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1. Its free publicity to the 162,404,809 and growing members that are on MySpace
2. MySpace profiles are indexed by search engines and show up in almost every result of Google and Yahoo searches.
3. There are bulletins and event features that you can use to notify your friends of specials. (Example: if a Anchor Blue and and you’re having a back to school special, you can notify everyone on your friends list with just one notice.)
4. Offer incentives to your friends if they post a Banner with a Link to your Website on their MySpace profile. (Once a month pick a winner and give them a prize)
5. You are able to target your demographic very easily using the Advanced Browse feature. With options from age range, sex, height and weight specific, has children or not and more. Even the location can be set to span out from a giving zip code in 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 250 mile increments.
6. MySpace sells advertising mainly through banner impressions, not clicks. The costs vary, but it’s in the area of $5 per 1,000 impressions. the minimum buy for an advertising campaign is $5,000 to $10,000,” according to Luke J. Bodley from www.MarketingProfs.com
7. When you buy banner ad space on MySpace, you can target your banners so they show up only to the exact demographic you want. This includes all those specific demographics like religion, body type, sexual orientation and so on.
8. If you are advertising your local business on MySpace, make sure you include your city name on the banner. Your returns will be a lot higher, because people don’t expect to see their own city name on an international Web site, and they will click just out of curiosity.

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Properly marketing your business online is one of the most important things you can do.
Most people spend thousands of dollars on banner ads or text links but there’s a cheaper way and it’s gaining more popularity every day.

Myspace.com is a free social networking website that will expose your companies profile to millions of potential customers everyday, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year world wide. There are a lot of ways you can market your site on myspace and I’ll let you decide that on your own, but here are some basic guidelines that everyone can benefit from.

1. Make the Profile useful and entertaining to ensure people come back to the profile.

2. Profile is completely editable using HTML and CSS. This will let the design of the myspace profile mimic that of the client’s proprietary website; or be designed in a completely different style, be creative.

3. Treat Myspace as what it is, a social networking site. So make your profile more personal and friendly not purely a commercial for your company.

4. Constantly post bulletins and blog’s. (example: new articles or specials you are having)

5. Have a lot of friends. Friends are the backbone of myspace. It links everyone together and keeps everything growing. Easy way to get friends is to browse MySpace and visit profiles and click the “request as a friend” button. This will send an invitation to that profile where they have the option of denying or accepting your friend request. This is not considered spam.

6. Make use of the many topic specific forums that are on MySpace. Find those that fit into what your business is and start posting in them

7. DO NOT send out unsolicited email messages to strangers on MySpace. That is considered spam and MySpace users are quick to report it as well as MySpace support is quick to remove it.

8. DO NOT post any photo containing nudity, pornography, sexually explicit images or any copyrighted image (unless you own the copyright). Again MySpace support is fast to find this and will suspend or delete your account.

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There are many spamers (mostly pornography sites in nature) on MySpace who will fill out their profile to look as legitimate as possible but include links embedded in their text to take you to their site. Some will just use you to post spam in your comment section and worse some will try to hijack your page so they can spam all your friends with bulletins.

Here are a few simple yet effective ways to avoid this;

1. Check the text in their “About Me” section of their profile. Look for the hypertext by different color text or just run your cursor over it to find a link. Read the navigation bar of the link if its spam you will be able to tell.

2. Be cautious about people who offer you friend requests who do not have any pictures of them self’s but have hundreds or thousands of friends. Most people who are on myspace will have a few picture’s at least of them self.

3. Be cautious of obvious professional photography pictures being used as their default pic. Now this might be difficult at first because there are many legitimate people with professional modeling style pictures but compounded with the other clues you can easily spot them out. Plus models and celebrities will not be adding you as friends just out of the blue, use common sense.

4. If you receive a friend request and an email saying something to the effect of “Hey my friend saw you online but they don’t have their own computer, click here to speak with them” That is obvious spam and you might as well just report them to MySpace Support.

5. Look at their comments that others leave on their page, spammers post with other spammers, look for them.

6. If the person gives their private aol, msn, hotmal or yahoo Instant message name or email but its written with
spaces like “myname @ a o l.com” or write me here at “m y name @ya hoo. Com” this is an obvious attempt to avoid any detection by MySpace support looking for known spam address.

7. And finally if your just on the fence about accepting someone but you want to add them do it and watch it. If they are spammers then they will quickly start posting comments or bulletins and you can see who they are and delete them.

8. On a side note, periodically check your “edit friends” list to see who has been removed for spam. MySpace will delete them and their picture will show a huge red X in its place but their name will still be on your friends list, so just remove them.

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After recently announcing the largest vehicle recall in Chinese history, Honda announced today that the U.S. will be included in this recall. The concern is that engine problems from a sealer material that may leak onto wires in the engine may cause them to snap. This recall for the United States affects 165,000 vehicles. Multiple complaints about the problem have been filed at Honda HQ, but no crashes or injuries have been reported.

Vehicles affected include the 2005 Acura RL, TL and TSX, the entire 2005 Honda Accord lineup (include the Accord Hybrid), 2005 Honda Odyssey and 2006 Honda Ridgeline. There are other recalls being announced in various markets around the world for the same problem, but Honda declined to reveal how large the scope of this recall is in raw numbers. Clearly, though, this is the same issue that sparked the giant recall in China.

If you think your vehicle is affected, you can call Honda at (800) 999-1009 for more information.

[Source: Detroit News]

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