The longest-lasting online resource that I’ve come across for the nitty gritty of online marketing and business, WebmasterWorld.com, has just had a post on the front page of their site titled: No Need For Google, Myspace Works For Me.
It is in their subscriber’s section, so if you’re not a paying member, you won’t be able to access it. But, the discussion is a great example of how Social Media is being noticed at all levels as a potential avenue for marketing a product, service or business.
Here, “carlr,” outlines the success that he has had as a photographer through his MySpace profile, especially as compared to the success he has seen from Google.
“My commercial photography website has been launched over a year ago.. PR4 now and about 100 on-theme inbound links and no outbound links. Still sandboxed so i get 4-5 hits per day from Google – a joke. Oh well. I signed up at MySpace with a custom template with portfolio etc. It’s been a month only and got many calls from clients, a major magazine and i even unexpectedly met somebody for real in a bar.. “hey! by any chance.. are you …?”
In this age where we must as webmasters wait and pray to get a decent position in google before we get out of business, this is refreshing. Maybe some of you guys should have a look.”
The entire discussion is definitely worth a read for those of you who are paid subscribers. And for those of you who are not, I highly recommend that you consider paying for membership here. As someone who runs a website with a community of members over 60,000 members large, I can truly say that this is one of the best online communities out there.
I’ll also be at PubCon for those that might want to meet up – I’d love to talk to anyone and everyone who has seen success or failure from their Social Media Marketing campaigns.