Myspace Does Suck!
June 29, 2008 by Alejandro Reyes
Filed under Business
Myspace SUCKS…IF your target audience and potential customers aren’t on there.
I guess I just became an artist or a small, independent novelty store vendor in one week because someone said that those are the only people benefiting from Myspace. Yay me! A few days ago I wrote a post that Myspace doesn’t suck but the whole purpose if you actually read the post was that as a young entrepreneur, there are several different places that you can network with people, and connect with your target market if you you have a business.
People that actually run a business or have ran one in the past obviously know that you have to find the demographic that fits your target market. For some people Myspace makes more sense, or other places like LinkedIn, Facebook, or Ryze might make most sense. You just have to do some testing on which works best. Testing is HUGE. If you’re not testing in your business it can cost you a lot of money as a young entrepreneur.
Some people like Myspace, some people don’t, doesn’t really matter but the point is, you gotta get out there and start identifying who you target audience is and where they spend their time.
The reason I wrote the “Does Myspace Suck?” post is because I just picked up a client that has a show on VH1 and the funny thing is I hadn’t even checked my Myspace profile in over 2 months.
So is there still some sort of market on Myspace for young entrepreneur? Absolutely. Is it my Social Network of choice, not really if I haven’t been on there in over 2 months. I have friends that run 6 figure business because of Myspace & other friends who run 6 figure businesses cause of Facebook.
What ROCKS about Facebook is you can use an app that will allow you to check your Myspace messages. They’re doing a lot of really cool things and have also integrated a Chat Function which is cool.
So in the end, if your target market is no where to be found on Myspace, then Myspace DOES SUCK! Same goes with Facebook or any other Social Network. Test the waters and see for yourself. It doesn’t hurt.
Alejandro Reyes
I think you misinterpreted the intent of my post.
Alejandro- my daughter attempted to run a jewelry business on myspace and did OK for awhile. Nothing like the “6 figure” examples that you talked about but it was interesting to be able to use it as a marketing tool. I think there is still some potential for her there.