You have no doubt heard of MySpace, but did you know that it and other sites like it such as Facebook, Orkut, and YouTube can be used as great research tools that can put you way ahead of the market?

Let me show you exactly how this works: Companies that are using these sites as a regular part of their business and media models have a huge edge over their competition who just don’t get it.

These sites represent many of the top 10 most visited sites in the world.

For instance just MySpace and Facebook alone get around 2.5 Billion with a B hits a day… A DAY!

The kicker is that the vast majority of the business clients that I consult with don’t have a clue about how to capitalize on these numbers. But those that do it right can see phenomenal growth no matter what business they are in.

This is part of the reason why I can base 95% of my consulting fee on guaranteeing to improve revenue and profit by 10% to 20% within just a few months for my clients no matter the size or type of business they are in or I don’t get paid.

How many other consultants will do that?

I am currently working on two books based on using these effectively. The one you see is for Investors and I will be giving you some of the best and most relevant concepts from it over the coming weeks.

The other one is a “How To” for businesses to show them how to capitalize on this.

The largest problem for many companies is that their IT people usually don’t have a clue about marketing, and their PR and Ad people don’t have a clue about IT. It is a double whammy. But for those companies that do get it, they have a huge advantage.

In the book I will teach you how to use these alternative methods and tools to find hidden and not so hidden gems.

First off, find out if the company has a MySpace or Facebook page and see how they are using it.

As far as I know, I have not seen a concise book on using these sites as a research tool. But then again, if someone is using them the way I am going to show you, more than likely they are not going to broadcast how they do it.

But there’s a rub – and it’s really ironic. The more people that find out about these tools and use them the better it is for everyone.

Want to see how it works right now?

OK, here is the MySpace page for for I Am An Investor. I just made it active and will be adding tools to it for you. See how I already have several friends there?

Now this has to be done right, but this gives me the ability to reach hundreds of thousands of potential clients through this page for free as I put more content on the page!

I have already loaded a video and a feed for this Blog and can post bulletins to all of my friends.

A word of caution: This has to be done correctly using the right methodology in order for it to work from a business standpoint or you can end up ticking people off and having the opposite effect that you want. There is most definitely a right and a wrong way to do this. Can you see how the potential for a business that “gets it” ?

While your there, check out my friend ” Ashbo” . Nice young lady who has a great company that I will hopefully post a wonderful story about as soon as I can get her to stand still for 5 minutes. Ashbo gets “Myspace”.

In fact she gets it so well that at the ripe old age of 17 she has already turned down multi-million dollar offers for her MySpace oriented page!

It is called www.whateverlife.com and it basically has free layouts for teen girls to spiff up their MySpace page.

I would suspect it would take over 20 to 50 + million to buy her out, but why should she sell anyway as she says? She is going great, having fun and wants to see where she can take it.

She gets 250,000 visitors a day to her site………. Do you know how many Fortune 50 companies don’t even come close to that with millions to spend on IT people and marketing?

I will be showing you how to sniff out great investment opportunities both large and small using these sites. You will see exactly how you can find the next big thing and see which companies are using these new tools to their advantage. These are the companies that you want to invest in that are both public and private.

Will post more on this subject soon. I have been keeping some strange hours dealing with new clients in Asia. What a fun adventure that has been. But it does make for some disjointed posts as you my have noticed.

You will be seeing a bit better grammar, quite a few more posts and continued solid information you can use as I am turning over more responsibility for the blog to other team members.

Cheers!

Andrew Anderson

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