Unleash The Power Of Your MySpace Comments

Are you getting the most out of your MySpace comments? Chances are that you're either ignoring them altogether, underutilizing their potential, or just playing with them sporadically.

MySpace comments are the second most important element of your MySpace presence. The first, of course, is your own profile. This is where you show yourself to the world of friends and potential friends. Your profile IS you to MySpacers--so give it your own unique, unusual twists that show off your personality. This is where others can discover who you truly are ... or at least who you want peole to THINK you are! LOL!

The other most important tool in your socializing bag of tricks is how you make comments on others' profiles. You do this in 3 important ways:

1. Profile comments

2. Photo comments

3. Blog comments

Which is THE most important? That depends on your objectives and motivations. These can include:

* Pure socializing--you just want to truly BE a friend and show interest and support for a person, business, or organization.

* Networking--you "get out there" to draw attention to yourself and build an interconnected circle of contacts for future use and benefits.

*Marketing--you've got something to sell; you want to not only draw attention, but turn that into interest, followed by a desire for your product, and then finally convert that desire into a sale.

The most visible comment is the basic profile comment. This shows up right on the main profile page after you scroll down past the list of friends. Most underutiize its power by just saying, "Thanks for the add." This is by far the most common--and most invisible of all comments. Quit it! Be more inventive and productive! Think how much a personal and meaningful comment on your own profile affects you. When someone actually LOOKED at your page and made a thoughtful comment about your personal expressions--how did that make YOU feel? I bet pretty good. Do the same for others. Let them know they're really a person, not just another faceless, interchangeable cyberentity.

Besides your message, you can utilize HTML to leave an image. Be inventive; it can be funny, inspirational, or sales-oriented. If it IS a marketing message, do your selling AFTER you write something personal and meaningful. Sell in a sig-type ending to your comment.

Profile comments get seen by far more MySpace traffic than any other. That's why there are so many of them compared to the other two I'll discuss. The second type of comments are for photos. We're ALL curious about what's below the surface of that hot or interesting ID pic that drew us in! So--you click the Pics link and voila! There are your friend's albums.

What do you say here? Most pics never get a comment--poor things! Here are photos that people posed for and thought enough of to upload for the world. I know, I know--you can't comment on everything. But, every once in a while, make a comment just for the benefit of your friend. You're not marketing here (unless you're trying to sell to this ONE person--in THAT case, this comment can be VERY powerful), so make it something YOU would want to hear from someone about something you're proud of.

The final MySpace location for comments is on your friend's blog. If your yourself blog, you know what time and effort it takes to try and coherently put your thoughts together about any subject, activity, or opinion. It's painstaking work. You do it to express yourself and hope others take notice. A blog comment shows that you've actually taken the time to READ someone's blog (HURRAY!). It shows those thoughts affected you in some way--affected you enough to react and reflect back with yor own words. Very powerful.

So--why are you still reading this when you can be out there on MySpace commenting? Dave Diotalevi author of MIRACLE MYX.

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