Ariel Publicity Blogging Challenge

As a lifetime musician I have always searched for ways to improve my career, or better yet, someone to do it for me. I am sure many musicians out there can relate to getting smoke blown up there ass by some hopped up promoter wannabe and their promises of fame. I have always taken the same approach to these people... I would rather they show me versus tell me. Where am I going with this? Well I guess it goes back to the old adage, "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself". I first became aware of Ariel Publicity over 5 years ago when I was searching for Internet marketing for my band at the time Gadfly. Well for one reason or another I did not hire Ariel, but I kept following her progression via social media and now she has turned into somewhat of a marketing guru and is highly respected in the indie community. She still offers great marketing campaigns for indie bands at a pretty good price.

A few months ago I bought her book, "Music Success in 9 weeks", which basically empowers us musicians to take our careers into our own hands. There are many principles in this book that I have not thought of and it breaks down a daily process to successful marketing. I thought the book was a good read but have not since put the principles into practice. The other day I also read her "indie Maximum Exposure Guide" which is an Epic read. This last week I have been about putting these ideas into practice.

Today, I was poking around on her site and saw the Blogging Challenge and decided I wanted to take part. The challenge is to blog about her book and my progress in implementing it's suggestions and if I win the challenge I get a free marketing campaign. I figured this was a great opportunity to further my career by following the steps in her book as well as possibly being rewarded by winning the challenge.

Over the next 9 weeks I will post weekly entries about the steps in the book, my weekly goals and what ever else i decide to include along the way.

Step 1. Get my book back from Touch of CAS....