Need Tips For Launching A Mainstream Social Network
 

i got a rather good one developed and we're very near launch bar a few scripts in production...Im starting to organize a marketing campaign...can I get some suggestions?

yeah don't use any software off the shelf.

i think you just saved him a butt load right there

a partner in the company is a programmer for napster and sharing programming duties with one other dude for the past year and a half.

write a plugin to import as much as possible from other social networks

that'll be eight dollars.

Helps if you say what the focus of the social network will be.

Personally I wouldn't even attempt to start a social network site, unless I knew exactly how I was going to market it.

I'm actually about to start a forum in the next few months for a mainstream niche. I'm planning on offering up a free service to target my niche audience prior to going live with the forum.

This way I'll have users and a site with traffic before I ever launch the forum.