Week 4 ish of Ariel Hyat's Blog Challenge: Music Success in 9 Weeks.
Today I got bogged down in researching widgets. I am looking for something which will do the email in exchange for a free download idea. I have this happening on my website www.audionarcissist.com but need to find an easy way of doing it for every page on my website and on my numerous blogs and social media sites. I have been exploring reverb nation and fizzkicks.com. Neither of them seem like completely straight forward options. Both involve setting up yet another profile. Meanwhile, I have been on the topspin green room google group list for some time now. So I have been watching closely how different music marketing folks are operating. It's a great network which I have learnt HEAPS from : ) I also made some great connections through it including getting blog coverage and reviews through making contact with Justin Wayne of the Justin Wayne Show. He is one of those fantastic bloggers who genuinely loves and is passionate about supporting independent musicians. He not only promoted my work on his show but also sent off links to my work to a number of his associates all over the world : )
Anyway- hmmmmmm still lots of work to do on that one. And decisions to be made in terms of who to go with for widgets. There are lots of options. The somewhat cynical side of me wonders if there is more money to be made in making musicians 'think' they can make money than in actually making any money for musicians. Yes, a little dark thought ; ) But really there are so, so, so many folk trying to work out how to crack the web 2 music making code and it's completely baffling some days. A constantly changing landscape. On a good day it's exciting and feels like i am part of a cultural revolution. Where 'people' can decide for themselves what music they like and which artists they want to support rather than it being decided for them by industry fat cats. On a not so good day I wonder if most people are always going to need someone else to tell them what music is good. The truth is probably somewhere in between : )
The upside of today was I collated and edited the best of the reviews I have got from my first album- ri-solv- and posted them to my website http://mahriautumn.com/news and also to my myspace
I also got a lovely message from a radio presenter in Sydney who had heard my album and thinks "it's great" and is offering to help promote it in Sydney for me. So heartwarming the way people reach out to you. It means so much right now : )
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