Advertising on Social Networks

[Jeremy]

I realize these forums are still a bit new, but I'd like to throw the question out there about advertising on the social networking sites. Has anyone seen success with buying ad space on sites like Facebook or Myspace?

I imagine the facebook demographic would have an overall higher value than myspace, I'm just not sure. Anyone had experience with targeted ads in the social networking scene? Thanks

[Poker69]

I have seen some cool ads on facebook but have yet to give it a try. Would like to hear some feedback on this as well.

[Jon]

It definitely works, but of course, it depends on what you're trying to offer. It also doesn't help that the people allow/disable campaigns without much criteria sometimes (speaking for Facebook). So a campaign might run fine for awhile, and then it will be disabled because they decided they didn't like it.

[addaminsane]

I'd say stay away from facebook. cuz its a true social network where people don't want to be bothered at all with advertising. I wouldn't think either that useing their ad program would be very successful. I find myself when using my account going through like 50 pages in a matter of minutes without noticing an advertisement at all. Facebook is way too user friendly for affiliate advertising anyways.

Myspace is so screwed up that i doubt any advertising effort would be successful nowadays. Pretty much everything a user gets on their apart from their actual friends they consider spam.

[IndyMike]

The way to make money with facebook is not advertising there, it is by doing a facebook application. IMHO

[DealerDan]

There was definitely money in myspace 1-2 years ago, but now it's just a mess. Makes for an interesting study though - seeing a site grow so fast, and then run into so many problems.

[Dave]

Weird timing Jeremy.

I just signed up for a Facebook Social Ads account yesterday to promote my new local portal.

I know little about Facebook marketing so I bought this WSO over at the Warrior Forum.

http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/to...OPIC_ID=232181

Well worth the 7 bucks IMO.

I'll let you know how effective this strategy is as my promotion progresses.

I'm looking forward to 1 penny clicks.

Dave

[jcap1p]

You can still market on Myspace but you have to do it by actually being 'social', and by social, all I mean is sending a message with the friend request, and having some sales copy that looks nothing like sales copy on your profile.

The days of "See who's browsing your profile", and that shit are over. I built my poker list just using Myspace, and I didn't even send a message with the requests. I outsouced the friend adding on a few separate profiles for cheap, and it has been well worth it because I treat them well so they buy stuff through my links that I recommend to them.

[Niche]

Getting traffic to your website via networking sites works but is rather effort intensive. There are easier ways and I particularly am partial to social bookmarking sites eg Digg, del.icio.us

[rduffy]

Hi,

I have notice with being in social networking that putting ads out there to other members, doesn't really work that much. A better way to do it is market yourself and let others come to you.


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