles on MySpace as of February 2006, and 180,000 more register to use the site every day. By all accounts, it's a phenomenon. Some people call it dumb luck, some call it brilliant and a few call it a sexual predator's dream come true. In this article, we'll find out what MySpace really is, what it can do for you, how it blew past the competition and why Rupert Murdoch thought it was worth $580 million. On MySpace, your social network starts growing from day one without much effort on your part. That's part of the draw. Basic MySpace networking works something like this: You join MySpace and create a profile. You invite your friends to join MySpace and search MySpace for your friends who are already members. These people become part of your initial "Friend Space." All of the people in your friends' Friend Space become part of your network. You now have connections to more people than you did 15 minutes ago. Before we get into the why’s and how’s, here are some useful stats that will help you understand why YouTube is such a great platform for businesses: