The pet industry pulls in a reported $29 billion + per year.  And one trendy new way of joining the pet marketing fun online is with MySpace.com, the #1 term search online in the past 90 days for a total of 223,167 searches. Awesome!

MySpace.com  is a huge networking site where people of all ages get together for free accounts and share videos, audio files, photos, friendships and more. Here are popular ways to sell your pet wares there:

1) First of all, sign up for your free account. Then log in and fill out your profile. Note: Never post blatant ads anywhere. This site is about networking and building relationships. Not spamming.

When you complete your profile, only fill out what you’re comfortable with. You can always go back and revise it at any time. Don’t share personal home info if you don’t want, for example. But do list your website links, links to special pet products, etc.

Add digital photos of your favorite pets, video clips of them, too. Search for videos at online video sites to link up, if you don’t have any.

2)  Take time to browse around MySpace and seek out other pet lovers to see what their profiles look like. Go to the top menu bar and select “People” then in the search bar, key in “dog lovers” for example. You may turn up “LOVE DOGGiES” and find you like the site and might like to be friends. So click “Add to Friends.”  Immediately an email goes out to this person asking if they’ll add you to their friend list. If they do, then you’ll be hooked up in each other’s friend lists and can email and send announcements back and forth. Slowly over time grow your friends list and you’ll have potential pet prospects there.

3) Start your own MySpace blog. It’s free and fun. Post daily or weekly about your pet friends, products and fun. Offer free pet care tips, free training article blurbs and more… and invite others to join your friend’s list (use the Invite feature tool there) to keep up with your updates for free. Offer a free report for sign ups, too! People do love freebies on the web still 

4) Use the Calendar tool to log upcoming pet events for our viewers to read. Chat on forums to help others, too, and invite them to your site and MySpace area for more interaction. 

There are many more ways to network and grow your relationships and business on MySpace. Read online articles to learn more. And jump in. See you round MySpace!