Many of you know that I have been involved as a consultant on a number of key projects recently, particularly focused on helping small businesses and non-profit organisations more effectively increase their audience and market saturation. One project, however, also enables the millions of folks who use "social networking" sites, such as MySpace, FaceBook, Multiply and other such services, to broaden the scope of their friends and associates, have fun and do something no other social networking service has done before... revenue sharing.
MySpace has a little over 2 million members presently. They support their service by selling advertising, and make hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising revenue. Every time you or any other MySpace user logs in, "Tom" makes money. And it's no different for the owners of companies like FaceBook, LiveJournal, Multiply and Yahoo. Nor should it be! They are providing a (usually) great, free service to the public, and generating revenue from advertising, much like television networks do every day.
After getting "stiffed" by a marketing organisation for which I recently did a little over $30,000 worth of market development, media creation, programming and support -- discovering that sometimes, even "friends" will do their friends wrong -- I realised that a lot of folks among my contacts are small business owners, leaders in non-profit organisations, churches, civic groups, or are simply entrepreneurial in nature. And like me, many of these folks have experienced disappointments from time to time, and faced times when they needed to make a little extra revenue.
So this project on which I have been working is something that I think will be of interest and value to all of you...
First... it's FREE. Just like MySpace, Multiply and FaceBook, our new social networking system is completely free.
Second... it's a little more "grown-up". You won't find the glittery pictures of fairies, elves and little cutsie emo icons, or the annoyance of having someone's page load and interrupt whatever you might be listening to with some screeching musical selection they imposed upon you. This is a social network for people looking to build a live, interactive "social network"... and it's focus is on adults, not fifteen year-olds.
Third... they'll pay you to refer others! Instead of keeping all the advertising revenue to themselves, we've encouraged the owners to share that with folks as an incentive to grow our social network into the largest social networking platform in the world, faster than MySpace, Multiply or FaceBook. You'll get $4 for every person you encourage to join your network for free! (There's more revenue sharing available as well, and you can learn more on the site).
Now this might not interest most social networkers, but it made a real difference for a few of my friends and associates:
- One Director of Development from a non-profit women's group encouraged their members to join the social network, and saw an increase of 11% in donations, by being able to stay in better touch with her donors, plus increased their donor base by 1700 people in three months AND earned $2468 in revenue sharing on top of it all!
- A small business entrepreneur just encouraged prospective customers and existing distributors from his business to network with him, and added an additional $1900 income to his monthly revenue streams, without spending a dime.
- The leader of a small church group encouraged their members to join a social network, simply for the ability to stay in closer touch, and now grew that group to DOUBLE its size in six weeks, while earning an additional $2780 in revenue share.
- Another friend of mine just asked his family and friends to join, so they could avoid the headaches of MySpace, and picked up a sweet $265 revenue sharing cheque in the process.
- Two realtor buddies of mine are generating real estate leads like CRAZY using the system.
I think you get the picture... it's really a great program.
Now I'd LOVE to set the example for the company, and show them how quickly these enhancements can build their business... which will also help ME to establish greater credibility as a market development consultant... so that's where YOU come in...
PLEASE consider checking us out! Give it a test drive and sign up for free! By inviting your friends and associates to join you, I believe we can reach another 10,000 members in the next 30-60 days!
Visit: http://www.6dgr.com/index.php?mode=join&refs_id=8412 and get yours today!
Then email me back and let me know you joined!!
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