There are internet marketers out there that claim to be making 5-digit, and sometimes even 6-digit, profits every month. How are they doing this? There are really a number of ways, and I have decided that I’d like to give things a whirl, starting with the Net Fool dot com, to see how its being done by other entrepreneurs.

As such, I have started up a MySpace page and a Squidoo page registered as the net fool, in the hopes of getting some traffic, making some sales, whatever. I think this might work, but the only way to know for sure is to try it out… so I’m entering in on this craze. I’m going to be keeping all of you updated on what I am doing, how I am doing it, and the progress/success of this venture.

There are apparently ways to exploit these social bookmarking websites in order to create a fan base and basically people to market products toward. I have already started doing this in Twitter, as I outlined in a recent post, but I’d like to see what I can do with Myspace. I know that Facebook might seem like the easiest alternative, but I’d rather not go that route since I actually use that personally.

So the MySpace page has been set up at http://www.myspace.com/thenetfool and I’m hoping to try different things like adding a massive following of friends, getting some “top friends” placements across popular profiles (apparently this is a good thing to do), and spam around some personal messages to lure people in. Basically, people that are using MySpace to take advantage of internet marketing are evil… but I am interested to see how it all plays out.

Another networking website that i have been interested is this “Squidoo” and it is really considered to be “bum marketing.” Basically, it’s like a newer sleeker Wikipedia and functions much in the same way… except of course that people cannot edit your page (what they call a “lens”). Mine is registered at http://www.squidoo.com/thenetfool and I think it is a cool way to reach out and spark some traffic. Additionally, they give you a cut of their revenues made from your page… so maybe I can see some gains there right off the bat!

I’m thinking right now that the Squidoo ordeal might be a bit more intriguing (and successful) than my attempts at MySpacing my way to success. Why? Well apparently MySpace isn’t very SEO friendly, and I get the opportunity on Squidoo to actually flat out promote my blog with a live RSS feed and some other great marketing tools. But the network isn’t as big as MySpace so my opportunity seems somewhat limited. Both have their advantages, so I’m interested to see where the growth is.

This is an experimental phase, and I probably am going to try and put as little money as possible into the project, as always. I’m a cheap, cheap man… so lets see what I can do in the way of internet marketing just by using some networking and traffic building tools available to the public!

-The Net Fool

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