Do you use MySpace to generate traffic to your shop?

T-Shirt Reviews has a post about the How to Start a Clothing Line from Scratch’s post on using MySpace to generate traffic to your site.

He suggests that you find someone who is in your target market that has lots of friends and send them free shirts in exchange they will post bulletins to their friends about your site.

One way I promoted my old website by using my profile was by having someone run it for me and send out hundreds of friend request a day with messages promoting my clothing line website. Well this work to a certain extent especially with the conversion not being that great. (In terms of traffic that actually made a purchase) So what I did was targeted one of the musicians/famous/or just popular myspacers that had over 40,000 friends who had a network that would find a street wear clothing brand appealing. What you should do is find the profile of a person who has friends that would most likely find your clothing brand or product appealing (I’m pretty sure if you know your market this should be a piece of cake). The hardest part is getting the person to believe your going to send them free stuff after they drop a bulletin and if your not familiar with myspace a bulletin is like a press release to all your myspace friends…in this case to the tune of 40,000 people! I have to say that’s not to bad considering most company websites don’t see those kind of numbers a day. Basically all I did was send this guy (Probably would like to remain anonymous) products for free (shipping cost me like $4.95) and he dropped a bulletin with my banner and website link to all his 40,000 plus myspace friends two times a day for a week. It’s not like spam or anything because you have the option of opening the bulletin or even viewing them and most likely they will because it’s from a famous/musicians/friends page. The first few days he promoted by posting bulletins, which was before I sent the free product and then he dropped many more after receiving the goods. All this caused me less than $12 (The price it cost me to produce the product shipping) and you most likely wouldn’t reach this kind of audience unless running a paid advertisement on a major site that would cost you thousands of dollars. I can’t really say that it is the musician/famous person that gets the product, because most likely they hire someone to run their myspace, but who really cares they will usually agree on the free product no matter who it is. Most people on myspace don’t mind participating in it, because they get free stuff and it cost them $0. So try it and let me know how it turns out…thank me later

So what do you think? Do you currently use MySpace to promote your shop? Has MySpace helped you get any sales? We want to hear your thoughts on marketing with MySpace.