I like the fact that FB lets you market to “niches”. You can market to 18-20 year olds who like to play volleyball and live in Wisconsin if you wanted to.

I think the downside to social network marketing is the CTR (not to mention ppl aren’t usually looking to purchase something – like searchers are). My stats right now for the campaign are something like 44,000 impressions and 3 clicks – LMAO! .007% CTR

hilarious – i’ll see how it works out tho

I have no idea if the group below is for real, but this is one way to get attention and have people join…

Save Puppies from Being
Exploited as Shark Bait!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=72753679678

Then, after you develop said fanpage/group, you e-mail them to join and then provide relevant CPA offers, ebooks, Clickbank stuff,
whatever, on your page, or through e-mail..

Facebook leading the web in time spent
By Rich Cherecwich
http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/24351.asp

I maybe stating the obvious here, but Facebook provides a lot of advertising stats on their members so finding a niche is easy if you want to target market.

While it may be a waste of time to join or spend time on these Social Media sites yourself, their marketing potential should definitely not be ignored. I still don’t understand how to market products using Twitter. Maybe just not bright enough.

And honestly, I also don’t understand why it is so popular, or why people even use it. You are limited to what, 140 characters so there is not much to say worth that would be worth it in the first place..

Isn’t that why god made blogs, websites, cell phones, instant messaging, texting, etc? Just don’t get it..

But I digress…

I have been taking a new look at MySpace, Facebook, searching for cheaper advertising and a lazer targeted group for some products under my consideration.

I just have no skill when it comes to using Adwords and figure that this might be a good way to get my feet wet with some cheap clicks and a lazer focused niche.

I don’t know all the rules for Myspace, but
there is some downside to Facebook marketing.
They can be a bit touchy when it comes to
the way you structure your advertising, how many groups/fanpages you create, e-mailing other members, etc. Yup, a little like Google!

You just have to follow the guidelines as best you can. I am glad that the “Google Gods” are starting to become a little more “human” as time goes on.

I never liked the fact that they were becoming
the biggest “search engine religion” around. Even though I never had a real beef with Google and do like some of their products, I just don’t like monopolies.

I didn’t get into this business to please a search engine. Let’s hope, as you mentioned, that Social Media sites, or anybody that competes against the Goog doesn’t go the way of the Pets.com

Robert C…

“Year over year, Facebook visitors have skyrocketed 185%, while Google traffic has increased just 9%.”