Now you have some friends. They don’t do you much good just sitting on your page. You have to get into relationship with them. Here are the first couple of ways to do that.

Comments:

Comments are a great way to stay in touch with your friends. You can send text comments or you can look around the web and find beautiful pictures to send to your friends as a comment. When people receive a comment it shows up on the control panel of their myspace. They will go look at the comment and most likely they will click on your page to see who you are and possibly to comment back to you. This becomes another chance for them to get to know you better.

I earlier mentioned making your page a specific topic. This works especially well when it comes to comments. The Friend Blaster Pro software I mentioned in a previous post also lets you send out comments to your friends. I have to say this is one of the main things I like about it. I can choose a comment that I think is perfect and then send it to 50 of my friends. It’s great if you have only one topic per page so you can choose a topic specific comment and know that no matter who you choose among your friends it will be an appropriate comment. I realized this when I first started at myspace. I had all different kinds of people on my ‘mommy’ page, which was my first page. One day I wanted to send out a pro breastfeeding comment and was like hmmm, but what if so or so gets it? That might not be appropriate. That’s when I started making my pages only one topic. If I receive a friend request that is not aligned with a certain page I will respond to them and let them know and refer them to one of my other pages. Everyone has been very understanding and gladly sent a request to the other page.

When I send out comments I also set the intention that they will be received by exactly the person that needs them on that day, another fun LOA game. I can’t tell you how many messages I have received from people who were truly touched by a comment I sent. By sending out warm wishes and good thoughts I have touched others. In return they visit my page and I again have the opportunity to let them know more about me. Maybe that will be the day they will see something on my page that moves them to ask me more about it.

You will receive birthday reminders for people in your network. It’s a great idea to send people birthday comments. I know how great I felt when I had comment upon comment wishing me happy birthday this year.

The last thing I want to mention about comments is this: they stay on the person’s page indefinitely. Everyone gets to see your comments. So this is where it is appropriate to end your comment with one short link to a website. I always link to my Powerful Intentions page. So you provide quality feel good comment, and then you get a quick link. Not only will the person you sent the comment to appreciate your comment, but anyone who stops by their page will as well. Now you are not only getting exposure to your network, but the entire network of your network. This is often times where people will find you and request you to be their friend. Which adds to your network.

Bulletins:

This is the area I use the least, but it can be very powerful.

When you gather a group of friends you are allowed to send them ‘bulletins’ because they are part of your network. You can write whatever you want in your bulletin, and you can use html coding in them as well. When a new bulletin is posted it will appear on the left hand side toward the bottom of the page in the bulletin section. People can click on the title and then read your bulletin.

I’m sure it goes without saying, but DO NOT make bulletins about your business. Although I suppose if you were running a special and wanted to let people know that would probably be appropriate. Myspace is really cracking down on spam. Just about anything that comes to your page now has an option to mark as spam. It is really easy for people to report spam, which leads to deletion of your account.

Just keep in mind that you want to provide people with quality. You might send some pictures of a new baby/dog/flower garden, or maybe your favorite quote. Those are some of my favorites. Just make sure you have a catchy title so people will be moved to click on it. Each time someone clicks on your bulletin they will also have an option to click on your picture which takes them to your page to learn more about you.

The reason I don’t use bulletins as much as I could is this: they move really fast. If you have a large network with people that bulletin a lot your bulletin will move down the list very quickly. However, you can see all the bulletins you have received by clicking on the bulletin button. I’m not sure how many people really read the bulletins, I know I don’t unless something in the top 10 catches my eye.

However, if you want to get an instant message out to your network bulletins are a quick and easy way to do that.

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