I'd also recommend having an alternate website with real contact information. Not everyone wants to try to sift through your myspace to find your phone number.
(How much of that is actually good advice and how much is my own personal dislike of Myspace is up for debate. )
. MySpace users get myspace, non users don't, and they can get turned off by the IN YOUR FACE aspects of myspace.
Two steps.
1) Get at least 3 songs recorded and ready to upload. Upload them and make your page look neat and pretty.
2) Whore. Add as many fucking people from your friends friends, and their friends, and their friends, and their friends. Concentrate on people who you think would like your music. Spend no lie, 2-3 hours doing this as often as you possibly can. That's the secret to getting big through myspace.
Very good, but also link to your myspace as much as possible.Pint and eternalpayn have some good points, but don't just add people, also comment them, say thanks for accepting, ask how they're doing, etc, anything that will help improve the chances of them actually visiting your page.
My two cents...
1. Content is king. If your music (content) sucks, who cares about hits? And on the inverse...if your music is awesome...who cares about hits? If your content is good, it will work. If you build it, they will come.
2. Have a primary website, and link it to myspace, and link myspace to it. I am on myspace ONLY because of the band exposure, and networking, but when people ask about the band...I give 'em my website...silentjband.com. MySpace users get myspace, non users don't, and they can get turned off by the IN YOUR FACE aspects of myspace.
And also the "myspace ONLY" aspects of it. I hate having to contact people through myspace instead of e-mail or phone.